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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 02/10/2026

A beer to recommend. Tasted great! The warm sunny afternoon also helped…

Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 11/09/2026

every human […] had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere-so humans accepted their lack of privacy. The fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1990

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 12/08/2026

I am turning into a bear, enjoying the relative solitude of a low density residential neighborhood. But today, eating at my favorite ramen place, and being offered dark glasses by random people gathering in the street to see the eclipse, Nørrebro reminded me of why dense neighborhoods are special

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 20/06/2026

Det kunne være DSB’s direktion tog min forslag seriøst

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 08/06/2026

Periodisk opråb at i 1970’ernes Italien var det muligt at rejse cirka samme distance som Aarhus–København på 90 minutter i stedet for de nuværende 210 (forsinkelser tilladt), med den ekstra lille komplikation, at man også lige skulle igennem en 2.000 meter høj bjergkæde.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 01/06/2026

Jeg bliver ved at minde folk at i Italien - ikke Japan eller lignende - har det været muligt at køre Aarhus-København distancen på 90 minutter siden de 1970’re, med den lille krølle at skulle køre over en 2000m høj bjergkæde

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 19/05/2026

I don’t know about the pope, but Tolkien at least would not have been a fan

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/04/2026

That comes of dunshire spinoff does sound promising. Anyway, here’s me and my friends opening Nemesis Lockdown for the first time

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 29/03/2026

En uge efter valget, 2 folketingsmedlemmer allerede løsgængere. “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you” 🎶

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 28/03/2026

Weekend, and time to fight against nature. The bad: Thicket of thorns are awful and I understand why back in the days they’d just set the whole thing on fire. The good: The 4yo can play he is Prince Philip on its way to slaying the dragon (saving the princess is WAAAY down the priority scale)

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 14/03/2026

You mean the same nations you just threatened to declare war against unless they gave you, personally you, Greenland? They should come and clean up your mess? Thought the was was already won a week ago?

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/02/2026

Meanwhile, Denmark evacuates a crew member from a US submarine to provide healthcare in Greenland facilities

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 16/02/2026

Let me Google “delinquency rates” for you.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 04/02/2026

I might have to turn up the heating in my home office

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 04/01/2026

Per aumentare la consapevolezza non vedo altra opzione che una forte presa di posizione da parte dei leader politici nazionali. Che però accade molto raramente. E non capisco perché. Cosa trattiene Meloni etc? Han davvero paura di perdere terreno vs Salvini?

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 01/01/2026

“Just a few thousand kilometers from Denmark, Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom. For almost four years, they have persevered, held their ground and held on to their right to exist as a free and independent country.” Fine words by King Frederik X 🇺🇦

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 28/12/2025

While requiring *far* fewer skills, restoring this old bench in our garden was also immensely satisfying

Bench, before restoration. The wood is mossy and rotten in multiple parts. A bunch of sticks are piled on it.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 24/12/2025

He - this is what we are having tonight so I am used to that. But I’ll ask my brother to take pics from Veneto to compare 😜

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/12/2025

So in Germany it must be the equivalent of Peroni?

Still from a Fantozzi movie, where our hero tries to enjoy alone time with a onion frittata, icy Peroni, and free burping while watching an Italy football match.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/12/2025

I have maintained this for about 25 years about Bitburger Pils and Krapfen with cream @p-hunermund.com sue me

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 29/11/2025

Me sembra che l'unico fra noi due che sta facendo uno sforzo per evitare che io ti meni sono sempre io, la stessa persona che poi, prima o poi, ti menerà, ma lo capisci?

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 18/11/2025

…through which it could occur. 1) regulations. The Danish FSA has a very strong prior against variable rate mortgages with io. Hence regulation restricts them in some areas and for some hhd (typically first time buyers). But 40y F5s would open up the yellow and pink dots in the table

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 12/11/2025

In a letter Tolkien pretty directly says that technological augmentation rather than skill cultivation is Evil.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

But - IS it good? From the individual point of view 👍. You can afford to stay in your house for life! But that means that in DK the great majority of older owners now lives in large dwellings (four rooms or more), even after the age of 75. Back to square one. Is that good for first time buyers?

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

For most people, their largest asset is their home. For most older people, that’s completely irrelevant. What good does it do to you to have a half-million$ home if you can’t put bread on the table? You can’t eat bricks. Well, most of us can’t. So you are forced to sell your home.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

Enter the one group of people who undoubtedly benefited most from IO mortgages. Boomers! A great analysis by @henrikyde.bsky.social and coauthors shows that IO mortgages have financed billions in consumption by older home owners. That makes total sense.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

The point is, that the most important discussion about such a measure should be about these types of effects. Who gains? Who loses? Instead most critics have focused, not surprisingly, on an entirely wrong point. Dying before paying off a mortgage is bad! Well, that’s good, actually!

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

Did it help first-time buyers? Mmmh… Nope. The debate is not quite settled, but much points to the mechanism above - in line with economic theory. It likely created a capital transfer to existing owners. Claes Backman has a paper on this btw claesbackman.github.io/Papers/DkHou...

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

Interest-only (IO) mortgages! That is, (for a time), you do not pay down your debt. Amortization is frozen, you only pay interest on your debt. Introduced in ‘03 (also to help first time buyers), they have been hugely popular. Today, one in two home financing solutions is at least partially IO

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

Let’s start with what the debate should be about. Longer mortgages will likely NOT help first-time buyers. Supply&demand. Push demand, price rises. Price rises => capital gain to existing home owners. Who pays? First-time buyers. We might have seen it in 🇩🇰 with another mortgage innovation...

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 09/11/2025

In an interesting turn of events, US and Danish government came up with the same to help with the affordability crisis: longer mortgages! That has sparked some backlash. But in the US, it seems the discussion is focusing on the wrong stuff. Well, let’s try to learn from 🇩🇰.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 02/11/2025

‘Twas a while back, but I *think* it was this project. Would have to retrace the heated conversation with my team members to be sure

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 23/10/2025

Think this explains it well. It can be innocuous, but say I am using the same dataset to train two different models for two different purposes (not unusual), I would end up with the same train-test split. Same with bootstrapping iterations. Overall defeats the randomization purpose.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 22/10/2025

(4,6) We tried going to bed at 10:30 but the 11mo did not comply

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 13/10/2025

Linkedin never disappoints. “The social safety net is so good that nobody takes any risks” is a masterpiece. Anyway, 🇩🇰 has also drawbacks.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 11/10/2025

Random shoutout - I just started to read Data Engineering Design Patterns by @ssp.sh and it is full of tremendous inspiration, not only from a technical perspective, but also on how to effectively communicate data challenges. Getting pumped abt returning to work after paternity leave dedp.online

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 24/09/2025

The drones in Copenhagen have been a painful reminder at completing the preparations recommended by the 🇩🇰 government in case of sabotage to critical infra. Last items: water for three days, emergency radio. If you haven’t done it already, it is a good time to do it now!

Me holding two 35l water tanks and a solar/hand crank radio as recommended by the Danish authorities in case of sabotage to critical infrastructure

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 13/09/2025

Well, preparing roe deer stew with the main ingredient grazing just out of the window is a first

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 27/08/2025

Ish, the dannebrog is from a couple hundred years later. But to be fair, the Conqueror’s ancestor is said to be from Faxe, so checks in spirit.

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 14/08/2025

I suspect you know about it - so how come you haven’t centered environment management through uv? Waiting *minutes* for an environment to be generated gives me the shivers nowadays

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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 16/07/2025

Ok I read it because I am annoyed by the world’s obsession with bike = Netherlands instead of Denmark. A bit of a weird experience? I was still asking myself “…and the problem is..?”. The closest they got to answer that question was around here - and yet see the highlighted part…?

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