Stationnement, Not Parking: Building a Small Quebec French Scanner
Why sounding local matters on Canadian French websites. My experiment combining simple NLP, OQLF data and an LLM to find French gaps, and how it broke along the way.
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- AI in practiceExperiments in AI evaluation and real-world workflows, often through the lens of localization.Latest: Stationnement, Not Parking: Building a Small Quebec French Scanner
- Builder notesSmall tools I built and what I learned from them.Latest: Stationnement, Not Parking: Building a Small Quebec French Scanner
- Outdoors & QuebecTrails close to home, and sometimes the data behind them.Latest: Big Crow & Nun-da-ga-o Ridge Loop @ NY 🍄
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12 postsI Built a PDF Tool So I Wouldn't Have to Upload My ID
A small browser tool to read, rearrange, merge, split and password protect PDFs without uploading them anywhere.
Read article →Every Rule Passed. The Translation Was a Page That Should Not Exist.
A short hotel title went into my AI translation pipeline and came out as an invented guest information page. Every check I had built said it was fine.
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Big Crow & Nun-da-ga-o Ridge Loop @ NY 🍄
What started as a hike turned into an unexpected mushroom-spotting adventure, and I captured some of those cute little ones along the way.
Read article →Context Engineering for Localization
A translation can be fluent and still be wrong. How a mistranslated post got me thinking about context engineering for localization, and why having the information isn't the same as using the right context.
Read article →Localization Already Had Retrieval. So What Does AI Add?
Where RAG and LLMs add value to the localization systems we already have.
Read article →The Reinforcing Loop Behind the AI Race
Three recent tech deals, Autodesk acquiring MaintainX, NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face, and OpenAI launching GPT-6 Astra, reveal the same underlying pattern: reinforcing loops that make winning today easier tomorrow.
Read article →What I'm Learning About MT Quality Evaluation: From Scores to Decisions
How machine translation quality evaluation is evolving from traditional metrics toward LLM judges, MQM-style error diagnosis, publishability decisions, automated repair, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Read article →What if AI Had Been Watching?
A look at whether AI powered computer vision could help prevent airport ground accidents, from a real safety check improvement at Toronto Pearson to what went wrong with LaGuardia's ASDE-X system in the March 2026 collision.
Read article →Montagne d'Argent: I Didn't Expect Ropes on this Hike Near Montréal🥾
A summer hike at Montagne d'Argent, Québec, with rocky climbs, ropes, wild blueberries, mushrooms, and a little lake at the end.
Read article →So, How Bad Are Wildfires in Quebec, Really?
A personal rabbit hole into Quebec wildfire data: I expected the numbers to confirm my worry about wildfire smoke near Montreal. Instead they kept contradicting my assumptions.
Read article →Why I Finally Started This Blog
A little corner of the internet for the things I am curious about, from AI and localization to hiking, technology, and whatever else catches my attention.
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