blog.alves.worldGame Theoretic Exploration of Rio's Traffic Information Signaling PatternsIn Rio de Janeiro, you will see motorcyclists lane split, especially when a red light has blocked the intersection and there all lanes queued with cars. As they go between cars they beep to let other know of their presence. this is an intended safety...Jan 6·4 min read
blog.alves.worldAI Built It. You Still Have to Make It Work.The value in being able to create software in AI comes from the many different ways it can be developed for any specific objective you have in mind. It usually starts with identifying a problem you are trying to solve, and you might put it into v0 or...Oct 24, 2025·5 min read
blog.alves.worldNot Just for Hackers: How I Repurposed a Pentest Tool for a BlackoutThe Network Is Down — Now What? When the lights went out across Spain and Portugal in April 2025, it wasn’t just a power cut. It was a silence. Elevators jammed mid-floor. Metro tunnels went black. Airports turned into echo chambers of confusion. For...Apr 30, 2025·3 min read
blog.alves.worldDistilling Giants: Making BERT Models Lightweight and Interpretable with DIET COKEThis past semester, I embarked on an exciting NLP project: building DIET COKE — short for Decision trees Interpreting Efficient Transformers - Compression Of Knowledge Extraction. It's a project that sits at the crossroads of deep learning and classi...Apr 24, 2025·4 min read
blog.alves.worldHow to Manage Virtual Environments in JupyterLab: Introduction to JUNOAs someone who has spent countless hours wrestling with Python dependency conflicts in Jupyter notebooks, I've felt the unique pain that comes with hearing "but it works on my machine" when sharing notebooks with colleagues. The problem isn't just an...Mar 10, 2025·4 min read
