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/
Quartz
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
Un giro di nostalgia sulla Route 66, da Los Angeles a Chicago. Foto belle e tristi, con una patina che fa viaggiare nel tempo degli immaginari. Le ha scattate il fotografo e filmaker Phil Donohue, che ne fa anche un discorso sulla memoria e sulla nostalgia.
Money quote: "Yet as a purveyor of nostalgia, Donohue knows that people can even long for things that still exist. He remembers having an exhibit at a shopping mall with photos he had taken of it over the years. “People would walk by the photos and say, ‘Oh my God, remember this?’” he said. “And they’re in the mall I photographed… 20 feet away from [the thing in the photo], but I guess because of the aesthetics it felt like something from their memories.”"
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/12/documenting-nostalgia-on-route-66/547778/
Money quote: "Yet as a purveyor of nostalgia, Donohue knows that people can even long for things that still exist. He remembers having an exhibit at a shopping mall with photos he had taken of it over the years. “People would walk by the photos and say, ‘Oh my God, remember this?’” he said. “And they’re in the mall I photographed… 20 feet away from [the thing in the photo], but I guess because of the aesthetics it felt like something from their memories.”"
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/12/documenting-nostalgia-on-route-66/547778/
CityLab
Documenting Nostalgia on Route 66
Filmmaker and photographer Phil Donohue shot scenes along the famed U.S. highway to explore what we long for and leave behind.
È meglio la storia della vita degli scrittori che non le storie che scrivono. Affermazione assolutamente falsa, ma relativamente vera.
Money quote: "I was told, "You’ll never get a good job.” I didn’t want a good job! As far as I could tell at eleven or twelve years old, like, people with good jobs woke up very early in the morning, and the men who had good jobs, one of the first things they did was tie a strangulation item of clothing around their necks. They literally put nooses on themselves, and then they went off to their jobs, whatever they were. That’s not a recipe for a happy life. -John Green"
https://medium.com/start-where-you-are/writers-have-better-stories-than-the-stories-we-write-b2f076cd6ace
Money quote: "I was told, "You’ll never get a good job.” I didn’t want a good job! As far as I could tell at eleven or twelve years old, like, people with good jobs woke up very early in the morning, and the men who had good jobs, one of the first things they did was tie a strangulation item of clothing around their necks. They literally put nooses on themselves, and then they went off to their jobs, whatever they were. That’s not a recipe for a happy life. -John Green"
https://medium.com/start-where-you-are/writers-have-better-stories-than-the-stories-we-write-b2f076cd6ace
Medium
Writers Have Better Stories Than the Stories We Write
On Personal Narrative
Le acquisizioni Apple, cosa è cambiato da Steve Jobs a Tim Cook - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/le-acquisizioni-apple-cosa-e-cambiato-da-steve-jobs-a-tim-cook/
https://www.macitynet.it/le-acquisizioni-apple-cosa-e-cambiato-da-steve-jobs-a-tim-cook/
Macitynet.it
Le acquisizioni Apple, cosa è cambiato da Steve Jobs a Tim Cook - Macitynet.it
La strategia delle acquisizioni Apple è cambiata nel tempo: prima con Steve Jobs, con il suo ritorno in azienda proprio grazie all’acquisto di NeXT, e poi nell’era Tim Cook con Beats fino ad arrivare a Shazam. Un cambio di strategia necessario per rispondere…
Foto di Manhattan meravigliose.
Money quote: "We first got to know Humza Deas three years ago, when he was a 17-year-old self-taught photographer taking the sorts of thrilling pictures of the city, often from places he wasn’t technically supposed to be, which someone who is maybe no longer a teenager would probably not attempt. One of them ended up on the cover of our 2014 Reasons to Love New York issue, of his legs dangling awesomely (or terrifyingly, if you’ve got a touch of vertigo) over the streets. More recently, he’s been experimenting with taking photos with a drone, letting us again see our familiar city in all-new ways. We loved them, and asked him to shoot some of them just for us."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/drone-photos-of-new-york-city.html
Money quote: "We first got to know Humza Deas three years ago, when he was a 17-year-old self-taught photographer taking the sorts of thrilling pictures of the city, often from places he wasn’t technically supposed to be, which someone who is maybe no longer a teenager would probably not attempt. One of them ended up on the cover of our 2014 Reasons to Love New York issue, of his legs dangling awesomely (or terrifyingly, if you’ve got a touch of vertigo) over the streets. More recently, he’s been experimenting with taking photos with a drone, letting us again see our familiar city in all-new ways. We loved them, and asked him to shoot some of them just for us."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/drone-photos-of-new-york-city.html
Daily Intelligencer
A Drone’s Eye View of New York
The city as you’ve never seen it before — from directly overhead.
L’informazione è un dato che elimina l'incertezza. Fra i nostri sensi, questo ruolo tocca al tatto. Per eliminare le incertezze, per asseverare la consapevolezza ad esempio che le nostre chiavi sono in tasca, le dobbiamo toccare. La nostra società però è diventata visiva a seguito della scrittura e delle arti figurative, metodo più efficiente del tatto ma anche del suono parlato o cantato per trasmettere le informazioni “dense”. La naturalezza della profondità consapevole però è nel tatto.
Questo articolo lo spiega molto bene e apre nuovi scenari intrganti sulla possibilità di successo - o di effettivo funzionamento - della realtà aumentata come interfaccia dominante. Io non credo in un futuro di voci sintetiche o di stanze a chi parlare, ma neanche di fumetti che galleggiano davanti agli oggetti fisici, visibili tramite impianti digitali nella nostra cornea. Io voglio toccare. Il rischio sennò è la dissonanza cognitiva.
Money quote: “An important aspect of touch is often missed: touching is more psychologically reassuring than seeing. Touch does not always make us experience things better, but it certainly makes us feel better about what we experience. Even when we can see that the keys are in our bags, we are much more certain that they are once we’ve touched them”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-you-need-to-touch-your-keys-to-believe-theyre-in-your-bag
Questo articolo lo spiega molto bene e apre nuovi scenari intrganti sulla possibilità di successo - o di effettivo funzionamento - della realtà aumentata come interfaccia dominante. Io non credo in un futuro di voci sintetiche o di stanze a chi parlare, ma neanche di fumetti che galleggiano davanti agli oggetti fisici, visibili tramite impianti digitali nella nostra cornea. Io voglio toccare. Il rischio sennò è la dissonanza cognitiva.
Money quote: “An important aspect of touch is often missed: touching is more psychologically reassuring than seeing. Touch does not always make us experience things better, but it certainly makes us feel better about what we experience. Even when we can see that the keys are in our bags, we are much more certain that they are once we’ve touched them”
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-you-need-to-touch-your-keys-to-believe-theyre-in-your-bag
Aeon
Why you need to touch your keys to believe they’re in your bag | Aeon Ideas
If you need to feel your keys to believe they’re in your bag, then you know that touch counts for more than vision. But why?
C'è la fuga dal Sud dell'Europa: le popolazioni invecchiano e il lavoro scarseggia, la gente va a vivere al nord. Il fenomeno tocca profondamente anche l'Italia. I numeri che vengono da rapporto di Eurostat sono piuttosto chiari. Il rapporto è di settembre, ma con un po' di calma è una lettura interessante durante le prossime vacanze natalizie per capire meglio chi siamo noi europei.
Money quote: "“It’s certainly true that Sweden and Germany have received a lot of asylum seekers during the European migrant crisis, but the interesting case in Germany is that they also had of E.U. nationals at the same time,” Parusel tells CityLab. “If you look at the nationalities moving to Germany in 2015, the main national group was from Syria, but followed by Romania, Poland, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Italy. It's a very mixed picture of people coming from both conflict countries further afield and from people from within the E.U.”"
https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/09/european-demographics-aging-employment-migration/540084/
Money quote: "“It’s certainly true that Sweden and Germany have received a lot of asylum seekers during the European migrant crisis, but the interesting case in Germany is that they also had of E.U. nationals at the same time,” Parusel tells CityLab. “If you look at the nationalities moving to Germany in 2015, the main national group was from Syria, but followed by Romania, Poland, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Italy. It's a very mixed picture of people coming from both conflict countries further afield and from people from within the E.U.”"
https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/09/european-demographics-aging-employment-migration/540084/
CityLab
Mapping Where Europe's Population Is Moving, Aging, and Finding Work
Younger people are fleeing rural areas, migrating northward, and having fewer children. Here’s how that’s changing the region.
“Star Wars: Gli ultimi Jedi”, la mia recensione per Fumettologica
Money quote: "Con umiltà, cercando di non lasciarsi trasportare dalla vanità, giudicando quel che invece va accettato e visto con rispetto, possiamo dire che Gli ultimi Jedi è un film potente, divertente e piacevole, ben scritto e diretto con garbo."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/12/star-wars-gli-ultimi-jedi-recensione/
Money quote: "Con umiltà, cercando di non lasciarsi trasportare dalla vanità, giudicando quel che invece va accettato e visto con rispetto, possiamo dire che Gli ultimi Jedi è un film potente, divertente e piacevole, ben scritto e diretto con garbo."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/12/star-wars-gli-ultimi-jedi-recensione/
Fumettologica
"Star Wars: Gli ultimi Jedi", la recensione
Com'è "Gli ultimi Jedi", il più recente capitolo della saga di Star Wars, diretto da Rian Johnson, in distribuzione nei cinema italiani dal 13 dicembre.
Vi ricordate quando la Russia, anzi la Corea del Nord hanno rotto internet, l’anno scorso? Beh, invece sono stati tre ragazzini che volevano vincere a Minecraft. Adesso andiamo a rileggerci gli articoli di tutti i nostri “esperti” che strologavano senza evidentemente sapere i fatti di chi parlavano?
Money quote: “Amazing story and scoop. Remember when the whole Internet crashed last year? It wasn't North Korea or Russia. It was three kids trying to win at Minecraft.”
https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/
Money quote: “Amazing story and scoop. Remember when the whole Internet crashed last year? It wasn't North Korea or Russia. It was three kids trying to win at Minecraft.”
https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/
Wired
How a Dorm Room 'Minecraft' Scam Brought Down the Internet
A DDoS attack that crippled the internet wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working an online gaming hustle.
Forwarded from Scrivere zen
👁 Decidere di ridurre la propria presenza agli spazi essenziali e di tenere comunque un blog un personale, per condividere interessi personali o professionali in libertà http://www.pandemia.info/2017/12/13/pandemia-lunga-15-anni/ un post per riflettere su come e perché siamo online.
Pandemia
Una pandemia lunga 15 anni
15 anni fa la vista sulla rete era ben diversa da oggi. Non esistevano servizi che hanno centinaia di milioni di utenti su scala globale. Gli italiani non erano ancora arrivati in massa online. Nie…
È una riflessione ironica, da prendere con un sorriso. Però spiega un po' di cose
You may be unaware, but there is a very strict social hierarchy in fields.
Down at the very bottom comes the sociologists. Half the science community doesn’t even consider sociology to be real science. Even psychologists laugh and call sociology applied psychology.
Then we have psychology. Again, there are many scientists who disregard this field as a bunch of guesswork with no legitimate data, quantitative data. And you have biologists calling it applied biology.
Then comes biology. Pretty legitimate, but still looked down on by chemists, calling it applied chemistry.
As you may have guessed, next is chemistry. You may think, who looks down on chemistry? It’s pretty legitimate right? No. Physicists still look down upon them all and laugh. Everything is applied physics.
Right?
No. Physicists may stand above all the other sciences and laugh, but if physicists are standing on a hill, they all look like ants to the mathematicians looking down from the top of Everest. Everything. Is. Applied. Math.
Down at the very bottom comes the sociologists. Half the science community doesn’t even consider sociology to be real science. Even psychologists laugh and call sociology applied psychology.
Then we have psychology. Again, there are many scientists who disregard this field as a bunch of guesswork with no legitimate data, quantitative data. And you have biologists calling it applied biology.
Then comes biology. Pretty legitimate, but still looked down on by chemists, calling it applied chemistry.
As you may have guessed, next is chemistry. You may think, who looks down on chemistry? It’s pretty legitimate right? No. Physicists still look down upon them all and laugh. Everything is applied physics.
Right?
No. Physicists may stand above all the other sciences and laugh, but if physicists are standing on a hill, they all look like ants to the mathematicians looking down from the top of Everest. Everything. Is. Applied. Math.
Le sei regole per scrivere dei buoni articoli (pensato per blogger, ma non solo). A parte quella dello storytelling, che è banale oltre che discutibile, le altre sono cinque cose di buon senso che troppo spesso dimentichiamo.
Money quote: “Rule #4 for writing a good article: give me substance. One of the worst things on any news feed is an article that says nothing. They’re shockingly common. So often people just write fluff”
https://medium.com/the-mission/six-rules-for-writing-good-articles-94f95be2ba3c
Money quote: “Rule #4 for writing a good article: give me substance. One of the worst things on any news feed is an article that says nothing. They’re shockingly common. So often people just write fluff”
https://medium.com/the-mission/six-rules-for-writing-good-articles-94f95be2ba3c
Medium
Six Rules for Writing Good Articles
Writing a good article requires two things: good content and good technique.
Un altro articolo su come si fa a scrivere. Scritto da uno che scrive parecchio (o almeno così pensa lui). La prima metà è decisamente inutile. Ma nella seconda metà si sveglia e le cose diventano più interessanti anche se poco condivisibili. La via della scrittura è fatta di personale rodimento e arrovellamento, ma fa sempre piacere vedere i rovelli altrui.
Money quote: “You might think that adjusting to patterns might make your life repetitive and boring, but the opposite seems to be true. The beauty of recognizing patterns in your life is that it frees up your cognitive bandwidth for much higher value activities than trying to decide how you plan to behave for the day. Recognizing patterns in your life requires you to take actually take time, slow down and reflect on the results that your behavior is producing.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-writing-1000-words-a-day-changed-my-life-cf72453b8fef
Money quote: “You might think that adjusting to patterns might make your life repetitive and boring, but the opposite seems to be true. The beauty of recognizing patterns in your life is that it frees up your cognitive bandwidth for much higher value activities than trying to decide how you plan to behave for the day. Recognizing patterns in your life requires you to take actually take time, slow down and reflect on the results that your behavior is producing.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-writing-1000-words-a-day-changed-my-life-cf72453b8fef
Medium
How Writing 1000 Words a Day Changed my Life
I wrote at least a thousand words a day every day from the age of twelve on. — Ray Bradbury, Zen and the Art of Writing
Nell'era dello streming video Disney si compra 21th Century Fox - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/nellera-dello-streming-video-disney-si-compra-21th-century-fox/
https://www.macitynet.it/nellera-dello-streming-video-disney-si-compra-21th-century-fox/
Macitynet.it
Nell'era dello streming video Disney si compra 21th Century Fox - Macitynet.it
Il topo si è mangiato tutto il formaggio: la maxiacquisizione da 52,4 miliardi di dollari permette a Disney di prendersi quasi tutta. 20th Century Fox. E i Simpson lo sapevano 20 anni fa...
Addio Net Neutrality, cosa cambia in USA e in Europa - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-net-neutrality-grazie-pesce/
https://www.macitynet.it/addio-net-neutrality-grazie-pesce/
Macitynet.it
Addio Net Neutrality, cosa cambia in USA e in Europa - Macitynet.it
Gli USA firmano l' addio Net Neutrality, l’atto che sancisce la fine di una rete in cui i bit hanno tutti la stessa cittadinanza. Cosa cambia in America e cosa cambierà da noi
Ecco cosa consiglia di leggere Bill Gates quest’anno - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/cosa-consiglia-leggere-bill-gates-questanno/
https://www.macitynet.it/cosa-consiglia-leggere-bill-gates-questanno/
Macitynet.it
Ecco cosa consiglia di leggere Bill Gates quest’anno - Macitynet.it
Il fondatore di Microsoft pubblica la sua lista di letture del 2017: per la prima volta c’è anche un fumetto
Il designer Vinicius Araújo lavora sull’alfabeto, i marchi, la grafica; i risultati sono sorprendenti.
Money quote: “An ingenious project by graphic designer Vinicius Araújo from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “36days Electronics” involves a complete set of Helvetica letterforms based on new and retro electronic brands like Ultimate Ears (U), Apple (A) and Nintendo (N). See the full alphabet, plus a bonus set of numbers, below!”
https://www.booooooom.com/2017/11/10/electronic-brand-alphabet-by-designer-vinicius-araujo/
Money quote: “An ingenious project by graphic designer Vinicius Araújo from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “36days Electronics” involves a complete set of Helvetica letterforms based on new and retro electronic brands like Ultimate Ears (U), Apple (A) and Nintendo (N). See the full alphabet, plus a bonus set of numbers, below!”
https://www.booooooom.com/2017/11/10/electronic-brand-alphabet-by-designer-vinicius-araujo/
BOOOOOOOM!
Electronic Brand Alphabet by Designer Vinicius Araújo
An ingenious project by graphic designer Vinicius Araújo from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "36days Electronics" involves a complete set of …