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by pietroppeter 15d ago
Has the industry already started to search for a better name than AI SEO for this?
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by pietroppeter 1mo ago
TIL pandoc for the people, courtesy of pandoc compiled to WASM. cool https://pandoc.org/app/
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by pietroppeter 2mo ago
Appreciate the quote of the Essentialism book by Greg McKweon, which I am currently reading. Funnily enough I decided the book when I found out (on Imprint app) that one of the key values of the “essentialist” is playfulness. I was sold.
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by pietroppeter 2mo ago
Congrats! I had a great time doing a batch remotely from Italy (2.5 years ago), there is a lot of investment in making sure the remote experience is great and it shows!
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by pietroppeter 3mo ago
AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format). The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is
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by pietroppeter 3mo ago
personal highlight I looked forward to: - Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool) - Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one) - Treeform talking about Nim a
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by pietroppeter 3mo ago
Two tracks this year (a first). As usual, videos are prerecorded and released as YouTube Premiere. Track 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHI4D93Ts8_k&si=06qsQgYUd... Track 2: https://youtube.com/pl
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Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)(conf.nim-lang.org)
83 points by pietroppeter 3mo ago|22 comments
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by pietroppeter 7mo ago
Related project discussed here 2 years ago FrameOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855337
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by pietroppeter 8mo ago
> You can easily make the case that Tadej Pogačar is one of the world’s best athletes. Plus he enjoys a wholesome reputation, a cherubic look at races and a cheerful presence on social media. Good luck finding someone who knows him to sa
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Pogacar and Ku Coin(inrng.com)
2 points by pietroppeter 8mo ago|1 comments
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by pietroppeter 8mo ago
If you happen to pass by Ivrea (short trip from Turin or Milan) there is a very nice small museum which showcases most of the machines mentioned. It has also a working Programma 101 and if you are lucky there might be a volounteer that can
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by pietroppeter 10mo ago
Great work! As a side track, it led me to dive into the history of the manufacturing company of Breda trains. Originally founded in Milan late 1800s by Ernesto Breda for locomotives, expanded in the war products during the wars, and went th
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by pietroppeter 10mo ago
I wish we had that for Nim too!
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by pietroppeter 11mo ago
Yet another appreciation story for Miguel’s mega tutorial. In 2017 I used it to create our wedding site and learn a bit of web dev (my background is in data science). To motivate me to actually do it I used the strategy the fund the then oc
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Making Operations Research More Accessible: Insights from the Rise of ML(pubsonline.informs.org)
1 points by pietroppeter 1y ago|0 comments
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by pietroppeter 1y ago
And this fact effectively builds trust in the vision and in execution.
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by pietroppeter 1y ago
For the curious on how it works (not mentioned in the readme), it uses pymupdf and a precise mapping of all information in area coordinates, as such the document layout is hard coded. When layout changes this breaks but layout changes on th
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by pietroppeter 1y ago
This is the way
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by pietroppeter 1y ago
I am a bit biased on the content ;), but note that this is a talk that is not focused on teaching the language but more on what does it mean to learn a second language, especially a niche one - like Nim - coming from Python. It does shows s
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Y Combinator explained in Python (2019)(lptk.github.io)
1 points by pietroppeter 1y ago|0 comments
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Deep Reinforcement Learning does not work yet (2018)(alexirpan.com)
1 points by pietroppeter 2y ago|0 comments
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by pietroppeter 2y ago
Thomas Snyder, the creator of this blog (who gathered a number of contributors throughout the years; recently slowed down the content) is a puzzle grandmaster and recently mind behind the popular LinkedIn queens game. Lots of great content
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The Art of Puzzles(gmpuzzles.com)
3 points by pietroppeter 2y ago|1 comments
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by pietroppeter 2y ago
Gold
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by pietroppeter 2y ago
Kate is not a technologist but writes beautifully. I find this a very interesting piece. I particularly like this quote towards the end: > At its core, the computer and the Internet are tools for creation, education, commerce, play, and
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Python behind the scenes: how Python dictionaries work (2021)(tenthousandmeters.com)
1 points by pietroppeter 2y ago|0 comments
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by pietroppeter 2y ago
Currently doing this Discrete Optimization course by Pascal Van Hentenryck and it is great: https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization It has only week on Linear Programming which is nicely done but I think t
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Sprouted Coconut(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pietroppeter 2y ago|0 comments
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TuneType(tunetype.com)
12 points by pietroppeter 2y ago|1 comments

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