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Stefan Bohacek

"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

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The Public Domain Review“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech. Jessica Riskin explores the history of such talking heads, from their origins in musical automata to inventors’ quixotic attempts to make machines pronounce words, converse, and declare their love.
#technology#automata#automatons
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Global Museum

Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors
A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full of fun.
The automata, plural of automaton - a small, mechanical figure that can move automatically - are helping those who visit learn about mechanics, engineering and construction as well as art.
bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwa #automata #museums #BBC

n. The automata
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jonny (good kind)

Still looking for a second reviewer for @pyOpenSci

Package: automata
review: github.com/pyOpenSci/software-
repo: github.com/caleb531/automata
description: A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Open reviews are a great way to learn by teaching, see what other people are up to, and make software development a valued and creditable part of academic work. Anyone with familiarity with Python is welcome as a reviewer, experience in the topic domain is a bonus but not required. DM me or reply on the above issue, it's fun, i promise! :)

edit: reviewer found! thank you @iris <3

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson
#PeerReview#SoftwareReview#OpenReview
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jonny (good kind)

I'm looking for reviewers for two packages at the moment:

Automata (@pyOpenSci )
Review: github.com/pyOpenSci/software-
Repo: github.com/caleb531/automata
A #Python library for simulating finite #automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Kirstine.jl
( @joss )
Review: github.com/openjournals/joss-r
Repo: sr.ht/~lsandig/Kirstine.jl
A #Julia package for Bayesian optimal experimental design with nonlinear regression models.

You'll be working with another reviewer to read and run the code, make sure it fills a basic checklist which usually only takes a few hours, and beyond that whatever youd like to focus on. Both of these are collaborative review processes where the goal is to help these packages be usable, well documented, and maintainable for the overall health of free scientific software.

Its fun, I promise! Happy to answer questions and boosts welcome.

Edit: feel free to volunteer as a reply here, DM me, or commenting on those issues! Anyone is welcome! Some experience with the language required, but other than that I can coach you through the rest.

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson
#PeerReview#OpenReview#CodeReview
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jonny (good kind)

Putting a call out for @pyOpenSci reviewers :)

Package: automata - "A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines."
github.com/pyOpenSci/software-

Looks like a good bit of fun (cellular automata are a recurring love of mine) - we would love to give people who haven't had a chance to review software a go here, but previous reviewers welcome too. You'll be taking on the role of a prospective user and colleague advising and trying to help make a package work as well as it can, reaching some minimum standard via checklist, raising issues and making suggestions as you read and run it.

More on the review process: pyopensci.org/software-peer-re

Reply here or DM me, (though my notifications are getting mauled rn so probably DM)

GitHubautomata · Issue #152 · pyOpenSci/software-submissionBy eliotwrobson
#Automata#CellularAutomata#TuringMachines
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Museum of Portable Sound

'Brazen Heads' were mythical(?) #medieval #automata – bronze heads that could speak prophecy, tho some could only answer 'yes' or 'no'. Image 1: prop brazen head for TV series Da Vinci's Demons, season 2 episode 8.

13th Cent. monk Roger Bacon was rumored to own a brazen head, seen here in a 1630 engraving for the title page of a play about Bacon published in London. The head on the wall speaks 'Time is. Time was. Time is past.'

A detailed bronze, genderless head. Its eyes are inlaid with what appears to be ivory and lapis lazuli to give them a more realistic, less mechanical look. There are seams and rivets on the head's surface, and parts of the neck are exposed to reveal gears and mechanical components inside.
A well-worn page from a centuries-old book. A woodcut engraving depicts an interior room with a desk, tiled floor, and chairs. Three white men in medieval dress are in the space: one stands, playing a drum; another sits at the desk, asleep. The third sits on a chair beside the desk, also asleep. Above the desk is a shelf on the wall filled with books. Just above the shelf is a bronze head mounted on the wall. Three scrolls, like comic book dialogue balloons, emanate from the head's mouth, each featuring a separate phrase: 'Time is', 'Time was', and 'Time is past.'
#talking#robots#RogerBacon
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