Archive - Nicola's Newsletter

Books I read in 2023

I read 24 books for a total of 7070 pages in 2023.

Dec 29, 2023 •

The wilderness of Poggio Montironi

Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny, cold winter Sunday.

Dec 18, 2023 •

How Many Hobbits?

For those who don’t know me, I’m a demographer.

Dec 14, 2023 •

The Winterkeeper

The Guardian’s The Winterkeeper: A Lifetime Spent Protecting Yellowstone National Park is a beautiful short documentary I truly enjoyed watching.

Dec 10, 2023 •

Quoting Andrej Karpathy

I always struggle a bit with I’m asked about the “hallucination problem” in LLMs.

Dec 9, 2023 •

November 2023

Intro to Large Language Models (video)

Andrej Karpathy has a very well-done Intro to Large Language Models video on YouTube.

Nov 24, 2023 •

I am speaking at the .NET Conference Italia 2023

In a few days, on Monday, December 4, at 10 a.m., I will present at the .NET Conference Italia 2023, which will be held at the Microsoft House in Milan.

Nov 23, 2023 •

How to use XmlWriter along with StringWriter to properly serialize a UTF-8 string

Today, I (re)learned how to serialize an XML to a UTF-8 string.

Nov 9, 2023 •

October 2023

LINQ DistinctBy on a property for .NET Standard and older .NET versions

Today I learned how to implement a custom Enumerable.DistinctBy extension method that returns distinct elements from a sequence according to a specified…

Oct 26, 2023 •

August 2023

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