Let's say your goal is to train a Large Language Model only on European Portuguese. Where do you start? What datasets are out there? What websites are being scraped for the large black box? Bagaço - named after the popular Portuguese moonshine - is a small step in that direction.

In June …

Well—that was quick. Just like that, the first month of the year is gone. Winter blues would normally peak around this time. But not this year. We're spending time with family in my favorite place on Earth, somewhere along the Adriatic coast of Italy, in the Marche region.

It's …

Let's face it. It might just be the year of agents. If you work in tech and your workflow hasn't changed in the last year or so - you're probably doing something wrong. For those of you who have. It's fun. We're building more than ever before!

But there's a dark …

I get up feeling sleepy. I lace up my running shoes and head out the door. I fire up my favourite podcast. "This show is brought to you by..." I hate ads.

I understand the attention economy. Companies are capitalizing more and more on everyone's time. I have nothing against …

And just like that, it's the end of the year again. We did not expect to make it to the South for Christmas this year. Getting a passport for a newborn is a painful, bureaucracy-filled process, especially for a Portuguese-Italian baby born in Denmark. But somehow—magically—the Italian embassy …

There's something very funny about the current Machine Learning and AI landscape. If you're in the field you probably heard about it. "Vibes" they call it. When someone wants to test something out, they conduct a "vibe test".

I call bullshit. How are you supposed …

Big news in the state of Denmark. And no, nothing's rotten. Allegra just came into the world.

As she takes a nap, I take the opportunity to write November's Retrospectiva update.

The most relevant thing this month is probably the release of my recent book about DeepSeek. It's nice to …

or at least the open versions of it. I have this very stupid rule. A couple of years ago I decided to turn this blog into a podcast. At the time, I decided to make up a stupid rule: whatever model I use to clone my voice and generate article …

Welcome to Retrospectiva. Retrospectiva is a monthly update about what I’ve been up to. In the age of LLMs, I’ve heard many argue that it’s hard (and useless) to write anything at all anymore. When anyone can prompt a model and get some text from the magic …