Some aeons ago I had a lot of free time to spend in some apparently useless activity like learning to create a new artificial language (also known as "constructed language" or "conlang"). Nobody could have ever imagined that such an activity would become useful in some way for a real job... read more

I introduced Wogen, my random words and sentences generator, in a previous post. Since then, I improved Wogen and now it is able to learn the read a list of words, or a set of sentences, learn their structure and generate other words or sentences that are "similar" to the initial input. read more

Here is my first attempt at developing a random generator for names and words. The name of this "random word generator" is Wogen. So far, it generates only words that resemble Japanese words: the Japanese language is based on a very simple model that makes use of a fixed set of syllables. In the future, I will expand Wogen and allow the generation of fantasy names, funny names, etc. read more

If you ever had to copy big files and you wanted to monitor the progress of the copy, you should know pv. Common Linux distributions allow to install pv with a simple apt-get … read more