Astichello River Park
2026-05-02
Mobile-first public website for the Astichello river corridor, with clear editorial content, local history, public documents, and a tailored map experience.
Hello, I’m Nicola
I build tools that make AI, open data, and maps
work better for people.
Now
- Building:StreetGap — gender representation in Italian streets.
- Exploring:scaling real-time maps for moving fleets.
- Writing:lessons learned on building with AI.
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StreetGap
2026-03-08
Open data project using AI-assisted classification to analyze gender representation in Italian street names.
Movedule
2026-01-10
Public transport vehicles on a live map — position estimated from schedule data, no GPS required.
SeaLevelMap
2025-11-07
Interactive map with hillshading and bathymetry — drag the sea level slider and watch coastlines shift in real time.
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View allOpenAI's Content Filter Blocks the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2026-03-125 min
OpenAI's Codex refuses to repeat the Universal Declaration of Human Rights verbatim. A content filter triggered by the words 'United Nations' reveals how blunt AI safety guardrails really are.
aiopenaiHow StreetGap Classifies Italian Street Names at Scale
2026-02-0215 min
A technical overview of how StreetGap classifies roughly 874,000 Italian street records into person and non-person dedications, then builds a confidence-scored gender dataset.
data-engineeringopen-datallmaiosmWriting in Italian Costs More Than You Think
2025-10-1711 min
Tokenizers are optimized for English. Here's how much extra you pay when prompting in Italian — and how to measure it yourself.
llmtokenizationaicostThe Ad You Won't Be Able to Recognize
2025-08-294 min
GenAI won't make advertising more relevant. It will make it indistinguishable from content. What happens when the boundary disappears?
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