<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva</title><description>Notes about papers and projects.</description><link>https://gvdallariva.net/</link><item><title>Thirteen Pantheons</title><link>https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs-3/</guid><description>Part 3 of the slow walk. A rest from theory. Hathor, Tefnut, and the RDPG model applied to thirteen mythology traditions.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>paper</category></item><item><title>There and Back Again: From Arrows to Tables</title><link>https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs-2/</guid><description>Part 2 of the slow walk. We stack the yellow and blue arrows into tables, turn those tables into a green map of connection probabilities, draw one noisy network from it, and ask how much of the hidden geometry can be recovered.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>paper</category></item><item><title>A slow walk through Random Dot Product Graphs</title><link>https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gvdallariva.net/blog/random-dot-product-graphs/</guid><description>A gentle, hand-held introduction to the network-science model I keep returning to. No mathematical background needed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>paper</category></item><item><title>Three tools for the Pacific data ecosystem</title><link>https://gvdallariva.net/blog/sdmx-tools-at-spc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gvdallariva.net/blog/sdmx-tools-at-spc/</guid><description>An overview of the SDMX work I&apos;m leading at the Pacific Community. An MCP gateway for AI agents, a chat-driven dashboard builder, and an AI-assisted codelist harmoniser.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>project</category></item><item><title>When do brains (and large language models) really track the world?</title><link>https://gvdallariva.net/blog/task-ecologies-and-perception/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://gvdallariva.net/blog/task-ecologies-and-perception/</guid><description>A gentle, hand-held tour of the eco-evo line on representation I&apos;ve been pursuing this year. No background in philosophy of mind or machine learning needed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>paper</category></item></channel></rss>