[15:20:56] <leila>	 o/
[15:23:35] <miriam_>	 ciao leila!
[15:23:42] <leila>	 miriam_: hi.
[15:23:55] <leila>	 miriam_: how are you doing?
[15:24:02] <miriam_>	 isaacj: I saw your thesis is available online :) can I tweet it on WikiResearch pleeease
[15:26:24] <miriam_>	 leila - doing well! Today is Italy's liberation day (national holiday there), we celebrate the liberation from the nazi-fascist occupation :)
[15:31:00] <leila>	 miriam_: uhu. Are you celebrating it in London?
[15:41:29] <isaacj>	 haha, miriam_ yes if you want but that's the last dr. johnson joke then :)
[15:41:44] <leila>	 :D
[15:42:18] <apergos>	 https://twitter.com/gtiso/status/1121176343486459904 for you, miriam_ 
[15:42:57] <miriam_>	 leila: yes, a bit!!
[15:43:16] <leila>	 uhu. enjoy. :)
[15:44:01] <miriam_>	 apergos: ooohh <3 amazing, thanks
[15:44:11] <apergos>	 :-) :-)
[15:44:27] <miriam_>	 isaacj: of course NOT dr. johnson
[15:47:59] <miriam_>	 apergos: my geeky contribution to this day: https://twitter.com/mad_astronaut/status/1121342593697185793
[15:49:16] <apergos>	 next year, hover-over with link to the article? (why yes, I am never content with what we have, even when it's already awesome!)
[15:51:01] <miriam_>	 apergos: ahah, sure, absolutely!
[15:52:40] <miriam_>	 apergos, there is at least the link to the wikidata item, most of those have links to Wikipedia in Italiano only!
[15:53:52] <apergos>	 there's a huge gap in knowledge right there
[15:55:12] <miriam_>	 :) true
[17:17:24] <leila>	 miriam_: did you meet with bblack yesterday?
[17:17:35] <leila>	 miriam_: anything you need my help with on that front?
[17:37:00] <miriam_>	 ciao leila
[17:37:27] <miriam_>	 yes we met, I found some useful data in the Data Lake we can use to look at this problem
[17:39:02] <miriam_>	 so, we don't need your help for this for the moment! I'll tell you more when I have the complete list of countries we are looking at. This is such an exciting project actually :)
[17:40:16] <miriam_>	 and I got to learn how non-linear the problem of assigning countries to data centers is  :)
[17:40:18] <leila>	 miriam_: great. and yeah re an exciting project.
[17:40:40] <leila>	 miriam_: in what sense non-linear?
[17:42:07] <miriam_>	 it's not a matter of radius of distance from a data center only, there are a number of factors that you have to take into account, e.g. where the fiber is located, geographic configuration of the terrain, etc
[17:44:19] <leila>	 miriam_: the optimization nerd within me is awakening. :D I'm keeping my (perhaps) non-convex optimization questions for when we meet next. 
[17:45:10] <miriam_>	 leila: ahah I knew it was going to happen!! 
[17:45:23] <leila>	 :-X
[17:45:42] <miriam_>	 leila: signing off for now, going climbing! 
[17:46:57] <leila>	 miriam_: enjoy. have a good evening.