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?
Software
Software articles by Daniel Pradilla about programming, Python, AWS, AI, data, automation, and practical engineering work.
Minimum Viable Model
A lot of the discussion around AI model routing starts from a common idea: don’t use the most powerful model if a cheaper one can do the job. Microsoft Research has explored this multiple times. In Hybrid LLM, BEST-Route, One Head, Many Models and, more recently in 2026, Switchcraft, the objective is broadly the same:… Continue reading Minimum Viable Model
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
mambo-rescue
Rescuing an old website without turning it into a life project A few days ago, I finally got around to something I’d been putting off since about 2012: cleaning up a mess on one of my old websites. One part is still plain HTML. Another runs on WordPress. And in the middle, for a few… Continue reading mambo-rescue
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