Una cosa secondo me interessante: dopo aver costruito sistemi per il trattamento automatico dellì'informazione (quelli che tradizionalmente chiamiamo "computer") basati su una logica deduttiva (dall'algoritmo si deducono i passi necessari a risolvere un problema concreto) adesso con l'intelligenza artificiale andiamo nella direzione opposta, cioè quella della logica induttiva (il sistema deduce e costruisce le regole dopo aver analizzato un corpus di dati).
Tutto bello, ma già sappiamo, dopo qualche secolo di riflessione, quali sono i punti di forza e di debolezza del procedere di entrambi i metodi logici.
Se però volete rivisitare il problema dell'induzione di David Hume, cosa meglio dei suggerimenti di Sam Dresse, "I hope this helps"? (video in inglese)
Money quote: "Il ragionamento induttivo anche se non è logicamente inviolabile, esso sembra comunque un modo perfettamente ragionevole di formare credenze sul mondo.
Che cosa giustifica la nostra fede nell'induzione? Il filosofo scozzese David Hume argomentò che il principio di induzione non può affatto essere giustificato razionalmente. Hume ammetteva che usiamo continuamente l'induzione nella vita e nella scienza, ma insisteva nel sostenere che si tratta di una mera abitudine animale. Pensava che sfidati a fornire una buona ragione per l'uso dell'induzione, non avremmo saputo dare una risposta soddisfacente.
Hume notò che ogni volta che compiamo delle inferenze induttive, sembriamo presupporre ciò che chiamò "L'uniformità della natura"."
https://aeon.co/videos/can-the-problem-of-induction-save-anthony-s-dismal-dating-life
Tutto bello, ma già sappiamo, dopo qualche secolo di riflessione, quali sono i punti di forza e di debolezza del procedere di entrambi i metodi logici.
Se però volete rivisitare il problema dell'induzione di David Hume, cosa meglio dei suggerimenti di Sam Dresse, "I hope this helps"? (video in inglese)
Money quote: "Il ragionamento induttivo anche se non è logicamente inviolabile, esso sembra comunque un modo perfettamente ragionevole di formare credenze sul mondo.
Che cosa giustifica la nostra fede nell'induzione? Il filosofo scozzese David Hume argomentò che il principio di induzione non può affatto essere giustificato razionalmente. Hume ammetteva che usiamo continuamente l'induzione nella vita e nella scienza, ma insisteva nel sostenere che si tratta di una mera abitudine animale. Pensava che sfidati a fornire una buona ragione per l'uso dell'induzione, non avremmo saputo dare una risposta soddisfacente.
Hume notò che ogni volta che compiamo delle inferenze induttive, sembriamo presupporre ciò che chiamò "L'uniformità della natura"."
https://aeon.co/videos/can-the-problem-of-induction-save-anthony-s-dismal-dating-life
Aeon
The problem of induction
Can the problem of induction save Anthony’s dismal dating life?
Il futuro di Starbucks è in Cina
Money quote: “China is becoming crucial for Starbucks. Same-store sales gained 8 percent in the country during the most recent quarter, compared with 2 percent globally. Revenue from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for almost 15 percent of Starbucks’ revenue for the fiscal year ended in October. That’s up from 5.5 percent five years earlier”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/starbucks-woos-china-s-affluent-with-giant-cafe-in-overseas-test
Money quote: “China is becoming crucial for Starbucks. Same-store sales gained 8 percent in the country during the most recent quarter, compared with 2 percent globally. Revenue from the Asia-Pacific region accounted for almost 15 percent of Starbucks’ revenue for the fiscal year ended in October. That’s up from 5.5 percent five years earlier”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/starbucks-woos-china-s-affluent-with-giant-cafe-in-overseas-test
Bloomberg.com
World’s Biggest Starbucks to Open in Shanghai
Starbucks Corp. sees China surpassing the U.S. as its largest market within a decade as it counts on the country’s affluent consumers to offset stagnant growth in the rest of the world.
È il mistero di Cuba. Ventiquattro dipendenti dell’ambasciata americana a Cuba sono stati colpiti - o almeno, così si pensava - da una misteriosa arma sonora e rimpatriati in fretta e furia. O forse no, non sono stati colpiti. O forse sì, ma chissà. Un mistero minore ma affascinante.
Money quote: “It's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-identify-brain-abnormalities-cuba-attack-patients-110255428--politics.html
Money quote: “It's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-identify-brain-abnormalities-cuba-attack-patients-110255428--politics.html
Yahoo
Doctors find brain abnormalities in victims of Cuba mystery
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned.
Un po’ di sana psicanalisi (e meno neuroscience). Sarebbe l’ora...
Money quote: “What went wrong? In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote that ‘the demise of Freudianism can be summed up in a single word: lithium’. The American author described how in the early 1950s, after years of psychoanalytic ineffectiveness, rapid physical relief for sufferers of bipolar disorder arrived in the form of a pill. Wolfe’s example is microcosmic of a wider state of affairs. The waning of psychoanalysis corresponds precisely to the rise of modern neuroscience, whose physicalist approach now drives psychiatry. Today, almost anyone could have a go at describing serotonin, or dopamine, or Prozac. Few of those same people could define the primal scene, or the super-ego. As the American author Siri Hustvedt puts it in The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves (2010), Freud is now seen by many if not most as ‘a mystic, a man whose ideas bear no relation to physical realities, a kind of monster of mirage who derailed modernity by feeding all kinds of nonsense to a gullible public until his thought was finally shattered by a new scientific psychiatry founded on the wonders of pharmacology’.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-neuroscience-rehabilitate-freud-for-the-age-of-the-brain
Money quote: “What went wrong? In 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote that ‘the demise of Freudianism can be summed up in a single word: lithium’. The American author described how in the early 1950s, after years of psychoanalytic ineffectiveness, rapid physical relief for sufferers of bipolar disorder arrived in the form of a pill. Wolfe’s example is microcosmic of a wider state of affairs. The waning of psychoanalysis corresponds precisely to the rise of modern neuroscience, whose physicalist approach now drives psychiatry. Today, almost anyone could have a go at describing serotonin, or dopamine, or Prozac. Few of those same people could define the primal scene, or the super-ego. As the American author Siri Hustvedt puts it in The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves (2010), Freud is now seen by many if not most as ‘a mystic, a man whose ideas bear no relation to physical realities, a kind of monster of mirage who derailed modernity by feeding all kinds of nonsense to a gullible public until his thought was finally shattered by a new scientific psychiatry founded on the wonders of pharmacology’.”
https://aeon.co/essays/can-neuroscience-rehabilitate-freud-for-the-age-of-the-brain
Aeon
Freud in the scanner
A revival of interest in the power of introspection and thought has brought Freud’s ideas back into the scientific fold
Assurdo, ma c’è oggettivamente spazio anche per questo
Money quote: “Hey guys! I’ve heard way too many broflakes telling me they have no idea how to interact with women since Weinsteingate. Can you hug? Can you smile? Will you be arrested for opening a door? Dear god, won’t someone stop the madness? It’s almost as if men are expected to think about acting with empathy and reflection in their actions”
https://medium.com/athena-talks/the-hanson-test-are-you-safe-to-work-around-women-4a4876d8aea
Money quote: “Hey guys! I’ve heard way too many broflakes telling me they have no idea how to interact with women since Weinsteingate. Can you hug? Can you smile? Will you be arrested for opening a door? Dear god, won’t someone stop the madness? It’s almost as if men are expected to think about acting with empathy and reflection in their actions”
https://medium.com/athena-talks/the-hanson-test-are-you-safe-to-work-around-women-4a4876d8aea
Medium
The Hanson Test: are you safe to work around women?
The quick quiz to tell you whether you need to rethink your interactions with women
Pensavo fosse la classica presbiopia della mezza età, invece dopo aver letto questo articolo sto cambiando radicalmente regime di schermo digitali. Perché essi, gli schermi dei contenuti digitali, ci stanno mangiando letteralmente gli occhi.
Money quote: “After reading this story, you’ll know how to identify the damage they cause, and spot the early warnings of digital eye strain and computer vision syndrome. You’ll also learn how to protect your eyes while using technology and screens. Plus, you’ll find some extra tips about how to get the most out of your smartphone (without allowing it to damage your eyes!).”
https://medium.com/the-mission/digital-eye-strain-is-destroying-your-eyes-4ac7f8e87b24
Money quote: “After reading this story, you’ll know how to identify the damage they cause, and spot the early warnings of digital eye strain and computer vision syndrome. You’ll also learn how to protect your eyes while using technology and screens. Plus, you’ll find some extra tips about how to get the most out of your smartphone (without allowing it to damage your eyes!).”
https://medium.com/the-mission/digital-eye-strain-is-destroying-your-eyes-4ac7f8e87b24
Medium
Digital Eye Strain Is Destroying Your Eyes
This story will help you protect your eyes, and the eyes of those you care about
AlphaZero di Google batte il miglior computer per giocare a scacchi - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/alphazero-google-batte-miglior-computer-giocare-scacchi/
https://www.macitynet.it/alphazero-google-batte-miglior-computer-giocare-scacchi/
Macitynet.it
AlphaZero di Google batte il miglior computer per giocare a scacchi - Macitynet.it
Dopo il Go, fino all’anno scorso dominato da giocatori umani, adesso è la volta dei campioni di scacchi automatici, asfaltati dall’intelligenza artificiale di DeepMind
Il Michelangelo di Excel, che dipinge con il foglio di calcolo - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/michelangelo-excel-dipinge-foglio-calcolo/
https://www.macitynet.it/michelangelo-excel-dipinge-foglio-calcolo/
Macitynet.it
Il Michelangelo di Excel, che dipinge con il foglio di calcolo - Macitynet.it
Se pensavate di averle viste tutto, dovete fare un salto a Nagano, in Giappone, per incontrare un artista che utilizza la più improbabile delle tele per realizzare i suoi lavori
Una storia dalla quale dovrebbero fare un film. Bombardato da esattori privati che chiedono soldi (e minacciano la moglie) un agente di commercio americano comincia una straordinaria investigazione, una crociata che lo porta a fare delle scoperte straordinarie e a prendersi (parte della) sua vendetta. Uno straordinario viaggio nel mondo recupero crediti americani.
Secondo me non tanto la storia, quanto il modello di recupero crediti estremamente aggressivo sarà presto su di noi. Equitalia era solo l’inizio...
Money quote: “Therrien had been caught up in a fraud known as phantom debt, where millions of Americans are hassled to pay back money they don’t owe. The concept is centuries old: Inmates of a New York debtors’ prison joked about it as early as 1800, in a newspaper they published called Forlorn Hope. But systematic schemes to collect on fake debts started only about five years ago. It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online—old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts—and reformats it to look like a list of debts. Then they make deals with unscrupulous collectors who will demand repayment of the fictitious bills. Their targets are often poor and likely to already be getting confusing calls about other loans. The harassment usually doesn’t work, but some marks are convinced that because the collectors know so much, the debt must be real.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Secondo me non tanto la storia, quanto il modello di recupero crediti estremamente aggressivo sarà presto su di noi. Equitalia era solo l’inizio...
Money quote: “Therrien had been caught up in a fraud known as phantom debt, where millions of Americans are hassled to pay back money they don’t owe. The concept is centuries old: Inmates of a New York debtors’ prison joked about it as early as 1800, in a newspaper they published called Forlorn Hope. But systematic schemes to collect on fake debts started only about five years ago. It begins when someone scoops up troves of personal information that are available cheaply online—old loan applications, long-expired obligations, data from hacked accounts—and reformats it to look like a list of debts. Then they make deals with unscrupulous collectors who will demand repayment of the fictitious bills. Their targets are often poor and likely to already be getting confusing calls about other loans. The harassment usually doesn’t work, but some marks are convinced that because the collectors know so much, the debt must be real.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
Bloomberg.com
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.
The Outline scopre e documenta un giro di blogger nelle galassie dei giornali americani (un trucco per fare click anche da noi: i blogger scrivono gratuitamente o quasi, con libertà di contenuto, e portano click al sito madre) che prendono soldi dalle aziende per citarle nei loro articoli e post.
Giornali scalcagnati? Siti di secondo ordine? No: parliamo di Forbes, Fast Company e HuffPost. E la difesa dei loro direttori è un allucinato esercizio di ipocrisia.
Money quote: “People involved with the payoffs are extremely reluctant to discuss them, but four contributing writers to prominent publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur told me they have personally accepted payments in exchange for weaving promotional references to brands into their work on those sites. Two of the writers acknowledged they have taken part in the scheme for years, on behalf of many brands.”
https://theoutline.com/post/2563/how-brands-secretly-buy-their-way-into-forbes-fast-company-and-huffpost-stories
Giornali scalcagnati? Siti di secondo ordine? No: parliamo di Forbes, Fast Company e HuffPost. E la difesa dei loro direttori è un allucinato esercizio di ipocrisia.
Money quote: “People involved with the payoffs are extremely reluctant to discuss them, but four contributing writers to prominent publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur told me they have personally accepted payments in exchange for weaving promotional references to brands into their work on those sites. Two of the writers acknowledged they have taken part in the scheme for years, on behalf of many brands.”
https://theoutline.com/post/2563/how-brands-secretly-buy-their-way-into-forbes-fast-company-and-huffpost-stories
The Outline
How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and HuffPost stories
An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
Dai cantanti mascherati thai, all’analista che si collega alla BBC dalla camera da letto: i video di tendenza di Youtube per il 2017 - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-classifica-dei-video-cult-tendenza-youtube-2017/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-classifica-dei-video-cult-tendenza-youtube-2017/
Macitynet.it
Dai cantanti mascherati thai, all'analista che si collega alla BBC dalla camera da letto: i video di tendenza di Youtube per il…
Dai fratelli che vanno a fare Carpool Karaoke al freelance che vede distrutto il suo “studio esterno” dai suoi figli in diretta sulla BBC. Dieci video divertenti ed estremamente popolari
Cybersecurity e storage: spesa in aumento grazie alla GDPR - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/cybersecurity-storage-spesa-aumento-grazie-alla-gdpr/
https://www.macitynet.it/cybersecurity-storage-spesa-aumento-grazie-alla-gdpr/
Macitynet.it
Cybersecurity e storage: spesa in aumento grazie alla GDPR - Macitynet.it
La nuova normativa europea per la progezione generale dei dati impatterà in maniera sostanziale i conti delle aziende europee da qui alla fine del 2018
Nel Regno Unito oltre alla Brexit adesso hanno anche le truffe bancarie hi-tech. Meno male che il Guardian vigila.
Money quote: “Following the Guardian’s intervention, Natwest has had a change of heart and has refunded Bowman the £2,500 he lost as a “one-off” gesture of goodwill.”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/dec/09/text-bank-student-loan-money
Money quote: “Following the Guardian’s intervention, Natwest has had a change of heart and has refunded Bowman the £2,500 he lost as a “one-off” gesture of goodwill.”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/dec/09/text-bank-student-loan-money
the Guardian
Text alert: the ‘bank’ message that cost a student £5,400 of her loan money
Fraudsters have found a new way to target young people, with some losing all their funds in the first few weeks of term
Dopo tanti secoli il culto di Mitra ancora resta un affascinante mistero.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries
Money quote: “Mithraism was an underground Roman religious group that worshipped a pagan deity called Mithras. All Mithraea featured a tauroctony, an image of the god Mithras slaying a sacred bull, as its centerpiece. Though the covert religion was once so widespread some historians considered it an early rival and “sister religion” to Christianity, little is actually known for certain about it.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries
Money quote: “Mithraism was an underground Roman religious group that worshipped a pagan deity called Mithras. All Mithraea featured a tauroctony, an image of the god Mithras slaying a sacred bull, as its centerpiece. Though the covert religion was once so widespread some historians considered it an early rival and “sister religion” to Christianity, little is actually known for certain about it.”
Atlas Obscura
The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars
The Mithraic Mysteries worshipped a pagan god from subterranean temples buried throughout the empire.
Le Fake news sono la conseguenza di un problema vecchio di 400 anni. Il problema vero però è che ancora non abbiamo risolto la causa...
Money quote: “The appetite for populism is not a new problem. In the ferocious newspaper battles of 1890s New York, the emerging sensational style of journalism in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal was dubbed “yellow journalism” by those concerned with maintaining standards, adherence to accuracy and an informed public debate. We now have the same problem with online misinformation”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/29/fake-news-echo-chamber-ethics-infosphere-internet-digital
Money quote: “The appetite for populism is not a new problem. In the ferocious newspaper battles of 1890s New York, the emerging sensational style of journalism in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal was dubbed “yellow journalism” by those concerned with maintaining standards, adherence to accuracy and an informed public debate. We now have the same problem with online misinformation”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/29/fake-news-echo-chamber-ethics-infosphere-internet-digital
the Guardian
Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis
The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century
Noi non diventeremo mai tossici delle notizie a questi livelli. Beh, magari voi, perché io non è che sto messo tanto bene...
Comunque, questa è la lettura lunga per la domenica. Notevole, vale la pena. Buon fine settimana a tutti.
Money quote: “In the spirit of full disclosure, I should make it clear that I’m a professional news consumer. I’m what one might refer to as an addicted, pathetic, sick, twitchy, impulsive, self-righteous, media-obsessed screen junkie. (In other words, I’m an extreme version of the worst parts of you.) So I had facial recognition unlocked my iPhone X, absorbed and analyzed the contents of the news alert, and fired off an all-knowing — and potentially viral — tweet before anyone else in the room had even laid a finger on their device.
But the media-civilian members of my extended family weren’t that far behind. Before the deluge, my sister and her adult children had never been particularly interested in the news. But that was then, and this is now, now, NOW! Everyone is interested (and I mean interested in the same sense that, in the 1980s, the after-hours crowd at Studio 54 was interested in the idea of doing another line of cocaine). So each of them took in and disseminated the news with the speed and aplomb of an experienced managing editor working the assignment desk in a big-city newsroom.
My nephew was the first to speak: “Did you hear the Post is reporting that Jared and Kislyak met to discuss setting up back-channel communication with the Russians?” My sister smiled proudly as my niece responded, “Of course, everyone has heard that,” and then, nodding toward me, “Nice tweet.””
https://medium.com/wordsthatmatter/breaking-bad-news-f8daaafd0028
Comunque, questa è la lettura lunga per la domenica. Notevole, vale la pena. Buon fine settimana a tutti.
Money quote: “In the spirit of full disclosure, I should make it clear that I’m a professional news consumer. I’m what one might refer to as an addicted, pathetic, sick, twitchy, impulsive, self-righteous, media-obsessed screen junkie. (In other words, I’m an extreme version of the worst parts of you.) So I had facial recognition unlocked my iPhone X, absorbed and analyzed the contents of the news alert, and fired off an all-knowing — and potentially viral — tweet before anyone else in the room had even laid a finger on their device.
But the media-civilian members of my extended family weren’t that far behind. Before the deluge, my sister and her adult children had never been particularly interested in the news. But that was then, and this is now, now, NOW! Everyone is interested (and I mean interested in the same sense that, in the 1980s, the after-hours crowd at Studio 54 was interested in the idea of doing another line of cocaine). So each of them took in and disseminated the news with the speed and aplomb of an experienced managing editor working the assignment desk in a big-city newsroom.
My nephew was the first to speak: “Did you hear the Post is reporting that Jared and Kislyak met to discuss setting up back-channel communication with the Russians?” My sister smiled proudly as my niece responded, “Of course, everyone has heard that,” and then, nodding toward me, “Nice tweet.””
https://medium.com/wordsthatmatter/breaking-bad-news-f8daaafd0028
Medium
Response to
NextDraft founder Dave Pell reflects on a nation obsessed with the black hole of breaking news.
Intervista inquietante all'esperto (pure lui inquietante) di piattaforme e delle Amazon della nostra vita
Money quote: "Il lavoro gratuito è stato definito da Tiziana Terranova già vent’anni fa. Anche allora stare in rete era un lavoro perché produceva contenuti per i siti e quelli che all’epoca si chiamavano “portali”. Negli ultimi dieci anni questa idea del lavoro gratuito è cambiata quando ci siamo resi conto che le piattaforme non commercializzano solo i nostri contenuti, ma commercializzano soprattutto i nostri dati personali e le informazioni. Quali marche ci piacciono o a che ora ascoltiamo musica. Dove siamo con il Gps. Il lavoro gratuito dell’utente di internet non è un lavoro creativo, ma è un lavoro inconscio e molto meno soddisfacente perché invisibile. In quanto tale alienante nella misura in cui non ci rendiamo conto a cosa servono e come sono usati i dati quando facciamo un recaptcha su Google o mettiamo una Tag su un’immagine su Instagram."
https://ilmanifesto.it/antonio-casilli-i-robot-non-rubano-il-lavoro-siamo-noi-il-cuore-dellalgoritmo/
Money quote: "Il lavoro gratuito è stato definito da Tiziana Terranova già vent’anni fa. Anche allora stare in rete era un lavoro perché produceva contenuti per i siti e quelli che all’epoca si chiamavano “portali”. Negli ultimi dieci anni questa idea del lavoro gratuito è cambiata quando ci siamo resi conto che le piattaforme non commercializzano solo i nostri contenuti, ma commercializzano soprattutto i nostri dati personali e le informazioni. Quali marche ci piacciono o a che ora ascoltiamo musica. Dove siamo con il Gps. Il lavoro gratuito dell’utente di internet non è un lavoro creativo, ma è un lavoro inconscio e molto meno soddisfacente perché invisibile. In quanto tale alienante nella misura in cui non ci rendiamo conto a cosa servono e come sono usati i dati quando facciamo un recaptcha su Google o mettiamo una Tag su un’immagine su Instagram."
https://ilmanifesto.it/antonio-casilli-i-robot-non-rubano-il-lavoro-siamo-noi-il-cuore-dellalgoritmo/
A quanto pare il problema non è l'intelligenza artificiale, ma la mancanza di intelligenza tradizionale specializzata in questo settore: mancano lavoratori della conoscenza di questo tipo.
Money quote: "That such prized and well-compensated employees are now being put to work for others suggests that selling AI is more complex than executive keynotes imply. “The gating factor is people don’t know how to do this stuff,” says Rob Koplowitz, who tracks cloud AI for Forrester. “There needs to be some hand-holding here in the early stages.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/google-amazon-find-not-everyone-is-ready-for-ai/
Money quote: "That such prized and well-compensated employees are now being put to work for others suggests that selling AI is more complex than executive keynotes imply. “The gating factor is people don’t know how to do this stuff,” says Rob Koplowitz, who tracks cloud AI for Forrester. “There needs to be some hand-holding here in the early stages.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/google-amazon-find-not-everyone-is-ready-for-ai/
WIRED
Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready for Artificial Intelligence
Google and Amazon create consulting units to help other businesses make use of artificial intelligence.
Un lascito della repubblica di Weimar al successivo periodo nazista è stata una certa ossessione per la salute e l’igiene. Da questo prende le mosse l’avversione dei nazisti per il caffè e l’amore invece per la versione decaffeinata (Gag, il primo, è una invenzione tedesca di inizio novecento) della bevanda.
Money quote: “In addition to advocating nudism and organic farming, Treitel says, Life Reform practitioners followed pre-modern diets that swore off stimulants, which included refined sugar, high-proof alcohol, tobacco, meat, and caffeine. This philosophy influenced the public health policy of the Nazi regime. “In the 1930s, all of this is part of a Nazi health movement, which became basically part of official policy,” Uwe Spiekermann, a historian at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, says. “So [Nazi health researchers] like Hans Schreiber, Leonardo Conti, they were backers of these crusades against alcohol, against tobacco, against coffee.””
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-party
Money quote: “In addition to advocating nudism and organic farming, Treitel says, Life Reform practitioners followed pre-modern diets that swore off stimulants, which included refined sugar, high-proof alcohol, tobacco, meat, and caffeine. This philosophy influenced the public health policy of the Nazi regime. “In the 1930s, all of this is part of a Nazi health movement, which became basically part of official policy,” Uwe Spiekermann, a historian at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, says. “So [Nazi health researchers] like Hans Schreiber, Leonardo Conti, they were backers of these crusades against alcohol, against tobacco, against coffee.””
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-party
Atlas Obscura
Why the Nazi Party Loved Decaf Coffee
The Third Reich pushed decaffeinated drinks as official state policy.
Google non è stato creato dalla CIA e dalla NSA: questa è una storiella buona per i meno attenti e più inclini allo storytelling di bassa lega. Però Google è nato anche con i finanziamenti di CIA ed NSA, nell'ottica di creare un sistema di sorveglianza globale. Questo sì, è vero.
Buonanotte, per stasera
Money quote: "The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why."
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
Buonanotte, per stasera
Money quote: "The story of the deliberate creation of the modern mass-surveillance state includes elements of Google’s surprising, and largely unknown, origin. It is a somewhat different creation story than the one the public has heard, and explains what Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set out to build, and why."
https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
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Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
The intelligence community and Silicon Valley have a long history