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It was a pleasure to talk with Nicola Sebastianelli, Co-founder and CTO of Zefi.ai, about his interesting experience from the corporate world to building a new startup. A lot of insights on how to set the ways of working when the company is small and needs to build fast. florio.dev/tlp-ep53-nic...

EP53 - Ways of Working. With Nicola Sebastianelli, Co-founder & CTO (Zefi)

The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 53

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Well, quite an interesting chat with Franco Maria Nardini, Director of Research at ISTI-CNR, about a two-level inverted index for fast retrieval over learned sparse representations. Rather technical stuff, but Franco was able to explain it in a very nice way! florio.dev/tgz-ep07-fra...

EP07 - Efficient Neural Search: Rethinking Inverted Indexes for Learned Sparse Representations. With Dr. Franco Maria Nardini

targz Podcast episode 07

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Building and scaling teams is not easy, and the challenge vary during the different stages of a company. You are lucky that Luca Fornaroli, CPO at compri, was so kind to sit with me and share his huge experience on the topic. florio.dev/tlp52-luca-f...

Building Teams That Scale. With Luca Fornaroli, CPO at Compri (TLP-52)

The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 52

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Everyone would like a fair recruitment process, but unfortunately the reality is way more complex than just fixing an algorithm. In this episode of targz @chatox.bsky.social from @icreacommunity.bsky.social describes the research conducted by his group to address the issue florio.dev/tgz-ep06-car...

targz 06 - Does Fair Ranking Lead to Fair Recruitment? With Dr. Carlos Castillo

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I had to pleasure to talk about communities with @lucacorbucci.bsky.social founder of Superhero Valley, PointerPodcast and Pisa Dev, who came as a guest at The LeadershIT Podcast: florio.dev/tlp-ep51-luc... The podcast is in Italian, but here you can find a summary in English as well. Enjoy!

The LeadershIT Podcast 51 - Communities. With Luca Corbucci, Founder (Superhero Valley)

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Screaming in the Void: Introducing my Podcasts

Introducing a series of posts about my podcasts

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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 6mo ago

Do you believe that groups of users can coordinate on different social platforms to try to influence other people opinion? Well, in the new episode of targz @marcominici.bsky.social, from ICAR-CNR, describes the technique they used in their research to identify such malevolent groups. Link below! 👇

Luca Florio @florio.dev · 6mo ago

When it comes to recommendation, indirect feedback by user is a powerful tool, but it can be problematic to deal with noise. In this episode of targz Ervin Dervishaj from University of Copenhagen presents a method to leverage LLMs for post-training denoising. Links below! 👇

Luca Florio @florio.dev · 7mo ago

New episode of targz! With @gmauro10.bsky.social from Scuola Normale Superiore and ISTI-CNR we discuss how AI influences users and how users influence AI back and the urban impact of this feedback loop. Link to episode on several platform and paper below! 👇

Luca Florio @florio.dev · 7mo ago

The second episode of targz is out! Our guest is Alessio Ansuini, and we talk about intrinsic dimension in neural networks and why it is important to understand what's happening inside them. Also, do you know what a manifold is? open.spotify.com/episode/2HOH... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1905.12784

Luca Florio @florio.dev · 8mo ago

New year new personal project! Say hello to targz, a new podcast that bridges the gap between academia and industry in Computer Science: open.spotify.com/episode/5yeE... In this first episode Fabrizio Silvestri will talk about the paper "The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems".

EP01 - The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems. With Dr. Fabrizio Silvestri

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rob pike @robpike.io · 8mo ago

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 11mo ago

This is going to happen for real! I already reached out to some amazing researchers and I started to read some papers. Also, I found an amazing name for the podcast (the hardest part... 😂 )! So, few more things to iron out, but get ready because it will be amazing! 🚀

Luca Florio@florio.dev · last yr.

I am going to start a new podcast project, and I am looking for researchers (in academia or industry) that are doing research in any Computer Science "branch".

I am going to start a new podcast project, and I am looking for researchers (in academia or industry) that are doing research in any Computer Science "branch".

Happy to share that I have been promoted to Senior Engineer! 🎉 Fun fact: this is the first promotion of my life.

Yeah, love to chat with people and do my best to help them! 😄 adplist.org/community-ce...

ADPList: Awarded for Top 50 Mentor in Back-end

Luca Florio is awarded for Top 50 Mentor in Back-end

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In my career I worked with: Java, Scala, Python, Go. Also a bit of Haskell, but not much. Which language I should learn next? And why?

Me, when after a page at 5AM on a Sunday morning I say: “This is not that urgent, I’ll snooze the alert till tomorrow so I can go back to sleep”

bart simpson is laying in bed with his head on a pillow in a black and white photo .

ALT: bart simpson is laying in bed with his head on a pillow in a black and white photo .

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TIL: Postgres tables have inheritance. 🤯 How cool is that?

Some thoughts about the benefits of journaling at work! florio.dev/the-value-of...

The Value of Journaling

I started to journal my work day some months ago, and I can say that it has proven quite valuable to me. Let's see why I think it can benefit anyone and how I do it.

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After way too much time, I decided to refresh my blog and migrate it to the Bear Blog platform. Why? The details in a new blog post, of course! www.florio.dev/migrating-to...

Migrating to Bear Blog

Few thoughts on blogging, writing, the internet and why I migrated to Bear Blog.

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From time to time we hear that someone is a "force multiplier". But what is a "force multiplier"? Wrong answers only.

That’s a wrap!