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My new job
I decided at the end of last year that I was working in the wrong place. The company was nice, the people were great, but the development practices and project management felt on the wrong track. I quit. I looked all over Europe for a new interesting adventure. London, Berlin, Amsterdam — I was all [...]
Stanford Engineering classes open for enrollment
Both Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are now open to enrollment. Hurry up, the courses start on October 10th.
XML
XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. nokogiri.org
Baidu Maps
I wish I knew more about Chinese IT. They’re innovating fast and are quite good at it. Look at this: it’s not SimCity, it’s Baidu Maps. I know someone who was dreaming this stuff at Amazon’s A9 a decade ago, but we still don’t have something so fancy for most of our cities. Microsoft and [...]
Locust dynamics
I am quite interested in emerging behaviours and this looks like a nice simple, but effective model for swarming behaviour. (via kurzweilAI.net)
Moving to Zürich
Joel Spolsky recently wrote about how to allocate ownership of a startup in a fair way. His words ring so true! I left my previous company for many of these reasons. Now the only ones going to get rich are the lawyers… A new adventure starts today. EF Education First hired me as a Lead [...]
Switching to English
Life can sometimes have unexpected turns and sudden twists, often for the better. One such thing just happened to me and made me reconsider my goals and my career choices. This blog is going to change with me. I switched to English and I am refocusing on slightly different topics. You’re welcome to follow me [...]
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Python Carl Friedrich Bolz (Microsoft Research) parla di PyPy e dei tracing JIT compilers. Ancora sul supporto a Python 3 in PyPI. Javascript Essential Javascript Design Patterns (libro scaricabile) – pattern di design in Javascript (Creational, Constructor, Singleton, Module, Revealing Module, Observer, Prototype, Command, DRY, Facade, Factory, Mixin,Decorator) e jQuery (Lazy Initialization, Composite, Wrapper, Facade, Observer, [...]
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Best Quote Il mondo è un posto pericoloso, non a causa di chi compie azioni malvagie ma per quelli che osservano senza dire nulla. Albert Einstein Privacy BlackHat Europe 2010 - Changing Threats To Privacy From TIA to Google. L’insistenza di Facebook che gli utenti usino il loro nome e cognome è problematica per gli attivisti [...]
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Best Quote “We need tools that can help people have their idea faster” – Aditi Muralidharan Python profilestats è un decoratore per la profilazione a livello di singola funzione, supporta kcachegrind (tool di visualizzazione). pystatsd – un client per Graphite, un server di cattura e graficazione delle statistiche. In Febbraio, Python è salito al 4° posto [...]
