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Want to start a startup doing eye-tracking? If so I'd be interested in funding it. A friend of mine has ALS and can only move his eyes. He has an eye-controlled keyboard, but it's not very good. Can you make him a better one?

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Modernizing Compiler Design for Carbon Toolchain - Chandler Carruth - CppNow 2023
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