AI Research Engineer — Geospatial AI & Foundation modelshttps://noeflandre.com/https://noeflandre.com/posts/describe-place-on-earth-part2-wikipedia-websites/https://noeflandre.com/posts/describe-place-on-earth-part2-wikipedia-websites/In the second part of this blog post series, we are going to explore new ways in which we can collect geolocated text (i.e. text tied to a geographic position on Earth).Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/rope-pair-index-rotations/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/rope-pair-index-rotations/Finding the pair index whose RoPE frequency makes N rotations over the sequence length.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/where-does-the-6np-rule-come-from/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/where-does-the-6np-rule-come-from/The 6NP rule is a shortcut for estimating how many floating-point operations are needed to train a dense neural network.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/ai-electricity-water-and-carbon-footprint/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/ai-electricity-water-and-carbon-footprint/A blog post where I try to give a rough estimate of my codex usage impact.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/masked-image-modeling/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/masked-image-modeling/Walking our way through masked image modelingSun, 16 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/attention-pooling/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/attention-pooling/A blog post to breakdown the maths behind attention pooling.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/new-youtube-video/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/new-youtube-video/A new video from my YouTube channel.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/describe-place-on-earth-part1-wikidata/https://noeflandre.com/posts/describe-place-on-earth-part1-wikidata/A blog post where I am introducing a simple first approach to describe a given place on Earth using wikidataWed, 12 Aug 2026 09:38:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/starting-youtube-channel/https://noeflandre.com/posts/starting-youtube-channel/A few words on why I am starting a youtube channelFri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/what-is-openstreetmap/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/what-is-openstreetmap/A new video from my YouTube channel.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/starter-pack-learning-ai/https://noeflandre.com/posts/2026/starter-pack-learning-ai/A new video from my YouTube channel.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/monopoly/https://noeflandre.com/posts/monopoly/How a Java Monopoly project in school set me on the path to computer science.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:30:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/first-review/https://noeflandre.com/posts/first-review/First review!Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/osm-data-analysis/https://noeflandre.com/posts/osm-data-analysis/Analyzing OpenStreetMap keys and tags to surface what's relevant to landuse, from raw counts down to clustered key families.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:25:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/hugging-face-language-tags/https://noeflandre.com/posts/hugging-face-language-tags/A short look at why Hugging Face language tags can be useful while still requiring manual investigation.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:50:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/editor-pick-empathy-simulation/https://noeflandre.com/posts/editor-pick-empathy-simulation/Our Journal of Simulation paper on LLMs, agent-based models, and empathetic decision-making was selected as the Editor's Pick.Thu, 28 May 2026 14:45:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/distilling_abms/https://noeflandre.com/posts/distilling_abms/A look at our new research on using LLMs to turn complex ABM simulations into clear textual explanations.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:53:06 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/joining_evergreen/https://noeflandre.com/posts/joining_evergreen/Next month, I will be joining INRIA in Montpellier, within the EVERGREEN research team as a research engineer.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/design-of-experiments/https://noeflandre.com/posts/design-of-experiments/Using the perfect cup of chai to understand the fundamentals of Design of Experiments (DOE)Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/how2bench/https://noeflandre.com/posts/how2bench/A breakdown of the How2Bench paper, which advocates rigor in benchmark development, with a focus on evaluation reliability and reproducibility.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:10:06 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/survival_guide_in_ai/https://noeflandre.com/posts/survival_guide_in_ai/Some advice and resources I have found helpful so far as a junior AI researcher.Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/giving-agents-hands/https://noeflandre.com/posts/giving-agents-hands/A comparison between CLI and MCP approaches for giving AI agents capabilities to interact with systems.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://noeflandre.com/posts/georeasoner/https://noeflandre.com/posts/georeasoner/A breakdown of the GeoReasoner paper, which leverages both linguistic and geospatial information to reason on geospatially grounded natural language.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:52 GMT