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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training
In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training
In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
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Robotics Hackathon in Bimanual Manipulation in Munich
How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics...
5th Oct 2025
How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics Equipment
My LinkedIn feed has become a stream of robotics content over the past few months. As someone diving deep into AI robotics after years in ML/AI/RL, I’ve been deliberately connecting...
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation
As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation
As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
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Generating Hundreds of Consistent Illustrations with Gemini Image Generation
A deep dive into building an automated illustration pipeline for storytelling...
20th Jul 2025
A deep dive into building an automated illustration pipeline for storytelling applications
Introduction
AI image generation has revolutionized creative workflows, but there’s a significant difference between generating a single stunning image and producing hundreds of consistent...
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Escaping LLM piping mess with nifty engineering
In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for...
25th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for thousands of LLM calls—into a robust content-adaptation studio powered by:
an async FastAPI pipeline,
a disk-first Next.js frontend, and
a small suite of custom CLI...
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How I ended up building storylearner.app
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages.
A long standing language learning obsession
Over the years (starting...
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google
I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined...
15th Mar 2025
I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined a startup accelerator full time). It would be a miss if I didn’t reflect on my sabbatical experience!
I will describe what I was up to in another post, but in short it was a mix of...
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How to transcribe long audios fast with open source (colab included)
In this post I will give you code that you can run yourself in Colab (or on your own machine with a...
14th Oct 2024
In this post I will give you code that you can run yourself in Colab (or on your own machine with a GPU), that will allow you to very quickly transcribe long audios in many languages.
The setup uses the whisper model from huggingface, Google Drive and Colab.
I used it to...
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I killed my side projects - clean slate
I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP:
redeal.app...
15th Sep 2024
I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP:
redeal.app - real estate investment calculator - inspired by bigger pockets, initially scraping daft (irish real estate listing website)
invertimo.com - investment tracking and bookkeeping...
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Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up...
16th Aug 2024
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem.
Introduction
I joined Google...
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