Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo Ascot 2025 | Sauze d’Oulx
In an excellent end to the 24/25 season, Cami secures 6th place in the slalom in a field of more than 100. He was the top finisher in his age group and first of his team mates from Sansicario.
Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo FNA | Sansicario
This is a difficult year for Cami and his teammates. They compete against skiers born from January 2011 to December 2012. Cami’s birthday fall right at the end of the range and so some of the older boys are nearly two years his senior. Still, in the slalom he’s highly competitive and finished the race this weekend in 5th overall.
Deepseek R1
In recent days the US stock market has been heavily disrupted by the news that perhaps Silicon Valley’s advantage in the race to AGI is not as secure as it seemed. In a fascinating break from the standard LLM development narrative, a Chinese hedge fund diverted a portion of the GPU cluster it had built to run financial algorithms to the training of a reasoning model in the vein of OpenAI’s o-series. The controversy comes is significant : I downloaded a 14 billion parameter version of Deepseek onto my M3…read more
Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo Vergnano | Sansicario
Race 2 | Slalom | 4th Place out of 137 | 18th February 2024
Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo Vergnano | Sansicario
Race 1 | Slalom | 7th Place out of 137 | 18th February 2024
Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo Nikon | Sestriere
Slalom | 9th Place out of 134 | 4th February 2024
Camillo Ski Race | Trofeo Lauretana | Claviere
Giant Slalom | 6th Place out of 145 | 20th January 2024
Between Jackson Hole and Genova…
I’m not one to make a mountain out of a molehill, but getting back home from Jackson ruined what was an otherwise excellent trip. With no car at the moment, the journey over was somewhat laborious : a lift to the station; train from Genova to Milano; subway to the suburbs and an overnight stay with cousins; subway to Linate; flight to Munich; flight to Houston; Uber; workshop with Deloitte; Uber; flight to Denver; meet-up with Bill; flight to Jackson Hole. Jackson was glorious and productive. I left on Saturday…read more
Between NY and Vegas…
It’s been good to get back on the road. The last couple of weeks I’ve visited Génova, Milano, Frankfurt, Boston, Chicago, Albany, Saratoga Springs, New York, Frankfurt, Milan, Génova, Milano, London, Las Vegas, London, Milano, and Génova. Quite a trip. Things were going smoothly until I collected my car at the airport in Milan last Friday and headed home for the weekend. Thirty minutes later I was rear-ended by a young woman who had been distracted enough to miss the queue of stopped cars in front of her. I guess…read more
Coronavirus : Update 23 from the Epicenter
The true numbers of Covid-19 deaths is continually questioned from both sides of the lockdown debate, with claims of rampant under and over reporting. Those who see governments’ reactions to the pandemic as exaggerated tend to claim that anyone dying with Covid-like symptoms is logged as a victim of the virus even in the absence of a positive test result and despite the severity of co-morbidities. They often go further and claim that hospitals are incentivized to keep Covid numbers high, due to the increased compensation they receive for coronavirus…read more