Hi, thanks for stopping by!
I’m Giuliano, a tiny little programmer. Once a linguist.
Computer science and linguistics may seem quite separate fields of interest but they are actually intertwined in an eternal golden braid: people thinking they can contribute to each other should come as no surprise.
I tried to work at the intersection of these two worlds with mediocre results at uni, then I switched to a more regular job to learn programming/CS from the ground up.
Anyway, I still keep an eye on linguistics/NLP papers and I wish to live long enough to read the 3rd edition of “Speech and Language Processing”.
My cv is here, in the unlikely event you need it.
All mankind is divided into two classes: those that only mind their own business and those that consider happiness not possible if the rest of the society is not equally happy as themselves. I belong to the second ones.
The hacker ethic, mediated by Ivan Illich’s line of thought (people before computers), can change the world we live in.
Anything can be learned through deliberate practice.
The STEM discourse is pure ideology if the rest (social sciences, humanities, arts, etc.) is lacking in your mind. A wide set of different skills (e.g. linear algebra and emotional intelligence, equally) is needed both to understand this world and to live a meaningful life. Ludwig Wittgenstein proved it in his works on language. If you are not conviced, please read the letter which Hans Reiser wrote from prison.
Personal blogs are my favourite corners of the web, they are where I learn most. They are also the motivation for running my own blog to jot down scattered thoughts, small hacks and, more generally, everything I need to remember. This is my small digital garden.
I usually keep track of some useful stuff about programming (paper textbooks and online resources) I come across in a sort of bookmarks collection. The map below from my space on Kinopio summarizes some of the most interesting things I plan to study for the rest of my mortal life:
Beyond programming, books and music are the things that fill my space and time. I’m a slow reader and I have a taste for piling up voluminous texts on the bedside table. As to music, I qualify myself as a scaruffian audiophile.
Hopefully, one day a platform/protocol will prevail at the end or at least we will have an alternative frontend merging all the Twitter-like feeds out there. ↩