Ma poi Saffo era davvero lesbica? Ma chi era, poi? -- una lettura serale

Money quote: “Even today, experts can’t agree on whether the poems were performed in private or in public, by soloists or by choruses, or, indeed, whether they were meant to celebrate or to subvert the conventions of love and marriage. The last is a particularly loaded issue, given that, for many readers and scholars, Sappho has been a feminist heroine or a gay role model, or both. “As far as I knew, there was only me and a woman called Sappho,” the critic Judith Butler once remarked.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted

Rarissima avis. Questo tizio non è in malafede e probabilmente fornisce consigli utili per la vita. Tipo che si impara dagli sbagli e non dai successi, e che comunque la vita è complicata e ce ne dobbiamo occupare noi.

Money quote: “Striking Thoughts is a compendium of 825 aphorisms from Bruce Lee. It’s a collection because, unlike most sources of advice, he didn’t believe there was one correct set of ideas to live a good life, let alone that his was the right one:

“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.”
This may sound tedious, as we tend to want simple conclusions to address hard problems, but, according to Bruce, neither even exists. There are only questions and answers, both of which are hard-won products of thinking, none of which can provide universal solutions that last forever”

https://medium.com/personal-growth/dont-imitate-successful-people-learn-from-your-mistakes-ea4af41ca66d

Lettura per il sabato. Il perché della lentezza necessaria nel software.

Money quote: “Researchers can test this with rigs that control exactly how much latency users see. They present a user with an interface having (say) 1ms latency and another with (say) 70ms and then ask them to perform operations like tapping a button. If the 70ms interface consistently feels slower than the 1ms interface, 70ms would be a "noticeable difference."”

https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

La vignetta del sabato

Lettura per la domenica. A breve in Svezia scomparirà il contante. Non è necessariamente una cosa buona.

Money quote: ““When you are where we are, it would be wrong to sit back with our arms crossed, doing nothing, and then just take note of the fact that cash has disappeared,” said Stefan Ingves, the governor of Sweden’s central bank, known as the Riksbank. “You can’t turn back time, but you do have to find a way to deal with change.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/business/sweden-cashless-society.html

Ieri è morto uno dei più importanti fotogiornalisti del nostro tempo: Yannis Behrakis

Money quote: “Berharkis , 57, explained how, according to him, he has been changing the world in his own way and how he intends to continue doing so, always with a camera on his hands.”

https://www.estorilconferences.org/en/news-articles/how-yannis-behrakis-changing-world

La straordinaria traiettoria artistica e umana del cartoonist Edmond Baudoin

Money quote: “He came to cartooning relatively late in life—his first album (as the French call their bound comic books) wasn’t published until he was forty years old, in the early eighties. From his earliest works, Baudoin focused on autobiography, making him one of the first French cartoonists to explore this genre, which has gone on to become one of the most prominent features of European literary comics. At the same time, his art—already confident, with an inky expressionist manner reminiscent of his contemporaries Jacques Tardi and José Antonio Muñoz—evolved quickly into a daringly loose, calligraphic brush style that has made him one of the most respected and recognizable cartoonists in Europe.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/11/30/on-edmond-baudoin-an-ink-stained-proust/

Web Tax, Parigi non si ferma: pronto un piano da mezzo miliardo - Io mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/web-tax-parigi-non-si-ferma-pronto-un-piano-da-mezzo-miliardo/

5G, il nodo dei piani tariffari: le reti "reggeranno" alle offerte flat? - Il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/5g-il-nodo-dei-piani-tariffari-le-reti-reggeranno-alle-offerte-flat/

La mia recensione di Captain Marvel, no spoiler!

TLDR: bel film

https://www.fumettologica.it/2019/03/captain-marvel-recensione-film/

"Sorpresa" Google: ingegneri donne pagate più degli uomini - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/sorpresa-google-ingegneri-donne-piu-pagate-degli-uomini/

Svolta servizi per Apple: si apre la caccia a 1400 sviluppatori software - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/svolta-servizi-per-apple-si-apre-la-caccia-a-1400-sviluppatori-software/

Alcune cose interessanti su "amb"

Money quote: "Back in 1961, John McCarthy (the inventor of LISP) described an interesting mathematical operator called amb. Essentially, amb hates to be called with no arguments, and can look into the future to keep that from happening. Here's how it might look in Ruby."

http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/10/11/amb-operator/

Tra le note, apprezzerete la citazione al noto talk: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!

L’azzardo di Apple: partita 5G rimandata al 2020 - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/lazzardo-di-apple-partita-5g-rimandata-al-2020/

Mobile payment, il Messico in trattative con Amazon - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/finance/e-payment/mobile-payment-il-messico-in-trattative-con-amazon/

Devo preparare alcune cose sulla teoria dei giochi, logica e problemi vari. Un esempio, per capirci

Money quote: "The multi-armed bandit problem is a classic problem that well demonstrates the exploration vs exploitation dilemma. Imagine you are in a casino facing multiple slot machines and each is configured with an unknown probability of how likely you can get a reward at one play. The question is: What is the best strategy to achieve highest long-term rewards?"

https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2018/01/23/the-multi-armed-bandit-problem-and-its-solutions.html

Dolorose interpretazioni della storia

Una parola, anzi una comic strip definitiva sul voto elettronico (e sulla Regione Lombardia, che in Italia spinge da matti per questa pratica irreale). Ovviamente XKCD.

https://www.xkcd.com/2030/

Una strana storia che coinvolge Vice e una youtuber cinese. Il punto di vista della youtuber.

Money quote: "When the Vice reporter came in January 2018, I showed them around Shenzhen for three days. During this visit, I brought the reporter to my home, long enough for the reporter to get an in-depth idea of my circumstances. In my home, I worked on an automated bartender project I had built for a friends bar- to address with the best possible evidence the ongoing Internet smear campaign against me that only a White man could do work like mine. All this was apparently not juicy enough for Vice. Frankly, it’s very rare I get accused of not being click-baity enough just being myself."

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naomi-wu-my-experience-with-sarah-jeong-jason-koebler-and-vice-magazine-3f4a32fda9b5

Today at Apple: impariamo a disegnare con Lorenza Natarella - Il mio articolo su una serata particolare per la La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2019/03/07/tecnologia/today-at-apple-impariamo-a-disegnare-con-lorenza-natarella-YZl8KP61kl1vC3s4qH51WN/pagina.html