Matteo Riondato

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I profess #computerscience (#datamining, #knowledgediscovery, #machinelearning, #networkscience) at Amherst College. I like #oysters, #mountains (in any season), #sailing, and #theorems.

I am a #FreeBSD "enthusiastic power-user" (i.e., fanboy), and I used to be a src-committer and the developer of FreeSBIE.

Homehttps://matteo.rionda.to
Research Grouphttps://acdmammoths.github.io
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2523-4420
GitHubhttps://github.com/rionda

Yo kidz! Remember to update/upgrade your #FreeBSD to latest 14.3 prior updating to 15.0. Otherwise you'll need to use /rescue dir to fetch base.txz of 15.0 and unpack libsys.so.7 to /lib manually.

You're welcome.

If you have even the slightest curiosity about optimising compilers and aren't already following @mattgodbolt's Advent of Compiler Optimisations, you absolutely should.

#AoCO2025

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Proud advisor moment: the CRA interviewed my former undergrad researcher and current PhD advisee Maryam Abuissa about their experience as a young researcher.

#undergraduate #undergradinthelab

https://cra.org/crn/2024/10/securing-machine-learning-with-sequestered-encryption-on-gpu-hardware/

Securing Machine Learning with Sequestered Encryption on GPU Hardware

By Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) and Emma McDonald (CRA-E Fellow, University of Alberta) This Q&A highlight features Maryam Abuissa, an Honorable Mentio…

CRN
So, what are code changes called?
Diffs
39.5%
Patches
51.2%
Pull requests
9.3%
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Two of my #undergraduate students just got #NSFGRFP for 3 years of support during their #PhD . They are starting #gradschool in September, and I'm over the moon for them. #professorlife #proudadvisor #gfrp
The CRA interviewed my former student Stefan Walzer-Goldfeld about doing #datascience research with me at Amherst College https://sparc.cra.org/unveiling-patterns-undergraduate-ventures-into-statistically-significant-pattern-mining/ #datamammoths #professorlife
Unveiling Patterns: Undergraduate Ventures into Statistically Significant Pattern Mining – CRA-E SPARC

On a related note, I've been asked to be a reviewer for the Goldwater Scholarship (an extremely prestigious fellowship for juniors in the science). They asked for 30 reviews in 10 days. During the semester. Who has time for that? I'm serious, who? #professorlife
@JoanneKlein right, I feel both the workload and the timing are quite out of whack for something as important as NSF GRFP.
I have two undergraduate students applying for NSF GRFP. I thought "Well, I should give back to the community", so I signed up to be a reviewer (which doesn't mean I committed to review). Yesterday I received the invitation to be a reviewer, but I noticed that the ask is to write 20 reviews, over winter break. It seems a bit too high of a commitment, so I had to decline. I feel like I could have done 7-8, tops. AITA? #professorlife