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I revisit my earlier critique of open-source text-to-speech and explain why the landscape has changed with Qwen3-TTS: open weights, strong inference via vLLM-Omni, voice cloning that actually works, and fewer artifacts o
Show notesEducational score over time vs. document count for Bagaco v2 A couple of months ago I released Bagaço - a pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. The idea was simple: take the FineWeb 2 dataset, limit it to web page
Show notesMy Hermes agent – Saramago – giving me coaching feedback and looking for the ideal flights for an upcoming trip. Another month bites the dust. We've been back in Denmark for the past couple of weeks. I often joke that th
Show notesIn December 2024, the Portuguese government announced AMÁLIA: a 5.5 Million Euro investment on a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese1. The other day, while building an overview of the different Portuguese NLP efforts
Show notesWell, now would you look at that. Article 100 on this website. Ten years of writing on this small corner of the web. I'm writing this month's newsletter from my favourite place: the airplane. Happy Easter if you celebrat
Show notesAs you get older, life becomes complicated. Not in a bad way. There’s just more going on. We don’t all want to run marathons. Maybe you want to run a parkrun. Maybe you want to gradually increase your volume. Maybe you d
Show notesGiven some text in Portuguese, how easy is it to determine if it's from Brazil or Portugal1? For native speakers, this is pretty easy – it's almost a feeling. But for machines: not so much. This might seem like a useless
Show notesHappy February! Just like that, we are close to wrapping up the first quarter of 2026. After quite some time roaming around, we finally flew back home to Copenhagen. It's cold, windy, and grey, but it's also calm, organi
Show notesLet's say your goal is to train a Large Language Model only on European Portuguese. Where do you start? What datasets are out there? What websites are being scraped for the large black box? Bagaço - named after the popul
Show notesWell—that was quick. Just like that, the first month of the year is gone. Winter blues would normally peak around this time. But not this year. We're spending time with family in my favorite place on Earth, somewhere alo
Show notesLet's face it. It might just be the year of agents. If you work in tech and your workflow hasn't changed in the last year or so - you're probably doing something wrong. For those of you who have. It's fun. We're building
Show notesI get up feeling sleepy. I lace up my running shoes and head out the door. I fire up my favourite podcast. "This show is brought to you by..." I hate ads. I understand the attention economy. Companies are capitalizing mo
Show notesAnd just like that, it's the end of the year again. We did not expect to make it to the South for Christmas this year. Getting a passport for a newborn is a painful, bureaucracy-filled process, especially for a Portugues
Show notesBenchmarking calorie prediction for Taralli There's something very funny about the current Machine Learning and AI landscape. If you're in the field you probably heard about it. "Vibes" they call it. When someone wants t
Show notesBig news in the state of Denmark. And no, nothing's rotten. Allegra just came into the world. As she takes a nap, I take the opportunity to write November's Retrospectiva update. The most relevant thing this month is pro
Show notesBack in May this year, my longtime friend Alex reached out and asked me if I wanted to collaborate with him on a book about DeepSeek. I would love to tell you the story of how I thought long and hard before getting back
Show notesor at least the open versions of it. I have this very stupid rule. A couple of years ago I decided to turn this blog into a podcast. At the time, I decided to make up a stupid rule: whatever model I use to clone my voice
Show notesWelcome to Retrospectiva. Retrospectiva is a monthly update about what I’ve been up to. In the age of LLMs, I’ve heard many argue that it’s hard (and useless) to write anything at all anymore. When anyone can prompt a mo
Show notesWhy do this? A small dataset of news headlines GPT2 in PyTorch Pre-training headlines in Portuguese Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on Portuguese from Portugal Reinforcement Learning (GRPO) for sports news Final thoughts &
Show notesThe world moves fast, faster every day. For those who work with technology - and even those who don't - it's hard to keep up with the news. But I've always enjoyed staying up to date with what is happening, and my main t
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