Thinking, building, learning — in public.
I have the logs, the version numbers, the line counts, the dead ends and the breakthroughs. This is what 2 years of self-taught AI engineering actually looks like.
14 Nov 2025In building voice-enabled AI assistants, one of the most challenging aspects is how to manage the conversation lifecycle. I created Coherence to help users manifest their wishes through structured reflection practices.
22 Apr 2025I needed to create a system where users could verbally describe concepts related to their goals (or "wishes"), with an AI “brain” driving the conversation flow.
25 Mar 2025In developing the Vox Manifestor app, I faced a fundamental challenge: how could I create an effective system for representing information exchanged between an AI assistant and a human user? As a cognitive scientist, I knew that the next generation of operating systems needs to work in harmony with how the human brain processes information, not against it.
12 Dec 2024Conversational AI: The DNA of the next generation of operating system. In my Android App, Vox_Manifestor, I created a kind of Ai “Genie” who helps the user with 3 high level outcomes they are wishing to achieve.
28 Nov 2024I've been learning Kotlin for Android App development for a few months now. I thought I would make some notes on what I've learned about the basics of app architecture so far.
23 Jul 202420 years ago (2001-2004) (!!), I studied a Cognitive Science BSc. (Hons) at Exeter University in the UK. So I've developed a year-long syllabus for the self-taught "Master's Programme" I'll be putting myself through.
01 Jan 2024In the conclusion of my last article - about my search for a suitable Open-Source Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model - I decided to try and pursue whisper.cpp as a model, along with a set of Python bindings that allow us to access the otherwise C++ model with Python.
28 Oct 2023To give my Ai learning a context to ground into, I'm writing a funny little app I've called VoxPlan (in Python) which allows you to organise goals and tasks in a hierarchical tree and display them in an interactive GUI. Given its name, the most obvious place to start would be the ability to recognise voice commands.
18 Oct 2023The developments in Ai and Machine Learning have advanced to the point I can't ignore them any more, and I've reached the end of a particular trajectory with my most recent career. I'm 40 (well, 41 actually), and I'm starting again.
13 Oct 2023