Random thoughts that do not fit in long term thoughts, ricette, presentations or reads…

January 19, 2025

New Year Organization

When a new year starts it is time customary to evaluate the year that passed. Looking back I was unhappy about how I was not able to dedicate as much time as I would have liked to programming. My new role as Service Manager of the Machine Learning Platform, even with the help of Nicholas had many burning issues, which have high priority as we need to deliver the new machine.

August 25, 2024

Zig thoughts

I like zig quite a bit, recently I participated to sycl, did a presentation on sarus-slurm at work in which I created a PoC with Zig, and finally I finished putting together my thoughts on Zig which I started quite some time ago.

June 15, 2024

Sycl24

I went to the Software You can Love conference, not for work but because I wanted to. I enjoyed it quite a bit, its subtitle is “celebrate the art of creating software for humans” and I think it fits. The idea behing it is expressed quite well in The Idealism and Practicality of Software You Can Love - Loris Cro - Software You Can Love 2022. I didn’t only receive a nice programmable badge, but I got to hear several very interesting talks.

May 25, 2024

AI: command line -> Gui

There are some posts that see AI as the thing that will replace everything: programmers, writers, artists, workers, … people in general. I do not think that to be the case. I see the advent of modern machine learning similar to the advent of GUIs. GUIs had mainly two effects: it enabled new things: Desktop publishing, photo editing, consumption and creation of movies, spreadsheets, it increased the number of people that were able to use the computer to perform those tasks exponentially it changed the way professionals worked, but did not eliminate them I think AI will be similar: it will enable new applications it will open up the field to new players and increase the levels of beginners.

January 7, 2024

Llm Tokenizer

This is is something that is obvious to those who work with Large Language Models, but it was not immediately evident to me when someone asked me about it. Why do the tokenizer require training? Indeed coming from computer languages Tokenizers this is a bit surprising. For them the tokenizer is fixed and does not change the more data about a language is available. Tokenizers are often a bit ugly, the interface to the language grammar not totally clean, but are simple and fixed.

January 7, 2024

Hugo Conversion

kitabi.ch => gohugo.io

January 5, 2024

Wizard Prophet and Body by Science

New books added to the reads section: The Wizard and the Prophet, and Body by Science

January 7, 2023

Nmve Backup

I updated my NAS to a fully NVMe m.2 setup

July 8, 2022

Updated Nomad Pages

I noticed that several links in the NOMAD pages were outdated (as I changed the way the site is generated), they should be fixed now. Also I created a clone of the container manager git in github.

June 12, 2022

Back to Django EN

A research group was using Microsoft Access for their databases and was thinking about their options. I gave them some suggestions in italian, this is a rough translation of them, as they might be relevant also for others. I came back to Django, which I had already used in mupris.net, and I concluded that it was the best solution for them. Django is not necessarily the best tool for experts, and indeed it is not what I choose for NOMAD.