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LYiHub/mad-professor-public

An AI companion for reading papers. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/LYiHub/mad-professor-public · JavaScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

27/100

  • Activity 17
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 35

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 502
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 502
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1604 stars · 196 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A desktop AI companion application for reading academic papers, built with PyQt6. It combines PDF parsing and translation, RAG-based retrieval, LLM-powered Q&A with a customizable 'grumpy professor' persona, and voice interaction (speech recognition and TTS).

Use cases

  • read academic papers with AI assistance
  • translate papers into bilingual side-by-side view
  • ask questions about a paper's content and get grounded answers
  • convert PDFs to structured markdown
  • listen to AI answers read aloud via TTS
  • ask questions by voice instead of typing

When to choose

  • you want a local desktop app for interactive paper reading with RAG
  • you have a CUDA GPU with 6GB+ VRAM and want offline PDF parsing and speech recognition
  • you want a fun, persona-driven AI reading companion with bilingual display

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight tool without GPU requirements
  • you don't want to depend on external APIs like DeepSeek and MiniMax
  • you need a web-based or collaborative paper reading tool
  • you're on macOS or mobile

Facets

application · maturity active

rag pdf ocr speech-recognition tts llm-inference chatbot nlp gui artificial-intelligence large-language-models pdf education windows python paper-reading academic-research ai-companion bilingual-translation pyqt6 voice-interaction personality-assistant retrieval-augmented-generation natural-language-processing linux desktop gpu

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