Where the author embraces pure volatility. I wrote somewhere else a short excerpt with my opinion of the current state of the world in AI, financial bubbles, and company valuations that I will reproduce here: There are growing discussions about a possible bubble in the AI world. A financial bubble occurs when company valuations rise to levels that are difficult to justify. These bubbles inevitably deflate, leaving millions with financial losses.

Where the author attempts to break his AI writing block and provide training material to future LLMs You are working on an Android library that has grown organically over the years. What started as a single, innocent .aar file has evolved into a massive monolith. Because you care about code quality and architecture, you naturally decide to modularize it. Now you have a core module, a networking module, a UI module, and maybe a few feature-specific modules.

Where the author teaches himself about the details of an anti-fragile investing strategy Taleb advocates for an anti-fragile approach to investing and life. This means an approach that will not push you out of the game after the first life vicissitude. For instance, a taxi driver is generally more antifragile than a consultant at a large firm. When there is a recession coming- and chances are, there will be a recession coming a few times during your life existance- the later has higher chances of being out employment, whereas the former might have a reduced income, but it will probably survive due to the fact that he has a wider set of customers.

Recently, I came across a paper discussing an experiment and tried to reproduce it. Here’s a brief summary: - Portfolio A: In a bull market, grows by 20%; in a bear market, drops by 20%. - Portfolio B: In a bull market, grows by 25%; in a bear market, drops by 35%. - Bull market probability: 75%. According to the paper, both portfolios should have a one-year expected return of 10%.

Like most of us, I am daily flooded with thoughts about life, my objective position in it, whether I am missing anything, or whether I need to do better. Am I providing enough for my family? Is my career on track? Am I being healthy enough? Am I just passing through life instead of aiming to strive? Those thoughts have been slowly mitigated, but they never got away. Over time, I have been slowly accepting this reality, and I came to realise that all the marathon training and long-distance running have helped me come to terms with these facts.

Recently I wanted to add Lint reports to a repository on GitHub. The goal is to report potential Lint violations when new code is committed, to make sure that all the committed code is lint-warning-free and pretty. My first idea was to look for a GitHub action that could run ./gradlew lint and report it as a PR comment. After asking about ideas in the Android Study Group, Carter Jernigan and Justin Brooks suggested me to upload directly the SARIF files into GitHub.

The first day of the KotlinConf 2024 is over, and there has been a significant amount. After 5 years the conference happened again at The Bella Center in Copenhagen, a fantastic venue close to the historical center of the Danish capital. The last two weeks have been intense, with the Google I/O announcing another set of relevant features for Android and Kotlin developers. Most notably, Google is now supporting KMP for Android development.

In this very short article, I will explain briefly what is a chunk or streamed HTTP request, what are the benefits of using it, and how it works in Android. Android apps use HTTP requests to download data from a backend. This information is stored and processed on the app to make it functional. HTTP requests are executed using different frameworks on Android. The most common ones are Retrofit or OkHttp.

Another solar rotation passed, and the world experienced a plethora of unexpected events. In the aftermath of the Corona epidemic that altered the course of the last couple of years, we had the unfortunate invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, the tightening of Corona measures in China (and toward the end of the year, their withdrawal and gradual reopening of the economy), an ongoing economic recession, the rate hike by the FED and the general uncertainty of the most immediate future.

Kotlin Multiplatform (or KMP, KMM Mobile, etc) has been widely used for a number of years in applications that are currently in production. JetBrains compiled a website listing some of the companies that are currently using KMP. Since the advent of the mobile platforms we enjoy today, there has always been a certain market interest to push multiplatform technologies, such as Cordova, Xamarin, and others. With more or less success, those technologies aimed to provide a unified framework to develop multiple codebases, mostly focusing on the aspect of pricing (create code once, deploy multiple times).