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Dear Open Source Contributors, I’m happy to announce that my open-source Android app, Food Expiration Dates, is open for contributions for Hacktoberfest 2024! 🎉 If you haven’t heard about it yet, Hacktoberfest is an annual event celebrating open source, where developers from all over the world contribute to repositories like this one to make meaningful improvements. Whether you’re new to […]

I’m happy to announce that Food Expiration Dates 2.4.2 has been released. This update not only addresses a major issue but also brings significant improvements in translations.

Welcome to “My Dev Week #1”, showcasing Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI with its Grok model, and sharing insights from Android guru Philipp Lackner. You will discover the Cheshire Cat AI framework from Italy, dive into dark energy with an imaginative twist from Professor Snape, and reminisce about the iPhone’s game-changing launch in 2007. This […]

Welcome! This is a new weekly recap that encapsulates what I experienced as a developer this week, featuring the latest in artificial intelligence news, useful resources, notable open source projects, engaging polls, and pivotal historical moments. I also provide updates on my app’s development and explore how AI creates digital art. So.. let’s go! The […]

In the realm of artificial intelligence, the boundaries between technology and creativity are continually being redefined. Today, I want to share a poem titled Whispers of the Wind, entirely generated by Mistral AI. This poem stands as a testament to the evolving capabilities of AI in mimicking human-like creativity and artistic expression.

Hello, everyone! I’m thrilled to announce a dream that has turned into a global reality. My apps, which began their journey in 2018, have now reached a remarkable milestone: downloads in 100 different countries! This is not just a number; it’s a testament to a global growing, especially for my newest app, Food Expiration Dates.

Android Studio Hedgehog has changed the behavior of code analysis during committing code to VCS. Previously code checks were performed before the commit of code, but now this happens after the commit. I personally don’t like this because I don’t want to commit code that contains warnings. Although it is possible to commit the fix […]

📅 Have you ever forgotten to eat a food item before its expiration date? Throwing away food because it has expired is a practice to avoid if you want to reduce food waste. When you buy groceries, it’s difficult to keep in mind all the expiration dates of them. This simple app helps you avoid […]

In this article I describe what was my project for the master’s thesis in Computer Science at the University of Bologna, in which I was involved in using the technologies of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to create models of machine learning that were able to detect cases of COVID-19 by analyzing voice recordings. In the […]

Yelp Open Dataset is a collection of data concerning users who write reviews on businesses belonging to different commercial categories (e.g. restaurants, car rental, etc. …). Thanks to this database I was able to realize a model based on a neural network for the automatic classification of reviews using natural language processing and machine learning […]

What is the Facebook Hacker Cup? The Facebook Hacker Cup is a competition for programmers promoted by Facebook worldwide. The aim of the competition is to find the best programmers in the world to whom to pay cash prizes. The final winner will also win the cup. The problems proposed during the Facebook Hacker Cup […]

Erlang is one of the functional programming languages that allows you to build concurrent programs in a relatively simple way; its actor-based paradigm offers primitives to create processes and make them communicate with each other in a way that other languages do not. Another peculiarity of Erlang, probably the most important one, is the possibility […]

Cooking Fever is a fun game in which you have to prepare dishes to serve to customers. The mechanism is really very simple: you are behind a counter with different ingredients and cooking tools; customers come, in turn, in front of us and show us what they want. Our goal is to serve them as […]

Data published by the Ministry of Health displayed on a national map and on a graph that shows the evolution of Coronavirus infection cases In these days the Ministry of Health is reporting daily data on the number of people who tested positive for COVID-19. On the Johns Hopkins University Map that traces the cases […]

Word sense disambiguation (w.s.d.) is that part of natural language processing that deals with attributing to a word (token) its meaning in the context in which it appears. In this article there are presented three probabilistic algorithms to solve this problem, together with their implementation in Python. The algorithms are: and they are tested on […]

Years ago, I’d say about ten years ago, I tried to approach the 3D graphics environment to discover something new. I was able to make a few small creations, but nothing that excited me much. I liked the results, but I probably thought the procedures were too difficult and for some reason I abandoned this […]

In recent months I have been working on the design and implementation of a new site for the Pro Loco of Sovicille, a non-profit association that aims to enhance the places, traditions and resources of the territory of the municipality of Sovicille, Siena (Italy), promoting initiatives among the locals and welcoming tourists. In a first […]

Among the many components of Bootstrap we can find one to build a block of page indexes to implement a pagination. Typically this component is used when you have a list of elements that, for one reason or another, can not be shown all in one page. In this case, as with search engines, several […]

Services used to track visitors to your site, such as Google Analytics, are essential tools to get an idea of the performance of your web pages. The problem that arises is that administrators, content creators or any other profile that manages the content of a site are among the most active users. In the long […]

Half a century after Neil Armstrong’s venture, the source codes of Apollo 11 have been published online Today is exactly 50 years since the day the first man set foot on the Moon, 20 July 1969. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” is the phrase that continues to echo in […]