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Felipe Araujo

  • Senior Writer, Deloitte
Brussels
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Brazil’s Massive Cocaine Bust Doesn’t Mean It’s Winning the Drug War

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On June 21, Brazilian authorities conducted what may have been the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust. The cocaine, seized from timber cargo near the Bolivian border, could reportedly amount to as much as 50 metric tons. It was hidden inside the wood itself, and as of publication time the weight has not been confirmed. If the estimate holds, the headlines will write themselves using a familiar, misleading script: historic bust, major blow to organized crime, proof that the state is winning.
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Gaussian Elimination: the algorithm hiding inside NumPy that I was doing by hand

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By Felipe Araujo
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There's a specific moment in studying math that hits different as an engineer: when you realize the "academic exercise" you're grinding through is literally running inside production software you've used for years. That moment happened to me recently. I've been pivoting from backend engineering (TypeScript, NestJS, distributed systems) into AI Engineering, and I decided I wasn't going to fake my way through the math. No skipping the foundations.
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Brazil’s Notorious Drug Rehabs Poised to Treat Children as Young as 12

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On May 28, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil passed a bill that would allow parents to commit children as young as 12 to therapeutic communities to be treated for substance use. The bill, which had strong support from the evangelical caucus, now awaits transfer to the Senate. It represents the latest expansion of Brazil’s increasingly powerful therapeutic communities, which have subjected children to forced treatment in the past.
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