Luca Florio

If you are a CS Researcher and would like to come as a guest and help spread some knowledge, just reach out to me! 😄

EP05 - Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in theRun-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election. With Dr. Marco Minici

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Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.227...

Do you believe that groups of users can coordinate on different social platforms to try to influence other people opinion? Well, in the new episode of targz @marcominici.bsky.social, from ICAR-CNR, describes the technique they used in their research to identify such malevolent groups.

Link below! 👇

If you are a CS researcher and would like to share your work and share knowledge just reach out to me!

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Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18009

When it comes to recommendation, indirect feedback by user is a powerful tool, but it can be problematic to deal with noise. In this episode of targz Ervin Dervishaj from University of Copenhagen presents a method to leverage LLMs for post-training denoising.

Links below! 👇

EP03 - The Urban Impact of AI: Modeling Feedback Loops in Location-Based Recommender Systems

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New episode of targz! With @gmauro10.bsky.social from Scuola Normale Superiore and ISTI-CNR we discuss how AI influences users and how users influence AI back and the urban impact of this feedback loop.

Link to episode on several platform and paper below! 👇

EP02 -  Intrinsic Dimension of Data Representations in Deep Neural Networks. With Dr. Alessio Ansuini Podcast Episode · targz · 01/26/2026 · 28m

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The second episode of targz is out! Our guest is Alessio Ansuini, and we talk about intrinsic dimension in neural networks and why it is important to understand what's happening inside them. Also, do you know what a manifold is?

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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1905.12784

Do you want to help me spread knowledge?
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- Reach out if you are a researcher! Every guest is gold, especially right now when this is starting.

Thank you, hopefully you will enjoy it!

There is no editorial plan right now, so if you don't want to miss an episode follow the podcast on Spotify (other platforms coming) and follow me here or on LinkedIn to know when a new episode is available.

This is just the start of a project I really care about, since it perfectly fits my mission of building, sharing and making knowledge accessible. It won't be perfect right now, but it will get better and better over time, I promise!

What is it about? In every episode I will interview a researcher that will guide us through a paper representative of their research. The goal is to put a spotlight on the researcher and to make their research understandable to professionals working in the tech industry.

EP01 - The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems. With Dr. Fabrizio Silvestri

New year new personal project! Say hello to targz, a new podcast that bridges the gap between academia and industry in Computer Science: open.spotify.com/episode/5yeE...

In this first episode Fabrizio Silvestri will talk about the paper "The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems".

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

This is going to happen for real! I already reached out to some amazing researchers and I started to read some papers. Also, I found an amazing name for the podcast (the hardest part... 😂 )!
So, few more things to iron out, but get ready because it will be amazing! 🚀

If you are a researcher and would like to participate, either write a comment here or send me a DM. Otherwise, please help me share this or tag someone that could be interested.

Thank you! ❤️

The goal is to make academic knowledge more accessible to anyone and to give visibility to the researcher and the work they are doing.

The format will be an interview focused on a paper that is representative of the work conducted by the researcher. We will go through it together explaining and discussing it. I don't have a preference on the topic, anything works. Duration about 30 minutes (ideally).

I am going to start a new podcast project, and I am looking for researchers (in academia or industry) that are doing research in any Computer Science "branch".

Happy to share that I have been promoted to Senior Engineer! 🎉

Fun fact: this is the first promotion of my life.

Yeah, love to chat with people and do my best to help them! 😄

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In my career I worked with: Java, Scala, Python, Go. Also a bit of Haskell, but not much.

Which language I should learn next? And why?

bart simpson is laying in bed with his head on a pillow in a black and white photo . ALT: bart simpson is laying in bed with his head on a pillow in a black and white photo .

Me, when after a page at 5AM on a Sunday morning I say: “This is not that urgent, I’ll snooze the alert till tomorrow so I can go back to sleep”

TIL: Postgres tables have inheritance. 🤯

How cool is that?

The Value of Journaling I started to journal my work day some months ago, and I can say that it has proven quite valuable to me. Let's see why I think it can benefit anyone and how I do it.

Some thoughts about the benefits of journaling at work!

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Migrating to Bear Blog Few thoughts on blogging, writing, the internet and why I migrated to Bear Blog.

After way too much time, I decided to refresh my blog and migrate it to the Bear Blog platform. Why? The details in a new blog post, of course!

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From time to time we hear that someone is a "force multiplier". But what is a "force multiplier"?

Wrong answers only.

That’s a wrap!