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Hi, I am Germano.

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Online Learning with Off-Policy Feedback

We study the problem of online learning in adversarial bandit problems under a partial observability model called off-policy feedback.

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Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using

WebSockets are the most used technology for real-time web apps. However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior.

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On the security of WhatsApp and Telegram

Many people hold the firm belief that WhatsApp is more secure and privacy-wise better than Telegram. Is that really the case?

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A Reinforcement Learning Riddle

I proved 1=0 starting from the formula for the on-policy distribution in episodic tasks. Obviously there is some mistake, can you spot it? 🤔.

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Conquer your dotfiles with VCSH and MR

Are you tired of wasting time setting up your dotfiles every time you change laptop? Here I will describe a simple method based on vcsh and later show how you can make it more customizable and modular, thanks to myrepos.

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How to make Netlify CMS image paths work on Gridsome

Gridsome and NetlifyCMS are fantastic software projects, which allow you to respectively create a blazingly fast static website and manage your content from a beautiful UI. However they disagree on how to handle file paths of images or blog post covers.

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Be angry with yourself, not Apple

Why you have no right to complain about the new MacBook

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Fuckpyjails Writeup

Remote Code Execution As A Service — 9447 CTF

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