On 21 October 2024, I started working as a Scientific Officer for the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) in Brussels, Belgium. My last working day on this interim contract is the 18th of April 2025, but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the European Commission is closed due to the Easter holidays; therefore, I [...]
Just yesterday, during the lunch break, I was talking with some of my ERCEA colleagues about what information is publicly available that I could share with people who would like to know more about ERC and how they can apply for an ERC grant. Today, I would like to share with you three very recent [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote here about how I became a vegetarian 11 years ago. Whenever I order food online in Brussels, I use the Uber Eats app which is great because I can see in real-time where my food is. When it comes to going in person to eat, I like to go [...]
Today, after watching Andrej Karpathy’s video on LLMs, I tried NotebookLM from Google to generate an audio podcast. I let the AI generate a podcast based on one of Avi Loeb’s papers about Oumuamua (you can have a quick read about Oumuamua here), and I am very impressed with the audio quality. Check out my AI-generated [...]
Just a few days ago, I had a conversation about the importance of having a great internet speed. I realized this for the first time many years ago, not because I wanted to be able to play online games, chat with friends, or watch movies online, but because due to the internet, I was able [...]
As mentioned here and here, since October 2024, I am in Brussels working as a Scientific Officer for ERCEA. During my lunch break, I sometimes like to go to places very close to Rogier, in fact, very close to the Covent Garden building I work in. My favorite place to go for lunch is called [...]
Today marks 11 years since I stopped eating meat/fish dishes. Since mid February 2014, I haven’t eaten meat and fish but only vegetables, milk, eggs, cheese, and other dairy products. How it happened: By mid-February 2014, when I was still living in Heidelberg-Altstadt, I was inside the Stuzzico pizzeria, when I saw a delicious-looking great-smelling [...]
DeepSeek has made waves around the internet in the last few days, praised for its open-source reasoning capabilities and outperforming OpenAI’s costly ChatGPT. DeepSeek R1 is a distilled model that matches the capabilities of top-tier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in tasks like math, coding, and reasoning. The best part? It’s completely [...]
Today marks 3 months since I started working as a Scientific Officer at ERCEA in Brussels, Belgium. It is a beautiful experience, and I enjoy my work here, especially regarding the Synergy Grants. The work environment is excellent, with colleagues of many nationalities who are great to be around. When searching for an apartment in [...]
Some people have asked me what laptops they should buy, considering the considerable number of varieties in the market. This depends on everyone’s needs, but if I were to buy a new laptop in December 2024, and if the budget and performance aspects would be essential, I would consider one of the following laptops (max [...]
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