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On Multi Agent Simulation II

In my previous post I wrote about different approaches and platforms for multi agent systems simulation. Those were platforms I have used previously, but today I want to move one level of abstraction

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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On Multi Agent Simulation

In the last year I have used at least three different simulators for multi agent systems. The first two simulated a specific environment: an intergalactic battle between three races, and a soccer game.

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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On Simple Rules

The task of the week was to setup a simple car driving world and make agents drive in NetLogo. My initial setup was a closed path, four lanes forming a rectangle, where one

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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NetLogo: run all the turtles!

The first programming language experience for some people was moving turtles in the Logo language. I didn't have that experience, I was thrown to the void of C++ programming and I bearly survived

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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About videogames

I grew up playing games in a Nintendo (NES) and a Super Nintendo (SNES). I played more games with the SNES, and most of my favorites sagas are from this platform. Many hours

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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On the Complexity of Software

Today I want to create a simple TODO list web app that can have nested lists, and support many users. Sounds simple, right? My first step would be to choose one language or

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Docker cheat sheet: running files

I am learning a little bit of Docker for a couple of personal projects. One of the things that has been difficult to me is the documentation of all the possibilities of Docker.

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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On Learning

As today, I am supporting a startup in the education market as an AI advisor. The main product is a chat bot to guide students in the development of projects. We started using

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Static web site with Hugo

In web development, a static page is a web page that does not require a web server to be served and do not require any preprocessing, it is just served verbatim from the

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Postmortem: Chatbot with DialogFlow

DialogFlow is an online service and platform to construct chat bots that can be used through a REST API or through the integration with other platforms as Slack. In this ocassion, I was

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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On the Shoulders of Giants

It was Issac Newton who said "I stand on the shoulders of giants" when describing how he was able to comprehend the laws of movement. His laws stand on top of

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Book: The Phoenix Project

"The Phoenix Project" is a novel about an IT department in a car parts company, and its process of discovery of good software development and deploy practices. The novel presents the

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Project: Mieke - 2D projection

When I am learning something new, there is a chance that what I want to do is not documented, or I have not enough experience to derive the solution. This is one of

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Postmortem: 2017

2017 was a year of many changes. First of all, I got married to a beautiful girl and I couldn't be happier for this. We started living in an apartment and now we

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Bridging apps with Nginx

I was assigned a proof of concept (POC) for a new client. One of the features of the proposal was a tech stack migration in parallel with the ongoing development. In other words,

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Postmortem: .NET MVC and Knockout

In my current job, one of the clients uses .NET MVC for its products and they wanted a "simple" administration panel. I was assigned this client for a month, and I

  • Nelson I. González
    Nelson I. González
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Postmortem: Rails and Angular

The last months I was developing a litte Angular application which uses Ruby on Rails (RoR) on the back end. For this project, RoR is basically used as a REST API, receiving and

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    Nelson I. González
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