Welcome to the personal blog of Giuliani Vito Ivan. Here you'll find my random thoughts about web development, design and mostly everything that is computer releated.
May 11th, 2009
I came back yesterday from the third Italian PyCon (aka pycon3) which was held in Florence and all I can say is that has been an amazing experience. I had the chance to meet a lot of new great people as well as the BDFL (which won’t be back in Europe for quite some time, as he said). Here follows a resume of what I think were the most interesting talks.
December 2nd, 2008
The last time I blogged about a new course I’m following at my university. This course, held by Pasquale Lops and Giovanni Semeraro, is very interesting at the point that I’ll be developing a custom information retrieval engine as part of my internship project. I can’t tell much more at this point since the internship haven’t started yet and I’m not sure I can release more details about this project (we’re still in the process of deciding if and how the whole thing will be released to the world).
In the meantime, I’ve been doing several experiments on this topic mostly about the memory usage and the performances of such system on limited hardware. This practically means implementing the algorithms you’ll be using and measuring the computational time they require.
October 19th, 2008
It has been about a week since I began doing a deeper study of information retrieval. Actually, everything just began with a new course at my university about that and I just fallen in love almost immediately. The fact is that this thing really got me interested, and I began doing some experiments (one involves django as well, keep reading to know more).
In this week I learned a lot of things about information retrieval, text categorization, natural language processing and machine learning. But the most relevant thing is: the principles are easy, their implementation is not. The fact is that most of the techniques are relatively simple but you usually have to deal with very large datasets and this could be challenging, since one of the main requirements about information retrieval is time. It’s really much more important that you give less results in one second rather than giving better results in one hour. No one will ever care to use your system if it takes an hour to get some result. And if you’re considering to store your data in a database forget about normalization, it wouldn’t really take you anywhere.
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Nothing is better than coding with jazz music in background [#]
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Yesterday |
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Another exam gone. Still three left. [#]
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July 2nd |
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Having my back hurting. Again. [#]
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RT @kra1iz3c: A tutti i pythonisti italiani che usano #django, venite su #django-it (server freenode)! [#]
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probably got an idea about how to implement unification in a bit more efficient way into my own inference engine [#]
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July 1st |
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I need a generic relations widget for django that allows to browse through the generic model's objects (in order to select primary keys) [#]
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June 30th |
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planning the last math-related exam for July 22nd [#]
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June 29th |
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I just made the Big Step: switched from debian to ubuntu on the desktop pc. Last time I did this it lasted one week, we'll see this time [#]
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writing documentation for products that have to be delivered to customers is one of the most boring operations ever [#]
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June 28th |
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finally back to the land of living [#]
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June 27th |
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June 26th |
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I should have freed myself a bit. Now I hope to finish within the weekend a couple of remaining projects, so I can finish in time everything [#]
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June 22nd |
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I really, really, really need more than 24 hours per day or I won't pass Friday's exam. As bonus, I have A LOT of work to do. [#]
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