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Highlights from ESEC/FSE 2018 – Day 1
Image above: An impertinent cat from the keynote presentation by Erik Meijer. I’m at ESEC-FSE 2018, one of the leading scientific international Software Engineering (SE) conferences. The main event began today, after yesterday’s…
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Highlights from A-TEST 2018
A-TEST is a workshop on Automated Testing, colocated with ESEC/FSE 2018, of which I’m participating. I learned a few things and would like to share some highlights with you: We are often…
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Everywhere and nowhere: the neglected role of environments
The picture is from a building in (probably East) Berlin, which I took sometime in 2009. Is this a reminder of bygone Communist regime brutality or a critique of the gargantuan Capitalist…
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“Taste our books”: An Extraordinary Recommender System at Garret Street
Last month I was in Lisbon to present a paper (PDF here) at a conference on Human-Computer Interaction, so I took the time to visit Bertrand‘s main store at Garret Street, a famous local…
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Cats with lasers: the Mythos Entertainment System 1
Dogs have been my favorite pets since I was very young — I had a female Basenji for many years in childhood — but life in a compact apartment can be hard for…
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12 dicas visionárias para o sucesso disruptivo
Há uma sombra que ronda os espíritos humanos. É o espectro do fracasso. Felizmente, não faltam grandes exemplos de jovens visionários para mostrar o caminho do sucesso, como relatam famosas revistas de…
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Listening to music properly
I’m not a big fan of video courses. I do take them sometimes, but I still think that written text — books and articles — is a superior medium for study. The…
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French TV overseas tip
Like many other francophones outside French-speaking territories, I’ve had some difficulty to keep my French sharp. Contrary to English, which I use on a daily basis for both work and fun, French…
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Deep Learning course
Jeremy Howard’s Deep Learning course is probably the best one available today on the Web. If you’d like to know how to use the state-of-the-art in neural networks as fast as possible,…
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O ódio criativo
O ser humano é uma criatura de hábitos. Ainda que pregue a mudança e o progresso, e realmente seja capaz disso, precisa antes vencer a inércia que o carrega quase que inconscientemente.…
