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Romantico soliloquio dialogico bilingue

(Scritta con la collaborazione di Alvise Marinetti e di Ipazia, da leggere con sottofondo) A: Senti, ma sei in the mood for stasera? B: Cosa prevederebbe? Uscita con le amiche pazze? Allora no. A: Non so, a wine glass at the enoteca, una cenetta tranquilla a casa tua, ma he cooks for you. Musica in [...]

Posted on 08 March 2013 † Matteo § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

Not a deep thought

Camel hair vests. They’re just awesome. As most Italian men, I’m kind of a fabric nerd. I’m living in somewhat of a limbo right now, possibly one that I created for myself. It’s difficult to escape from it.

Posted on 14 February 2013 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Elements of Ph.D., Volume 8

?(Inverse) Schneier’s Law applied to scientific articles:”Everyone can find something to criticize in a paper not written by themselves.“

Posted on 09 January 2013 † Matteo § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (1) °

Ten years of blogging

I’ve been keeping an active blog for ten years. It’s a long time. A long long time. Good. One of the few good things I can think of right now. Posted from Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Posted on 02 July 2012 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Book and Kindle

Somehow I got hold of a kindle touch. I have never been to attracted by e-readers, but given that one of them was in my possession (long story short, I didn’t buy it for me, but in the end I had to keep it), I thought I should at least give it a try. So, [...]

Posted on 22 June 2012 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Books I’ve been reading lately (2)

(A previous post with the same title from 2009: Books I’ve been reading lately) Some titles of books I’ve been reading in the past two weeks: M. Anthony and P. L. Bartlett — Neural Network Learning: Theoretical Foundations M. H. G. Anthony and N. Biggs — Computational Learning Theory L. Devroye, L. Györfi, G. Lugosi [...]

Posted on 15 June 2012 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Generating all combinations of n elements taken t at a time

I don’t usually share the code I write for my research projects, unless someone asks for it. Anyway, today I had fun writing some C code, and I think it may turn out to be useful for other people. It’s written almost well enough to be acceptable, so here you are. I implemented Chase’s sequence [...]

Posted on 08 March 2012 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (2) °

On Rejections

One has to learn to accept rejections. They trim down your ego, help you put things back in prospective, give you the right amount of hanger to fight back. Not everyone appreciate what we do as we think we appreciate it. Feedback is what make mankind progress, especially the negative but constructive type.Posted from Providence, [...]

Posted on 14 February 2012 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

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 † Matteo § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (0) °

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 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °