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A curated selection of Daniel Pradilla articles on technology, software, work, and practical problem-solving.

Which British music city punches furthest above its weight?

For years, I thought it was completely normal to know where every band came from. Radio DJs had a lot to do with it. Instead of repeating the name of a band, they would often use antonomasia and refer to “the Liverpool quartet”, “the boys from Manchester”. Music magazines and reviews did the same. I… Continue reading Which British music city punches furthest above its weight?

Classification, visualized

The other day, I was tinkering with model parameters and second-guessing myself. I wondered, wouldn’t it be cool if i could compare side by side the results of different models? Yeah, it would. I ended up building a small interactive explainer for seeing how different classification and clustering approaches behave on the same two-dimensional data.… Continue reading Classification, visualized

Flipasio

My eldest daughter recently discovered the classic LCD calculator trick: type certain numbers, flip it, and make it spell words. She was thrilled to show me, and I was just as excited watching her find that little “useless” easter egg that entertained me during way too many hours in classes that I should’ve paid more… Continue reading Flipasio

EchoTree

For years now I kept some of my social accounts alive with a Python script. It read from a collection of RSS feeds and shared at random times. It worked, my feeds stayed active, and people asked me what was I doing reading at 3am. The script had a bit of personality: it logged out… Continue reading EchoTree