My writing.

All of my long-form thoughts on AI, robotics, and their interface with society, collected in chronological order.

Pose Sketching for the Control of a Humanoid Robot - Part 2

Programming and comanding grasping robots by demonstration is notoriously difficult due to the number of degrees of freedom involved. In this work, we propose an intuitive, Augemented Reality method where the user is able to 'point and click' to a goal pose for the robot end-effector to go to.

Pose Sketching for the Control of a Humanoid Robot - Part 1

Programming and comanding grasping robots by demonstration is notoriously difficult due to the number of degrees of freedom involved. In this work, we propose an intuitive, Augemented Reality method where the user is able to 'point and click' to a goal pose for the robot end-effector to go to.

Recommender Systems to extract voting patterns in the Swiss parliament

The Swiss confederation provides a large amount of data spanning virtually every aspect of the political process in Switzerland. With a convenient API to query the proceedings of committees, councillors, parties, logs of voting sessions … From this massive resource we decided to study voting patterns in the Swiss government.

Starry Nights

What makes Starry Night look like a van Gogh painting ? Is it the colours ? Is the brush stroke ? Is it the subject ? Somehow when we see this painting we associate its style to its author. If the style of the painting can be thought of as an independent component from the subject it represents, would it be possible to apply the style of *Starry Night* to another painting of picture ?

"Scientists Discover That the Brain Can Process Clickbait in 11 Dimensions !"

An example of approximative scientific vulgarization. The article is really bad and misleading, the brain does not encode 11 dimensions. What the paper is about is the ability to find the depth and distribution of millions of subnetworks of neurons within the brain.