getting the most out of technology
Westminster is one of the iconic fonts of the computer revolution. Probably its most famous use (apart from checks) is the Invisible Man video from Queen: … although arguably, that would be after its shelf life had expired. For me it was the Lode Runner (1983) font, which is burned in my retina. But Westminster Continue reading Moore Computer The post Moore Computer first appeared on Daniel…
The other day, I was tinkering with model parameters and second-guessing myself. I wondered, wouldn t it be cool if i could compare side by side the results of different models? Yeah, it would. I ended up building a small interactive explainer for seeing how different classification and clustering approaches behave on the same two-dimensional data. Continue reading Classification, visualized The…
Rescuing an old website without turning it into a life project A few days ago, I finally got around to something I’d been putting off since about 2012: cleaning up a mess on one of my old websites. One part is still plain HTML. Another runs on WordPress. And in the middle, for a few Continue reading mambo-rescue The post mambo-rescue first appeared on Daniel Pradilla .
My eldest daughter recently discovered the classic LCD calculator trick: type certain numbers, flip it, and make it spell words. She was thrilled to show me, and I was just as excited watching her find that little useless easter egg that entertained me during way too many hours in classes that I should’ve paid more Continue reading Flipasio The post Flipasio first appeared on Daniel Pradilla .
For years now I kept some of my social accounts alive with a Python script. It read from a collection of RSS feeds and shared at random times. It worked, my feeds stayed active, and people asked me what was I doing reading at 3am. The script had a bit of personality: it logged out Continue reading EchoTree The post EchoTree first appeared on Daniel Pradilla .
I’ve spent the last few weeks playing with Clawdbot. My instance is named Clawd. If you haven’t seen this category yet: think “chat assistant”, but with hands. It can run commands, write files, poke your integrations, and generally do the annoying glue-work you normally do by tab-switching and copy/pasting. TL;DR Clawdbot lets you go from Continue reading 5 lessons I learned playing with Clawdbot,…
I have seen a bunch of posts on LinkedIn about the weekend hustle : using your leisure time to do more work. Not convinced that is a good idea. There is another trend: people who schedule their leisure time like it s work, and they record themselves! That s work on top of work that should be leisure! Continue reading Time off work might also be work The post Time off work might also be work first…
Working on various Python projects has taught me the importance of consistent logging, especially when dealing with distributed computing frameworks like Spark. Logging is not just about keeping track of errors or information; it s about having a detailed and systematic record of the operations to understand the flow of your program and quickly diagnose issues. Continue reading My Python logging…
I followed a tutorial on Convolutional Neural Networks that left many questions unanswered. Soon I realized that the actual process of architecting a Neural Network and setting the parameters seemed to be much more experimental than I thought. It took a while to find explanations that a rookie like me could understand. Most of the Continue reading Classifying fruits with a Convolutional Neural…
I spent a few days on and off trying to deploy a Flask REST service to AWS Lambda, just to experience what the cool kids were talking about. These are some of the things I learned along the way: Zappa is the easiest packager/deployer for python (as of December 2018) Zappa provides good quality Continue reading 10 things I learned while deploying my first python function to AWS Lambda The post 10…