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Principal Data Scientist at Endava. Kaggle 2xGM. GDE. Engineer. Christian. Father. Passionate about Literature, History and Mountains. Opinions my own.

Bucharest, Romania
Joined July 2013
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Join me on Oct 16 at ๐‰๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ, organized by ๐†๐ƒ๐† ๐“๐š๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ค๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง for my presentation on ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’๐’†-๐‘ป๐’–๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’‚ 4:๐‘ฌ2๐‘ฉ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ผ๐’๐’”๐’๐’๐’•๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ณ๐’๐‘น๐‘จ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’–๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’”๐’Œ๐’”.
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XGBoost is all you need.
People are sleeping on this paper. The most underrated paper of the past decade. Someone should see if it could be used for some practical applications.
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I just published Teaching Gemma 4:E2B a New Visual Skill medium.com/@gabi.preda/teachโ€ฆ
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I just published I Went Through Kaggle Learn. These are the 3 Python Libraries Iโ€™d Learn First medium.com/@gabi.preda/i-wenโ€ฆ
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I just published The Best Free Way to Start Learning AI in 2026? Iโ€™d Start With These 3 Kaggle Courses medium.com/@gabi.preda/the-bโ€ฆ
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I built a weather agent that: ๐Ÿ“ Uses Google Maps Geocoding to resolve a place into coordinates. ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ Uses Open-Meteo to retrieve the weather. ๐Ÿง  Lets Gemma 4 orchestrate the workflow. GitHub repository: lnkd.in/dZndfdfX Medium article: lnkd.in/dTYAjfEJ
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I just published The Living City: Urban Pulse, Flow, and Breath medium.com/p/the-living-cityโ€ฆ
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I just published an article on @Medium @towards_AI on using ADK with MCP to manage GCS. Link: pub.towardsai.net/deploying-โ€ฆ #ADK #MCP #GCS #CloudRun #GenAI #AgenticAI
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I just published: Introduction to Agentic AI with Google ADK ๐Ÿš€ on @towards_AI (@Medium): lnkd.in/d2ctaemU Learn how to build AI agents with Gemini that can: โ€ข use tools โ€ข orchestrate workflows โ€ข collaborate with agents โ€ข deploy on GCP #AI #AgenticAI #ADK #A2A
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I just published on @Medium the article "From Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform": medium.com/p/from-vertex-ai-โ€ฆ #AgentPlatform #AgenticAI #AgentEngine #ADK #A2A #GCP #GDE
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I just published Running MedGemma on Ollama: Multimodal Medical AI in Action on @towards_AI @Medium publication: pub.towardsai.net/running-meโ€ฆ #MedGemma #Gemma #Medical #AI #Healthcare #MedicalImage #GCP #GoogleCloud #TowardsAI
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๐Ÿš€ ๐…๐ข๐ง๐ž-๐“๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐ž๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ๐Œ: ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐&๐€ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Š๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฌ & ๐‰๐€๐— ๐Ÿ”—Medium: lnkd.in/dJ5K4mm8 ๐Ÿ”— Medium Friendly link: lnkd.in/dZSKbt_F ๐Ÿ”— GitHub: lnkd.in/da6SQseW #Gemma3 #Keras #JAX #LLM #M #AI #GCP #TPUSprint #GPU #LoRA
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I just published Getting Started with Gemma 4: A Practical Guide to Multimodal, Multilingual AI medium.com/p/getting-startedโ€ฆ
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Why should Romanian politics be a choice between skilled flamboyant thieves, boring yet kind of competent bureaucracy, and delusional pro-Russian traitors?
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I ran Gemma 4 E2B on CPU only. No GPU. No tricks. Just a Kaggle notebook (with CPU). No quantization. ๐Ÿ”— Full @Medium @towards_AI write-up: lnkd.in/dSui726p ๐Ÿ”— Friendly link on @towards_AI: lnkd.in/dh4eEN3N ๐Ÿ”— Kaggle Notebook: lnkd.in/dmVPUTEw #Gemma4 #CPU
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I just published Running Gemma 4:E2B on Android: A Minimal Kotlin App medium.com/p/running-gemma-4โ€ฆ
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I just published From OOM Errors to Working Model: Fine-Tuning Gemma 4 E2B Step-by-Step using Unsloth medium.com/p/from-oom-errorsโ€ฆ
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