Moore Computer
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...
View ArticleClassification, visualized
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...
View Articlemambo-rescue
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...
View ArticleFlipasio
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...
View ArticleEchoTree
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...
View Article5 lessons I learned playing with Clawdbot, a local agentic assistant
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...
View ArticleTime off work might also be work
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...
View ArticleMy Python logging setup
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...
View ArticleClassifying fruits with a Convolutional Neural Network in Keras
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...
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10 things I learned while deploying my first python function to AWS Lambda
I spent a few days on and off trying to deploy a Flask REST service to AWS Lambda, just to experience what »
View ArticleUploading and downloading documents from Amazon S3 using bash
You need to upload a file to S3 and cannot install new packages in the server, nor the s3 client tools. You only have bash, openssl and sed. Go. I found and adapted a script by Viktor Szakats, that...
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Recommender system for finding subject matter experts using the Enron email...
During an interview process, I was tasked with a little project to create a recommender system to find mentors inside an organization, using Natural Language Processing. That was the perfect »
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Getting IP location information with Angular 7
Using Angular Maps Components and a new service called ipapi, you will be able to quickly put together something that will allow you to get IP information from a client »
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How to connect to SAP HANA using JDBC
Recently I had to connect a Java application to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. »
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How to build an API for SAP HANA using strongloop/loopback
One of the aspects I like the most about SAP HANA is the cloud app development environment that allows you to quickly put together a data-entry app using Fiori. Recently, I wanted »
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Linear optimization with or-tools: containerizing a gunicorn web application
Previously, we left our app working with our local python+gunicorn+nginx installation. In order to get there we had to do quite a bit of configuration and if we wanted »
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10 things I learned while setting up five masternodes
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with masternodes as alternatives/replacements to traditional crypto mining rigs. Like with many other crypto-related things, I was surprised »
View ArticlePentaho is slow for servers with too many home directories
Over the course of two years, browsing solutions on our Pentaho 5.4 server became progressively slow. It came to a point in which you had to wait 2-3 minutes to see the list of solutions in the Pentaho...
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Linear Optimization with or-tools — building a web front-end with falcon and...
In a previous post, I put together a script for solving a linear optimisation problem using Google’s OR-tools. This python script is callable from the command line and you kinda need »
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