MSc CS EPFL, poking around life !
The MDR-1000X headphones that I bought cost 250 Euro, but unfortunately broke (Probably because of the cold...). I looked online and noticed that I wasn't the only one that had this problem. A few prints later after having found 3-4 potential models I was able to print a 3d piece that managed to fit but wasn't too feeble. Problem solved!
Lors d'une soirée on me propose de participer a une spartan le lendemain. Je me retrouve en guelle de bois le lendemain a être en train de courir un 5km avec 20 obstacles et 450m de dénivlé. Experience 10/10, vu sur les montagnes du Valais avec un ciel bleu. Would do again
At the start of Febuary last year with 3 other friends we decided to launch a hitchhiking competition at EPFL - the idea is that all teams meet up at noon on Saturday and discover the destination address. They then have to get over there as fast as possible, carry their tents to sleep over there or anywhere if they haven't managed to get there by night time ! We spiced things up by offering a…
I've been using Anki on and off for around 5 years now - one of the things that has allowed me to stay consistent is sharing my consistency with fellow users and friends / family I had convinced to try use the tool ! When looking for a way to share my progress I noticed there existing tools didn't allow for sharing a review heatmap - this changes today with heatshare , an Anki plugin that allows…
Computers aren't just electronic ! The first ones were actually mechanical, and our wet brains can also calculate outputs given a function and an input. There is a whole community working in different directions on this idea, and which meets up once a year to talk about this subject during the Computing with Physical Systems conference which I had the occasion to go to this year. I want to build…
After a wonderful week at UCPA, an outdoor sports non profit in France I was able to fly on my own for around 5 minutes over 450 meters in the air ! The 5 day program taught us everything from safety basics to how local and global weather patterns affect the wind direction; how one trades off altitude for speed; and the different steps to launch ourselves in the air autonomously. Half of the fun…
Enzo m'a proposé de faire du vin ensemble — nous sommes allés à Morges récupérer environ 15 kg de raisin, puis nous l'avons écrasé afin d'obtenir un jus, laissé à décanter pendant quelques jours au frigo avant de le transférer dans une cuve pour la fermentation, qui a lieu en deux temps : 1. Alcoolique : les levures transforment les sucres du moût en alcool et en gaz carbonique. 2. Malolactique :…
One day when doing my routine tour of the "déchette" (junkyard) of EPFL I noticed a few stacks of PowerMac G5 computers were simply laying there. Curious, I sent a message to the manager of trash at EPFL and found out that these computers were the previous cluster that the CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) used ! They weren't the only ones to use Apple computers at the time…
I've always liked keeping track of and sharing the books, movies and other content that make me who I am. I've yet to find a convenient website that allows me to simply view a file in which I store the relevant media I've consumed without feeling like I wasn't in control of my data. I'm still exploring and there are other features I would like to add, but MEdia shows a simple draft of what could…
10 minutes! After 4 months of planking every day until failure I managed to plank for 10m03s, having started with a PR of 1m30 🎉! This is a habit I plan on keeping for life, heavily inspired by the following video . So as to make sure the habit stuck I applied the same technique I had used when running for 100 days. Making my habit resistant to breaking on days I’m sick, tired: Planking one…
We are all products of our environment. For example, the biggest predictor of your weight are your friends. It'd be hard to be a computer scientist in an environment without computers, or speak French without having been born in a world with French speakers. The fish are the last to see the water and Yuval's Sapiens has really made me think of the difference between norms, or `myths` as he calls…
During a LAN at a friends place I noticed all their plates and bowls were homemade pottery - I asked and ended up taking a subscription with Jeanne to L'empotée , a wonderful little workshop in St-Sulpice. We've been going regularly for around 10 weeks now and have been slowly working up our skills on the wheel, working different types of ceramic glazes, and more complex shapes. By far the…
I've played around with trying to build certain habits (running, morning routines...). One thing that I've noticed really works nicely is being accountable to someone else. Unfortunately, without the other person asking regularly this accountability can quickly fizzle out. To help with staying on track, I built a telegram bot that will ping the other people on a group if a certain user hasn't…
After spending 4 years with Jane I've had the pleasure of being accustomed with Kefir, a fizzy drink that is made from fermented organisms. I love it so much, in fact, that I wanted to distribute bottles of it to friends and family, and ideally even start a buisness out of it ! Thinking big but starting small, I bought a pack of cheap beer, emptied them and washed off the labels with Sodium…
During my studies at EPFL we were required to take a class to expand our horizons outside of the bubble that is the geeky on the spectrum engineers that we learn to be - specifically, a class called "Penser la nature" where final project was to relate some natural object and it's interaction with man. A fantastic class with a lot of intriguing aspects, and we thus decided to talk about the potato…
On the 31st of August, inspired by friends that had created channels on Telegram I decided to have a go myself on a subject that I enjoy: Fantastic, quirky websites found in the vast depths of internet. Across the years, any time I would fall on one of these I would simply post it there to grow my collection. Yesterday this channel reached a total of 1000 squirrels all collecting and sending these…
At EPFL we have the ability to pick up a cargobike through the bike sharing app donkey republic for 12h without paying. It's a fantastic service that is provided free of charge by the school and has been the source of a lot of memories for me and friends alike. Unfortunately, there was a lot of demand and few bikes, thus if you wanted to reserve a bike you had to constantly check the app. A simple…
In 2023 I was asked to give a TEDx talk on the subject linked to technology, and thus I presented through the lens of using tech for good my bachelors project, which used computer vision to automatically segment (cut out) and classify stickers in images. More on this here . The talk mainly addresses the fact that technology is a tool, and tools can be used for good or bad. Currently, social…
RSS is basically the proto-social network. It's a protocol that allows you to get content from various websites that you wish to follow and receive it in a dedicated application on your device. It allows you to "follow" people on internet that post content in whatever format, and simply also provide a document formatted in XML that will be sent to you whenever there is a new update. Without ads.…
Avec Elior nous avons crée service qui s'engage à livrer des lettres écrites de la part d'une personne à une autre, mais 1 an après. L'idée est d'assurer la livraison de ce message au bon moment dans le futur, peut-être à un moment où il/elle ne s’y attend pas. Le minimum viable product est une version en ligne mais nous souhaitons s'étendre aux lettres physiques: Nous recevons des enveloppes à…
Finishing off my time at Dakar I was looking to spend some time learning a new skill - Dakar is surrounded by the sea and although not the most beautiful place to dive it had facilities to take classes and obtain at least the preliminary license ! Even in Senegal the water temperature was around 15-16 degrees ! After 9 dives through SSI (Scuba schools international) I obtained my Open Water Diver…
My fascination with neural networks started with this youtube video which still makes me marvel in awe today. It motivated me to take the little knowledge I had of programming games for Minecraft in Java to try and build my own neural networks. Following this suite of tutorials on youtube, I slowly built my way up to working neural networks ! It remains by far one of my proudest achievements,…
When arriving in Dakar, I promised myself to run every day during my stay. Based on the wisdom of atomic habits and the observations of what consistency does with the GATO project, I set my goal to be to simply put my shoes on and go outside. This meant many days were spent just doing this, running 5 meters and checking that box - which was the idea ! Starting a new habit means anticipating how…
This page is in honor of one of my favorite terms: Proactivity. The goal of this page is to just do it.Not finish it, not polish it, just do the thing and be happy to be tinkering.
Another coding post ! Feel free to skim it, I'm mainly posting these to get a better understanding of things myself and because I feel that there is a lack of coding examples for this online - although in this specific post we mainly base ourselves off the work done here .
Back 5 years ago, videos doing Text to Speech on the most popular reddit threads in certain subreddits like "Ask me Anything" and "TIL" were popping up and making tons of views. I thought it would be pretty easy to automate these and so made my own and posted a few videos on youtube with it. Unfortunately I think I didn't persevere enough to break through and lost the code with time. Good memories…
Je deviens corpo. I'm currently in Dakar working on my master's thesis and I want to share what I do so that the next Tugdual who comes along doesn't have to spend 5 days from sunrise to sunset figuring out why his cute VQVAE seems smart enough to freeze boiling water for later use. (The problem is actually between the chair and the computer but hey). Anyways. Less fun than other projects but a…
Sometimes when I try to go to sleep I think about a problem / solution that I would love to see pop up in the world. Ideas are good but execution is what counts. Thus I'm writing them down and making a public link so that more people may see and be motivated to implement a solution for it. It was also an excuse to make a page using mmm.page, which is legit gold concerning making things fast and…
En traînant sur Facebook Marketplace, nous sommes tombées sur une machine à stickers avec Elior. Après une virée chaotique pour aller la chercher, plusieurs heures à comprendre comment elle fonctionnait et un an à chiller sur le projet, je m’y suis enfin remis pour concevoir la pièce qui s’était usée avec le temps ! Design et impression 3D, utilisation d’inserts métalliques et hop ! Le tour est…
I like playing around with the idea of "s'approprier l'espace", which seems to lack translation in english but it's basically making public spaces feel more human, at home, welcoming... Around a year ago EPFL removed certain spots used to display club posters to "clean things up". This had the issue that any club reusing these once used and now "clean" spots would get reprimanded as it would be…
Bunny is a better worse version of Rabbit R1, an AI assistant supposed to facilitate the interface between humans and LLMs. This project is a proof of concept to show the potential in reusing old phones as cheap, portable and privacy oriented devices that won't send your chats to be trained at OpenAI or whatever other company. It will work without any connection and can be further configured to…
I want to eat all the different types of pasta Barilla has to propose. I sent them a message asking if they could send me the list of all the different numbers of pasta but they apparently don't have one ! I guess I'll do it myself then. Scrapping the website, filtering out the pesto and miscellaneous products, I finally (6 hours later 🤡) obtain a list of all different pasta numbers ! To better…
We wanted to get a bench for the house as there isn't really a place to put the shoes and coats back in the apartment. I thought it would be a great excuse to try learning to weld as the design we chose was only right angle welds. Bought some steel, cut it up after having modelled it on Fusion360 and then learned to weld ! Six hours later and after a lot of learning, I got a bench ! Now we learned…
I decided during new years that I would do a cake everyday for a year. It's been a wild ride but we've reached the 100 day mark and I can safely say that I believe this to be a fantastic success. This bizarre challenge has pushed me to do random things such as ask people in a train if they could host me for the night and if I could bake a cake in their oven, or simply try out recipes that…
Nous avons eu un cours de "Design thinking" ou le but était d'apprendre à attaquer des problèmes avec différentes "Frameworks" pour y trouver des solutions. Pour illustrer nos solutions nous avons exploité Midjourney pour produire des images des produits qu'on propose. Le dossier complet est disponible ici , montrant l'utilisation de Chat-GPT pour le développement du site.
AGEPoly possède moulte transpalettes et des cargos, ainsi que plein d'autre matériel. Dans un but de créer une identité visible j'ai proposé au comité de repeindre le matériel dans la couleur des pulls, un sorte de turquoise. Après discussion avec le SKIL je suis parti sur de la peinture 2 composant d'une carrosserie puis hop ! Quelques heures de pris et même le vieux transpal dinosaur avait l'air…
Cet été, j'ai commencé à faire du stop, car aller de Lausanne à Barcelone, ça coûte trop cher sinon. Cela a lancé une grande passion pour ce mode de transport où on peut rencontrer tout type de personne : complotiste, couples, ingénieurs pour le secteur électrique néerlandais, teufeurs bretons, chef de secteur chez BOBST, chef d'hôpital, peintre polonais qui roule à 240 km/h sur l'autobahn... Au…
Un bon ami à moi part en voyage pendant un an sur un batô. Je j'apprécie énormément et j'ai décidé de lui écrire une lettre afin qu'il le sache ! Papier 300g/m2 trouvé dans une partagère et image de bateau et oiseau trouvé en ligne, je l'ai laser découpé afin de créer une découpure puis mis dans un autre papier jaune comme enveloppe en vitesse.
Decided to make a bob to learn how to use the sowing machine. Using my aunts experience we cut out the shapes and measured my head to get the correct dimensions. A good 4h later we obtained the final product after having cutout the pattern, chosen the textile and used my grandma's Bernina that still works like new after 40 years of heavy use !
La savonnerie du Fer à Cheval vends des blocs de 10kg de savon de Marseille. Je trouvais cela drôle d'aller en acheter en vélo depuis Lausanne. Départ samedi à 9h45 depuis chez moi pour une arrivé 45h et 600km plus tard à Marseille en passant par Genève, Valence, Avignon et en dormant un total de 4h ! Arrivé à 5h40, j'ai plus de fesses ! Au final j'en ai acheté deux.
Suite à une idée d'Elior, la colocation Siroloc est née - un des buts est de collectionner tous les sirops Morands disponibles ! Plein d'aventures en découlent: des cadeaux, une visite de l'entreprise impromptu (Où on nous a gracieusement offert une avant-première au sirop Diana des bois qui s'apprêtait à sortir), la mise en place d'un site siroloc.ch pour informer les visiteurs des sirops qu'on…
Pendant les vacances de février, j'ai tenté de transformer ma carte d'accès au campus de l'EPFL en annaux que je pouvais porter sur mon doigt. La carte est fait de PCB et se dissout à l'acetone pour ne laisser que le fil qui sert de transceiver et d'inducteur afin d'alimenter une petite puce caché au sein de la carte. Après quelques essais, je suis capable de maintenant ouvrir comme avec une carte…
In 2019 I took a train to go to STARTHack St Gallen. One of the competitions was axed around helping people in need. We worked on a proof of concept showing that people that have difficulty articulating could benefit off a device that improves the articulation so as to render the disabled person more independent with everyday activities, especially phone calls.
Lors d'une fin de soirée nous sommes tombées sur des SMARTBoards aux encombrants avec Olivier. Un peu de motivation et quelques grammes m'aident à le ramener à la maison. Il s'avère que c'est un trackpad, je peux donc définir diverses actions selon des zones différentes du tableau. Par exemple, créer un clavier pour inciter l'impression d'étiquettes marrantes, interfacé avec une RaspberryPi entre…
La poste suisse à un service qui propose l'envoi d'une carte postale gratuite tout le jours. C'est un service incroyable mais il est pas possible de programmer l'envoi donc j'oublie souvent d'ouvrir l'application de manière journalière. Heureusement, la poste propose aussi un API. Avec un script python, tout le jours, une image est prise d'un dossier dédié et envoyé par la poste vers mon addresse.…
Mom and Foulques came to EPFL for a few days. She loves art, and one of the goals in her classroom is to make the kids interact more with different creations of artists. Before, I had already created a frame based of Mondrian, now this time the goal was to make humans based off the art of Kazimir Malevich. Mom drew the outline, then we vectorized the picture and adjusted the fine details by…
Dimanche j'ai suivi Kuba dans la forêt pour aller à la chasse aux champignons. C'est comme Pokémon GO mais mieux - il faut traverser de la broussaille pour tomber sur des champignons plus ou moins rares. L'expertise de Kuba était utile pour ne pas mourir en prenant le mauvais champignon. Résultat des courses: des cèpes, girolles et trompettes de la mort ainsi que des lactaires délicieux. Problème:…
After about a year I finally took out the two frames I had and with Jeanne we followed a sacred Bob Ross ™️ tutorial . It took around 2 hours and surprisingly no paint fell on the floor or table 🌚. I think it is by far one of my most prized memories with Jeanne <3
Decided to learn to sow on the most basic level, asked grandma for some help to make some little patterns using 3 different colors of string. With the help of aida cloth which allows easy cross-stitch embroidery. Was a great experience. Mom came to give us extra tips and tricks on being more efficient when making lines of cross-stitches.
Après un rachat un peu foireux de matériel de bricolage sur Facebook Market place je me suis retrouvée avec une tronçonneuse en ma possession, qui fonctionnait pas. 1h de démontage m'as permis de trouver le problème: Le frein moteur s'était fondu dans le plastique. Un coup de dremelle sur le plastique et hop ! La tronçonneuse fonctionne de nouveau, bien que sans une pièce de sécurité un peu…