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		<title>Ten ways to fail a Ph.D.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by my friend Justin: 10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D. Personally, I know I have some problems with the &#8220;learn too much&#8221;.Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United States.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shared by my friend <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/justin">Justin</a>: <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/ways-to-fail-a-phd/">10 easy ways to fail a Ph.D.</a></p>
<p>Personally, I know I have some problems with the &#8220;learn too much&#8221;.<br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2504" name="41.8271609,-71.399539" onclick="return false;">Posted from Providence, Rhode Island, United States.</a></p>
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		<title>Svezia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cosa scrivere? Dal primo del mese sono a G&#246;teborg, e ho cercato quasi ogni giorno di carpire nell&#8217;aria, nei colori, nelle forme, nella gente di questa citt&#224; qualcosa di interessante da raccontare su questo blog. Ho fatto fatica. La stessa fatica che sto facendo ora a scrivere questo post, proprio perch&#233; forse non ho nulla [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cosa scrivere? Dal primo del mese sono a G&ouml;teborg, e ho cercato quasi ogni giorno di carpire nell&#8217;aria, nei colori, nelle forme, nella gente di questa citt&agrave; qualcosa di interessante da raccontare su questo blog. Ho fatto fatica. La stessa fatica che sto facendo ora a scrivere questo post, proprio perch&eacute; forse non ho nulla da dire. E forse ho anche appena fatto la peggior cappella che una persona che vuole farsi leggere possa fare: dire di non aver niente da dire. Ma sto mentendo. Perch&eacute; qualcosa da dire ce l&#8217;ho, ma non &egrave; in tema di Svezia. Tuttavia il post si intitola &#8220;Svezia&#8221; perch&eacute; l&#8217;ho deciso prima e non ho intenzione di cambiarlo. Sar&agrave; il post &#8220;svedese&#8221; quindi &egrave; pure giusto che abbia un titolo in tema.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rionda/4902490142/" class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Snails"><img class="alignleft" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4902490142_ee2259b1c7.jpg" alt="Snails" width="500" height="375" /></a> Farfuglio, se davvero si pu&ograve; con le parole scritte. Per prima cosa, ho da dire che scrivo oggi piuttosto che ieri o il due agosto per mille e nessun motivo. Tra questi c&#8217;&egrave; che ho finito di leggere <em>Lord Jim</em> e ho cominciato <em>La luna e i fal&ograve;</em>. </p>
<p>Che libro <em>Lord Jim</em>. Avevo sugli otto anni quando ho scoperto la storia del reietto del Patna, a fumetti sul Giornalino. Mi affascinarono quelle atmosfere esotiche, da sud-est asiatico che &egrave; quasi Oceania, quelle stesse atmosfere che, quando ormai di anni ne avevo il doppio o pi&ugrave;, mi fecero innamorare di Corto Maltese nella Ballata del Mare Salato. Quelle atmosfere esotiche che, nel libro di Conrad, non ci sono. Credetti di ritrovare Jim sotto le spoglie di &#8220;Jim della Canapa&#8221; nel file omonimo di Iacopo Belbo, nel mio libro preferito. Ma l&#8217;amico di Marlow non &egrave; mai chiamato cos&igrave; e non si parla mai di canapa nel romanzo. Ho vissuto con l&#8217;illusione certa che il libro avesse l&#8217;odore delle palme e il calore della sabbia. Nulla di pi&ugrave; sbagliato, visto che l&#8217;odore della storia &egrave; piuttosto il greve odore dei corpi ammassati sul Patna, l&#8217;odore fangoso del fiume di Patusan e l&#8217;odore pungente della polvere da sparo che si alza dalle pistola di Doramin dopo aver sacrificato Jim. Non c&#8217;&egrave; calore, c&#8217;&egrave; freddo, il freddo dell&#8217;oceano indiano nella notte del disonore di Jim, il freddo dell&#8217;acqua del fiume, il freddo della nebbia che rende possibile il tradimento di Cornelius. Ho letto il libro e capitolo dopo capitolo tutte le mie convinzioni su di esso sono state smontate dai molti narratori. Un nuovo libro mi &egrave; sorto tra le mani: credevo di leggere Salgari (ma chi legge pi&ugrave; Salgari?) e mi sono dovuto ricredere. Non ci sono vincenti, non c&#8217;&egrave; Sandokan o il Corsaro Nero. Jim perde. Jim muore. Jim vuole essere cos&igrave; maledettamente romantico che fa finta di offrirsi come vittima sacrificale ma in realt&agrave; si fa uccidere perch&eacute; ha paura della vita al punto di non avere nemmeno il coraggio di suicidarsi. &Egrave; un libro con la L. Leggetelo. In inglese. E finitelo, anche se a volte avrete voglia di mollarlo perch&#038;eacute Marlow/Conrad vi anticipano tutto per poi raccontarvelo pi&ugrave; lentamente di quanto scorra il fiume.</p>
<p>Ma io non volevo parlare di Lord Jim, ma de &#8220;La Luna e i fal&ograve;&#8221;. E sto mentendo di nuovo, perch&eacute; l&#8217;ho cominciato oggi e ne ho lette solo tre pagine. Ho trovato questa frase (si parla di un posto in cui l&#8217;Io narrante ha vissuto):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;[&hellip;] mi faceva l&#8217;effetto di quelle stanze di citt&agrave; dove si affitta, si vive un giorno o degli anni, e poi quando si tralsoca restano gusci vuoti, disponibili, morti.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Quanto &egrave; vero. L&#8217;ho notato entrambe le volte che ho svuotato la mia camera affittata a Providence e so che lo sentir&ograve; quando lascer&ograve; questa stanza a G&ouml;teborg. Erano gusci vuoti. Impermeabili: la mia vita non aveva potuto penetrare le pareti, queste non si erano curvate verso di me, non portavano i miei geroglifici invisibili a farne la mia piramide. Non le ho rimpiante queste stanze quando ne ho chiuso la porta per l&#8217;ultima volta. Qualcun altro le riempir&agrave; e le svuoter&agrave;, condannate come sono a non avere un proprietario ma solo tanti utilizzatori.</p>
<p>Per essere mia, una camera deve essere piena di libri. Lord Jim sar&agrave; tra questi, pronto ad essere riletto come faccio solo con i libri che mi sono piaciuti molto.<br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2483" name="57.6893053,11.9780327" onclick="return false;">Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.</a></p>
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		<title>Elements of Ph.D., Volume 6</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/08/24/elements-of-ph-d-volume-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probabilistic assumption on enlightenment: &#8220;At some point, you&#8217;ll get it.&#8221; Strong suggestion to beat the almost instantaneous decay of enlightenment: &#8220;Write it down. Fast.&#8221; Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Probabilistic assumption on enlightenment:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;At some point, you&#8217;ll get it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Strong suggestion to beat the almost instantaneous decay of enlightenment:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Write it down. Fast.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2477" name="57.6893053,11.9780327" onclick="return false;">Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.</a></p>
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		<title>What about that blog posts series on MapReduce/Hadoop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, what about it? From a first sight, it may look like I didn&#8217;t even start my summer project. This is far from true, and please let me explain. Cheesy Excuse: I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230; Better (?) Excuse: I&#8217;ve done some research in the area and I have multiple research projects involving, in one form or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, what about it? From a first sight, it may look like I didn&#8217;t even start <a href="http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/05/12/mapreducehadoop-algorithms/">my summer project</a>. This is far from true, and please let me explain.</p>
<p><strong>Cheesy Excuse:</strong> I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Better (?) Excuse:</strong> I&#8217;ve done some research in the area and I have multiple research projects involving, in one form or the other, MapReduce and Hadoop. I felt like my time was better spent on thinking on my open questions, rather than reading papers that were somewhat unrelated to my actual interests regarding MapReduce/Hadoop (theory, algorithms, models of computation, although I&#8217;ll pretty soon add something more system-related). </p>
<p>In the end, I want to quote <a href="http://mysliceofpizza.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-mapreduce.html">a post by Metoo on his great blog</a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are still far from developing a theory of algorithms for it [MapReduce, editor's note], but some good examples are emerging.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I agree with the first part of the sentence, but I am still not sure about the second part. We&#8217;ll see.<br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2469" name="57.688618266899276,11.977537094473263" onclick="return false;">Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.</a></p>
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		<title>Some more info about what is a Ph.D.</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/08/09/some-more-info-about-what-is-a-ph-d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My fellow Brown Ph.D. student (although he is going to defend pretty soon) <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/justin/">Justin Yip</a> shared the following page (not his work): <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/">The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.</a>. The Related Links on that page look interesting too.</p>
<p>P.S. I strongly suggest <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/productivity-tips-hints-hacks-tricks-for-grad-students-academics/">this list of productivity tips for grad students</a>, something I should implement myself (pretty soon!)<br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2464" name="57.6893053,11.9780327" onclick="return false;">Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.</a></p>
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		<title>A (CS) Graduate School Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/08/03/a-cs-graduate-school-survival-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read the following essay every once in a while. It&#8217;s funny and has a number of good hints: &#8220;So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!&#8221; a.k.a. &#8220;Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn&#8217;t learn until later.&#8221; Given the (extremely variable) speed at which academic pages disappear, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read the following essay every once in a while. It&#8217;s funny and has a number of good hints: <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html"><em>&#8220;So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!&#8221;</em></a> a.k.a. <em>&#8220;Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn&#8217;t learn until later.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Given the (extremely variable) speed at which academic pages disappear, I decided to save it on my hard disk. You should take this as a second suggestion for reading the above. =)</p>
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		<title>De Fotografia</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/08/01/de-fotografia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evabbeh, bisogna ammetterlo: Bruko spacca. Oggi ha scritto proprio quello che volevo leggere. Nota a margine: ricordiamo che ha frequentato RISD, l&#8217;accademia d&#8217;arte di Providence che divide la collina con Brown&#8230; =)Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evabbeh, bisogna ammetterlo: <a href="http://www.saralando.com/blog/?p=676">Bruko spacca</a>. Oggi ha scritto proprio quello che volevo leggere. Nota a margine: ricordiamo che ha frequentato RISD, l&#8217;accademia d&#8217;arte di Providence che divide la collina con Brown&#8230; =)<br/><br/><a class="geolocation-link" href="#" id="geolocation2447" name="57.6893053,11.9780327" onclick="return false;">Posted from Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden.</a></p>
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		<title>Trying the omnifeed WordPress plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/07/15/trying-the-omnifeed-wordpress-plugin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the omnifeed WordPress plugin, I managed to &#8220;import&#8221; the posts from my very old blog: they are now on the new page Vespaio (beware, it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/omnifeed/">omnifeed WordPress plugin</a>, I managed to &#8220;import&#8221; the posts from my very old blog: they are now on the new page <a href="http://www.riondabsd.net/vespaio">Vespaio</a> (beware, it&#8217;s all in Italian). </p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>Maybe in the future I&#8217;ll take omnifeed and the RSS 2.0 importer plugin and merge them so that it will be possibile to import RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds.</p>
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		<title>First Publication!</title>
		<link>http://www.riondabsd.net/2010/07/05/first-publication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the end, it happened: my paper &#8220;Mining Top-K Frequent Itemsets Through Progressive Sampling&#8221; (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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the end, it happened: my paper <em>&#8220;Mining Top-K Frequent Itemsets Through Progressive Sampling&#8221;</em> (written together with <a href="http://www.dei.unipd.it/~andrea">Andrea Pietracaprina</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~eli">Eli Upfal</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~vandinfa">Fabio Vandin</a>, you can find it on <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5235">arXiv</a>) is going to be published! We submitted it to <a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2010.org">ECML-PKDD 2010</a> and it got accepted for presentation at the conference and for publication in the special issue of <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/10618">Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery</a>, a very well known journal published by Springer. Out of the 670 submissions, 120 paper were accepted for publication in the conference proceedings (18% acceptance rate), but only 14 were accepted for the special issues of two Springer journals, the aforementioned DM Journal and Machine Learning.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really happy. Thanks to everyone that supported me in the long period I spent working on this paper.</p>
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		<title>Academic page updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I have some free time in these days, I updated my academic page. Feedback appreciated.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I have some free time in these days, I updated <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~matteo">my academic page</a>. Feedback appreciated.</p>
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