Look At Me Now.

When I started watching the taping of the George Zimmerman trial, I did not know that that event started the Black Lives Matter movement. From the trial, it is pretty evident that the prosecution case was thin and politically motivated. Their mostly emotional and scarcely factual narrative of guilt steadily degraded day-by-day and testimony-over-testimony. Starting with their own witnesses, du...

Brief introduction to constrained optimisation Constrained optimisation problems are often encountered in data science. In a nutshell, they consist of finding the optimal value for a decision variable with respect to a given objective function, while at the same time satisfying a series of constraints. The generic constrained optimisation problem is written in mathematical form as a minimisat...

Who can claim to have never used Stack Overflow? Probably no one among those who have ever written at least one line of code. And if you ever went to Stack Overflow to check something related to Python, you might have found one of my answers. Ten years ago, I joined Stack Overflow, a community managed website where users can publicly post questions and answers about programming. These were th...

The rise of container technologies has brought many paradigms shifts in terms of software development, deployment and maintenance, especially in conjunction with micro-service architectures. And so, when a while ago I had the opportunity to give a lecture at the inverted CERN School of Computing (iCSC) I was really happy to talk about the orchestration of containerized microservices with Kubern...