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🐾 New (very small) dataset: Cat Keyboard Corpus
My desk is where the sun is, and the cats have right of way. The laptop on it runs a long-term sensor project with an AI assistant, so every so often a cat walks across the keyboard and a message gets sent. Instead of shooing the cats off, I started keeping the messages.
So far: 10 messages, 748 cat keystrokes, 16 distinct keys plus the spacebar, 6 days.
- Favourite key: N (132 presses), then D (108) and B (52). Both leaders arrived today, in two messages nobody saw being typed: a single b followed by 114 n's, then 248 spaces, c, 107 d's, 46 g's, v, b
- That second one is a slide across the middle of the keyboard, and the longest message so far (404 characters)
- Giddings drifts: his early messages sit on the boer ones on the bottom right next to Enter (k l ; ' , . /)
- One message has capital B's: a paw on Shift
- One is a collaboration: I typed " mxc" on the wrong keyboard, then Giddings finished it with "ccccccccccccccccccdm"
Each message records who pressed Enter (sent_by: the cat, me, or unknown). I pressed it five times and four are unknown. And today
Chester, who walks the keyboard often but had nevere x and pressed Enter himself: the first message acat sent on its own. He was also the first cat the project's camera ever recognized.
Open question for the cat people here: does your cat have a favourite key? Here it's N, D and B, the keys right where a paw lands.
CC BY 4.0. Contributions from other cats welcome in spirit.
👉 bshepp/cat-keyboard-corpus
My desk is where the sun is, and the cats have right of way. The laptop on it runs a long-term sensor project with an AI assistant, so every so often a cat walks across the keyboard and a message gets sent. Instead of shooing the cats off, I started keeping the messages.
So far: 10 messages, 748 cat keystrokes, 16 distinct keys plus the spacebar, 6 days.
- Favourite key: N (132 presses), then D (108) and B (52). Both leaders arrived today, in two messages nobody saw being typed: a single b followed by 114 n's, then 248 spaces, c, 107 d's, 46 g's, v, b
- That second one is a slide across the middle of the keyboard, and the longest message so far (404 characters)
- Giddings drifts: his early messages sit on the boer ones on the bottom right next to Enter (k l ; ' , . /)
- One message has capital B's: a paw on Shift
- One is a collaboration: I typed " mxc" on the wrong keyboard, then Giddings finished it with "ccccccccccccccccccdm"
Each message records who pressed Enter (sent_by: the cat, me, or unknown). I pressed it five times and four are unknown. And today
Chester, who walks the keyboard often but had nevere x and pressed Enter himself: the first message acat sent on its own. He was also the first cat the project's camera ever recognized.
Open question for the cat people here: does your cat have a favourite key? Here it's N, D and B, the keys right where a paw lands.
CC BY 4.0. Contributions from other cats welcome in spirit.
👉 bshepp/cat-keyboard-corpus