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Hi, I'm Daniel 👋

ðŸ§Ū Studying Computers & AI

🎂 years old

🇎🇧 Based in London

ðŸ‡ŪðŸ‡đ From Italy

🕚 Dancer

FUNDAMENTAL THINGS I BELIEVE ABOUT SOFTWARE

>_ Reliable software delivers better UX than the best UI.

OPEN SOURCE

>_ distributed-systems: MapReduce, Distributed KV, and Raft implemented in Golang.

>_ btree: On-disk B-tree implementation in pure C.

>_ backpropagation: Autograd engine implementation in pure Python.

>_ react.js: React implementation in pure JavaScript.

>_ haskell-of-new-jersey: Haskell implementation in Standard ML.

>_ algorithms: Misc algorithms and data structures implementations.

>_ riscv: Misc RISC-V assembly programs.

>_ gofai: Misc good old-fashioned AI techniques implementations.

>_ rl: Q-learning implementation in pure Python.

>_ forth: Forth interpreter in pure C.

>_ trie: Trie implementations in various languages and styles.

>_ prev.py: Static-site generator using Python and SQLite.

>_ picturephone.c: Ascii video-conferencing in the terminal.

>_ more at github.com/danielfalbo

CLOSED SOURCE

$_ At Fankee: a fair concurrent checkouts system for limited-item flash-sales.

$_ At Plannix: AI Agents streamlining financial advisors tasks.

$_ DanceCut (active: landing, app): bringing video models from cloud GPUs to dancers.

$_ Eugene (inactive): bringing video and other AI models from cloud GPUs to athletes.

$_ Ybook (inactive): invest in early talents on their graduation day as NFTs.

HIGHLIGHTS

|_ ðŸŠī Life Essentials: Whenever I feel lost I come back to this.

|_ 📘 Learning Library: What I'm currently studying and what I wish to learn next.

|_ 🎧 Jukebox: My favorite music records. Ever.

|_ 🎞ïļ Filmography: My favorite movies. Ever.

INDICES

|_ 📚 Bookmarks (index, snippets, by author): Textbooks, videos, talks, articles, papers, whitepapers, fiction, non-fiction. Anything goes.

|_ 📝 Weblog (index, rss): Take it as it is. I'm very open to the idea that I got stuff wrong. I think all feedback is a gift and I update my worldview based on new evidence and feedback from people all the time.

FUNDAMENTAL THINGS I BELIEVE ABOUT SOCIETY AND LIFE

|_ We can't fix people, we can only love them.

|_ Hard things are always worthwhile.

|_ Knowledge is freedom.

|_ "One day" will never come, today is all there is.

|_ The human attention span decrease is the saddest loss of modern era.

|_ You vote with your attention and purchases, not at the ballot box.

|_ Intelligence is a myth and emotional maturity is all that matters.

|_ Everything you want is an excuse for an emotion you're trying to feel.

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