πŸ—ΊοΈ Breathless: My Research Internship Hunt

From Datadog to Hugging Face, a detailed chronicle of my 2025 internship hunt - doubts, strategy, failures, and four final offers.

Date: October 1, 2025 | Estimated Reading Time: 12 min | Author: Julien Delavande

πŸ’₯ Building a Vulnerable Bank MCP - Then Automating an Agent to Hack It

How we designed a vulnerable banking app and used an LLM-powered agent to find and exploit its flaws automatically.

Date: June 2025 | Estimated Reading Time: 8 min | Author: Julien Delavande

⚑ Saying Thank You to a LLM Isn't Free - Measuring the Energy Cost of Politeness

How even a simple "thank you" costs extra compute and energy when interacting with large language models.

Date: June 2025 | Estimated Reading Time: 5 min | Author: Julien Delavande

⚽ Betting on Data: How to Build a Winning Football Prediction Model

Discover how we can use data science to predict football match outcomes and optimize betting strategies.

Date: October 4, 2024 | Estimated Reading Time: 10 min | Author: Julien Delavande

πŸ€– Teaching Poker to a Language Model: Fine-Tuning Mistral 7B - Introducing MistralBluff

Teaching Mistral 7B to play poker during the 2024 Mistral Fine-Tuning Hackathon.

Date: September 18, 2024 | Estimated Reading Time: 10 min | Author: Julien Delavande