iPad con USB-C, si risparmia spazio e si viaggia leggeri - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/usb-c-viaggiare-leggeri/

Tre piccoli segreti per scrivere saggistica migliore.

Money quote: “Write Better Non-Fiction By Asking These Three Magic Questions”

https://medium.com/@augustbirch/write-better-non-fiction-by-asking-three-magic-questions-ec82c6da4f9c

Ebbene sì, anche le donne si eccitano senza bisogno di uno che cominci prima di loro.

Money quote: “And finally, women can just be horny and not know why. Random horniness is, again, a universal experience, and sometimes while sitting in a meeting or falling asleep at night, a woman will realize her entire clitoral situation is throbbing like a neon sign for no clear identifiable reason. She’s just… horny. Just like you.”

https://melmagazine.com/potential-reasons-why-your-girlfriend-is-suddenly-horny-f0312a5eafb2

Abbiamo un problema con l’obesità. Non abbiamo capito come trattarla e stiamo massacrando generazioni di persone grasse una dopo l’altra.

Money quote: “Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.”

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

Stiamo completamente sbagliando il senso e il modo per cui e con cui si disegna

Money quote: ““We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as a professional skill instead of a personal capacity,” he writes. “This essential confusion has stunted our understanding of drawing and kept it from being seen as a tool for learning above all else.””

https://qz.com/quartzy/1381916/drawing-is-the-best-way-to-learn-even-if-youre-no-leonardo-da-vinci/

Il più autorevole sito al mondo di orologi fa un endorsement veramente commovente all’Apple Watch Series 4

Money quote: “Last week, Apple announced a new generation of Apple Watch and I was fortunate enough to be loaned one for a review. I've spent the last six days wearing the Series 4, putting it through its paces. I've been checking out all those new, supposedly life-changing features that were exuberantly spoken about during Apple's keynote presentation at the perfectly-appointed Steve Jobs Theater. I've been exploring the updated operating system, watchOS 5, to see how the Apple Watch is changing at the platform level. I've been thinking a lot about Apple's long-term vision for the Apple Watch and how it's starting to come into clearer focus. And, finally, I've been thinking about how the Apple Watch Series 4 stands up as a product on its own merits and whether or not I think you should open up your Macbook, launch Safari, and pre-order one right now.“

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/apple-watch-series-4-review

Se anziché leggere cose come questa leggeste libri, leggereste un botto. Basta che poi però non mi leggete solo romanzi fantasy e rosa...

Money quote: “In January of 2015, I found Buffett’s quote. I decided to read. I was going to read and read and read and never stop until I got some damn answers.

I didn’t quite make 500 pages a day, but, in these last two years, I’ve read over 400 books cover to cover. That decision to start reading was one of the most important decisions in my life”

https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/

Amazon entra nel business dei satelliti artificiali - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-28/amazon-entra-business-satelliti-artificiali--100153.shtml?uuid=AEIN5moG

Nasce RoboMaker, l’idea di Amazon di reinventare il robot intelligente - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-27/nasce-robomaker-l-idea-amazon-reinventare-robot-intelligente-093111.shtml?uuid=AEtVpinG

Gente che fa le diete digiunando. Secondo me c’è un problema...

Money quote: “For the past year and a half, Keith Taylor and his wife have adopted a lifestyle that includes fasting on a regular basis. "For six days per week we don't eat until around 5 pm, but eat as much as we want and whatever we want from 5 pm until we go to bed. It is not a diet in the classic sense -- we do not restrict WHAT we eat or HOW MUCH we eat, but rather just WHEN we eat," Taylor said in an email.

Since the Taylors have been intermittently fasting, often called just IF, they've maintained a healthy body weight, been more alert and energetic, experienced less stress, and are less prone to getting sick”

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/health/fasting-longevity-food-drayer/index.html

Siamo i primi esseri umani a vedere un tramonto su Marte. Pensateci.

Il lato economico di Jane Austen. Ebbene sì, lo faceva anche per soldi!

Money quote: “Austen, too, was a fortune hunter, after a fashion. Like any author, she wrote for many reasons—personal artistic expression, to entertain herself and her beloved sister Cassandra, to comment on the world around her in the guise of mere stories—but also for money. She made efforts to get herself a publisher, and did”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/375486/

Qual è il futuro dell’informatica dopo la fine della legge di Moore? - Il mio articolo per La Stampa (a pagamento)

https://www.lastampa.it/2018/11/29/tecnologia/qual-il-futuro-dellinformatica-dopo-la-fine-della-legge-di-moore-LLWlBXgrE3B2eESZVK3eML/premium.html

Un effetto collaterale del test del dna - va di moda a scopo genealogico - è che fa scoprire cose che un tempo non erano immaginabili. Come certi tradimenti femminili antichi per il tramite delle loro conseguenze: i propri figli sono in realtà generati da altri padri. Questa è la storia di uno dei padri che ha scoperto che sua figlia non è in realtà sia figlia. Tredici anni dopo.

Money quote: “Yes. I can say she’s my daughter without feeling that pain anymore. Used to be, I’d say, “Oh, you’re my daughter,” and my heart would just hurt, and now I just say, “You’re my daughter,” and I’m fine.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/571684/

L’avaro di Moliere in salsa di soia: Chow Yun-fat fa una vita spartana in vista del trapasso e della beneficienza postuma.

Money quote: “Chow’s wife, Jasmine Tan, says that her husband manages to live so frugally in one of the world’s most expensive cities by frequenting street food stalls and rarely buying new things, according to an Oriental Daily report from last week. For example, for 17 years, Chow stuck with his trusty Nokia flip phone, only recently purchasing a new smartphone when his old device finally stopped working.”

https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/15/chow-yun-fat-lives-on-just-100-a-month-will-leave-entire-714-million-fortune-to-charity

Per tutti noi impallinati della fotografia analogica, a Hong Kong c’è un tesoro.

Money quote: “David believes he has the largest range of second hand gear in the world. Yes, the world. I am not sure that I can argue with him on this point… He has quite a few storefronts in Champagne Court – everyone of which is full from ceiling to floor with gear.

Beware – this post has heaps of photos – so, keep scrolling!”

https://melbournestreetphotography.com.au/2015/03/23/hong-kong-analogue-camera-trail-david-chan-champagne-court/

La «nuvola» di Amazon Aws cambia pelle e diventa più «fisica» - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-30/l-ai-arriva-tutti-servizi-ecco-come-amazon-aws-ha-cambiato-pelle--151816.shtml?uuid=AEKufMqG

Le lingue ci condizionano. E noi condizioniamo i linguaggi. Che non sono tutti uguali: ci sono lingue più prolisse e altre più succinte. Ci sono anche più cose, tra cielo e terra...

Money quote: "So does the contrast between Riau Indonesian’s “chicken eat” and Kabardian’s “they saw me and it affected me, not now, and I really mean it” mean that each language gives its speakers a different way of looking at the world? It’s an intriguing idea, first formulated by anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapir and amateur linguist (and fire inspector!) Benjamin Whorf. If it were correct, an English-speaker would generally think about the past more than a Chinese-speaker would, while Germans would think more about movement than Americans or Brits."

Money quote 2: "By contrast, only a few languages have been taken up as vehicles of empire and imposed on millions of unsuspecting and underqualified adults. Long-dominant Mandarin, then, is less “busy” than Cantonese and Taiwanese, which have been imposed on fewer people. English came out the way it did because Vikings, who in the first millennium forged something of an empire of their own in northern and western Europe, imposed themselves on the Old English of the people they invaded and, as it were, mowed it. German, meanwhile, stayed “normal.”"

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-world-s-most-efficient-languages-1335759500

Credo ci manchi il senso, le categorie, in una certa misura anche lo storytelling. Non ne sappiamo praticamente niente. Non ne capiamo il senso, il significato sociale, esistenziale. E le immagini che parlano per noi in realtà ci dicono cose che cerchiamo di capire utilizzando categorie difettate.

Prendete ad esempio questi hangar, uffici open pieni di ragazze e ragazzi cinesi che guardano immagini e le etichettano per dare forma alle masse di dati che vengono girate ai sistemi di training delle intelligenze artificiali. Cervelli usati in batteria per fornire mangime a cervelli artificiali. Ma di cosa stiamo parlando? Cosa stiamo vedendo? Quali confini di eticità, quali margini di competenza e conoscenza abbiamo?

Money quote: "Inside, Hou Xiameng runs a company that helps artificial intelligence make sense of the world. Two dozen young people go through photos and videos, labeling just about everything they see. That’s a car. That’s a traffic light. That’s bread, that’s milk, that’s chocolate. That’s what it looks like when a person walks.

“I used to think the machines are geniuses,” Ms. Hou, 24, said. “Now I know we’re the reason for their genius.”

In China, long the world’s factory floor, a new generation of low-wage workers is assembling the foundations of the future. Start-ups in smaller, cheaper cities have sprung up to apply labels to China’s huge trove of images and surveillance footage. If China is the Saudi Arabia of data, as one expert says, these businesses are the refineries, turning raw data into the fuel that can power China’s A.I. ambitions."

Ps: come giornalista che si occupa di innovazione e tecnologia, mi lacrimano gli occhi di felicità e genuina invidia quando leggo articoli così.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/business/china-artificial-intelligence-labeling.html

Come una sorta di pendolo, il fuoco degli appassionati di orologi si muove attorno a una serie di riferimenti sempre in movimento: un anno è Rolex, un anno Panerai, un anno lo Smart Watch, un anno l’orologio artigianale che costa come un appartamento in centro, un anno è lo Zenith vintage o l’Omega che è stato sulla Luna.

Adesso è il momento dei Grand Seiko, i Rolex giapponesi.

Money quote: “Once one of Japan’s best kept secrets, Grand Seiko was born from Seiko’s desire to show the world what Japanese watchmaking could do. And in the years since, the innovative brand has become one of the most influential. Still, as Felix put it last month, “there remains an air of mystique around the Japanese brand”. And while his excellent video explained some of the essentials, I thought I’d add some more meat to its bones with this list of 11 key models from the collection, and just why they matter.”

https://timeandtidewatches.com/list-11-of-the-greatest-grand-seikos-and-why-they-matter/

Tutto ma proprio tutto sulla melatonina. Articolo un po' soporifero. Ma forse è un effetto collaterale voluto.

Money quote: “The most popular circadian rhythm disorder is “being a teenager”. Teenagers’ melatonin cycle is naturally shifted later, so that they don’t want to go to bed until midnight or later, and don’t want to wake up until eight or later. This is an obvious mismatch with school starting times, leading to teenagers either not getting enough sleep, or getting their sleep at times their body doesn’t want to be asleep and isn’t able to use it properly. This is why every reputable sleep scientist and relevant scientific body keeps telling the public school system to start later.”

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know