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Ten ways to fail a Ph.D.

Shared by my friend Justin: 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D. Personally, I know I have some problems with the “learn too much”.Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Posted 01 September 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 6

Probabilistic assumption on enlightenment: “At some point, you’ll get it.” Strong suggestion to beat the almost instantaneous decay of enlightenment: “Write it down. Fast.” Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.

Posted 24 August 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

What about that blog posts series on MapReduce/Hadoop?

Yes, what about it? From a first sight, it may look like I didn’t even start my summer project. This is far from true, and please let me explain. Cheesy Excuse: I’ve been busy… Better (?) Excuse: I’ve done some research in the area and I have multiple research projects involving, in one form or [...]

Posted 13 August 2010 † Matteo § MapReduceHadoop ‡ Comments (0) °

Some more info about what is a Ph.D.

My fellow Brown Ph.D. student (although he is going to defend pretty soon) Justin Yip shared the following page (not his work): The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.. The Related Links on that page look interesting too. P.S. I strongly suggest this list of productivity tips for grad students, something I should implement myself (pretty [...]

Posted 09 August 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

A (CS) Graduate School Survival Guide

I read the following essay every once in a while. It’s funny and has a number of good hints: “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!” a.k.a. “Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn’t learn until later.” Given the (extremely variable) speed at which academic pages disappear, I [...]

Posted 03 August 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Trying the omnifeed WordPress plugin

Using the omnifeed WordPress plugin, I managed to “import” the posts from my very old blog: they are now on the new page Vespaio (beware, it’s all in Italian). Anyway I find it unbelievable that there is no way to import RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds into WordPress (you can only import RSS 2.0). Maybe in [...]

Posted 15 July 2010 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

First Publication!

In the end, it happened: my paper “Mining Top-K Frequent Itemsets Through Progressive Sampling” (written together with Andrea Pietracaprina, Eli Upfal, and Fabio Vandin, you can find it on arXiv) is going to be published! We submitted it to ECML-PKDD 2010 and it got accepted for presentation at the conference and for publication in the [...]

Posted 05 July 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (1) °

Academic page updated

Since I have some free time in these days, I updated my academic page. Feedback appreciated.

Posted 05 July 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 5

Hubris’ Prediction (no false negatives known) : The moment your advisor says you did a good job, you will stop doing anything for a week.

Posted 28 May 2010 † Matteo § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 4

Conjecture of the incremental forgetting: If you don’t keep a lab notebook, you’ll soon forget about everything you think of. If you do keep one, you’ll soon forget to write on it. Comment on the above conjecture: There is widespread belief that the conjecture of the incremental forgetting is true. If you can prove the [...]

Posted 16 May 2010 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °