Author Archives: Giovanni Giorgi

Mac Mini M1 Review

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Ebbene sì, dopo oltre un anno dalla sua uscita, e nonostante la crisi imperante, ho deciso di acquistare un Mac Mini M1. Dopo anni di onoratissimo servizio (nonché modding con disco SSD rimpiazzato al posto del CDROM), il MacBook 2009 … Continue reading →
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GPT-NeoX

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave. From https://www.eleuther.ai/ Refer to GitHub project for references We tried it in the playground and the model seems quite impressive. Sadly the model is very very big, so it seems … Continue reading →
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Guerra per interposta nazione

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Manzoni una volta riferendosi a Napoleone scrisse “Ai posteri l’ardua sentenza”. Allo stesso modo è impossibile ora fare riflessioni distaccate sulla guerra in Ucraina, con le atrocità, le violenze e i morti che toccano così da vicino i paesi Europei, … Continue reading →
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Resistenza

Posted on April 25, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
La guerra: un massacro di gente che non si conosce, per gli interessi di gente che si conosce, ma non si massacra Paul Valéery (proiettato all’entrata dello IULM di Milano a Marzo 2022)   E’ oramai da quasi due mesi … Continue reading →
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Mainim engine behind 3Blue1Brown videos

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Manim is an animation engine for explanatory math videos. It’s used to create precise animations programmatically, as demonstrated in the videos of 3Blue1Brown.
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Bash Regular expression replace (regexp)

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
You can easily use bash to search-and-replace on variables… f="/home/alice/myfile.md" $ echo ${f//.md/.pdf} /home/alice/myfile.pdf $ echo ${f//alicee/bob} /home/alice/myfile.md $ echo ${f////-} -home-alice-myfile.md  
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Unix swissknife
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Let PiHole play nice with docker-compose

Posted on April 3, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
When you run pihole in a docker container, it could be difficult to build images on the same docker daemon, because docker-compose cannot pass DNS request to another container during build, and normal dns resolution fixes won’t work. I solved … Continue reading →
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