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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 § English § 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 § English § 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 § English § 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 § English § FreeBSD ‡ Comments (2) °

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 § English § University ‡ 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 § English § Personal § 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 § English ‡ Comments (0) °

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 † Matteo § Italiano § Misc § University ‡ Comments (0) °

Sproloqui su xkcd

Mi domando sempre se l’immagine sia corretta. Nella terza vignetta in realtà ci sono infinite ricorsioni dell’intera immagine, quindi in quella vignetta c’è inchiostro infinito, per cui la seconda dovrebbe avere la terza barra più alta della seconda. Tuttavia, aumentando la terza, aumenta anche la seconda. Purtroppo non ci sono unità di misura sull’asse delle [...]

Posted on 23 April 2011 † Matteo § Italiano ‡ Comments (1) °

Errata and I

For some unknown reason (e.g., my being nerd) I love getting the errata for the books I buy and correct the copy in my possession. I don’t go as far as periodically checking whether a new errata came out. Wait, didn’t I already write a blog post on this topic? Update: No, I just checked.Posted [...]

Posted on 21 February 2011 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °