Un pensiero che mi piace molto sul cosa vuol dire programmare (alla faccia di tutte le Code.org del pianeta e degli ECDL vari)
Money quote 1: "One of the ideas I tried to get across is that if you do not start a paper by opening a text processor, and if you do not start a presentation by opening a slide editor (and you should never do either of these things), then you surely do not start thinking about code by opening a code editor. Writing code should be the last part of the project. The real action comes before."
Money quote 2: "When you approach computational problems this way, it becomes striking that 90% of the job can be done without ever knowing how to turn the computer on. “Knowing code” is essentially an empty notion. What does it means? Is it knowing the language? Someone reading through the entire documentation of R is as ill prepared to solve problems as someone reading through a dictionary is at speaking a language."
https://medium.com/@tpoi/are-you-a-scientist-do-not-learn-how-to-code-just-yet-690528f1da8d
Money quote 1: "One of the ideas I tried to get across is that if you do not start a paper by opening a text processor, and if you do not start a presentation by opening a slide editor (and you should never do either of these things), then you surely do not start thinking about code by opening a code editor. Writing code should be the last part of the project. The real action comes before."
Money quote 2: "When you approach computational problems this way, it becomes striking that 90% of the job can be done without ever knowing how to turn the computer on. “Knowing code” is essentially an empty notion. What does it means? Is it knowing the language? Someone reading through the entire documentation of R is as ill prepared to solve problems as someone reading through a dictionary is at speaking a language."
https://medium.com/@tpoi/are-you-a-scientist-do-not-learn-how-to-code-just-yet-690528f1da8d
Medium
Are you a scientist? Do not learn how to code (just yet).
Programming and cooking are almost the same. One is about manipulating raw ingredients through a series of steps until people are able to…
Facebook ha 14 anni, tanti auguri al social “Amico” - il mio articolo per Macity (c'è da divertirsi, mi dicono)
Money quote: "Tutto questo per dire che Facebook, come e più di Google, è un gigante completamente in equilibrio su uno spillo: quello dell’attenzione delle persone. La sua è una vera economia dell’attenzione."
https://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-facebook/
Money quote: "Tutto questo per dire che Facebook, come e più di Google, è un gigante completamente in equilibrio su uno spillo: quello dell’attenzione delle persone. La sua è una vera economia dell’attenzione."
https://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-facebook/
Macitynet.it
Facebook ha 14 anni, tanti auguri al social “Amico” - Macitynet.it
Il social media per definizione compie quattordici anni, ma il suo futuro oggi sembra molto diverso da quello che avremmo immaginato sino a poco tempo fa
TLDR è il miglior amico per gli esploratori della riga di comando - il mio articolo per Macity. Un software davvero utile
Money quote: "Una comunità di volontari si è messa al lavoro per creare TLDR, cioè una serie di “man pages” semplificate e più orientate a un uso semplice e diretto del sistema Unix (o Linux) che sta in questo caso nella pancia del Mac. Lo scopo della comunità è quindi quello di riscrivere in maniera sintetica e facile i manuali di tutti i comandi, fornendo una descrizione che permetta anche a chi se ne intende meno di trovare subito le istruzioni che servono."
https://www.macitynet.it/tldr-miglior-amico-gli-esploratori-della-riga-comando/
Money quote: "Una comunità di volontari si è messa al lavoro per creare TLDR, cioè una serie di “man pages” semplificate e più orientate a un uso semplice e diretto del sistema Unix (o Linux) che sta in questo caso nella pancia del Mac. Lo scopo della comunità è quindi quello di riscrivere in maniera sintetica e facile i manuali di tutti i comandi, fornendo una descrizione che permetta anche a chi se ne intende meno di trovare subito le istruzioni che servono."
https://www.macitynet.it/tldr-miglior-amico-gli-esploratori-della-riga-comando/
Macitynet.it
TLDR è il miglior amico per gli esploratori della riga di comando - Macitynet.it
TLDR è un piccolo software comunitario (disponibile su moltissime piattaforme macOS, Linux, Windows, Android e iOS incluse) che fornisce una spiegazione semplice, diretta e concisa dei comandi del Terminale
Se non fosse un articolo del New York Times penserei che sia una idiozia. E forse lo è, almeno così potrebbero pensare lettori più cinici di me. Comunque, in Afghanistan per curarsi dal male della guerra, nonostante l’enorme tasso di analfabetismo, leggere spopola e il mercato dei libri cresce alla grande. I libri sono il tonico di vite sconvolte dalla guerra. (Si vede che da quelle parti non c’è Netflix).
Money quote: “In a turbulent, troubled society, curling up with a book has become the best tonic around.
“I think in any environment, but perhaps especially places at war, book reading creates a pause from day-to-day life and isolates a reader from their surroundings while they’re buried in a book,” said Jamshid Hashimi, who runs an online library and is a co-founder of the Book Club of Afghanistan. “This is powerful anywhere, but in a place like Afghanistan, it can be a means of emotional survival.””
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-books-publishing.html
Money quote: “In a turbulent, troubled society, curling up with a book has become the best tonic around.
“I think in any environment, but perhaps especially places at war, book reading creates a pause from day-to-day life and isolates a reader from their surroundings while they’re buried in a book,” said Jamshid Hashimi, who runs an online library and is a co-founder of the Book Club of Afghanistan. “This is powerful anywhere, but in a place like Afghanistan, it can be a means of emotional survival.””
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/asia/afghanistan-kabul-books-publishing.html
Nytimes
Most Afghans Can’t Read, but Their Book Trade Is Booming
Fueled by pent-up demand for both outside views and local authors, Kabul book publishers and sellers are flourishing — and feeding a need for escape.
Chris Anderson è un fisico, oggi fa l’imprenditore ma è stato a lungo direttore di Wired ed è una persona molto intelligente. Qui si aggancia al treno della globalizzazione e della digitalizzazione nella prospettiva del localismo spinto. E canta anche lui nel coro di chi annuncia la fine dell’idea e soprattutto del sentimento di nazione. È una tendenza sempre più diffusa.
Money quote: “But the notion of national borders and citizenship, defined by laws not ethnicity or tribal, language, religious or cultural affiliation, is both new and fragile. Indeed, it’s looking as temporary as the systems that came before it. As we increasingly live our lives online, unconstrained by those borders and citizenship, we’re starting to define new atomic units of social granularity, and they are both bigger and smaller than the nation state — from the global sects of Islam to the globally distributed alt-right. You can work for a multinational, speak English at work, then come home and speak Hindi to your family in your home in Zurich”
https://medium.com/@chr1sa/before-and-after-the-nation-state-857750aa5448
Money quote: “But the notion of national borders and citizenship, defined by laws not ethnicity or tribal, language, religious or cultural affiliation, is both new and fragile. Indeed, it’s looking as temporary as the systems that came before it. As we increasingly live our lives online, unconstrained by those borders and citizenship, we’re starting to define new atomic units of social granularity, and they are both bigger and smaller than the nation state — from the global sects of Islam to the globally distributed alt-right. You can work for a multinational, speak English at work, then come home and speak Hindi to your family in your home in Zurich”
https://medium.com/@chr1sa/before-and-after-the-nation-state-857750aa5448
Medium
Before and after the nation state
I’ve been thinking about the connections between the rise of Bitcoin and the unraveling of the EU (Brexit), Spain (Catalan), the Middle…
C’è un insetto, abbastanza schifosetto, che nei primi stadi di sviluppo ha una coppia di ruote dentate - sì, ingranaggi - per sincronizzare il moto ultra rapido delle zampe. Mamma mia.
Money quote: “The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent. Scientists say this is the “first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure”.“
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/functioning-mechanical-gears-seen-in-nature-for-the-first-time
Money quote: “The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent. Scientists say this is the “first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure”.“
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/functioning-mechanical-gears-seen-in-nature-for-the-first-time
University of Cambridge
Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time
The juvenile Issus - a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing ‘teeth’ that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to
Franco Brambilla: illustrare la fantascienza - la mia intervista per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/franco-brambilla-intervista-urania/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/franco-brambilla-intervista-urania/
Fumettologica
Franco Brambilla: illustrare la fantascienza
Forse non conoscete il suo nome, ma sicuramente avete visto i suoi disegni. Franco Brambilla è uno dei principali illustratori italiani per la fantascienza.
Il regista di ‘Ex Machina’ ha finito il suo nuovo film, si chiama 'Annihilation' e la protagonista è Nathalie Portman. Esce negli Usa, in Cina e basta. Nel resto del mondo va su Netflix. Suona come una piccola rivoluzione, anzi una crisi vera e propria, che segnala un ulteriore cambiamento di passo nella strategia di Paramount e degli altri grandi di Hollywood?
Money quote: “Annihilation is being released in American theaters on February 23, but with much less promotional fanfare than Arrival got (February is hardly a prime time to release a film for Oscars contention). Outside of the U.S., Canada, and China, the movie isn’t getting a theatrical rollout at all— its international release will be handled by Netflix, to whom Paramount sold the rights in December. This arrangement is practically unheard of for a major studio, since it openly acknowledges that Paramount doesn’t think the film will make money. The move has also prompted a disappointed reaction from Garland, who said he made Annihilation to be seen on the big screen; it’s the kind of decision that could drive acclaimed filmmakers away from working with the studio in the future. So what’s the rationale behind Paramount’s decision?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551810/
Money quote: “Annihilation is being released in American theaters on February 23, but with much less promotional fanfare than Arrival got (February is hardly a prime time to release a film for Oscars contention). Outside of the U.S., Canada, and China, the movie isn’t getting a theatrical rollout at all— its international release will be handled by Netflix, to whom Paramount sold the rights in December. This arrangement is practically unheard of for a major studio, since it openly acknowledges that Paramount doesn’t think the film will make money. The move has also prompted a disappointed reaction from Garland, who said he made Annihilation to be seen on the big screen; it’s the kind of decision that could drive acclaimed filmmakers away from working with the studio in the future. So what’s the rationale behind Paramount’s decision?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551810/
Se vi capita di fare un giro a Capannori, in Toscana, vicino alla costa, c'è un bell'albero da vedere, di quelli vecchi vecchi: circa 600 anni.
Money quote: "The old oak inspired another story, too, this one more familiar to children around the world. Carlo Collodi once sat beneath its behemoth branches while penning several chapters of The Adventures of Pinocchio. It inspired the scenes where the famous puppet meets the Cat and the Fox and where he is later rescued by the Blue Fairy. As such, one of the tree’s other names is Quercia di Pinocchio (Pinocchio’s Oak). The tree towers within an area that celebrates its Pinocchio connections with other sites related to the story."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-of-the-witches
Money quote: "The old oak inspired another story, too, this one more familiar to children around the world. Carlo Collodi once sat beneath its behemoth branches while penning several chapters of The Adventures of Pinocchio. It inspired the scenes where the famous puppet meets the Cat and the Fox and where he is later rescued by the Blue Fairy. As such, one of the tree’s other names is Quercia di Pinocchio (Pinocchio’s Oak). The tree towers within an area that celebrates its Pinocchio connections with other sites related to the story."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-of-the-witches
Atlas Obscura
Oak of the Witches
This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.
Hanno hackerato anche i vibratori. Cosa di per sé piuttosto singolare, soprattutto perché viene da chiedersi: ma che bisogno c'era di connettere in rete i dildos? Va bene la Internet delle cose, ma insomma...
Money quote: "Security researchers have found that a popular internet-connected sex toy is riddled with vulnerabilities and flaws, which put users at a huge privacy risk."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-smart-vibrator-can-be-easily-hacked-and-remotely-controlled-by-anyone/
Money quote: "Security researchers have found that a popular internet-connected sex toy is riddled with vulnerabilities and flaws, which put users at a huge privacy risk."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-smart-vibrator-can-be-easily-hacked-and-remotely-controlled-by-anyone/
ZDNet
This smart vibrator can be 'easily' hacked and remotely controlled by anyone
As many as 100,000 users' had their private sexual activities exposed by a related data leak.
Vivere il sogno. Vendere il sogno
Money quote: "The plane’s opulence — its seats embroidered with what the reality-TV star claimed was the Trump family crest — and its billionaire pedigree recalled a venerable tradition of elite mobility, whereby warrior-aristocrats would commission costly ships not just for splendid seafaring and maritime conflict but for exchange among themselves, as gifts befitting their shared station. These practices endured for millenniums, from Pharaonic barges and Chinese imperial dragon boats to medieval Viking galleys (as, in the 10th century, when King Harald Fairhair of Norway presented to King Aethelstan of the West Saxons and the Mercians a purple-sailed vessel with a bow of gold) and British royal yachts, which Queen Victoria lent liberally to friends like the Empress of Austria."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/selling-airborne-opulence-to-the-upper-upper-upper-class.html
Money quote: "The plane’s opulence — its seats embroidered with what the reality-TV star claimed was the Trump family crest — and its billionaire pedigree recalled a venerable tradition of elite mobility, whereby warrior-aristocrats would commission costly ships not just for splendid seafaring and maritime conflict but for exchange among themselves, as gifts befitting their shared station. These practices endured for millenniums, from Pharaonic barges and Chinese imperial dragon boats to medieval Viking galleys (as, in the 10th century, when King Harald Fairhair of Norway presented to King Aethelstan of the West Saxons and the Mercians a purple-sailed vessel with a bow of gold) and British royal yachts, which Queen Victoria lent liberally to friends like the Empress of Austria."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/selling-airborne-opulence-to-the-upper-upper-upper-class.html
NY Times
Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class (Published 2018)
For a private-jet broker, success is all about knowing who’s who in the world’s 0.0001 percent.
“Altered Carbon”, uno spettacolo visivo che manca di profondità - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/altered-carbon-recensione-netflix/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/altered-carbon-recensione-netflix/
Fumettologica
"Altered Carbon", uno spettacolo visivo che manca di profondità
Recensione della serie tv Altered Carbon prodotta da Netflix, una bellissima festa per gli occhi, ma purtroppo povera di contenuti.
Sindrome da connessione infantile tra i bambini Usa: il 40% tra gli 0 e 8 anni ha un tablet - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/connessi-negli-usa-40-gli-0-8-anni-un-tablet/
https://www.macitynet.it/connessi-negli-usa-40-gli-0-8-anni-un-tablet/
Macitynet.it
Sindrome da connessione infantile tra i bambini Usa: il 40% tra gli 0 e 8 anni ha un tablet - Macitynet.it
Sempre più bambini sono connessi in rete. Il fenomeno cresce soprattutto grazie a iPad. E negli Usa ci si preoccupa
C'è questo problema delle molestie sessuali che, intanto che è finalmente venuto fuori, ha degli effetti secondari piuttosto destabilizzanti. Ad esempio: nella Silicon Valley c'è chi si chiede come gestire l'idea di colleghi di lavoro che escono insieme o si fidanzano. Si scopre che la "office romance" è in declino, ma alcuni passaggi sono veramente agghiaccianti.
Money quote: "And some employers have even resorted to so-called "love contracts," documents in which both members of a relationship confirm that they weren't coerced into dating and that they agree to behave professionally while at work."
http://bit.ly/2EbaWnc
Money quote: "And some employers have even resorted to so-called "love contracts," documents in which both members of a relationship confirm that they weren't coerced into dating and that they agree to behave professionally while at work."
http://bit.ly/2EbaWnc
Ve lo ricordate lo scambio tra Diane Keaton e Woody Allen? "Ma davvero ti piace Wagner?". "Certo, anche se ogni volta che lo sento mi viene voglia di invadere la Polonia!" (Per i precisini era "Misterioso Omicidio a Manhatthan" del 1993).
Ecco, invece l'uomo era un rivoluzionario: come scrive il mio amico Roberto, "il Wagner era di sinistra, altro che invasione della Polonia!"
Money quote: "Addressing some 3,000 people, Wagner argued for a form of constitutional monarchy in which the king was an equal with his subjects; as part of the new dispensation, what he called “the demonic concept of money” would be abolished. The speech roused his listeners to wild enthusiasm, especially passages concerning the “sycophantic” courtiers by whom the king, he said, was surrounded: this was particularly gratifying, of course, coming from the Orchestral Conductor Royal and it went round the city like wildfire. The excitement of the event seems to have gone to Wagner’s head. Never popular in court circles, he was now acquiring serious enemies; that night at the theater he was due to conduct Rienzi, of all things, with its spectacular scenes of popular turbulence. He was warned that there might well be a demonstration against him; instead, he was greeted with a roar of approval."
http://lithub.com/how-wagner-tried-to-revolutionize-art-and-end-capitalism/
Ecco, invece l'uomo era un rivoluzionario: come scrive il mio amico Roberto, "il Wagner era di sinistra, altro che invasione della Polonia!"
Money quote: "Addressing some 3,000 people, Wagner argued for a form of constitutional monarchy in which the king was an equal with his subjects; as part of the new dispensation, what he called “the demonic concept of money” would be abolished. The speech roused his listeners to wild enthusiasm, especially passages concerning the “sycophantic” courtiers by whom the king, he said, was surrounded: this was particularly gratifying, of course, coming from the Orchestral Conductor Royal and it went round the city like wildfire. The excitement of the event seems to have gone to Wagner’s head. Never popular in court circles, he was now acquiring serious enemies; that night at the theater he was due to conduct Rienzi, of all things, with its spectacular scenes of popular turbulence. He was warned that there might well be a demonstration against him; instead, he was greeted with a roar of approval."
http://lithub.com/how-wagner-tried-to-revolutionize-art-and-end-capitalism/
Literary Hub
How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism
The World in Flames At the beginning of 1848, as Richard Wagner put the finishing touches to his new opera, the world was falling apart again, insurrection erupting volcanically all across Europe li…
Il New Yorker non è particolarmente noto per le fotografie. Anzi, il settimanale newyorkese ha storicamente sempre evitato di cadere nel gorgo dei rotocalchi. Però, quando li fa, i suoi servizi fotografici sono molto belli. Come questo sulla nuova via della Seta tra Cina ed Europa
Money quote: "For the past three months, Ma Wei, twenty-five, has been working in a noodle shop in Lanzhou New Area. The restaurant makes three hundred bowls of hand-pulled noodles every day, mostly for laborers at a nearby construction site."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/a-new-silk-road
Money quote: "For the past three months, Ma Wei, twenty-five, has been working in a noodle shop in Lanzhou New Area. The restaurant makes three hundred bowls of hand-pulled noodles every day, mostly for laborers at a nearby construction site."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/a-new-silk-road
The New Yorker
A New Silk Road
China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
Intervista a Laura Donnini, l'amministratrice delegata della neonata HarperCollins Italia
Money quote: "«Siamo piccoli, molto affamati, molto energetici, molto appassionati, e cerchiamo di fare il vero lavoro degli editori, prendendoci cura degli autori». Laura Donnini mi accoglie così nel suo ufficio di amministratrice delegata di HarperCollins Italia, cinturone stretto in vita, stivali e collana di pietre, incarna bene lo spirito della casa editrice che vuole costruire. Nella stanza, organizzata e chiara, è appeso un ritaglio di giornale, il suo trofeo più grande: c’è stampata sopra la foto dello scrittore americano Wilbur Smith e la notizia che dopo 35 anni con Longanesi sarebbe passato a HarperCollins Italia, con otto nuovi romanzi. Per Smith non è stata una questione economica, dice Donnini: «a partire dalla stessa offerta ha scelto la freschezza di un approccio più su misura, ed è in questo che noi facciamo la differenza». È forse sempre per questo che il memoir di Smith, Leopard Rock. L’avventura della mia vita, uscirà in anteprima mondiale proprio in Italia, il 10 maggio: «un regalo che ha voluto fare ai lettori italiani», spiegano da HarperCollins."
http://www.ilpost.it/2018/02/09/harper-collins-laura-donnini/
Money quote: "«Siamo piccoli, molto affamati, molto energetici, molto appassionati, e cerchiamo di fare il vero lavoro degli editori, prendendoci cura degli autori». Laura Donnini mi accoglie così nel suo ufficio di amministratrice delegata di HarperCollins Italia, cinturone stretto in vita, stivali e collana di pietre, incarna bene lo spirito della casa editrice che vuole costruire. Nella stanza, organizzata e chiara, è appeso un ritaglio di giornale, il suo trofeo più grande: c’è stampata sopra la foto dello scrittore americano Wilbur Smith e la notizia che dopo 35 anni con Longanesi sarebbe passato a HarperCollins Italia, con otto nuovi romanzi. Per Smith non è stata una questione economica, dice Donnini: «a partire dalla stessa offerta ha scelto la freschezza di un approccio più su misura, ed è in questo che noi facciamo la differenza». È forse sempre per questo che il memoir di Smith, Leopard Rock. L’avventura della mia vita, uscirà in anteprima mondiale proprio in Italia, il 10 maggio: «un regalo che ha voluto fare ai lettori italiani», spiegano da HarperCollins."
http://www.ilpost.it/2018/02/09/harper-collins-laura-donnini/
Il Post
HarperCollins s’allarga
La filiale italiana del grande gruppo americano non vuole più fermarsi agli Harmony e ha già rubato un grosso autore ai rivali
Forse l'ultimo dei tre evasi da Alcatratz nel 1962 potrebbe essersi fatto vivo, qualche anno fa. Una storia da film della quale sappiamo ancora relativamente poco.
Money quote: "O’Keefe, the U.S. Marshal, said the agency doesn’t have any other leads to follow up on. But he said the case is still open and will stay open “as long as the possibility exists that any of the three are alive.”
In his letter, the man claiming to be Anglin says Morris died in 2008 and his brother Clarence passed away in 2011. “John” says he’s living in southern California, which, if it’s true, would mean the cops have done a pretty crappy job of finding him."
https://omgfacts.com/one-of-the-convicts-who-escaped-alcatraz-in-1962-may-have-surfaced-a2e573882828
Money quote: "O’Keefe, the U.S. Marshal, said the agency doesn’t have any other leads to follow up on. But he said the case is still open and will stay open “as long as the possibility exists that any of the three are alive.”
In his letter, the man claiming to be Anglin says Morris died in 2008 and his brother Clarence passed away in 2011. “John” says he’s living in southern California, which, if it’s true, would mean the cops have done a pretty crappy job of finding him."
https://omgfacts.com/one-of-the-convicts-who-escaped-alcatraz-in-1962-may-have-surfaced-a2e573882828
OMGFacts
One Of The Convicts Who Escaped Alcatraz In 1962 May Have Surfaced
‘Yes, we all made it that night, but barely!’
Mi è capitato di visitare un po' di volte il Tempio dei Mormoni a Salt Lake City e chiacchierare con qualche esponente della Chiesa americana. La religione è poco conosciuta da noi e quel poco che sappiamo è abbastanza parziale. In realtà, ci sono molte cose alquanto singolari che si potrebbero imparare. Tipo il divieto assoluto di bere caffè, Coca Cola e té. Questo ha creato una specie di proibizionismo con i soliti che invece creano un mercato nero sotterraneo per l'agognata bibita ambrata...
Money quote: "At the time, all vending machines on BYU’s campus were controlled by Vending Services, who forbade caffeinated soda. “They would keep getting wind of this thing, and they could never find it,” Kearney says, chuckling. “Every time somebody from Vending Services would show up, Lee Walker would say, ‘I don’t know anything about that,’ and the next thing you’d know, we’d have to go and move it to some other place in the building.” It was a kind of open secret, he says. “Anybody from my time period would recall the ‘black market’ soda-pop machine that the theater department kept going.” (Karl Pope, a retired professor who taught in the department, remembers the machine, though he says it was not a secret—and that its fizzy spoils included Dr Pepper and caffeinated root beer.)"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/caffeine-coke-mormons-vending-machine-brigham-young
Money quote: "At the time, all vending machines on BYU’s campus were controlled by Vending Services, who forbade caffeinated soda. “They would keep getting wind of this thing, and they could never find it,” Kearney says, chuckling. “Every time somebody from Vending Services would show up, Lee Walker would say, ‘I don’t know anything about that,’ and the next thing you’d know, we’d have to go and move it to some other place in the building.” It was a kind of open secret, he says. “Anybody from my time period would recall the ‘black market’ soda-pop machine that the theater department kept going.” (Karl Pope, a retired professor who taught in the department, remembers the machine, though he says it was not a secret—and that its fizzy spoils included Dr Pepper and caffeinated root beer.)"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/caffeine-coke-mormons-vending-machine-brigham-young
Atlas Obscura
Why Brigham Young University Had a Secret Cola Vending Machine
The complex relationship between Mormons and caffeinated soda.
Con la fotonica nascerà il computer intelligente - Il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/09/tecnologia/news/con-la-fotonica-nascer-il-computer-intelligente-ooPkZ7iaquoG45mVuhmRML/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/09/tecnologia/news/con-la-fotonica-nascer-il-computer-intelligente-ooPkZ7iaquoG45mVuhmRML/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Con la fotonica nascerà il computer intelligente
Secondo una startup Usa i chip basati su raggi di luce anziché flussi di corrente elettrica potranno fare la differenza per creare sistemi di AI molto più potenti