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Luca Florio

@florio.dev
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Senior Engineer @ Spotify Computer Science PhD. Passionate about Distributed Systems. Half-Stack developer. Curious Learner. Podcast Host.

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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 25/05/2026
To me, Quantum Computing is a technology you see only in Sci-Fi movies. What's funny is that it's a real thing! 🤯 Join me in this chat with Alessandro Berti, Postdoc at Università di Pisa, where we talk about Quantum Algorithms and the importance of (quantum) memory! florio.dev/tgz-ep10-ale...
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EP10 - Quantum Computing and Memory. With Dr. Alessandro Berti
targz Podcast episode 10
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 14/05/2026
Let's go with another great chat! Federico Panini, Equity Partner Product & Technology at hlpy, shares his thoughts on how important communication is, both inside and outside the team. As usual, the episode is in Italian, but here you can find my takeaways in English: florio.dev/tlp-ep54-fed...
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EP54 - Team, Communication and Relationships. With Federico Panini, Equity Partner Product & Technology (hlpy)
The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 54
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 12/05/2026
I never thought about the "thinking process" of LLMs, so the chat with @saravera.bsky.social, PhD student at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, has been quite interesting! florio.dev/tgz-ep09-sar...
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EP09 - The Thinking Process of LLMs. With Sara Marjanovic
targz Podcast episode 09
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 27/04/2026
What a nice chat with @theresiavr.bsky.social , Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet), about fairness and relevance in Recommender Systems. Check it out, I think you will enjoy the new "lean" and informal format of the podcast. florio.dev/tgz-ep08-the...
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EP08 - Fairness and Relevance in Recommender Systems. With Dr. Theresia Veronika Rampisela
targz Podcast episode 08
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 16/04/2026
It was a pleasure to talk with Nicola Sebastianelli, Co-founder and CTO of Zefi.ai, about his interesting experience from the corporate world to building a new startup. A lot of insights on how to set the ways of working when the company is small and needs to build fast. florio.dev/tlp-ep53-nic...
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EP53 - Ways of Working. With Nicola Sebastianelli, Co-founder & CTO (Zefi)
The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 53
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 13/04/2026
Well, quite an interesting chat with Franco Maria Nardini, Director of Research at ISTI-CNR, about a two-level inverted index for fast retrieval over learned sparse representations. Rather technical stuff, but Franco was able to explain it in a very nice way! florio.dev/tgz-ep07-fra...
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EP07 - Efficient Neural Search: Rethinking Inverted Indexes for Learned Sparse Representations. With Dr. Franco Maria Nardini
targz Podcast episode 07
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 02/04/2026
Building and scaling teams is not easy, and the challenge vary during the different stages of a company. You are lucky that Luca Fornaroli, CPO at compri, was so kind to sit with me and share his huge experience on the topic. florio.dev/tlp52-luca-f...
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Building Teams That Scale. With Luca Fornaroli, CPO at Compri (TLP-52)
The LeadershIT Podcast Episode 52
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 23/03/2026
Everyone would like a fair recruitment process, but unfortunately the reality is way more complex than just fixing an algorithm. In this episode of targz @chatox.bsky.social from @icreacommunity.bsky.social describes the research conducted by his group to address the issue florio.dev/tgz-ep06-car...
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targz 06 - Does Fair Ranking Lead to Fair Recruitment? With Dr. Carlos Castillo
targz 06 - Does Fair Ranking Lead to Fair Recruitment? With Dr. Carlos Castillo
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 19/03/2026
I had to pleasure to talk about communities with @lucacorbucci.bsky.social founder of Superhero Valley, PointerPodcast and Pisa Dev, who came as a guest at The LeadershIT Podcast: florio.dev/tlp-ep51-luc... The podcast is in Italian, but here you can find a summary in English as well. Enjoy!
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The LeadershIT Podcast 51 - Communities. With Luca Corbucci, Founder (Superhero Valley)
The LeadershIT Podcast 51 - Communities. With Luca Corbucci, Founder (Superhero Valley)
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 17/03/2026
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Screaming in the Void: Introducing my Podcasts
Introducing a series of posts about my podcasts
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 09/03/2026
Do you believe that groups of users can coordinate on different social platforms to try to influence other people opinion? Well, in the new episode of targz @marcominici.bsky.social, from ICAR-CNR, describes the technique they used in their research to identify such malevolent groups. Link below! 👇
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 23/02/2026
When it comes to recommendation, indirect feedback by user is a powerful tool, but it can be problematic to deal with noise. In this episode of targz Ervin Dervishaj from University of Copenhagen presents a method to leverage LLMs for post-training denoising. Links below! 👇
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 09/02/2026
New episode of targz! With @gmauro10.bsky.social from Scuola Normale Superiore and ISTI-CNR we discuss how AI influences users and how users influence AI back and the urban impact of this feedback loop. Link to episode on several platform and paper below! 👇
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 26/01/2026
The second episode of targz is out! Our guest is Alessio Ansuini, and we talk about intrinsic dimension in neural networks and why it is important to understand what's happening inside them. Also, do you know what a manifold is? open.spotify.com/episode/2HOH... Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1905.12784
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 12/01/2026
New year new personal project! Say hello to targz, a new podcast that bridges the gap between academia and industry in Computer Science: open.spotify.com/episode/5yeE... In this first episode Fabrizio Silvestri will talk about the paper "The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems".
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EP01 - The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems. With Dr. Fabrizio Silvestri
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 23/09/2025
This is going to happen for real! I already reached out to some amazing researchers and I started to read some papers. Also, I found an amazing name for the podcast (the hardest part... 😂 )! So, few more things to iron out, but get ready because it will be amazing! 🚀
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 27/06/2025
I am going to start a new podcast project, and I am looking for researchers (in academia or industry) that are doing research in any Computer Science "branch".
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 01/05/2025
Happy to share that I have been promoted to Senior Engineer! 🎉 Fun fact: this is the first promotion of my life.
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 02/04/2025
Yeah, love to chat with people and do my best to help them! 😄 adplist.org/community-ce...
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ADPList: Awarded for Top 50 Mentor in Back-end
Luca Florio is awarded for Top 50 Mentor in Back-end
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 27/03/2025
In my career I worked with: Java, Scala, Python, Go. Also a bit of Haskell, but not much. Which language I should learn next? And why?
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 23/03/2025
Me, when after a page at 5AM on a Sunday morning I say: “This is not that urgent, I’ll snooze the alert till tomorrow so I can go back to sleep”
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 22/03/2025
TIL: Postgres tables have inheritance. 🤯 How cool is that?
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 21/02/2025
Some thoughts about the benefits of journaling at work! florio.dev/the-value-of...
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The Value of Journaling
I started to journal my work day some months ago, and I can say that it has proven quite valuable to me. Let's see why I think it can benefit anyone and how I do it.
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 28/01/2025
After way too much time, I decided to refresh my blog and migrate it to the Bear Blog platform. Why? The details in a new blog post, of course! www.florio.dev/migrating-to...
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Migrating to Bear Blog
Few thoughts on blogging, writing, the internet and why I migrated to Bear Blog.
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 14/12/2024
From time to time we hear that someone is a "force multiplier". But what is a "force multiplier"? Wrong answers only.
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 04/12/2024
That’s a wrap!
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 02/12/2024
A nice addition to my library. Hopefully I will be able to go through it fully… 😁
Database Design and Implementation book in my hand
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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech · 22/11/2024
My latest blog post covers how a simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in? angiejones.tech/the-betterme...
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The Betterment Metric - Angie Jones
A simple observation at airport security highlights the concept of Betterment and how it applies to engineering teams. Which group are you in?
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 23/11/2024
Ready for game night! 🎲
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 22/11/2024
I bought myself a nice Christmas gift: dygma.com/pages/dygma-... Eh… I should not, but I couldn’t resist… 💸
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The Best Wireless Split Keyboard - Dygma Raise 2
The Dygma Raise 2 is a mechanical wireless split keyboard that elevates your productivity and boosts your comfort like no other. Raise your game with Dygma. Explore now!
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 20/11/2024
Hey! The new episode of my podcast about leadership in tech is out! If you are an Italian speaker (or can understand Italian) check it out! open.spotify.com/show/4aPFlx7...
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The LeadershIT Podcast
Podcast · Luca Florio · The LeadershIT Podcast vuole trattare un tema poco discusso in Italia: la leadership nel tech. In ogni episodio un ospite racconterà la sua esperienza, cosa lo ha portato in q...
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 19/11/2024
A lot of 💩 on Netflix for the issues with the streaming of the live event, but folks, there were like 60 million users watching at the same time… Customers had all the rights to be upset, but anyway kudos to @netflixeng.bsky.social. 🫡
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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
I love chatting with folks, though it's sometimes hard to find time. I have also been wanting to do something even more broadly impactful. So I'm trying something new: if you donate to one of these education charities, I will go out of my way to speak with you.
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Luca Florio @florio.dev · 18/11/2024
I kind of miss the days when I was coding with a programming language and enjoying it. The language itself, few libraries, and that's it. Now we have much more libraries/frameworks/abstractions, and it is great. Everything feels "magic". But I had much more fun before... Is it just me?
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