Gabriel Damour on digital experiences. Explore my blog.
This post is about self-hosting videos on a website. When it comes to hosting videos on a website, the most common way is to use a video hosting platform like YouTube, Vimeo, or Dailymotion. However, there are some reasons why you might want to host videos on your own server. In this post I will review the pros and cons of self-hosting videos and provide a walkthrough on how to do it. It is today an experiment to see how it goes and haven’t made up my mind yet on the best approach.
30 Jun 2024 - by Gabriel
This blog post is a collection of observations I have made on the intellectual development of children and what is the insights it can give us for artificial intelligence research. My third child is born in the beginning of that year 2024 and I’m fascinated by the glimpse of emerging intelligent behavior one can see when observing a baby slowly growing into a kid over several years. This is the first part, 2 months old.
30 Apr 2024 - by Gabriel
The goal of this review is to compare the quality of new semantic-based algorithms using embeddings versus traditional term-based search ranking algorithms to retrieve good content: The traditional is Okapi BM25, an the new ones are Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER, retrieval model trained by Elastic.co) and all-MiniLM-L6-v2 from sbert.net. Adding Google because it is a good reference point. Which one works for what type of query. Part 2 details the experience and present the findings.
31 Dec 2023 - by Gabriel
The goal of this review is to compare the quality of new semantic-based algorithms using embeddings versus traditional term-based search ranking algorithms to retrieve good content. The traditional is Okapi BM25, an the new ones are the models Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) and all-MiniLM-L6-v2 from sbert.net. Adding Google because it is a good reference point. Which one works for what type of query. Part 1 presents the background.
31 Oct 2023 - by Gabriel
Why and How to run your own Large language model on your traditional cloud provider like AWS.
31 Aug 2023 - by Gabriel
In this post I’ll describe my experience re-installing android on my phone and “regain” control on it.
31 May 2019 - by Gabriel
In 2018 Google and Facebook Artificial Intelligence research labs have again heavily invested into neural networks: This is still the most researched approach to IA, concentrated approximately 2/3 of their research effort based on the number of publications. A trend that is likely to remain in 2019.
31 Dec 2018 - by Gabriel
Sydney has more than 200 electricity substations built in the 1920s-1930s by Sydney Municipal Council. I randomly discovered a few of them over the few years I have been living here. In this post I’m sharing a few personal photos of what some of those substations look like the city today.
18 Sep 2018 - by Gabriel
The My Health Record opt-out period has started the 16th of July in Australia and will last until the 15th of October. We have 3 months to make an informed decision about our health electronic data. In this post I’m sharing a 5 reasons why you should opt-out.
31 Jul 2018 - by Gabriel
Reviewing an ARM-based, ie not a traditional x86 cloud based hosting provider: Scaleway.
30 Jun 2018 - by Gabriel
Uncover in details the highly critical Drupal vulnerability nicknamed “drupalgeddon 2” that was released March and April 2018
31 May 2018 - by Gabriel
I’m sharing in this post my interest for a report written by Alan Turing in 1948: ‘Intelligent machinery’. This report contains several founding and yet still modern ideas about artificial intelligence.
30 Apr 2018 - by Gabriel
This post is describing my experience when running a bitcoin full node on an ubuntu container.
31 Dec 2017 - by Gabriel