About This Blog
Welcome!
This blog is a space dedicated to exploring the topics that fascinate me most: technology, data science, artificial intelligence, and their impact on society.
What You'll Find Here
Posts about data analysis, machine learning, software development, reflections on technology and society, and practical tutorials for those who are just starting out or want to dive deeper into these areas.
About the Author
Hello!
Mauricio here. I've been interested in technology since childhood, back in the 80s. I got into computers through magazines, and in 1990 I had the privilege of receiving my first computer, an MSX. I loved that PC. I never saw it as a toy, but as a way to learn and understand. I learned BASIC on it. Years later, I got my first "real" PC, a 386 SX 25MHz running MS-DOS (I think version 3). That's where I understood Microsoft's file system and how to organize directories. Then I kept evolving, earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from UNESP in Bauru and graduated in 1997. Since then, I've been seeking to learn and create things on my own.
I started working at a company where the focus was selling textual content. In a world where Google didn't exist yet, my challenge was to create a search engine capable of finding and cross-referencing information in databases with hundreds of megabytes (remember that in those days we still used 1.44 MB floppy disks). It was an enormous challenge that I'm very proud to have accomplished. I built a search engine 100% from scratch, first in Object Pascal, then in C. These search libraries were used in various software applications, from PCs to Android tablets and later for the Internet. It was a refined system that allowed logical connectors like AND, OR, phrases, exclusions, and combinations using parentheses, such as `((A and B) or C)`.
Later I changed companies, where I started managing several different systems, from fully native Android apps, complex backends capable of handling hundreds of connections per second, big data analysis, and AI (not just using it, but creating in-house solutions for models running on our own servers).
But I don't just enjoy technology. I like to imagine and philosophize about various questions concerning humanity as a whole. Authors like Carl Sagan, Richard Bach, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, George Orwell, among others, have always made me think about how people see the world around them through their own mental lenses. We see the external world as something that mirrors what exists within us. Since then, I've been seeking to understand what I see in that mirror. And writing about it helps me on this journey.
Welcome to my little world, and feel to get in touch!
Contact
Get in touch through:
E-mail: fodra@fodra.com.br
LinkedIn: Mauricio Fodra