gvdr :julia:

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Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva (he/him)

I work as a Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.

I care about many things: Ethics in Data Science, complex #networks, #evolution and #ecology, Social Networks, ... I use #mathematics and #statistical modelling to study those things. I code, mostly in #julialang.

I ♥️ #mountains, #scifi, #poetry, and #handball.
Italian Pākehā living in Aotearoa.

#Antifascist.

"Carder le chaos en monde"
G.Tarde.

Academic Pagehttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/contact-us/people/giulio-dalla-riva.html
githubhttps://gvdr.github.io
Research Grouphttps://www.darescience.net/
#bookwyrmHttps://bookwyrm.gatti.ninja/user/gvdr
gvdr :julia:Jan 10, 2023
I'm considering to move to #hachyderm just so I can use the Julia emoji 🤣 is it open to academics in Data Science?
gvdr :julia:Jan 10, 2023

I started working on a #julialang package to work with Random Dot Product Graphs (#RDPG). It's still in its infancy, as I'm moving a lot of my script code into it. Anybody keen to help out will find it here. https://github.com/gvdr/DotProductGraphs.jl

#networks #complexnetworks #SVD

GitHub - gvdr/DotProductGraphs.jl

Contribute to gvdr/DotProductGraphs.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
gvdr :julia:Jan 10, 2023
Show threadCrimethInc. Ex-WorkersJan 10, 2023

More photographs from demonstrations against fascism today in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, #Brazil.

Solidarity with everyone on the streets against Bolsonaro, especially those who do not think that the solution is to cede all agency and legitimacy to the institutions of the state.

"We need to foment popular revolt that includes all the disenfranchised sectors of society, everyone who is targeted by fascists, everyone who suffers under capitalism even when it is managed by a progressive government. We must not delegitimize insurrection when the state apparatus is in the hands of the center-left while the streets are in the hands of fascists and security forces. We must find ways to resist, rejecting the blackmail of those who claim that the most important thing is to maintain order, with their eternal moralism in defense of private property and state power."

gvdr :julia:Jan 10, 2023
Radical GraffitiJan 10, 2023
"Fascists have no right to organise."
Seen in London in 1977
gvdr :julia:Jan 9, 2023
Berna DevezerJan 9, 2023

Oooh I just came across a new version of this very interesting paper that I read and tweeted about an earlier version of. Still surprises me that this preprint remains not much cited. There goes interest in theoretical work however relevant it may be to meta research/scientific reform.

The paper studies the following question: How many explanatory variables can have large effects on an outcome?

And defines the piranha problem.

https://t.co/znhg9tuPch

gvdr :julia:Jan 6, 2023

Do #job or #recruitment agencies tailored to #academia people moving into #industry ? All the ones I know are either for tradies or for people already in industry. Not looking (yet, as for now) but that sounds like a good service to know about (and a good niche for startups if there aren't).

I'm thinking about people who might take a look at your résumé and suggest better ways of writing it, where to send it, what skills to work on...

#getfedihired

gvdr :julia:Jan 4, 2023
I'm in a coffee place waiting for my physio appointment, and the radio is playing a Spanish version of Maledetta Primavera. What did I do to karma police?
Show threadgvdr :julia:Jan 4, 2023
Actually, not sure about NFT as an example, as it seems we are almost ready to ditch it.
gvdr :julia:Jan 4, 2023

What are your favourite examples of TOO BIG TO FAIL #ideas in #science and the #humanities?

i.e. theories on which there's too much investment (money, careers, ideology, institutions) for us to accept they are bunk: #NFT would be a great example in tech; #IQ a good example in psychology.

Show threadgvdr :julia:Jan 3, 2023
Ah, no worries, found! It's in /create-book :-)