Neri Van Otten

Neri Van Otten is the founder of Spot Intelligence, a machine learning engineer with over 12 years of experience specialising in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and deep learning innovation. Dedicated to making your projects succeed.

Human-in-the-Loop NLP: How To Designing Effective Feedback Cycles

Introduction: Why Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters Natural Language Processing systems have made enormous progress in recent years, largely driven by large-scale…

1 week ago

Long-Context NLP: How To Handle 100k+ Tokens

Introduction: The Context Length Revolution For most of NLP's history, models had a strict constraint: they could only “see” a…

4 weeks ago

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in NLP: Scaling Without Exploding Costs

Introduction Modern NLP systems have advanced rapidly over the past decade, driven by the expansion of neural network architectures such…

2 months ago

Small Language Models (SLMs): Why Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Winning

Introduction: The Shift Toward Effectiveness Over the past few years, the development of artificial intelligence has largely been driven by…

2 months ago

Latency, Cost, and Token Economics within Real-World NLP Applications

Introduction Natural language processing has moved rapidly from research labs to real business use. Today, LLM-powered systems support customer service,…

3 months ago

Synthetic Data Generation for NLP: Benefits, Risks, and Best Practices

Introduction In today’s AI-driven world, data is often called the new oil—and for good reason. High-quality, diverse datasets are the…

4 months ago

Hallucinations In LLMs Made Simple: Causes, Detection, And Mitigation Strategies

Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly become a core component of modern NLP applications, powering chatbots, search assistants, summarization…

4 months ago

LMOps Made Simple With Extensive Guide: Including Tools List

Introduction: Why LMOps Exist Large Language Models have moved faster than almost any technology in recent memory. In a short…

5 months ago

Stochastic Modelling Made Simple and Step-by-step Tutorial

Introduction Uncertainty is everywhere. Whether we're forecasting tomorrow's weather, predicting customer demand, estimating equipment failure, or modelling the spread of…

5 months ago

Agentic AI Explained and Made Simple With Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has moved from simple pattern recognition to systems capable of performing highly…

6 months ago