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Have you heard of the LatinX in AI social event?

I need to share with you an epiphany that occurred to me yesterday.

Uber arrived in Argentina working in a grey legal area, as usual.

I have tried this week to buy the soundtrack for The Greatest Showman for a gift and let me tell you, it's really hard.

As someone who regularly switches between keyboard layouts, I have a problem: I have at least three keys that can be used as an apostrophe, but I don't know which one is the correct one.

Have you heard of Parler?

I am developing a simple HTML5 game with Unity.

Gephi is a tool for graph visualization that's great for plotting big datasets.

Here is an idea that I had and that I don't have time to work on.

In today's weekend posting, two recommendations about things that are not free (which is a first) and a rant (which is very much in brand for this blog).

The Council of the European Union has released this Draft in which they call for what is effectively a ban on End-to-End Encryption (E2EE).

There was once an article about Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, in which he recognizes the recipe of his success.

I received today the type of e-mail that we all know one day will arrive: an e-mail where someone is trying to locate a file that doesn't exist anymore.

Note: I wrote this article in August, but I didn't realize it wasn't published until October.

I remember seeing two main camps in the old debate on whether a hot-dog is a sandwich: those that argued "it's meat between two pieces of bread, therefore it's a sandwich" and those that counterargued "if I asked whether you wanted a sandwich and then gave

As so many immigrants expats around the world, I like to follow the news regarding what's happening back in my home country.

I am okay at drawing.

I have been giving programming languages a lot of thought recently.

As many other people around my age, I learned programming from a book.

Once again, and as seen on this video, a Tesla car driving alone on its lane on a clear day runs straight into a 100% visible, giant overturned truck.

The compiler as we know it is generally attributed to Grace Hopper, who also popularized the notion of machine-independent programming languages and served as technical consultant in 1959 in the project that would become the COBOL programming language.

I have been not-so-recently tasked with the job of putting together my family's family tree.

April 21: see the "Update" section at the end for a couple extra details.

If you are one of the lucky ones who didn't lose their jobs during the current pandemic, you may also be one of the involuntary volunteers taking part in the world's largest work-from-home experiment.

If you're a software developer, you know the rules: new year, new programming language.

You might have heard of this new, alternative take on medicine called Homeopathy.

As I mentioned before, I have now replaced my blogging engine with Pelican.

Like many programmers, I am a night owl.

It is tradition to start every new year with a blog post lamenting why I haven't posted more.

Random story from a random Android App: the "Photo Manager" app that I was using in my phone was updated a couple weeks ago.

I travel a lot.

This is not a secret, but I found it curious and thought about sharing it here: earlier today I needed to share a video file that I was hosting in my server, and I decided to send the link over WhatsApp.

I know this is not in the usual style of this Blog, but I found something so out of touch with reality in Batgirl #36 that I need to share it with you.

This post is a condensed version of a talk I gave at my research group.

My relation with Taylor Swift is complicated: I don't hate her — in fact, she seems like a very nice person.

This article is the fifth of a series in which I explain what my research is about in (I hope) a simple and straightforward manner.

So, you have successfully created an online community.

Once upon a time, you would create an e-mail account and use it for a long time without receiving spam.

I'm the proud owner of a Genius MousePen i608 graphic tablet (also known as UC-LOGIC Tablet WP8060U).

There's a popular song, written by an Argentinean musician called Charly García, called "Los Dinosaurios" ("The Dinosaurs").

For the longest time, I thought that elections all over the world were more or less the same.

Tell me if the following sounds familiar: Oh, hi!

Hypothesis People who claim being able to identify brands of cola by taste are usually right Resources 5 different kinds of cola drinks (Pepsi, Coke, Coke Light, Diet Coke, Freeway), 5 similar cups, sticky paper, pens, even more paper Description So this…

I was warned.

After my last blog post arguing that advertisers should fall on a well and die, I've given the issue some more thought.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of gaming for me is to try and pretend I'm the protagonist.

So, it's that time of the year again.

A couple days ago I found a very interesting article, titled A neural network in 11 lines of Python.

Dear Spotify, I think it's time to realize that you are not the service you once where.

Here's a joke I heard once at a music academy: How do you keep a pianist from playing?