• Building an offline chatbot - better brains

  Mon, Aug 20, 2018

  Last time, we got down the basics of making a chatbot that runs offline but can only greet us. This time around, we’ll get to making it a tad smarter and teaching it a couple of tricks. To make that happen, first we’ll take a step back and have a short look at the project structure, since I realized I completely omitted that last time. We won’t get into the finer points of create-react-app of course, but some context is always helpful.

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• Building an offline chatbot

  Sun, May 20, 2018

  Having a borderline unhealthy obsession with making stuff run offline (my “dayjob” is partly to blame here), an idea started keeping me up at night - why not a chatbot? The idea turned into a talk (not english tho) I gave at a local meetup but it still feels like it deserves a more in-depth treatise on the why and how of building an offline chatbot. Why? I mean, why not?

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