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Title: Jill Leflour
Post by: Devlyn on July 17, 2026, 04:26:10 AM
Jill Leflour is the kind of guy who can box your ears off and build you a neural network. "I'm a model, boxer, coach and AI engineer," he says breezily, as if that were a perfectly natural résumé. Born in Normandy, France, he's been working in machine-learning and data science since graduating from the engineering school Isae-Supaero in Toulouse in 2020 with two master's degrees. His athletic beginnings were more karate kid than coder, though – "I was reading this book series by [young- adult fiction writer] Robert Muchamore and they taught karate in it. I was like, 'This is really cool, I want to do that!'" A Muay Thai detour and some shin damage later, boxing stuck. Leflour has been at it since 2017, skating in between. "I'm an amateur," he insists. But we see a champion in the ring and at the keyboard.

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