Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Mar 20

Climbing Cuidado in Pinnacles National Park

Cuidado is a classic 10d sport climb in Pinnacles National Park. A good destination in Winter.

Climbing

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Climbing Cuidado in Pinnacles National Park

Cuidado is a classic 10d sport climb in Pinnacles National Park. A good destination in Winter.

Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Mar 20

GTJ Jura Cross Country Skiing

The Jura is a department in France near Geneva at the very North of the Alps. It is mid size mountains but with a particular charm and very identifiable touch. It is pretty famous for some of its cheeses, especially the Comté. It is also the capital of cross country…

Trekking

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Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Feb 27

Wadi Rum Traverse

Mid January was a good time for traversing Wadi Rum in Jordan. Going from Jabal Umm ad Dami to the Village while accomplishing some kind of S route. There was no other people, barely any car traffic, the camps were empty, which is probably quite another story in Spring. The…

Trekking

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Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Dec 25, 2021

Climbing Cotopaxi in Ecuador

It is not easy to not think about Cotopaxi when going to Ecuador. One of the goal of the trip was to include the most popular summit after going for a few smaller ones: Cotopaxi (5897 m / 19,347 ft) It was raining hard when at the park entrance but…

Climbing

3 min read

Published in Data Querying

·Oct 24, 2021

Serving a Transformer model converting Text to SQL with Huggingface and MLflow

As machine learning continues to mature, here is an intro on how to use a T5 model to generate SQL queries from text questions and serve it via a REST API. Machine Learning for code completion got a lot of press with the release of OpenAI Codex which powers GitHub…

Machine Learning

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Serving a Transformer model converting Text to SQL with Huggingface and MLflow

Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Oct 23, 2021

Climbing the Central Pillar of Frenzy in Yosemite Valley

A sustained Yosemite classic crack climb (5 pitches of 5.9 Trad) in front of El Cap. This is a popular route on the imposing Middle Cathedral peak. We showed-up on Friday morning and despite taking a longer and steeper approach by mistake did not encounter any other parties. Sal led all the pitches as they were above my current pay-grade. Contrary to Fairview Dome which had a single 5.9 pitch with a few awkward moves before easing-up, this route made up “fight for it” the whole way and has a particular awkward/slippery first pitch.

Climbing

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Climbing the Central Pillar of Frenzy in Yosemite Valley

A sustained Yosemite classic crack climb (5 pitches of 5.9 Trad) in front of El Cap.

This is a popular route on the imposing Middle Cathedral peak. We showed-up on Friday morning and despite taking a longer and steeper approach by mistake did not encounter any other parties.

Sal led all the pitches as they were above my current pay-grade. Contrary to Fairview Dome which had a single 5.9 pitch with a few awkward moves before easing-up, this route made up “fight for it” the whole way and has a particular awkward/slippery first pitch.

Similarly to the Cathedral climb, there will be a before and after Pillar of Frenzy!

Middle Cathedral is facing El Capitan and let you admire the Noze route all the day

Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Oct 8, 2021

Isle Royale Traverse

Trekking and packrafting through the rugged island on Lake Superior. Isle Royale is one of the least visited National Park, but has one of the highest rate of returning visitors. The Island is pretty rugged and offers good wilderness outside of the main tracks. Many backpackers opt for a classical…

Trekking

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Published in Data Querying

·Oct 6, 2021

Hosting a Static Website

In 2021, here are some quick and efficient solutions to perform the Hosting. These days serving a basic website should not take much time out of your way. Note that what worked for me does not necessarily means that this is the best for you and vice versa! Here is…

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Published in Data Querying

·Oct 5, 2021

To the Next Generation of Data Querying!

After close to 10 years of evolution on the Hue project at Cloudera (and many team retreats over the world) I am joining Databricks to help make Querying Data Ubiquitous and Simple. Interestingly, one of the first Spark SQL querying experience was pioneered in the early days with the Livy…

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To the Next Generation of Data Querying!

Published in Romain’s Adventures

·Oct 2, 2021

Climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite

An otherworldly classic climb in Tuolumne (5.6 Trad). The Southeast Buttress route is spectacular and popular for a reason. We got great conditions in September and could do the route car to car from 7am to 4pm.

Climbing

2 min read

Climbing Cathedral Peak in Yosemite

An otherworldly classic climb in Tuolumne (5.6 Trad).

The Southeast Buttress route is spectacular and popular for a reason. We got great conditions in September and could do the route car to car from 7am to 4pm.