Un'altra teoria su come sia nato (e a che cosa serve da un punto di vista evoluzionistico) il linguaggio umano.
Money quote: "Oren Kolodny, a biologist at Stanford University, puts the question in more scientific terms: “What kind of evolutionary pressures could have given rise to this really weird and surprising phenomenon that is so critical to the essence of being human?” And he has proposed a provocative answer. In a recent paper in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Kolodny argues that early humans—while teaching their kin how to make complex tools—hijacked the capacity for language from themselves."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/toolmaking-language-brain/562385/
Money quote: "Oren Kolodny, a biologist at Stanford University, puts the question in more scientific terms: “What kind of evolutionary pressures could have given rise to this really weird and surprising phenomenon that is so critical to the essence of being human?” And he has proposed a provocative answer. In a recent paper in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Kolodny argues that early humans—while teaching their kin how to make complex tools—hijacked the capacity for language from themselves."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/toolmaking-language-brain/562385/
The Atlantic
A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From
It might have hijacked our early ancestors’ brains.
Siamo liberi di credere quel che vogliamo? No, decisamente no. Non è una posizione moralmente ed eticamente sostenibile.
Money quote: "But belief is not knowledge.
Beliefs are factive: to believe is to take to be true. It would be absurd, as the analytic philosopher G E Moore observed in the 1940s, to say: ‘It is raining, but I don’t believe that it is raining.’ Beliefs aspire to truth – but they do not entail it. Beliefs can be false, unwarranted by evidence or reasoned consideration. They can also be morally repugnant. Among likely candidates: beliefs that are sexist, racist or homophobic; the belief that proper upbringing of a child requires ‘breaking the will’ and severe corporal punishment; the belief that the elderly should routinely be euthanised; the belief that ‘ethnic cleansing’ is a political solution, and so on. If we find these morally wrong, we condemn not only the potential acts that spring from such beliefs, but the content of the belief itself, the act of believing it, and thus the believer."
https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to
Money quote: "But belief is not knowledge.
Beliefs are factive: to believe is to take to be true. It would be absurd, as the analytic philosopher G E Moore observed in the 1940s, to say: ‘It is raining, but I don’t believe that it is raining.’ Beliefs aspire to truth – but they do not entail it. Beliefs can be false, unwarranted by evidence or reasoned consideration. They can also be morally repugnant. Among likely candidates: beliefs that are sexist, racist or homophobic; the belief that proper upbringing of a child requires ‘breaking the will’ and severe corporal punishment; the belief that the elderly should routinely be euthanised; the belief that ‘ethnic cleansing’ is a political solution, and so on. If we find these morally wrong, we condemn not only the potential acts that spring from such beliefs, but the content of the belief itself, the act of believing it, and thus the believer."
https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to
Aeon
You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to
There is an ethic of believing, and that ethic limits the right to believe when beliefs are false, immoral or dangerous
Il trucchetto con cui, a quanto pare, Amazon tira avanti i suoi centri di logistica (lo segnalo da cliente Prime super-soddisfatto, casomai più infastidito degli spedizionieri che fanno l'ultimo pezzo, BRT e gli altri).
Money quote: "When a Fulfillment Center opens, the expectation is that anywhere from 1,000 to 2,200 positions will become available overnight, each providing 40 hours of work per week at a minimum. In reality, the labor hours Amazon needs to power its brutally efficient supply chain appear to be far fewer. To reduce overhead but continue to sop up performance-based incentives from the local governments it operates in, Amazon has become increasingly reliant on a work scheduling scheme that often coerces workers into leaving their shifts early or turns them away at the door without notice."
https://gizmodo.com/on-amazon-s-time-1826570882
Money quote: "When a Fulfillment Center opens, the expectation is that anywhere from 1,000 to 2,200 positions will become available overnight, each providing 40 hours of work per week at a minimum. In reality, the labor hours Amazon needs to power its brutally efficient supply chain appear to be far fewer. To reduce overhead but continue to sop up performance-based incentives from the local governments it operates in, Amazon has become increasingly reliant on a work scheduling scheme that often coerces workers into leaving their shifts early or turns them away at the door without notice."
https://gizmodo.com/on-amazon-s-time-1826570882
Gizmodo
On Amazon’s Time
At the beating heart of Amazon’s unstoppable ecommerce expansion is a very basic promise: jobs.
Come si fanno gli scoop. La storia di un giornalista che ha affondato un Unicorno, una startup da dieci miliardi di dollari di valutazione.
Money quote: "Several people who have worked at Rupert Murdoch papers have told me that he isn’t above interceding in editorial matters, but in this case, despite his personal interest, he didn’t. A source who has known Murdoch for years explained it, “He’s a newsman — and a good story is a good story no matter what or who the story is about.”"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/john-carreyrous-new-book-on-silicon-valley-bad-blood.html
Money quote: "Several people who have worked at Rupert Murdoch papers have told me that he isn’t above interceding in editorial matters, but in this case, despite his personal interest, he didn’t. A source who has known Murdoch for years explained it, “He’s a newsman — and a good story is a good story no matter what or who the story is about.”"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/john-carreyrous-new-book-on-silicon-valley-bad-blood.html
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Oggi, a 30 anni dalla morte, raccontiamo la rocambolesca, bellissima e molto poco conosciuta storia di come Andrea Pazienza evitò il servizio militare:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/06/andrea-pazienza-militare/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/06/andrea-pazienza-militare/
Fumettologica
Come Andrea Pazienza evitò il militare
La rocambolesca e poco conosciuta storia di come Andrea Pazienza riuscì a evitare il servizio militare, dal volume "Pippo. Antologia Psicotropa".
Forwarded from macitynet.it
Rosarium, l’app tutta italiana per recitare il Rosario con Apple Watch https://www.macitynet.it/rosarium-lapp-tutta-italiana-per-recitare-il-rosario-con-apple-watch/
Macitynet.it
Rosarium, l'app tutta italiana per recitare il Rosario con Apple Watch - Macitynet.it
L'app Rosarium, tutta italiana, per pregare il Rosario attraverso Apple Watch, è stata citata durante il seminario sull’International Design alla WWDC 2018.
Ridefinire il termine "stalking" per applicarlo alla ricerca di un lavoro: usare la profilazione dei social per una campagna Facebook di auto-promozione su misura, mirata a un'unica persona: l'amministratore delegato della società in cui ci si vuole far assumere, cioè Reddit... e ha pure funzionato!
Money quote: "I wanted to work at Reddit. Well, not just work at Reddit, but develop something very cool at Reddit that I think can make a huge impact on the business. So I wrote about it. I knew that the CEO of Reddit was a technical founder, so I put quite a deal of effort into that blog entry to try to impress him. Now, how to get him to see it?"
http://twicsy-blog.tumblr.com/post/174063770074/how-i-targeted-the-reddit-ceo-with-facebook-ads-to
Money quote: "I wanted to work at Reddit. Well, not just work at Reddit, but develop something very cool at Reddit that I think can make a huge impact on the business. So I wrote about it. I knew that the CEO of Reddit was a technical founder, so I put quite a deal of effort into that blog entry to try to impress him. Now, how to get him to see it?"
http://twicsy-blog.tumblr.com/post/174063770074/how-i-targeted-the-reddit-ceo-with-facebook-ads-to
I pubblicitari una volta erano chiamati Mad Men (vi ricordate la serie televisiva, vero?). Oggi a dominare sono i Math Men, quelli che sanno bene la matematica: i ragazzini di Google e Facebook. Il New Yorker, nonostante sia nato come rivista satirica colta e specializzata in cose culturali e letterarie, come sempre tira delle zampate che graffiano molto anche in altri settori.
Money quote: "The power of Math Men is awesome. Google and Facebook each has a market value exceeding the combined value of the six largest advertising and marketing holding companies. Together, they claim six out of every ten dollars spent on digital advertising, and nine out of ten new digital ad dollars. They have become more dominant in what is estimated to be an up to two-trillion-dollar annual global advertising and marketing business. Facebook alone generates more ad dollars than all of America’s newspapers, and Google has twice the ad revenues of Facebook."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-the-math-men-overthrew-the-mad-men
Money quote: "The power of Math Men is awesome. Google and Facebook each has a market value exceeding the combined value of the six largest advertising and marketing holding companies. Together, they claim six out of every ten dollars spent on digital advertising, and nine out of ten new digital ad dollars. They have become more dominant in what is estimated to be an up to two-trillion-dollar annual global advertising and marketing business. Facebook alone generates more ad dollars than all of America’s newspapers, and Google has twice the ad revenues of Facebook."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-the-math-men-overthrew-the-mad-men
The New Yorker
How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men
Advertising has always been about the search for perfect targeting data, paving the way for the annihilating power of Google and Facebook.
Il posto dove seppelliscono (o mettono a dormire per un po') gli aerei di linea, per poi magari cannibalizzarli anche.
Money quote: "Just a few years ago, only about 50 percent of a plane could be recycled; now, following the most up-to-date recycling standards, a facility like the one in Tupelo can find a way to re-use around 85 percent of a plane. It takes a few weeks to break down a plane, and the parking lot for doomed planes is relatively small."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-do-old-airplanes-go
Money quote: "Just a few years ago, only about 50 percent of a plane could be recycled; now, following the most up-to-date recycling standards, a facility like the one in Tupelo can find a way to re-use around 85 percent of a plane. It takes a few weeks to break down a plane, and the parking lot for doomed planes is relatively small."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-do-old-airplanes-go
Atlas Obscura
Where Airplanes Go When They Die
Under the right circumstances, it's possible to visit an aviation boneyard.
Viaggiando abbastanza spesso (e non solo per questo, temo: comumque sto andando negli Stati Uniti...) sono abbastanza ossessionato dal bagaglio. Soprattutto dal bagaglio a mano. Non dico che per rilassarmi vado a guardarmi i video su Kickstarter delle nuove valigie, borse e borsone, ma insomma, forse ogni tanto lo faccio... Comunque, da tempi a giro si vede questo trolley da cabina, cioè bagaglio che si può portare a bordo senza doverlo imbarcare, dalla forma strana e soprattutto dalle enormi e sottilissime ruote. Si chiama G-ro ed ha una storia molto interessante, oltre a un prezzo per me purtroppo proibitivo, giustificato però da una qualità del prodotto che è anche un attributo necessario se si viaggia molto: quando compri una valigia essenzialmente ottieni quel che paghi (e le cose che paghi molto poco durano pochissimo). Qui una recensione del G-ro:
Money quote: "The version of the bag I tested feels like it can take a beating. With a combination of carbon fiber, Cordura ballistic nylon, and mold-injected plastic polymers, G-RO claims the bag is water resistant and virtually crush-proof. The bag also includes a Tile bluetooth tracker— you can upgrade to a true GPS tracker built by G-RO — and features a built-in TSA-approved lock to secure the office and main compartments.
Both versions of the bag are pricey — the original ballistic nylon version is $449, while the carbon fiber version is $699 — but the build quality means they can be seen as an investment. The wheels are guaranteed for life, and the bag itself is sturdy and efficient."
http://www.businessinsider.com/g-ro-carry-on-luggage-review-2018-3
Money quote: "The version of the bag I tested feels like it can take a beating. With a combination of carbon fiber, Cordura ballistic nylon, and mold-injected plastic polymers, G-RO claims the bag is water resistant and virtually crush-proof. The bag also includes a Tile bluetooth tracker— you can upgrade to a true GPS tracker built by G-RO — and features a built-in TSA-approved lock to secure the office and main compartments.
Both versions of the bag are pricey — the original ballistic nylon version is $449, while the carbon fiber version is $699 — but the build quality means they can be seen as an investment. The wheels are guaranteed for life, and the bag itself is sturdy and efficient."
http://www.businessinsider.com/g-ro-carry-on-luggage-review-2018-3
Business Insider
This in-demand luggage startup claims it's 'reinventing the wheel' while shattering records on Kickstarter
Since it first launched on Kickstarter, the G-RO carry-on bag has been getting a ton of attention for its giant wheels, which make carrying heavy loads over city streets easy.
Donald Trump e il rapporto (malsano) che ha costruito con il conduttore radiofonico dlela Fox, Sean Hannity.
Money quote: "Senior staffers worried about this pattern of behavior: By the time his day was formally under way with the daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office — scheduled as late as 11 a.m. — the whole world was often thrown off course, wondering whether there were “tapes” of his conversations with a fired FBI director (May 12, 2017, 8:26 a.m.) or if a TV host had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” at Mar-a-Lago (June 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m.)."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html
Money quote: "Senior staffers worried about this pattern of behavior: By the time his day was formally under way with the daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office — scheduled as late as 11 a.m. — the whole world was often thrown off course, wondering whether there were “tapes” of his conversations with a fired FBI director (May 12, 2017, 8:26 a.m.) or if a TV host had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” at Mar-a-Lago (June 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m.)."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html
Se vi ricordate, anni fa con i navigatori TomTom da automobile era possibile registrare la propria voce o quella della persona cara e customizzare l'esperienza di guida in maniera unica. Oggi questo è l'approccio di Microsoft, che ha un assistente digitale meno caratterizzato rispetto a quelli della concorrenza (Siri di Apple, Alexa di Amazon, l'Assistant di Google). L'idea è che questo renda l'esperienza più su misura per i clienti business, ma la conseguenza potrebbe essere quella di frammentare e disperdere il valore. Peggio di Android sui telefonini, insomma.
Money quote: "To customize your voice agent, simply record and upload training data, and the service creates a unique voice font tuned to your recording. Start a proof of concept with a small amount of data. The system scales seamlessly as your data increases, enhancing the natural voice quality."
https://cris.ai/Home/CustomVoice
Money quote: "To customize your voice agent, simply record and upload training data, and the service creates a unique voice font tuned to your recording. Start a proof of concept with a small amount of data. The system scales seamlessly as your data increases, enhancing the natural voice quality."
https://cris.ai/Home/CustomVoice
Storie di dissidenti diventati vecchi e forse più saggi, di sicuro meno incazzati
Money quote: "San Francisco is going aggressively vertical, with a building boom of high rises in a city that was once proud of its low-rise, European-style ethos. Today we published an article that looks at the seismic risks of a denser and taller San Francisco — a city straddled by two of the most active faults in North America.
But “skyscraper” was once a dirty word in San Francisco. High rises were demonized in the 1970s by a generation of activists who battled against the “Manhattanization” of the city. The man who spearheaded the anti-skyscraper campaign, Alvin E. Duskin, now lives in a charming wooden house in the rolling hills of northwestern Marin County."
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/california-today-skyscraper-san-francisco.html
Money quote: "San Francisco is going aggressively vertical, with a building boom of high rises in a city that was once proud of its low-rise, European-style ethos. Today we published an article that looks at the seismic risks of a denser and taller San Francisco — a city straddled by two of the most active faults in North America.
But “skyscraper” was once a dirty word in San Francisco. High rises were demonized in the 1970s by a generation of activists who battled against the “Manhattanization” of the city. The man who spearheaded the anti-skyscraper campaign, Alvin E. Duskin, now lives in a charming wooden house in the rolling hills of northwestern Marin County."
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/california-today-skyscraper-san-francisco.html
Nytimes
California Today: When Skyscraper Was a Dirty Word
Tuesday: San Francisco’s high rises, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Kendrick Lamar win Pulitzers, and an East Bay hailstorm.
Vivo in un quartiere di Milano, Chinatown, che è stato sottoposto a una forma piuttosto rapida e massiccia di gentrification, e la cosa comincia a piacermi sempre meno. Il problema è l'appiattimento su stili di vita e contesti sempre più omogenei, costosi, completamente sanificati e plastificati. A quel punto preferisco Las Vegas (dove mi trovo adesso). La cosa riguarda ovviamente molte altre città. Negli Stati Uniti sta travolgendo New York, dopo aver sbranato San Francisco. Ed è un controsenso apparente, in un'epoca in cui si cercano le esperienze geniuine, trasformare tutto in una catena pianificata da esperti di marketing in cui non c'è più spazio per l'improvvisazione, lo sporco, il ruvido e il grezzo. Articolo delizioso di Harper's Magazine.
Money quote: "As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state where it is no longer a significant cultural entity but the world’s largest gated community, with a few cupcake shops here and there. For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring."
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/
Money quote: "As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state where it is no longer a significant cultural entity but the world’s largest gated community, with a few cupcake shops here and there. For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring."
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-city-gentrification/
Harper's Magazine
The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
Pubblicità progresso: Summer Camp 2018 di Aladdin. Se siete insegnanti nelle scuole primarie in cerca di un corso di formazione finanziato dall'Inps (e voi sapete di cosa sto parlando) questo è il migliore per apprendere il pensiero computazionale e un approccio sensato all'informatica. Che non è la scienza dei computer, così come l'astronomia non è la scienza dei telescopi. Sapevatelo.
Diffondente presso i vostro amici e parenti insegnanti nelle scuole primarie. Il corso si tiene a Brescia a fine giugno e poi a fine luglio.
Money quote: "Informatica e pensiero computazionale: competenze trasversali per la scuola. Corso di formazione per insegnanti delle scuole primarie. Tutti i costi del corso residenziale, eccetto le spese di viaggio, sono coperti da un finanziamento INPS, tramite il bando “Corsi di formazione in modalità residenziale Summer Camp 2018”, per il quale occorre presentare domanda a partire dalle 12 del 7 giugno e fino alle 12 del 21 giugno 2018."
http://aladdin.unimi.it/summercamp/
Diffondente presso i vostro amici e parenti insegnanti nelle scuole primarie. Il corso si tiene a Brescia a fine giugno e poi a fine luglio.
Money quote: "Informatica e pensiero computazionale: competenze trasversali per la scuola. Corso di formazione per insegnanti delle scuole primarie. Tutti i costi del corso residenziale, eccetto le spese di viaggio, sono coperti da un finanziamento INPS, tramite il bando “Corsi di formazione in modalità residenziale Summer Camp 2018”, per il quale occorre presentare domanda a partire dalle 12 del 7 giugno e fino alle 12 del 21 giugno 2018."
http://aladdin.unimi.it/summercamp/
aladdin.unimi.it
ALaDDIn — LAboratorio di Divulgazione e Didattica dell'INformatica
ALaDDIn's official page
E se passassimo tutti a Firefox? C'è chi se lo sta chiedendo, in chiave anti-Chrome (così come un tempo era in chiave anti-Explorer: bei tempi quelli in cui la pubblica amministrazione e tutte le grandi imprese facevano siti compatibili solo con il browser di Microsoft, altro che LibreOffice negli uffici...)
Money quote: "Before I settled on Firefox as my Escape from Chrometown alternative, I gave Safari a solid couple of months as my primary browser. If I were committed to using only iPhones, iPads, and Macs for the rest of my tech life, I might still be on Safari. Its performance is great on both iOS and macOS — though I’d be lying to you if I were to say I could tell a difference in speed between any of the modern browsers — and it offers a choice of ad blockers among a reasonable selection of browser extensions. The options are nowhere near as varied as Chrome’s extension library, but that’s a non-issue for me since I’ve never been dependent on extensions in the first place."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/15/17239548/firefox-chrome-safari-competition
Money quote: "Before I settled on Firefox as my Escape from Chrometown alternative, I gave Safari a solid couple of months as my primary browser. If I were committed to using only iPhones, iPads, and Macs for the rest of my tech life, I might still be on Safari. Its performance is great on both iOS and macOS — though I’d be lying to you if I were to say I could tell a difference in speed between any of the modern browsers — and it offers a choice of ad blockers among a reasonable selection of browser extensions. The options are nowhere near as varied as Chrome’s extension library, but that’s a non-issue for me since I’ve never been dependent on extensions in the first place."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/15/17239548/firefox-chrome-safari-competition
The Verge
It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance
Because everyone using Chrome for everything is a bad idea
A me piace molto la street photography. E questo è un esempio tra i primi, direi (anche se un po' puzza di falsificato)
Money quote: "Carl Størmer (1872-1957) enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the 1890s with his spy camera and secretly took everyday pictures of people. The subjects in Størmer's pictures appear in their natural state. It extremely differs from the grave and strict posing trends that dominated in photography during those years."
https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photography-carl-stormer-norway/
Money quote: "Carl Størmer (1872-1957) enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the 1890s with his spy camera and secretly took everyday pictures of people. The subjects in Størmer's pictures appear in their natural state. It extremely differs from the grave and strict posing trends that dominated in photography during those years."
https://www.boredpanda.com/spy-camera-secret-street-photography-carl-stormer-norway/
Bored Panda
19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
Carl Størmer (1872-1957) enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the 1890s with his spy camera and secretly took everyday pictures of people. The subjects in Størmer's pictures appear in their natural state.…
In realtà, sappiamo poco, molto poco di Messi e di tutti gli altri "bravi" del pallone. Un tentativo di essere quantitativi (all'americana) ma anche interessanti per quanto riguarda un mondiale per l'Italia molto poco interessante. Comunque, fantastico che ormai tutto sia diventato "quantità" e "fare".
Money quote: "Throughout his career, Messi has been criticized for walking. After an El Clasico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in December 2017, there was widespread coverage of the fact that Messi walked 83 percent of the roughly 5 miles he covered that game. Despite this, he scored and assisted in Barca’s 3-0 trouncing."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run/
Money quote: "Throughout his career, Messi has been criticized for walking. After an El Clasico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in December 2017, there was widespread coverage of the fact that Messi walked 83 percent of the roughly 5 miles he covered that game. Despite this, he scored and assisted in Barca’s 3-0 trouncing."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than-most-players-run/
FiveThirtyEight
Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run
The Argentinian star doesn’t run as much as his peers, but he still manages to tactically position himself.
Il puzzle 3D dell'ungherese Erno Rubik, che ha tempestato la fanciullezza di molti della mia generazione e di quelle successive, è stato risolto da un algoritmo di machine learning senza una particolare inclinazione per questo tipo di gioco. Affascinante.
Money quote: "Yet another bastion of human skill and intelligence has fallen to the onslaught of the machines. A new kind of deep-learning machine has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube without any human assistance.
The milestone is significant because the new approach tackles an important problem in computer science—how to solve complex problems when help is minimal."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611281/a-machine-has-figured-out-rubiks-cube-all-by-itself/
Money quote: "Yet another bastion of human skill and intelligence has fallen to the onslaught of the machines. A new kind of deep-learning machine has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube without any human assistance.
The milestone is significant because the new approach tackles an important problem in computer science—how to solve complex problems when help is minimal."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611281/a-machine-has-figured-out-rubiks-cube-all-by-itself/
MIT Technology Review
A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself
Yet another bastion of human skill and intelligence has fallen to the onslaught of the machines. A new kind of deep-learning machine has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube without any human assistance. The milestone is significant because the new approach…
Perché rivedere “2001 Odissea nello spazio” al cinema - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/06/2001-odissea-nello-spazio-cinema-film/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/06/2001-odissea-nello-spazio-cinema-film/
Fumettologica
Perché rivedere "2001 Odissea nello spazio" al cinema
"2001 Odissea nello spazio" torna nelle sale il 19 e 20 giungo rimasterizzato in 4k e forse vale la pena chiedersi perché valga la pena rivederlo.
Qual è il giusto prezzo per uno smartphone? - il mio commento per Wired
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2018/06/19/smartphone-giusto-prezzo/
https://www.wired.it/mobile/smartphone/2018/06/19/smartphone-giusto-prezzo/
Wired
Qual è il giusto prezzo per uno smartphone?
Oggi si possono comprare smartphone a un prezzo ragionevole senza fare (grandi) compromessi sulla qualità. Allora perché apparecchi da mille e più euro?