Luca Iacolettig
Here is lucalevi.
Luca Iacolettig online.
My three books, and a fourth on the way. You will also find the code I publish on GitHub. The videos on YouTube and the writing on Substack. The photographs of nearly twenty years of mountains and journeys. And on top of that lucalevi’s way: a path of questions, free, to work out what work you should be doing. All of that, and more besides.
The path
lucalevi’s way
A path of questions to work out what work is yours. Not what you are already good at, and not what other people expect of you. Five parts, and one of them is about how to earn from it. The method is free and there is no account to make: you download the file and do it with the assistant you already use.
Open lucalevi’s wayThe tool
Insurek
Which Swiss health insurance costs you least? Give it a postcode, a year of birth and a rough idea of what you spend on health care: Insurek compares every insurer, every model and every deductible available in Switzerland where you live, using the official premium data of Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health, and tells you which combination costs least over a year. It sells nothing, refers no one and stores nothing — it is arithmetic on public numbers. In Italian, German, French and English.
Open InsurekThe books
Written as Luca Iacolettig.
Three titles published. One close to publication. The three that are out you can read here in PDF, for nothing, or buy on Amazon if you want them on paper or on your Kindle.
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Tutto quello che non so
And that I did not know
The first one. The things I did not know, written down so I could understand them.
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I Lost My Way
And Then I Found It
In English. Jordan’s fate, and the fever for money.
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Tutto quello che so
The counterweight to the first one, completing and improving it.
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Shel
The Way of Life
The story of a made-up God, told in order to find the real One.
In preparation
About me
I am Luca Iacolettig — lucalevi in the online world.
Have a look around these pages: there is something useful here. And if you have something useful or interesting for me, write to me — my address is [email protected].
At the moment I work on my own projects and publish what I give my time to.
I have a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Technology. When I finished I did not know what work to do, and nobody could tell me. I found out by doing things and looking at how I did them — which is exactly what lucalevi’s way asks you to do, in a shorter time than mine.
Studies and work
Where the rest of it comes from.
The MSc thesis on avalanches is where half the code below comes from. The CV is for anyone who needs the formal version, with the dates and the names of the companies.
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The thesis
La pericolosità da valanga calcolata e visualizzata
A numerical and geographical model
Avalanche bulletins tell you the danger is considerable. They do not tell you where it is. This model takes the snow and weather conditions of the moment and works out which slopes are most prone to avalanche release — slope by slope, aspect by aspect, altitude by altitude. A map instead of an icon.
Supervisor: Prof. Federico Cazorzi. Co-supervisors: Dr Betty Sovilla (SLF Davos) and Daniele Moro. Written in Italian, with abstracts in English and German. Creative Commons BY 3.0 Italy.
The file is not in place at the moment. Write to [email protected] and I will send it to you.
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The CV
Python and data developer
Four years of Python and nine of SQL, from the basics to production databases, in public transport and municipal services, in Switzerland and in Italy. Before that: the degree in Udine and a spell as a research assistant at the SLF Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos.
Three working languages — Italian, English, German — and several years of professional experience in Switzerland. Available remotely and, on site, in the provinces of Udine, Gorizia and Trieste.
In preparation: I am redoing the CV in a version fit for publishing. In the meantime write to [email protected] and I will send it to you.
The code
What I write in code is on GitHub, open.
Tools born from real problems: avalanche snow, satellite images of the land, the numbers you have to decide on. Take them, they are there for that.
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Rust / Python
Avalanche-release-improved
Veitinger’s algorithm for potential avalanche release areas, rewritten in Python and Rust: where the snow can go, read off a terrain model.
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R
Avalanche-release-extended
The same release areas, in R. The work the other one started from.
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Python
NDVI-calculation
Downloads a satellite image from Sentinel Hub and works out the average NDVI of an area: how green a piece of land is, in one number.
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Python / JavaScript
swiss-deductible-chooser
The code behind Insurek: which Swiss insurer, model and deductible cost least. The official FOPH premiums become JSON, and the browser does the arithmetic.
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Jupyter
network-availability
Statistics on a network’s availability, to plan on properly.
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Python
user-agent-parser
Reads an Excel table of user agents with their counts and produces the statistics.
Elsewhere
Where else you find me.
Three well-known platforms, all free to browse. The content there is mine, but the house that hosts me is theirs.
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YouTube
The channel: videos on what I write and on what I believe.
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Substack
What I write, as it comes out. Subscribing is free and you can leave whenever you like.
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GitHub
The code, all of it, with its history. Open licences.
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