I pregi del pensiero atomista. Natura facit saltum? Forse si forse no. Ma alla fine, a quanto pare tra tutti aveva ragione Lucrezio.
Money quote: “This book was one of the most important sources of inspiration for the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Nearly every Renaissance and Enlightenment intellectual read it and became an atomist to some degree (they often made allowances for God and the soul). Indeed, this is the reason why, to make a long and important story very short, science and philosophy even today still tend to look for and assume a fundamental discreteness in nature. Thanks in no small part to Lucretius’ influence, the search for discreteness became part of our historical DNA. The interpretive method and orientation of modern science in the West literally owe their philosophical foundations to ancient atomism via Lucretius’ little book on nature. Lucretius, as Stephen Greenblatt says in his book The Swerve (2011), is ‘how the world became modern’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-nature-continuous-or-discrete-how-the-atomist-error-was-born
Money quote: “This book was one of the most important sources of inspiration for the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. Nearly every Renaissance and Enlightenment intellectual read it and became an atomist to some degree (they often made allowances for God and the soul). Indeed, this is the reason why, to make a long and important story very short, science and philosophy even today still tend to look for and assume a fundamental discreteness in nature. Thanks in no small part to Lucretius’ influence, the search for discreteness became part of our historical DNA. The interpretive method and orientation of modern science in the West literally owe their philosophical foundations to ancient atomism via Lucretius’ little book on nature. Lucretius, as Stephen Greenblatt says in his book The Swerve (2011), is ‘how the world became modern’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-nature-continuous-or-discrete-how-the-atomist-error-was-born
Aeon
Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born
The idea that nature is made of discrete particles is both ancient and contemporary but it’s based on a misreading of atomism
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C’è una bella storia d’amore dietro a una delle migliori App per Sudoku mai apparse sull’Apple
Store (e ve lo dice un fanatico del Sudoku). Dedicata anche ai puristi che amano carta e penna: si può giocare anche con la Apple Pencil.
Link: https://apple.co/2xfiA14
Store (e ve lo dice un fanatico del Sudoku). Dedicata anche ai puristi che amano carta e penna: si può giocare anche con la Apple Pencil.
Link: https://apple.co/2xfiA14
App Store
L’amore ai tempi del sudoku: articolo sull’App Store
Scopri L’amore ai tempi del sudoku sull’App Store.
America, la terra delle ineguaglianze
Money quote: “Although the U.S. remains the world’s richest country, it has the third-highest poverty rate among the 35 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), behind only Turkey and Israel. Nearly 1 in 5 American children lives in a household that the government classifies as “food insecure,” meaning they are without “access to enough food for active, healthy living.”
Beyond that, too few basic services seem to work as they should. America’s airports are an embarrassment, and a modern air-traffic control system is more than 25 years behind its original schedule. The power grid, roads and rails are crumbling, pushing the U.S. far down international rankings for infrastructure quality. Despite spending more on health care and K-12 education per capita than most other developed countries, health care outcomes and student achievement also rank in the middle or worse globally. Among the 35 OECD countries, American children rank 30th in math”
http://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/
Money quote: “Although the U.S. remains the world’s richest country, it has the third-highest poverty rate among the 35 nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), behind only Turkey and Israel. Nearly 1 in 5 American children lives in a household that the government classifies as “food insecure,” meaning they are without “access to enough food for active, healthy living.”
Beyond that, too few basic services seem to work as they should. America’s airports are an embarrassment, and a modern air-traffic control system is more than 25 years behind its original schedule. The power grid, roads and rails are crumbling, pushing the U.S. far down international rankings for infrastructure quality. Despite spending more on health care and K-12 education per capita than most other developed countries, health care outcomes and student achievement also rank in the middle or worse globally. Among the 35 OECD countries, American children rank 30th in math”
http://time.com/5280446/baby-boomer-generation-america-steve-brill/
Time
How Baby Boomers Broke America
According to ‘Tailspin’ author Steven Brill
Ancora non è neanche segnato nell'apposita pagina dove vengono elencate le carte compatibili, ma Fineco è sbarcata su Apple Pay. Dopo Amex (che però non prendono sempre) er me è una piccola, vera rivoluzione
Money quote: "Fineco è solo l’ultima di una lista di banche che si pian piano vanno ad aggiungersi alla lista di quelle che supportano Apple Pay, anche se al momento in cui scriviamo non figura ancora tra quelle indicate sul sito ufficiale Apple. Nei mesi scorsi erano arrivati Hype, (poi integrata da Tim Personal che opera sullo stesso circuito), BuddyBank (una banca on line di Unicredit) e Allianz. Attualmente la piattaforma Apple Pay conta in Italia un totale di 20, in attesa che exi (già CartaSì) porti ad Apple nuove banche oltre a quelle che sono già compatibili con Apple Pay."
https://www.macitynet.it/fineco-apple-pay-finalmente-disponibile/
Money quote: "Fineco è solo l’ultima di una lista di banche che si pian piano vanno ad aggiungersi alla lista di quelle che supportano Apple Pay, anche se al momento in cui scriviamo non figura ancora tra quelle indicate sul sito ufficiale Apple. Nei mesi scorsi erano arrivati Hype, (poi integrata da Tim Personal che opera sullo stesso circuito), BuddyBank (una banca on line di Unicredit) e Allianz. Attualmente la piattaforma Apple Pay conta in Italia un totale di 20, in attesa che exi (già CartaSì) porti ad Apple nuove banche oltre a quelle che sono già compatibili con Apple Pay."
https://www.macitynet.it/fineco-apple-pay-finalmente-disponibile/
Apple Support
Banche aderenti al servizio Apple Pay in Europa e Medio Oriente
Apple Pay è compatibile con molte delle carte di credito e di debito delle principali banche. Aggiungi le tue carte di credito o di debito supportate e continua a usufruire di tutti i premi, i vantaggi e la sicurezza che offrono.
Il destino di Microsoft: un re Mida al contrario. Questa volta tocca a Skype, in veloce declino
Money quote: “Bloomberg took a closer look at the Skype and its decline. Microsoft argued that the “criticism is overblown and reflects, in part, people’s grumpiness with software updates.” They say that now the focus is the corporate market. But that doesn’t deny the fact that it is a terrible interface, inhuman and difficult to use. It lacks any imagination”
https://om.co/2018/05/15/skype-interrupted/
Money quote: “Bloomberg took a closer look at the Skype and its decline. Microsoft argued that the “criticism is overblown and reflects, in part, people’s grumpiness with software updates.” They say that now the focus is the corporate market. But that doesn’t deny the fact that it is a terrible interface, inhuman and difficult to use. It lacks any imagination”
https://om.co/2018/05/15/skype-interrupted/
On my Om
Skype, Interrupted
Skype, was once a beloved product, one that I loved using every day. It was a product I wrote about long before it was trendy. I sent the team feedback. Like all tiny apps that are good at what they d
La prima, vera medicina contro il mal di testa. Magari...
Money quote: “The first medicine designed to prevent migraines was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, ushering in what many experts believe will be a new era in treatment for people who suffer the most severe form of these headaches.“
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/health/migraines-prevention-drug-aimovig.html
Money quote: “The first medicine designed to prevent migraines was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, ushering in what many experts believe will be a new era in treatment for people who suffer the most severe form of these headaches.“
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/health/migraines-prevention-drug-aimovig.html
Nytimes
F.D.A. Approves First Drug Designed to Prevent Migraines
The decision ushers in what many experts believe will be a new era in treatment for people who suffer the most severe form of the headaches.
Sony prepara la PlayStation Classic Mini - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/28/tecnologia/sony-prepara-la-playstation-classic-mini-W2CeqofuizfnSfE4CsLgOO/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/28/tecnologia/sony-prepara-la-playstation-classic-mini-W2CeqofuizfnSfE4CsLgOO/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Sony prepara la PlayStation Classic Mini
Anche il colosso nipponico contagiato dalla mania delle mini-console. Le prime indiscrezioni la danno in arrivo per Natale
Alcuni tipi di dolore cronico possono essere di origine psicologica. E la cura non è chimica
Money quote: “After weaning himself off the opioid Vicodin and feeling like he had exhausted every medical option, Golson turned to a book that described how pain could be purely psychological in origin. That ultimately took a pain psychologist, a therapist who specializes in pain — not a physician — to treat the true source: his fearful thoughts. Realizing that psychological therapy could help “was one of the most profoundly surprising experiences of my life,” Golson says. No doctor he ever saw “even hinted my pain might be psychogenic,” meaning pain that’s psychological in origin.”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence
Money quote: “After weaning himself off the opioid Vicodin and feeling like he had exhausted every medical option, Golson turned to a book that described how pain could be purely psychological in origin. That ultimately took a pain psychologist, a therapist who specializes in pain — not a physician — to treat the true source: his fearful thoughts. Realizing that psychological therapy could help “was one of the most profoundly surprising experiences of my life,” Golson says. No doctor he ever saw “even hinted my pain might be psychogenic,” meaning pain that’s psychological in origin.”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence
Vox
100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.
Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.
Se vivete nell’Unione europea, provate a collegarvi a USA Today. Il quotidiano americano, per evitare problemi con la GDPR, ha creato una versione low tech del suo sito, senza tracker e javanoscript vari. Fila via che sembra un missile. Averne...
https://eu.usatoday.com
https://eu.usatoday.com
Perché ci sono poche donne che scrivono codice, spiegato da una donna che scrive codice
Money quote: “Compared to almost any other industry, women are underrepresented in technology. Only 18% of undergrad computer science majors are women, women hold 25% of technical roles at software companies, and 16% of tech companies are founded by women. Since software engineering is central to modern technology, people worry that the serious gender disparity sets us up for an unbalanced future.”
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/a-female-engineers-opinion-on-fewer-women-in-tech/
Money quote: “Compared to almost any other industry, women are underrepresented in technology. Only 18% of undergrad computer science majors are women, women hold 25% of technical roles at software companies, and 16% of tech companies are founded by women. Since software engineering is central to modern technology, people worry that the serious gender disparity sets us up for an unbalanced future.”
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/a-female-engineers-opinion-on-fewer-women-in-tech/
Kapwing Company Blog
A female engineer's opinion on why fewer women go in to tech
Over the last several months, I've witnessed many controversial discussions
among my friends, in my San Francisco community, and on online forums about
James Demore’s memorandum
[https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320]…
among my friends, in my San Francisco community, and on online forums about
James Demore’s memorandum
[https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320]…
Questo tecnologo, Justin Garrison, ha scritto un libro per O’Reilly, che è uno dei maggiori editori di libri di tecnologia. Era il suo primo libro e ne racconta la dinamica e le vicissitudine con dedizione quasi ingenua. Mentre Mark Twain riteneva che gli editori fossero i peggiori banditi, è evidente che sono il banco del casinò: vincono sempre loro.
Money quote: “Post production took about a month to complete and then the book went off for printing. At the same time it was posted on Safari Books Online and immediately available. We each received 6 copies of the book in the mail shortly after it was available for sale.
All in all I worked from Feb — Oct for roughly 5 nights a week at 2–3 hours per night. I also worked about 3 weekends non-stop when a draft or final edits were due. Roughly I’d say I worked about 500 hours total. That was only my time and doesn’t include Kris’. I was lucky to have a co-author to share the load.”
https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39
Money quote: “Post production took about a month to complete and then the book went off for printing. At the same time it was posted on Safari Books Online and immediately available. We each received 6 copies of the book in the mail shortly after it was available for sale.
All in all I worked from Feb — Oct for roughly 5 nights a week at 2–3 hours per night. I also worked about 3 weekends non-stop when a draft or final edits were due. Roughly I’d say I worked about 500 hours total. That was only my time and doesn’t include Kris’. I was lucky to have a co-author to share the load.”
https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39
Medium
The Economics of Writing a Technical Book
I am not an expert. I have co-authored a single book in 2017 called Cloud Native Infrastructure for O’Reilly Media. Many people have asked…
Il New Yorker racconta la storia della vera e unica rivista per hacker: “2600”. Una rivista di carta che va avanti da trent’anni e che vi consiglio di leggere, prima o poi (su archive. org qualcosa si trova).
Lo so, era una cosa da consigliare per il fine settimana, perché è una bella lettura. Ma voi la salvate su pocket o instapaper e il gioco è fatto, no?
Money quote: “2600—named for the frequency that allowed early hackers and “phreakers” to gain control of land-line phones—is the photocopier to Snowden’s microprocessor. Its articles aren’t pasted up on a flashy Web site but, rather, come out in print. The magazine—which started as a three-page leaflet sent out in the mail, and became a digest-sized publication in the late nineteen-eighties—just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It still arrives with the turning of the seasons, in brown envelopes just a bit smaller than a 401k mailer.
“There’s been now, by any stretch of the imagination, three generations of hackers who have read 2600 magazine,” Jason Scott, a historian and Web archivist who recently reorganized a set of 2600’s legal files, said. Referring to Goldstein, whose real name is Eric Corley, he continued: “Eric really believes in the power of print, words on paper. It’s obvious for him that his heart is in the paper.” (That love affair comes with a price: earlier this year, 2600 was in danger of closing after a distributor failed to pay the magazine. The case is still in court.)”
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/print-magazine-hackers
Lo so, era una cosa da consigliare per il fine settimana, perché è una bella lettura. Ma voi la salvate su pocket o instapaper e il gioco è fatto, no?
Money quote: “2600—named for the frequency that allowed early hackers and “phreakers” to gain control of land-line phones—is the photocopier to Snowden’s microprocessor. Its articles aren’t pasted up on a flashy Web site but, rather, come out in print. The magazine—which started as a three-page leaflet sent out in the mail, and became a digest-sized publication in the late nineteen-eighties—just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It still arrives with the turning of the seasons, in brown envelopes just a bit smaller than a 401k mailer.
“There’s been now, by any stretch of the imagination, three generations of hackers who have read 2600 magazine,” Jason Scott, a historian and Web archivist who recently reorganized a set of 2600’s legal files, said. Referring to Goldstein, whose real name is Eric Corley, he continued: “Eric really believes in the power of print, words on paper. It’s obvious for him that his heart is in the paper.” (That love affair comes with a price: earlier this year, 2600 was in danger of closing after a distributor failed to pay the magazine. The case is still in court.)”
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/print-magazine-hackers
The New Yorker
A Print Magazine for Hackers
2600 provides a forum for hackers to discuss pressing issues from surveillance and Internet freedom to the security of the nation’s nuclear weapons.
Dati per coltivare frutta e verdura, ecco la rivoluzione “vertical farming” - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/dati-per-coltivare-frutta-e-verdura-ecco-la-rivoluzione-vertical-farming/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/dati-per-coltivare-frutta-e-verdura-ecco-la-rivoluzione-vertical-farming/
CorCom
Dati per coltivare frutta e verdura, ecco la rivoluzione "vertical farming" - CorCom
Aerofarm è una delle maggiori startup attive nella tecnica di coltivazione che riduce il bisogno di acqua del 95% e aumenta di 360 volte la produttività per metro quadro. Sensori e data point per gestire e ottimizzare le attività. Tom Burns (Dell-Emc): "Non…
Se l'esercizio è quello di conquistarsi un pubblico, e nell'epoca del narcisismo preso sul serio certo che lo è, allora forse la strategia migliore è essere autentici e darsi una propria voce
Money quote: "Listen, future content creators of the world: strike the word “content” from your vocabulary. Write it on a post-it note, douse it in kerosene and set that bitch ablaze. You’re not here because you dream of one day stuffing the “Top Posts” section of the Medium newsletter. You’re here because you dream of creating pretty things that serve a purpose. Those bro-flakes are teaching you how to speak. I’m going to teach you how to fucking sing."
https://writingcooperative.com/where-my-writing-voice-comes-from-178af4e1b5e3
Money quote: "Listen, future content creators of the world: strike the word “content” from your vocabulary. Write it on a post-it note, douse it in kerosene and set that bitch ablaze. You’re not here because you dream of one day stuffing the “Top Posts” section of the Medium newsletter. You’re here because you dream of creating pretty things that serve a purpose. Those bro-flakes are teaching you how to speak. I’m going to teach you how to fucking sing."
https://writingcooperative.com/where-my-writing-voice-comes-from-178af4e1b5e3
Medium
Where My Writing Voice Comes From
And how to find yours.
Con iPhone si aprono le camere degli hotel e le automobili - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/29/tecnologia/con-iphone-si-aprono-le-camere-degli-hotel-e-le-automobili-GeewA9M68U7P9J4qVCnwjN/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/29/tecnologia/con-iphone-si-aprono-le-camere-degli-hotel-e-le-automobili-GeewA9M68U7P9J4qVCnwjN/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Con iPhone si aprono le camere degli hotel e le automobili
Il melafonino sta per diventare il passepartout delle nostre vite? Apple al lavoro sulla tecnologia per trasformarlo in una chiave universale aperta agli sviluppatori terze parti
Sul come si scrive un libro, se a penna o con il computer
Money quote: "Ultimately, you will have to decide the best way for you to write a novel. I’ve experienced both and I will say that I type my novels directly into the computer now."
https://writingcooperative.com/writing-a-novel-longhand-b1e1a0d450e2
Money quote: "Ultimately, you will have to decide the best way for you to write a novel. I’ve experienced both and I will say that I type my novels directly into the computer now."
https://writingcooperative.com/writing-a-novel-longhand-b1e1a0d450e2
The Writing Cooperative
Writing a novel longhand – The Writing Cooperative
Many, many years ago I wrote my first novel using a pencil and yellow legal pads. It was horrible and I don’t even have the draft or…
Una coppia di comici americani praticamente sconosciuta da noi, "Tim and Eric". Deliranti. Bellissimi. Da cercare, dopo aver letto l'intervista.
Money quote: "A show filled with hair snacks and too-tight shorts may not sound all that hilarious on the page. Off the page, maybe even less so. But the secret to Tim and Eric’s comedy is in the details. It’s not so much what their characters are saying, but the vacant look in their eyes, the extended silences, their clumsy attempts at sincerity. Even at its most bizarre, there’s something very human about Awesome Show’s cast of eccentrics and weirdos. There’s a frailty behind the madness that only becomes more evident the closer you dare look."
https://www.believermag.com/issues/200809/?read=interview_tim_and_eric
Money quote: "A show filled with hair snacks and too-tight shorts may not sound all that hilarious on the page. Off the page, maybe even less so. But the secret to Tim and Eric’s comedy is in the details. It’s not so much what their characters are saying, but the vacant look in their eyes, the extended silences, their clumsy attempts at sincerity. Even at its most bizarre, there’s something very human about Awesome Show’s cast of eccentrics and weirdos. There’s a frailty behind the madness that only becomes more evident the closer you dare look."
https://www.believermag.com/issues/200809/?read=interview_tim_and_eric
The Believer
The Believer - Interview with Tim and Eric
From the Believer magazine.
Facile facile, un giochino per rilassarsi. Sì, sì...
Money quote: "3 o'clock is the strange puzzle game where you try to figure out who or what killed the Canderwalt family. This game will take you through a 15 minute journey in the house where it happened. You will be able to point and click through the entire story, but there's a catch! You must uncover what happened by doing the crime yourself! Will you be able to solve the mystery?"
http://www.mind-circus.org
Money quote: "3 o'clock is the strange puzzle game where you try to figure out who or what killed the Canderwalt family. This game will take you through a 15 minute journey in the house where it happened. You will be able to point and click through the entire story, but there's a catch! You must uncover what happened by doing the crime yourself! Will you be able to solve the mystery?"
http://www.mind-circus.org
Apple prepara Star, l’ibrido Mac-iPad Pro - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/30/tecnologia/apple-prepara-star-librido-macipad-pro-0licpgZ45L9KSD5rLmvY2I/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/30/tecnologia/apple-prepara-star-librido-macipad-pro-0licpgZ45L9KSD5rLmvY2I/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
Apple prepara Star, l’ibrido Mac-iPad Pro
Il computer portatile touch con un inedito sistema operativo avvistato in rete dagli appassionati. Progetto senza futuro oppure test prima della commercializzazione?
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
La storia di Anna Delvey, l’influencer miliardaria che stregò vip, potenti, multimiliardari e mezza Manhattan distraendo tutti spostando sempre gli stessi pochi soldi come in un gioco delle tre carte, riuscendo così per qualche anno a pranzare nei migliori ristoranti e dormire nei migliori hotel, raccontata da un lungo pezzo del New York Magazine da non perdere.
Link: http://bit.ly/2L3oeWc
Link: http://bit.ly/2L3oeWc