…code into music

As ParVagues, I write patterns that shape soundwaves.

…code into animated pixelscapes

Using Hydra, I create animations that offer windows into other worlds.

…ideas into talks

I speak about topics I care about: from sharing my passions and teaching useful patterns, to questioning our current mental models.

Most recent talks

• Search Relevance in the Gen AI Age

  You’re just done tuning search relevance perfectly for your human users, and just when you think you’re done, now you must do it again for robots? This is the age of RAG: we return relevant search results, not to a user, but to a LLM. What does this change? Can I reuse what I already know about relevance? You’ll learn that relevance for LLMs is not far from relevance for human users, and most of your hard work can be reused!
  

• Panel on RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

  Roundtable with Pierre Peigné, Chief Science Officer at PRISM Eval & Alessandro Benedetti, Director at Sease, on Retrieval-Augmented Generation: why it's relevant today, what are the potential benefits and risks, and how to do it properly to capture most of its value in your projects.
  

• Image Recommendations: the Good, Bad, and Ugly Use-Cases

  What data do you use to fuel your product carousels? Textual attributes? Business-relevant metadata? These are all good, but you may have something else valuable: solid product images. But whichs use-cases are a good fit for image-based recommendations?