i'm valerio, a south african studying at bocconi in milan. mostly i do nlp and data work, and every now and then i build a small site because i wanted to see something on a map or keep something from getting lost.
i write python most days, plus some typescript, sql and swift. for ml it's pytorch, hugging face, spacy, scikit-learn, pandas and numpy, usually in a jupyter notebook.
- pokemon-tcg-pocket-deck-builder: build a pokémon tcg pocket deck and get the qr code the game scans (try it)
- western-cape-valuations: a map of municipal property valuations across the western cape (live site)
- t812-archive: polaroids, letters and memories from flat t812 (live site)
- dog-whistle-detection: my bocconi nlp project on disambiguating dog whistles in the silent_signals corpus
- claude-skills: skills for claude code that i tinker with
- Mini-Briscola: briscola, the italian card game
