One of the big project from last year for me was to create a nice small homelab. On my previous projects, namely AuroraWatch and my personal document manager, everything was running inside my tiny NAS memory with my even tinier NAS CPU. It was fine for a basic project like aurorawatch that only fetches a website and does some text extraction and analysis. But my personal document manager was too h...
This year at the AKL Conference was prominently marked by discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The rapid advancements in AI, significantly propelled by platforms like OpenAI and ChatGPT, have captured the attention of key decision-makers in leading companies such as Trumpf and Coherent. The plenary talk particularly emphasized the potential applications, implications, and the urgent need f...
So, 5 months ago, I have written a post about Artificial Intelligence and General Artificial Intelligence. You can see the tone from my first post was very optimistic, a little too much maybe, with the hope that things would accelerate soon. I have been using AI a lot recently and I want to report on my understanding of what AI can and can't do and how to use it as effectively as possible....
So that is it. I have been, like many others following what is the biggest paradigm shift of the past hundred years. In my opinion, the true next big step in human history that is being taken right now, as some people might seem to realize it, but also as many others simply ignore....
I was at AKL 22 a couple of weeks ago: the international laser technology congress at Aachen, Germany. I was present for the interesting technology conference and the live presentations at Fraunhofer ILT....
So this post is a simple shout-out to some other blog I discovered a few months ago. At the time, I was browsing hacker news and saw this post about optics. Great! I love hacker news for this. They mostly have posts about computers and programming but every now and then, there is a post about something totally unrelated, be it optics, physics, environment, etc... but always some quality content. T...
I was reading an article from Le Monde about the state of French research, especially the despair of French doctorates, and what it means. As you might have seen if you have read my bio, I am French, and I have a doctorate, although not from a French University but from EPFL in Switzerland. So I think it is important to write here what I think of the situation because it affects me directly....
Climate change is a mess. It's hotter in some places, colder in other, and in general, severe weather is intensifying with longer droughts, heavier rainfalls and stronger storms. This problem, caused mostly by our method of generation of energy relying on burning fuel and releasing carbon dioxide in the air has a few solutions, among them: the wind turbine to harvest wind energy and generate clean...