Duarte O.Carmo's articles

We are getting dangerously close to the end of the year. 'Legra will soon be a full year old. She stands, has teeth, can almost walk. Slowly but steadily the household is getting into some sort of routine. Even though it's still …

A few weeks ago there was a bit of a scandal back home. Everyone was mad that the government had taken so long to grade this year's high school exams. At the time, I saw a weird post on LinkedIn saying we should have AMALIA grade all those exams because …

We've gone from suffering from the heatwave in the south of Europe to complaining about rain in Copenhagen. I don't think I've seen the sun in at least 48 hours. And you know what? I don't miss it (yet).

We're back to routines. Children love routines (I do too). 'Legra …

Today, I'd like to talk about Pi. Pi is a minimal coding agent originally built by Mario Zechner. It's one of the key tools I use to get things done. Brainstorming, writing code, testing, debugging, navigating, research, you name it. The idea of Pi is simple: ship the minimum amount …

I'm proud to announce Bagaço v3, the third version of the largest European Portuguese pretraining dataset for large language models.

Why a new version? After my work on Ginjinha, one thing became pretty apparent: Bagaço was large and diverse, but lacked high-quality data. I believe Bagaço …

July was busy — like always — but we made sure to take some time and touch some grass. Or mountains in our case. With the high temperatures across Europe we went to the Trentino region and hiked around the Dolomites for five days. Cool temperatures and beautiful scenery. Vitto's idea of …

For the past year, I've been very curious about the intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the European Portuguese language. I've built evaluations, classifiers, and eventually the largest pretraining dataset in European Portuguese.

Now, that's all fine and dandy, but it raises the obvious question: Can we pretrain an …

This month's Retrospectiva comes a little later than usual. The whole house got sick battling the flu the past couple weeks. Mixed with a small heatwave here in Copenhagen, means summer hasn't blessed us like we expected. At least not yet.

Now that I'm feeling a bit better, I finally …

In January this year, OpenClaw went viral. You probably heard about it. My guess is some of you even use it - or at least tried to. I certainly did.

I remember it clearly. I installed it, and very quickly noticed I was now spending time debugging a cron job created …