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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) °

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

Are complex theories practical?

The end of my second year as a Ph.D. student is getting close and I must start thinking about a dissertation topic. At least, I already have some ideas about the areas of my dissertation: databases, data mining, and modern statistics and learning theory. The problem of learning drew my interest since I discovered there [...]

Posted on 26 April 2011 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Machine Learning and Theory

This is exactly the point and is where I want to take my research! “Machine Learning has become a very mathematical and statistical-based research area yet the theoretical computer science community hasn’t played the role in this area that we could have.” From a blog post by Lance Fortnow Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United [...]

Posted on 14 March 2011 † Matteo § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Using a 28mm is hard

Brief update: in the end I did not enter the contest for the LEICA Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, contrary from what I said a month ago or so. I just had no time to work on my pictures so well, here go my chances of taking part to it, given that I will not be [...]

Posted on 11 March 2011 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (0) °

What’s on the stove?

Two different and (at the moment) unrelated posts are being cooked in the back of my brain by the unconscious chef. We’ll see. =)Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Posted on 22 February 2011 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °