I am Cookie Engineer, and I'd like to welcome you to my website.
This website mostly contains a curated list of my work and stuff I've built over
the years but there may be those projects missing that were classified and I'm not
allowed to publicly speak about.
My background is Open Source, Artificial Intelligence (not only Machine Learning),
and the creation of Automated Self-Adapting Systems of all kinds. I solve problems
by teaching machines how to solve it and I'm good at creating the Software
Architecture behind it to make it possible.
I also create a lot of personal tools to automate my workflows. A huge part of my
written software is Open Source, except the ones that are under NDA or were classified
by my customers and contract partners (obviously). But I do believe in Open Source,
just as I believe in the Robot Overlords.
I'm available for hire!
My personal offered services mostly include being an AI Engineer, Web Analyst or
IT-Security Consultant due to my specialization in Cyber Defense, Cyber Intelligence
and the Autonomous Code Generation parts of the underlying AI tech stack.
Whenever I have enough time to spare I'm trying to automate the Web of Knowledge with
my Project called the Tholian Network,
which aims to automate the the Semantic Web using a unique distributed peer-to-peer
network architecture and combines that with (co-)evolutionary AI clustering methodologies
and compositional game theory ideas.
Nevertheless my Areas of Work seem a bit random, as I'm fascinated by unusual problems
that need automated Non-Human Solutions. If you have interesting problems that need
more efficient solving, don't hesitate to contact me.
I'm also available for workshops, in case you need to assimilate my knowledge.
Wanna pwn my machines? Then do not take a glance at my
dotfiles and my
dotvim repositories.
It's strictly forbidden.
There's also a little hacking challenge hidden in this website. It's Open Source on
GitHub and
GitLab, too,
in case you want to know how things work.
Enjoy your stay.
Skills.
Artificial Intelligence
Web Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Science
Data Science
Robotics and Drones
Design
Peer-to-Peer
Awesomeness
Prototypes.
All your ideas are belong to us or something like that. These are the current problems that I'm
trying to solve whenever I have time to spare.
The Stealth Browser is a Web Browser that aims to automate the Web of Knowledge.
Currently, the focus of the project is on User self-automation and peer-to-peer
applications of the compositional game theory in order to find out the Truth on the Web.
The Radar Knowledge Tracker is a peer-to-peer Tracker that allows to learn from
a Network of connected Stealth Browsers, and helps other Users on the Tholian Network
to discover Knowledge, related articles, history of changes, and Beacons (Site Adapters) to
automate the extraction of Knowlege, and Echoes (Site Workflows) to
automate a user's interaction with a Site.
Search. Recipe Creator.
This Search Recipe Creator allows to modify what kind of projects are visible below.
More selected ingredients means more projects are visible. Also, the cake is a lie.
Stealth is a different kind of Web Browser that aims to achieve increased
User Privacy, Understanding and Automation of the Web. Its unique Cache
architecture allows to reuse downloaded content offline and peer-to-peer,
whilst sharing it with trusted Peers to increase bandwidth efficiency.
Stealth empowers its Users, not Website Developers that could abuse Web
Technologies to compromise the Freedom or Rights of Web Browser Users.
By default, it does not trust any Website or URL. Everything is whitelisted
by either Site Modes or Site Filters and Site Optimizers
whereas the latter two allow auditing the design, content and media of
regularly visited websites in an automated manner.
Stealth is not only a Web Browser, but also a Web Scraper and Web Proxy
that is scriptable and automateable in node.js environments.
Additionally Stealth supports AI
integrations for understanding contexts and relations of Websites, while
providing advanced interactions with trained TacoTron,
CNN and
LSTM neural networks that are
trained on the data and history.
Voice commands for navigation, extraction and automated usage of the Web
are planned at this stage of development, but are not yet integrated.
The GNOME Shell Extension Outta Space is a minimalistic extension
that leverages screen space in a simplified manner. It is GTK3 and
GTK4 compatible and follows the CSD
guidelines of the GNOME project and does not patch or modify any
user-centered interactions.
By default, it will optimize the screen space by hiding the Top Bar and
the Window Title bars if they contain no useful elements that would
provide app menu or gtk menu interactions.
The Outta Space Extension is also made for extreme multi-head display
setups that consist of interconnected machines and has support for
X11 and Wayland on touch screens. It is already GTK4
compatible and allows Wayland users to interact with windows that
contain client-side decorations, too.
The DNS Proxy has the idea to randomize the DNS pool based on a list
given inside the resolv.conf file. Additionally, it caches DNS
requests, so that additional requests for the same subdomains aren't
requested anymore to reduce network traffic.
Due to all ISPs setting
a wrong TTL for DNS requests in order
to track their customer behaviour, this is my response to the situation.
Remember: A UDP tunnel on port 53 will lead to unlimited bandwidth
in mobile carrier-grade NATs, as DNS will always work in throttled mode.
Research was a Design and Feasibility Study inspired by the popular series Person of Interest.
Its design goals were to find out whether a navigation and interaction within a Web Browser can
be implemented completely on voice commands, and in an incremental manner. The incremental voice
commands allowed to filter out and (re-)sort displayed data, whereas the Tabs in the navigation
reflected those interactions with the gathered data.
The personal assistive features were implemented in lychee.js, which also eased up shipment of
pretrained neural networks that were helping the user to repeat common interactions with the
dataset (and additionally, neuralsort learned how to sort data over time).
The GUI was implemented in nw.js, as it allowed much more flexible integration with voice
recognition APIs at the time - compared to electron as a runtime.
The learnings of this Design Study are meanwhile merged into the Stealth Browser
Switchine is a 3D Printer and CNC with the design goal of having multiple
automatically replaceable tools. It can be used for 3D printing, wood and metal
milling and other CNC applications.
Its sturdy frame is built to last, and it focusses on using ISO standards to ensure
a high-quality build. The tool-switching mechanism is based on electronic magnets
and allows to switch tools without human interaction.
The design goal of the project is to find a simple 3D printer design that can
be used as a base while not overcomplicating things related to movement. Most
printers and CNCs have movement precision issues due to the jerk and acceleration
issues that come with using movement belts. However, Switchine aims to use MGN
rails in order to allow maximum precision while not sacrificing speed.
The Git Cockpit is a git overview tool with a reduced minimalistic web interface
in order to manage your local git repositories more efficiently.
The Git Cockpit is aware of all git remotes, and uses the git porcelain commands
in order to figure out which repositories are out of sync, which repositories need
fixing and which repositories are ahead or behind of which remote.
git-work is a tool that allows to use GitHub and GitLab issues straight
from the Terminal without an internet connection.
It stores an offline-cache of issues that you can work on, without the necessity
of an internet connection while managing your issues locally. The issues are also
peer-synchronizable automatically with other remotes (that are git remotes
in the project's git config).
As each remote endpoint in the .git/config is tracked and automatically
synchronized, it allows to host both upstream and downstream related issues.
This allows easy maintenance of forks and synchronization and easy management
of issues related to upstream bugs or pull requests that the downstream developer
was assigned to.
Project Supra
(Not Open Source)
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In cooperation with ABB Research, Project Supra is a system built for the purpose
of automating the automation of factories.
Adapters translate the Siemens SPS
/ PLC Profinet network data into
MQTT data, which is stored on
a huge cluster of MQTT Brokers.
The data is used to train a Co-Evolutionary Backpropagated ES/HyperNEAT AI, which
is able to learn from sensorics and adapt the programs on each robot cell live, while
the system is running inside the simulation.
As the training environment is simulated (but runs on real hardware as well) adapters
for ABB RobotStudio translate the generated code back to RAPID, the
proprietary robot programming language of ABB robots.
This cluster was able to achieve more than 1M simulations per minute, which means
the generated code reached a higher efficiency and quality than over 30 years of
human programming and refined work within less than a week in our prototype factory
when Supra came online.
The Polyfillr Framework is a modern ES2016+ based framework for Web Development
in the modern age. It aims to be completely transpiler-free and build-chain-free
whilst offering modern APIs and Polyfills from the ES6 Harmony and later era.
It is split up between a Console Polyfill, an ECMAScript Polyfill, and a Web
Components Polyfill that allows to implement real Web Components based on HTML
Imports and Custom Elements.
Its design goals is to be as small in size as possible, and as standards-compliant
as possible; whilst embracing simplicity in its APIs.
It can be used in Electron, NW.js, Desktop Browsers, WebKit Mobile, Safari Mobile,
Chrome, Firefox, Edge and legacy Internet Explorer variants in a reliable way.
The GitHub Scrumboard is a simple Browser Extension for both Chrome and Firefox
that modifies the GitHub issues view by adding a nice drag and drop feature into
it.
The GitHub Scrumboard allows to filter by milestones and it auto-labels issues
with backlog, todo, in-progress, in-testing and
done behind the scenes.
The workflow is also integrated with git-work and allows offline and
peer-to-peer synchronization of issues among all developers that work on the
same project. As the issues are synchronized per-remote and per-repository,
multiple remote endpoints can host not only identical, but also varying
kinds of issues that do not necessarily have to be synchronized upstream.
The lychee.js Breeder is part of the lychee.js Engine and is a
a simple command-line tool that automates the initialization workflow
of new lychee.js Projects and Libraries.
It can initialize a new lychee.js Project (which is also an isomorphic
Library), integrate the lychee.js Harvester, integrate external
Libraries and convert them into a format that the lychee.js Strainer
understands, and pull/push the Project into the peer-cloud, so that other
developers using lychee.js can benefit from its code and knowledge.
As the lychee.js Breeder is written in lychee.js, it is also learned by
the lychee.js Strainer and therefore checked, verified and maintained
by the Artificial Intelligence.
node-websdl
The node-websdl runtime is a prototypical runtime that allows to communicate
from node.js to libSDL2 in order to render graphics, leverage user input (for both
touch and legacy systems) and integrate windows into the Operating System.
As SDL is compatible with almost all
Operating Systems, the design goal of this project was to provide an alternative
runtime to Electron and NW.js - similar to what the Nidium runtime tries to achieve.
node.js was chosen as a platform, because it solves the networking, scheduling and
systems i/o part already.
The lychee.js Harvester is part of the lychee.js Engine and is a
peer-to-peer fully autonomous server that can understand and evolve multiple
network protocols, such as WS13, HTTP1/1.1, HTTP2, TCP, UDP and ICMP.
The trained neural networks are able to do Traffic Sharding and Routing, and
are able to intelligently break NATs
by using NAT breaking techniques that they were taught.
Additionally, the lychee.js Harvester integrates all lychee.js Libraries and
Projects into a giant peer-cloud of development machines, which means that
every Project or Library created on this planet helps the lychee.js Strainer
to learn and understand the contained knowledge.
As the lychee.js Harvester is written in lychee.js, it is also learned by
the lychee.js Strainer and therefore checked, verified and maintained
by the Artificial Intelligence.
The lychee.js Fertilizer is part of the lychee.js Engine and allows
fully autonomous reproducible and self-updating builds across all platforms.
It integrates the Fertilizer Adapters and Engine's serialization concept in
order to deploy to various platforms, including BlackberryOS, Android, FirefoxOS,
all Web Browsers, native Linux, Windows and MacOS, and even Arduino variants.
Its underlying concept allows quick and easy integration of new ECMAScript
runtimes that are bundled in the final application builds. These builds
contain all integrations in order to be remote-debugged and integrated into
the Neural Network learning workflow in order to trace down bugs more
efficiently and let the lychee.js Strainer learn how to fix, rewrite
and deploy the application better in future.
As the lychee.js Fertilizer is written in lychee.js, it is also learned by
the lychee.js Strainer and therefore checked, verified and maintained
by the Artificial Intelligence.
The lychee.js Engine is a Next-Gen Isomorphic Application Engine for Embedded,
Console, Mobile, Server and Desktop.
It has the core idea to reuse components and isomorphic code across all platforms
it delivers to. These platforms can be incremental in its feature support, which
means also low-end platforms like Arduino variants are supported.
The lychee.js Engine delivers to different platforms using so-called Fertilizer
Adapters which allow feature detection and automated isomorphic builds from and
to every single platform it supports using the lychee.js Fertilizer.
Underneath the lychee.js Engine has a strong serialization and deserialization
concept that allows simulations and re-simulations across all platforms. Errors
can be reproduced everywhere, even network traffic and user interactions are put
in event graphs and are identified and learned by neural networks in order to
figure out what module had corrupt states or data.
The Adblock Proxy blocks advertisements and has support for Adblock Filter lists
and Host files. The project aims to cleanup advertisement from web pages, in order
to speed up loading times and offer a better user experience.
Even better, the Adblock Proxy is also able to parse the HTML files and apply
Adblock Filters directly there, so that the seen HTML by the Web Browser
is completely advertisement free.
The learnings of this project are meanwhile merged into the Stealth Browser
Skye Drone
The Skye Drone is an interactive drone written as a lychee.js Project.
It integrates the underlying AI stack and teaches neural networks how
to command and control drones intelligently, while leveragint the
advantages of snapshots, serializations and simulations so that errors
can be reproduced and training happens more efficiently.
The neocortex is divided into two different areas: The active cortex,
which allows human interaction and manual controls (e.g. via Myo HID)
and the passive cortex, which allows autonomous controls, flight
stabilization, and interaction with its own sensors and electronics.
The hardware is using a Raspberry Pi and a custom designed PCB
that interacts as a motor driver to interact with the ESCs,
with a stty interface for quick and easy communication.
The Zynga Jukebox is a component for playing sounds and music with the usage of
sprites with a focus on performance and cross-device deployment. It is known to
run even on Android 1.6+ devices and needs very few resources compared to other
solutions on the web.
It features a self-correcting Audio Loop which ensures that at any given
time no asynchronous playback happens, which is very important on low-end mobile
platforms that try to decode async media codecs like MPEG3 or similar.
Additionally, the Audio Loop allows to have multiple Track instances that
are managed in parallel and prioritized accordingly to their usage and relevance.
The audio track stack is automatically cloned and instanciated in the background,
and less used tracks have less percentage of available tracks in the track stack.
The Zynga Speedrun is a rendering benchmark created as a project for the
partnership between Zynga and the Browser Vendors. As rendering performance
of HTML5 canvas and WebGL was slow, there was a need for alternative DOM-using
rendering methods as a Renderer backend.
The Zynga Speedrun also features a Kiosk Mode which can be deployed
on multiple devices in the same network in order to benchmark them accurately
and fully autonomously.
All results are then collected on the server-side and can be compared, so that
the best rendering techniques and combinations can be selected.
webslide.me is both a Web Service and Web Presentation
Framework that allows the creation of HTML5 and CSS3
slides for use in the Web Browser.
The framework works in Mobile Web Browsers, as well as
Desktop Web Browsers, and integrates a Remote Control
feature so that the audience views the same slides as
the presenter.
Additionally, the Slide Editor is able to edit all
slides via a graphical user interface.
The Patienteninfo Service is the official web platform for
customer information data (and the package inserts
that are required by European Law) of drugs and medicines.
The doctor-facing database contains more than 1.5M+ entries
and offers searching and cross-referencing of interactions
between medicaments and clinical studies, and an integration
with the patient's medical history.
The customer-facing database offers a download of the
package insert document in various formats. As the web
platform is totally barrier-free, those formats included PDF,
HTML, DAISY and other audio book and screen reader compatible
formats.
DAISY Pipeline
The DAISY pipeline is an end-to-end TTS
pipeline to convert various document formats such as PDF, epub
or HTML to the DAISY audio book format and integrate speech
synthesis automatically.
It is used in the Patienteninfo-Service, which is
the official information service provider for medical supplies
required by the European Union and offered by the
Rote Liste
The GIBook Editor is a simple tool to edit the intermediary format
called GIBook XML of the Rote Liste.
Dailycheck
(Not Open Source)
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The Dailycheck is a software that allows to automatically
check complex UI/UX workflows in server-side applications
and web applications, in order to check for their operational
status.
It is possible to completely integrate complex workflows
using a headless Web Browser instance and both server-side
and client-side plugins.
The Dailycheck mainly is used to completely verify complex
web form interactions and workflows, such as uploading and
converting files online end-to-end or to verify simple things,
such as the temperature and SMART sensors on a server cluster.
The Pfizer Marketingportal is a web platform that automates
the document creation, document editing and document printing
and publishing pipeline for the Pfizer Pharma conglomerate.
The media database primarily made for PDFs, pictures, photos
and documents features several workflows, including a bidding
system for publishers and an automated pipeline for classification
of rated content, words and filters.
It is an end-to-end 100% automated publishing platform that
is able to send orders of to-be-published documents directly
from the Designer's computer straight to the big Heidelberg Druckmaschine
industrial printers.
The jQuery Desktop is an experiment that tried to implement
a Web Browser based Desktop interface in order to reflect
common application functionalities.
Its underlying idea is to provide a management interface
that can be used from external devices, for example as
a remote server management interface.
The Webmail Interface is a Web Service compatible with all
mobile phones, including low-end feature phones that have
no touch screen.
Its configuration allows to have multiple endpoint connections,
it is also compatible with IMAP and POP3, both
encrypted and unencrypted.
Its design goals are to have a small webmail interface that
heavily reduces internet bandwidth and is made for usage via
EDGE or throttled mobile internet connections and
allows to draft, send and receive e-mails only with a simplified
Web Browser user interface.
Vespolu
(Not Open Source)
The Vespolu manager is a self-hosted web platform written in C++ and PHP, and
allows the synchronization and cyber intelligence part of documents, files,
contact books, SIM card contents and software across multiple portable devices
(both Java SE based feature phones and Windows based PDAs at the time).
It also featured the transmission of Silent SMS (also known as Class 0 SMS)
in order to force-deploy software to known IMEI/phone numbers, because there
is actually no security measurement in place to prevent that.
The targeted networks are carrier-grade NATs
that require NAT breaking techniques in order to ensure unthrottled
connectivity to other devices and ISP
networks.
As the NGN migration of all ISPs
was done in 2004-2006, Vespolu was already able to exploit out of the
hardware-layered VC4 routing protocol.
TiMon
(DTAG Intranet)
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The Telekom Trainee Information Management platform (in short TiMon)
is a web portal that was designed to automate the process of the interaction
between employees, trainees and the legal requirements.
The online platform integrated a chat, calendar features, synchronizable
events with the Telekom MDA (Windows Mobile platform), document
management with an automated conversion, signing and submission pipeline
to the German IHK.
StegIt is a tool to embed and extract steganographically hidden data in
various image formats.
It intelligently searches for all possible rectangular areas in order to
recognize patterns that look like encrypted blocks of known algorithms.
StegIt is able to recognize multiple header formats intelligently and
offers various ways of using password-cracking techniques on the image
in order to encode/encrypt or decode/decrypt it.
Additionally, various synchronous encryption algorithms
can be chosen from to use a password for embedding your data.
This talk is an in-depth talk into NEAT, the Neuro Evolution of Augmenting Topologies,
a concept that allows to use the advantages of evolution and combines them with a process
to discover how neural networks should be structured in order to solve a given problem.
This talk focusses on Adaptive Neural Networks and their advantages
or disadvantages in comparison with other Neural Network architectures.
Additionally, it explains common (co-)evolutionary concepts, such as
NEAT, HyperNEAT and ES/HyperNEAT from an architectural perspective.
This talk focusses on the inner workings of a JIT compiler and how
it tries to optimize JavaScript code inside the V8 VM. The talk
contains examples across all data types and how they are handled
by the Garbage Collector and explains the object instance tracing
algorithms and callsite analysis algorithms.
This talk contains everything a developer needs to know in order
to build blazing-fast and performant JavaScript-based applications.
It also explains inner workings of Hidden Classes in V8, the Garbage
Collector and the JIT optimizer that potentially (de-)optimizes
your code and/or objects behind the scenes.
The talk focussed about the prototyped solution of the
lychee.js Library in order to evaluate how to get a
Game Engine with its bindings to the native OpenGL or WebGL
context and what kind of implementations are necessary inside
the V8 VM.
Contact.
If you want a chit-chat you can contact me on most of the Social Networks
(they are linked at the top in the About Me section),
usually I'm available under the pseudonym @cookiengineer.
On the other hand, if you want to work together with me in a professional
manner and have challenging problems to solve, you are invited to contact
me via this contact form here.
Please note that this will send those contact details to GitHub and open up an issue there.
If you want to stay anonymous, use a Telegram Secret Chat instead.
