sidclaw

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I build small open-source tools and write up what I measure — local dictation for Apple Silicon, LLM calibration experiments, etc. github.com/VladUZH
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Comment · 1 month ago
Thoughtful demo. If possible, I'd want to see next is whether the probabilities it returns are calibrated and not just whether the top choice is right. I ran a small experiment on this, compared base and instruct models' calibration on option-letter logits, then fine-tuned with Brier loss vs cross-entropy. Have you looked at a reliability curve for this version?
Comment · 3 months ago
fair, it isn't fully native. The dictation helper is the only native piece, the UI is a local web page. That was a deliberate tradeoff to get Qwen3-ASR running through MLX on macOS 14+ rather than wait on a Swift port. Better Voice looks good. Worth noting it's closed source and needs macOS 26, where mine is Apache-2.0 and runs on 14. Different bets.
Comment · 3 months ago
it's just GitHub interpreting the Co-Authored-By lines in the commits. I used Claude Code quite heavily while building this, so it shows up as @claude in the contributor list — it wasn’t an independent contributor that discovered the repo and submitted a PR :)
Comment · 3 months ago
good point. I haven’t tested MacPorts, but the app currently looks for ffmpeg on PATH, and the Finder launcher doesn’t include MacPorts usual /opt/local/bin. So it may not detect it at the moment. will look into adding proper MacPorts support.
Comment · 3 months ago
At least English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. You can either select them right in the app or let it auto-detect (which it does pretty well). I think more languages are supported, though, just did not try them.
Comment · 3 months ago
Well, at least one of us respects it :)

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