Frequently Asked Questions

Updated: 29 Mar 2025

What is this site?

This site is the primary web presence for my digital twin. If you are not familiar with the concept, Wikipedia has some light reading on the digital twin topic.

What can the digital twin do?

The digital twin is still in learning mode right now. Most of his capabilities involve monitoring Peter's email and several social media accounts. He is basically recording metrics and identifying interesting data points. He is able to make some curated responses, which are reviewed before they are released.

What if I did not get a response?

The digital twin is receiving, filtering, and responding to all incoming email. The digital twin will not respond to spam or abuse. Those messages logged and silently dropped. He also ingests several social media threads and identifies posts of interests. He also watermarks and cleans up EXIF data in images.

What enhancements are planned?

The initial focus is on creating capabilities similar to a virtual executive assistant. This includes tasks like sending automated email responses, accepting or rejecting calendar events, and making scheduled posts.

Is he an evil twin?

Although he misbehaves at times, it is not with evil or malicious intent. This is usually due to bugs in the code. The worst that he has done so far is drop some email.

What is Talos?

Talos is the project name for the codebase. The name is inspired by the Greek automaton Talos. Every new 3rd-party interactive feature or capability gets merged into this project.