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Explore articles by Daniel Alves Rösel on AI engineering, open-source software, self-hosting, and data science. Discover practical guides and cutting edges projects like JUNO and DIET COKE.

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TPUs for Reinforcement Learning and Behavioral Modeling

Given that you have created a TPU deployment on GCP, you are now probably trying to figure out how to run your carefully crafted training on this compute. This overview will highlight my learning from

Familiar Monitoring of TPU Workloads

How can I see the usage of my TPU chip? Can I run nvtop on a TPU machine? These were some of the biggest questions I had when I started working with zt for my research. When running code on a TPU bas

A Reproducible LaTeX Thesis Workflow with CI/CD and Public PDF Links on Your Own Terms.

Before I started the heavy work on my thesis, I wanted to make sure down the line I can focus as much on just content and I wont end up spending time fighting with configs and struggling to manage my

Game Theoretic Exploration of Rio's Traffic Information Signaling Patterns

In Rio de Janeiro, you will see motorcyclists lane split, especially when a red light has blocked the intersection and there all lanes queued with cars. As they go between cars they beep to let other know of their presence. this is an intended safety...

AI Built It. You Still Have to Make It Work.

The value in being able to create software in AI comes from the many different ways it can be developed for any specific objective you have in mind. It usually starts with identifying a problem you are trying to solve, and you might put it into v0 or...

Not Just for Hackers: How I Repurposed a Pentest Tool for a Blackout

The Network Is Down — Now What? When the lights went out across Spain and Portugal in April 2025, it wasn’t just a power cut. It was a silence. Elevators jammed mid-floor. Metro tunnels went black. Airports turned into echo chambers of confusion. For...

Distilling Giants: Making BERT Models Lightweight and Interpretable with DIET COKE

This past semester, I embarked on an exciting NLP project: building DIET COKE — short for Decision trees Interpreting Efficient Transformers - Compression Of Knowledge Extraction. It's a project that sits at the crossroads of deep learning and classi...

How to Manage Virtual Environments in JupyterLab: Introduction to JUNO

As someone who has spent countless hours wrestling with Python dependency conflicts in Jupyter notebooks, I've felt the unique pain that comes with hearing "but it works on my machine" when sharing notebooks with colleagues. The problem isn't just an...

Highlights from FOSDEM 2025: Key Takeaways

The first weekend of February I had the pleasure to attend the FOSDEM 2025 conference in Brussels. This university event brought me a lot of insight into the future of the Open Source world and how I can work within it. Although a lot of attendees co...

Maximize Meal Prep Efficiency Using Coding and AI

As a preface, I am a big fan of self-hosted and open-source software, I try to use as much of it to manage various digital parts of my life. Trying to find a way to better organize my meals I came across Grocy, a web-based self-hosted groceries & hou...

Boost Your Emacs Setup: Implement AI in Spacemacs with Fabric

Last weekend, I decided to tackle a project that had been on my mind for a while: integrating AI capabilities directly into my Spacemacs environment. The result was Fabric.el, a wrapper around Fabric that supercharges text work with AI-driven pattern...