ACM RecSys 2026 Recap: Trends, a Paper Explorer & My Reading List
A data-driven recap of ACM RecSys 2026: 20 years of conference trends, the LLM turn in the papers, a tool to explore the proceedings, and...
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A Senior Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at Ubisoft, passionate about deploying ML systems in production and building personalization and discoverability systems. I share my learnings, experiments, and insights about data science, MLOps, and the intersection of gaming and AI.
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Tracking the 2026 Quebec Election with SearchAPI on Google services & ChatGPT
Using SearchAPI to collect Google News, Trends, and ChatGPT/Gemini data on Quebec's 2026 election, comparing English vs. French visibility and where each AI's answers really...
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Building a Trackmania Community Dataset for Level Generation & More
Wrapping two decades of Trackmania community maps and replays into an ML-friendly dataset of 850k+ maps, then using it to experiment with level generation from...
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Back from the 2026 Databricks Data + AI Summit
A recap of the Databricks Data+AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco, covering the keynote announcements from Genie ONE and the AI Gateway to Reyden and...
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A Guide to Python Packaging
A practical walkthrough of Python packaging: project layout, pyproject.toml, publishing to PyPI, testing with pytest, documentation with Sphinx, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions illustrated through...
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Text Embeddings in Practice: Building a Cold-Start Content Recommender
A practical walkthrough of text embeddings from fundamentals to production — covering model selection, vector storage, similarity metrics, and validation through a real cold-start content...
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