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The only author of this blog. See also http://www.riondabsd.net/about or http://www.cs.brown.edu/~matteo

Drops of wisdom, food for thoughts.

I am still reading Vapnik’s The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory. I began reading it a first time in March, but then left it aside for months, so I started over in October. It’s enlightening and a pleasure to read, if one can stay focused. Every now and then, Vapnik lets drops of wit fall [...]

Posted on 15 December 2011 § English § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Gerusalemme pagana

New York. Manhattan. Downtown Manhattan. Financial District. Neve. Neve il 28 ottobre. La stazione della metro di Fulton St. è chiusa per lavori. Salvifico, un taxi appare all’incrocio con Williams. Non è off duty. Salgo e lo lancio verso 42st and 3rd. La corsa in taxi è lunga e i pensieri si srotolano in un [...]

Posted on 31 October 2011 § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (5) °

Why doing research?

There is so much I still do not know that I wonder what right I have to try to increase knowledge with my research instead of burying myself in a library and just read what the giants did. I am not limiting this to any specific field: I would like to read about literature, science, [...]

Posted on 19 October 2011 § English § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Darkroom night

Tonight I went to the darkroom just to develop one roll of t-max 100 film from the Mamiya 7. Relax, fun, quiet: everything I could ask for. I’m happy that I went even if it was raining and I wasn’t feeling safe on my bike. Photo geek note: I’m in love with my Kodak Process [...]

Posted on 04 October 2011 § English § Nerd § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (0) °

Speedy update

This is the kind of post I don’t like to write, but I’m writing one now anyway. It’s just to say that I have very little time to blog about “serious” stuff, meaning “to write very/too long posts in Italian with some philosophical references“. My research is taking “away” a lot of time, I started [...]

Posted on 25 September 2011 § English § Personal § University ‡ Comments (0) °

There’s a light in the dark(room)

I’m just back from a printing session in the AS220 Paul Krot Darkroom. I’m just back from four hours of fun. I stink now. I stink of chemicals. I stink of light. My last time in the darkroom was I don’t even know how far in the past, around 18 months probably. My technique is [...]

Posted on 23 August 2011 § English § Photos ‡ Comments (0) °

What being nerd means, from time to time…

I was planning on posting something new about my relationship with photography, but then I got lost tweaking my WordPress installation, upgrading plugins, making sure themes don’t give errors, etc. etc….which means I spent more or less two hours on my wordpress admin panel, on FTP uploads, on editing files in VIM, etc. etc. . [...]

Posted on 21 August 2011 § English § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

… negro semen seminaba

È stata colpa loro, vi dico, sì, loro, di Calvino e Pirandello. Me ne stavo tanto bene io, con i miei zero libri letti nel 2011. Ah, no, non giudicatemi male. Zero completati, per essere precisi, uno pure l’avevo iniziato, ma ho perso il ritmo e non l’ho finito. Me lo sono portato avanti e [...]

Posted on 08 August 2011 § Italiano § Misc § Personal ‡ Comments (6) °

Libri per vacanza

Cinque giorni all’Isola d’Elba. Quattro libri. Uno già letto, uno iniziato di recente, uno iniziato e mai finito, uno letto a tratti. Uno “di lavoro”, uno di novelle, uno sullo scrivere, uno sulla società. Tre di Italiani, uno di un Russo. Luigi Pirandello — Le Novelle Italo Calvino — Lezioni Americane Tommaso Labranca — Neoproletariato [...]

Posted on 21 July 2011 § Italiano § Misc § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Strana solita partenza

Sono all’aeroporto di Boston, a cui sia sempre resa grazia per la connessione internet gratis. Tra un’ora imbarchiamo e poi si parte, Monaco, Venezia, Padova. Parto sempre di sabato per tornare in Italia. Al terzo anno di su e giù, il giorno della partenza segue una routine ormai consolidata attorno ad alcuni capisaldi: il brunch [...]

Posted on 07 May 2011 § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (8) °