The 26th Chapter Starts

Hello everyone. I'm sorry to be gone for a while, I had to move suddenly and I had a hard time finding time for my personal projects. As it looks like I'm not going to find time soon, I'm trying to organize and automate everything I can to come back stronger than before starting next year.

Anyway, today is a special day. It's my 26th birthday. Unbelievable that a whole year has already passed, and as I did last year, I would like to review the great anecdotes and experiences that happened within this milestone.

A Look Back

The first quarter was quite emotional, my first semester as a professor ended and I had no plans to continue due to problems with university bureaucracy and dissatisfaction with the lack of interest from some of my students. On the other hand, the woman I lost last quarter came back for Christmas and we connected better than ever.

My Life as a Professor

The last six months have been able to live one of the most amazing experiences in my life. During my whole life I have set many goals, some of those are insignificant, others require more work to achieve them, and others are a sort of bucket list of things I

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During this time, I did some awesome projects like a yearbook for my students that worked with GitHub actions and StepCode, a programming language I invented. I implemented my first telegram mini app, for my beloved crush, and took more seriously my diagramming app, Bezier, and after thinking for weeks, I took a new position as a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence professor.

DEVLog - January

A new month starts and it’s a great time to review what I achieved last month. January was a nice month with exciting new projects and the end of others. It is pretty amazing the variety of projects there are out there, and how they just appear in front of

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One of the random things I tried to learn during this term was sign language. I gave up, but since it helped me express myself better without speaking, maybe next year I'll try to pick it up again.

The second quarter, was full of projects. My position as a ML&AI teacher led me to design and implement more than 10 amazing projects for classification, regression, clustering, and dimension reduction, and advanced topics like image and sound segmentation, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, generative models for images, text, and audio, reinforcement learning by policies and value based, and deployment of models with Azure, HuggingFace and Cloudflare.

DEVLog - May

It’s unbelievable that we are in June, the time has passed so quickly and it’s time to review what I did. Bezier If you have been following on my social media accounts, you might notice that I haven’t posted any updates as I used to. This weekend I’m working on

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This quarter was full of good memories, but something I will keep in the bottom of my heart was an invitation I received to give a talk to a group of enthusiastic entrepreneurs from all over Venezuela, about the potential of generative AI and how to use it in their projects.

The third quarter started with high political tension in my country, which killed the hope of my closest group of people, and me. I thought about the need for my company or any of my projects to succeed, so that I would no longer worry about my future and the future of my loved ones.

The situation make me rethink about my future, and the people I know did the same. Almost everyone took different paths and my heart broke as never before. During this time I completely disappeared from everywhere, got appart from everyone, left my position as professor, and I just focused on work and personal projects, launching at the end of the quarter IMG Processing, my most ambitious project so far, a complete SaaS for image processing.

Presenting IMG Processing

In a world of digital media, it is increasingly common to transmit information through images instead of words. Images tell a story, encapsulate a million words and make a simple message shine through with wonderful colors and composition. Today I would like to present a new tool that helps to

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The last quarter was almost completely destinated to a trip. By October, I took my luggage and went to Mexico City and met the SignatureAPI team, my awesome companions and friends. I ate tacos, went to a F1 event, and reconnected with some expat friends I had there.

After a week, I decided I didn't want to return to Venezuela yet, so I returned to Portugal, my second country, my second home. There I had a lot of fun over Lisbon, Caldas de Rainha, Óbidos, Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Braga, Guimaraes and Porto.

Now I'm trying to recover from this amazing trip, and thinking about the next projects to come. There are great things planned, and new things that I still have no idea will happen. I think this is the best thing about life, it gives you the opportunity to take the reins and decisions of your future, and yet it is able to surprise you with unexpected events that you would have never thought about.

Let's see what is coming next. I really would like to see you here in my blog next year!

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