Snippets

This page is a collection of random (not always too serious) side projects, experiments, and thoughts.

Doing RAG in 2014

Looking back at our 2014 AMTA paper, the core mechanics of RAG were already there — years before the name.

RAG MT SMT NLP Research
First page of the 2014 AMTA paper Data Selection for Compact Adapted SMT Models

Alpine Ibex Vision Test

My anecdotal vision test, and a lesson about triggering the right capabilities

llm vision vlm prompting capabilities evaluation
Herd of alpine ibex on a rocky mountainside, difficult to spot

Universal NER v2 paper

Universal NER v2 was accepted to LREC 2026.

NLP NER LREC Research Benchmarks Multilingual
Universal NER v2 multilingual named entity recognition benchmark

When LLMs See What We Don’t

A local election story about how an LLM hallucinated a political alliance

LLMs AI Hallucinations Prompt Injection
Illustration for an article about LLM perception and hidden web text

Flat-fabricated Inflatables

Flat-fabricated inflatable structures for approximating developable surfaces.

Research Soft Robotics Fabrication Geometry
Flat-fabricated inflatable structure morphing into a deckchair shape

vLLM on Google Colab

Running a vLLM server on Google Colab and accessing it externally

vLLM LiteLLM LLMs Google Colab
Diagram or screenshot related to running vLLM on Google Colab

Shoebot

Shoebot: a low-budget ML robotics project

Robotics Machine Learning Computer Vision
Shoebot mobile robot project

Vibe Coding a chess app

Creating a little chess app using (almost) only Cursor

Vibe Coding Cursor Streamlit Chess
Chess board illustrating opening positions