Sarebbe bello lavorare per la Lego e passare il tempo a costruire nuovi set, vero? Cioè, se vi piace il Lego, ovviamente. Comunque, anche se vi piace, ci sono cose che dovete sapere sul lavoro di designer dei set della Lego. E che vengono spiegate qui.
Money quote: "Many kids (and adult fans) fantasize about getting to play with LEGO bricks all day. For the professional designers who work for the toy company, that’s their life. “It’s unfair how cool this job is,” LEGO designer Mike Psiaki confirms to Mental Floss.
Though it’s a dream job for many, designing sets for The LEGO Group has a less-glamorous side as well. We spoke with three LEGO designers about the ins and outs of the job, including the rigorous quality-control process, their all-time favorite sets, and their unique workspace."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/11-secrets-of-lego-designers
Money quote: "Many kids (and adult fans) fantasize about getting to play with LEGO bricks all day. For the professional designers who work for the toy company, that’s their life. “It’s unfair how cool this job is,” LEGO designer Mike Psiaki confirms to Mental Floss.
Though it’s a dream job for many, designing sets for The LEGO Group has a less-glamorous side as well. We spoke with three LEGO designers about the ins and outs of the job, including the rigorous quality-control process, their all-time favorite sets, and their unique workspace."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/11-secrets-of-lego-designers
Pocket
11 Secrets of LEGO Designers
We spoke with three LEGO designers about the ins and outs of the job, including the rigorous quality control process, their all-time favorite sets, and their unique workspace.
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È tutta colpa dei telefonini. Ma cosa possiamo farci?
Money quote: "The exact causes of the Gen Z mental-health emergency will be parsed for years to come, but the severity of the crisis itself is, at this point, beyond question. Members of Gen Z, who were born between the mid-to-late nineties and the early twenty-tens, tend to be lonelier than the members of previous generations. They are more anxious and depressed; they get less sleep. They more commonly think that their lives hold no meaning. They are more likely to harm themselves or experience suicidal ideation. (Suicide deaths among children ages ten to fourteen more than doubled between 2007 and 2017.) They are more wary of, or just less interested in, the things that were once milestones of freedom: drinking, dating, having sex, getting driver’s licenses, moving out of their parents’ houses."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182352/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones
Money quote: "The exact causes of the Gen Z mental-health emergency will be parsed for years to come, but the severity of the crisis itself is, at this point, beyond question. Members of Gen Z, who were born between the mid-to-late nineties and the early twenty-tens, tend to be lonelier than the members of previous generations. They are more anxious and depressed; they get less sleep. They more commonly think that their lives hold no meaning. They are more likely to harm themselves or experience suicidal ideation. (Suicide deaths among children ages ten to fourteen more than doubled between 2007 and 2017.) They are more wary of, or just less interested in, the things that were once milestones of freedom: drinking, dating, having sex, getting driver’s licenses, moving out of their parents’ houses."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182352/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-we-get-kids-off-smartphones
The New Yorker
Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
We know that social media is bad for young people, who need more time—and freedom—offline. But the collective will to fix this problem is hard to find.
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Una analisi originale di come potrebbe svolgersi l'evoluzione del rapportro tra mondo del lavoro, salari e intelligenza artificiale. È una analsi molto astratta, e discutibile anche, ma comunque offre una prospettiva diversa e interessante.
Money quote "So when I cheerfully tell them that it’s very possible that regular humans will have plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI dominance — often doing much the same kind of work that they’re doing right now — technologists typically become flabbergasted, flustered, and even frustrated. I must simply not understand just how many things AI will be able to do, or just how good it will be at doing them, or just how cheap it’ll get. I must be thinking to myself “Surely, there are some things humans will always be better at machines at!”, or some other such pitiful coping mechanism.
But no. That is not what I am thinking. Instead, I accept that AI may someday get better than humans at every conceivable task. That’s the future I’m imagining. And in that future, I think it’s possible — perhaps even likely — that the vast majority of humans will have good-paying jobs, and that many of those jobs will look pretty similar to the jobs of 2024."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-the
Money quote "So when I cheerfully tell them that it’s very possible that regular humans will have plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI dominance — often doing much the same kind of work that they’re doing right now — technologists typically become flabbergasted, flustered, and even frustrated. I must simply not understand just how many things AI will be able to do, or just how good it will be at doing them, or just how cheap it’ll get. I must be thinking to myself “Surely, there are some things humans will always be better at machines at!”, or some other such pitiful coping mechanism.
But no. That is not what I am thinking. Instead, I accept that AI may someday get better than humans at every conceivable task. That’s the future I’m imagining. And in that future, I think it’s possible — perhaps even likely — that the vast majority of humans will have good-paying jobs, and that many of those jobs will look pretty similar to the jobs of 2024."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-the
www.noahpinion.blog
Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.
Quando uno è vivo vivo lo sappiamo. Quando uno è morto morto lo sappiamo. Ma quando uno passa dal primo stato al secondo, cioè quando una persona realmente muore e il suo cervello possiamo dire che ha smesso di funzionare, beh questo è molto, molto più difficile da dire. Capire qual è la soglia vuol dire capire quando una persona l'ha attraversata. E noi quel momento non abbiamo capito quale sia.
Money quote: "For several years, Jimo Borjigin, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, had been troubled by the question of what happens to us when we die. She had read about the near-death experiences of certain cardiac-arrest survivors who had undergone extraordinary psychic journeys before being resuscitated. Sometimes, these people reported travelling outside of their bodies towards overwhelming sources of light where they were greeted by dead relatives. Others spoke of coming to a new understanding of their lives, or encountering beings of profound goodness. Borjigin didn’t believe the content of those stories was true – she didn’t think the souls of dying people actually travelled to an afterworld – but she suspected something very real was happening in those patients’ brains. In her own laboratory, she had discovered that rats undergo a dramatic storm of many neurotransmitters, including serotonin and dopamine, after their hearts stop and their brains lose oxygen. She wondered if humans’ near-death experiences might spring from a similar phenomenon, and if it was occurring even in people who couldn’t be revived.
Dying seemed like such an important area of research – we all do it, after all – that Borjigin assumed other scientists had already developed a thorough understanding of what happens to the brain in the process of death. But when she looked at the scientific literature, she found little enlightenment. “To die is such an essential part of life,” she told me recently. “But we knew almost nothing about the dying brain.” So she decided to go back and figure out what had happened inside the brains of people who died at the University of Michigan neurointensive care unit. Among them was Patient One."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience
Money quote: "For several years, Jimo Borjigin, a professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, had been troubled by the question of what happens to us when we die. She had read about the near-death experiences of certain cardiac-arrest survivors who had undergone extraordinary psychic journeys before being resuscitated. Sometimes, these people reported travelling outside of their bodies towards overwhelming sources of light where they were greeted by dead relatives. Others spoke of coming to a new understanding of their lives, or encountering beings of profound goodness. Borjigin didn’t believe the content of those stories was true – she didn’t think the souls of dying people actually travelled to an afterworld – but she suspected something very real was happening in those patients’ brains. In her own laboratory, she had discovered that rats undergo a dramatic storm of many neurotransmitters, including serotonin and dopamine, after their hearts stop and their brains lose oxygen. She wondered if humans’ near-death experiences might spring from a similar phenomenon, and if it was occurring even in people who couldn’t be revived.
Dying seemed like such an important area of research – we all do it, after all – that Borjigin assumed other scientists had already developed a thorough understanding of what happens to the brain in the process of death. But when she looked at the scientific literature, she found little enlightenment. “To die is such an essential part of life,” she told me recently. “But we knew almost nothing about the dying brain.” So she decided to go back and figure out what had happened inside the brains of people who died at the University of Michigan neurointensive care unit. Among them was Patient One."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience
the Guardian
The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
The long read: New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought
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In italiano non ho idea se esista la parola per definirla, in inglese c'è "palmistry" che mi sembra meravigliosa. Comunque, l'arte (o la tecnica?) della lettura del palmo della mano è antichissima, è nata in India, ha attraversato il mondo ed ha fondamento scientifico zero meno, ovviamente: l'oroscopo in confronto è un trattato di logica matematica. Però è affascinante e segue delle regole balzane ma culturalmente intriganti. Eccole spiegate per i principianti e i neofiti.
Money quote: "Simply put, palmistry is the art of analyzing the physical features of the hands to interpret personality characteristics and predict future happenings. Within palm reading, hands are considered portals that shed invaluable insight. But, believe it or not, understanding palm reading basics — including the life line and the love line — isn't as difficult as you may think. Ahead, let's explore the basic theory and techniques of palm reading, along with tips and tricks to help you cultivate your unique approach. After all, once you learn how to interpret this powerful magical tool, your future literally lies in the palm of your hand."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-beginner-s-guide-to-reading-palms
Money quote: "Simply put, palmistry is the art of analyzing the physical features of the hands to interpret personality characteristics and predict future happenings. Within palm reading, hands are considered portals that shed invaluable insight. But, believe it or not, understanding palm reading basics — including the life line and the love line — isn't as difficult as you may think. Ahead, let's explore the basic theory and techniques of palm reading, along with tips and tricks to help you cultivate your unique approach. After all, once you learn how to interpret this powerful magical tool, your future literally lies in the palm of your hand."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-beginner-s-guide-to-reading-palms
Allure
A Beginner's Guide to Reading Palms
Your life line doesn't mean what you think it does.
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Viaggiare, attraversare i fusi orari, ma anche semplicemente cambiare l'ora da naturale a legale e viceversa, ha un impatto sul nostro corpo, non solo sulla nostra mente. E sulla risposta dei nostri muscoli all'esercizio e alla fatica. Perché anche i muscoli, come il resto del corpo, "sanno" che ore sono.
Money quote: "So when is the best time to exercise? In truth, there is no scientific consensus. The question gets surprisingly thorny as you drill down into the specifics. Who's exercising? What exactly are they doing? What are their goals?
Still, the last decade has brought a wave of new research on the interplay between exercise timing and circadian rhythms — the patterns in our physiology and behavior that fluctuate over the 24-hour cycle. These advances have led to new insights about how the timing of your workouts can affect both health and athletic performance."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/29/1241424775/exercise-timing-circadian-rhythm-morning-evening
Money quote: "So when is the best time to exercise? In truth, there is no scientific consensus. The question gets surprisingly thorny as you drill down into the specifics. Who's exercising? What exactly are they doing? What are their goals?
Still, the last decade has brought a wave of new research on the interplay between exercise timing and circadian rhythms — the patterns in our physiology and behavior that fluctuate over the 24-hour cycle. These advances have led to new insights about how the timing of your workouts can affect both health and athletic performance."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/29/1241424775/exercise-timing-circadian-rhythm-morning-evening
NPR
Your muscles keep time too. How circadian rhythms affect your workout and your health
Scientists think the timing of exercise might matter for performance — and for your overall health. Here's what to know about their latest findings.
Un vecchio classico (latinorum in pdf)
Money quote: "Nutella omnia divisa est in partes tres"
https://www.minimumfax.com/web/content/book/3234/preview_file/nutella-nutellae-1597.pdf
Money quote: "Nutella omnia divisa est in partes tres"
https://www.minimumfax.com/web/content/book/3234/preview_file/nutella-nutellae-1597.pdf
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Internet sta andando in vacca? Va riaccesa? Va cancellata? Bisogna reinventarsi tutto? Ma la colpa di chi è, del solito Grande Vecchio?
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/269/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/269/
Mostly Here
~269
La solita teoria del Grande Vecchio Digitale
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Non ci piace quando non piaciamo agli altri. No, proprio per niente. Ci sono motivi evolutivi se questo succede. Il trucco però è capire che non possiamo piacere a tutti.
Money quote: "Humans are social creatures, and so we experience painful biological responses to rejection. “Historically it was essential for our survival,” Brotheridge explains. “When we were evolving and living in tribes, being rejected and kicked out of the community would have been a matter of life or death.” When we get rejected, our brains register an emotional chemical response so strong, it can physically hurt. We’re also likely to cycle through a series of responses that’s not dissimilar to the stages of grief. First, the blame game starts. “The first stop on the train is self blame: ‘It’s my fault, I did something to upset them,’” Sean Grover, a psychotherapist and author of When Kids Call the Shots, tells us. Up next is shame: “You feel ashamed, you feel humiliated, you feel weak,” Grover says.
Then, like any dumped individual, you’ll probably try to win back your rejecter. “Not because, necessarily, you want them to like you, but you just don’t like this feeling of being disliked,” Grover says. “It’s, ‘Let me get you to like me so I can feel better about myself.’” Last but not least, you’ll likely feel like you’re a failure, and that’s when it gets dark. “These are very, very, primitive early feelings. For somebody not to like you, it induces a regression,” Grover says. “Generally, that brings you back to high school, middle school, elementary school, when it was all about whether you’re cool or not. Once you get caught in the feeling, it really pulls you under, and then you’re struggling.”"
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-not-to-care-when-people-don-t-like-you
Money quote: "Humans are social creatures, and so we experience painful biological responses to rejection. “Historically it was essential for our survival,” Brotheridge explains. “When we were evolving and living in tribes, being rejected and kicked out of the community would have been a matter of life or death.” When we get rejected, our brains register an emotional chemical response so strong, it can physically hurt. We’re also likely to cycle through a series of responses that’s not dissimilar to the stages of grief. First, the blame game starts. “The first stop on the train is self blame: ‘It’s my fault, I did something to upset them,’” Sean Grover, a psychotherapist and author of When Kids Call the Shots, tells us. Up next is shame: “You feel ashamed, you feel humiliated, you feel weak,” Grover says.
Then, like any dumped individual, you’ll probably try to win back your rejecter. “Not because, necessarily, you want them to like you, but you just don’t like this feeling of being disliked,” Grover says. “It’s, ‘Let me get you to like me so I can feel better about myself.’” Last but not least, you’ll likely feel like you’re a failure, and that’s when it gets dark. “These are very, very, primitive early feelings. For somebody not to like you, it induces a regression,” Grover says. “Generally, that brings you back to high school, middle school, elementary school, when it was all about whether you’re cool or not. Once you get caught in the feeling, it really pulls you under, and then you’re struggling.”"
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-not-to-care-when-people-don-t-like-you
Lifehacker
How Not to Care When People Don't Like You
At one point during high school, I found out that my
friends didn’t like me. One of the girls in my “group” told me I wasn’t
invited to a birthday p
friends didn’t like me. One of the girls in my “group” told me I wasn’t
invited to a birthday p
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La cosa bella del sistema giudiziario americano, dove le veline passate dai magistrati ai giornalisti non sono la norma, è che vengono pubblicati una serie di atti raccolti durante la fase di indagine delle parti (altri rimangono secretati). Ad esempio, tonnellate di email. Che poi le persone leggono, valutano e ci scrivono sopra post.
Come questo che segue, che spiega quand'è che Google ha cominciato a devastare il suo stesso meccanismo di ricerca, Google Search, cosa che ha portato a risultati tremendi. L'operazione sembrerebbe essere stata gestita dalla stessa persona che ha fatto altrettanto pochi anni prima a Yahoo!. Pensa te.
Money quote: "This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not a user, you’re a parasite, and it’s these parasites that have dominated and are draining the tech industry of its value.
Raghavan’s story is unique, insofar as the damage he’s managed to inflict (or, if we’re being exceptionally charitable, failed to avoid in the case of Yahoo) on two industry-defining companies, and the fact that he did it without being a CEO or founder. Perhaps more remarkable, he’s achieved this while maintaining a certain degree of anonymity. Everyone knows who Musk and Zuckerberg are, but Raghavan’s known only in his corner of the Internet. Or at least he was."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Come questo che segue, che spiega quand'è che Google ha cominciato a devastare il suo stesso meccanismo di ricerca, Google Search, cosa che ha portato a risultati tremendi. L'operazione sembrerebbe essere stata gestita dalla stessa persona che ha fatto altrettanto pochi anni prima a Yahoo!. Pensa te.
Money quote: "This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not a user, you’re a parasite, and it’s these parasites that have dominated and are draining the tech industry of its value.
Raghavan’s story is unique, insofar as the damage he’s managed to inflict (or, if we’re being exceptionally charitable, failed to avoid in the case of Yahoo) on two industry-defining companies, and the fact that he did it without being a CEO or founder. Perhaps more remarkable, he’s achieved this while maintaining a certain degree of anonymity. Everyone knows who Musk and Zuckerberg are, but Raghavan’s known only in his corner of the Internet. Or at least he was."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search…
UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search…
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La cosa dei caffè giapponesi sta diventando una tendenza, secondo me. I Kissa, per intenderci. Ne parlano abbondantemente questi del peraltro fantastico Atlanta Coffee Shops.
Money quote: "Atlanta Coffee Shops was on an extended trip to Japan in November, and it was a blast! Along the way, ACS visited approximately a dozen different cities and four islands. During the course of this adventure in Japan, a major part of the itinerary revolved around coffee shop exploration. On this trip, ACS visited about 25 coffee shops, each of which was unique.
For this post, the goal is to highlight/showcase a selection of storefronts of Japanese coffee shops. The longer feature posts, which may be in the works over the coming months, will be profiled separately on the blog (depending on the interest from these Japanese coffee shops and their respective owners)."
https://www.atlantacoffeeshops.com/blog/a-tour-of-coffee-shop-storefronts-of-japan
Money quote: "Atlanta Coffee Shops was on an extended trip to Japan in November, and it was a blast! Along the way, ACS visited approximately a dozen different cities and four islands. During the course of this adventure in Japan, a major part of the itinerary revolved around coffee shop exploration. On this trip, ACS visited about 25 coffee shops, each of which was unique.
For this post, the goal is to highlight/showcase a selection of storefronts of Japanese coffee shops. The longer feature posts, which may be in the works over the coming months, will be profiled separately on the blog (depending on the interest from these Japanese coffee shops and their respective owners)."
https://www.atlantacoffeeshops.com/blog/a-tour-of-coffee-shop-storefronts-of-japan
Atlanta Coffee Shops
A Tour of Coffee Shop Storefronts of Japan — Atlanta Coffee Shops
Atlanta Coffee Shops was on an extended trip to Japan in November, and it was a blast! Along the way, ACS visited approximately a dozen different cities and four islands. During the course of this adventure in Japan, a major part of the itinerary revolved…
La Pubblica amministrazione si digitalizza. Anzi no, questo è già successo da decenni. La fase di oggi in realtà è quella della creazione dei servizi e via dicendo. Che è estremamente complessa e diversa dalla precedente. Viene affrontata in maniera vivace, diciamo così. Di sicuro con un passo bello pesante.
Money quote: "I modelli sono, di fatto, prodotti government-to-government-to-citizen (G2G2C), ovvero forniti da una PA centrale, il Dipartimento per la trasformazione digitale, alle pubbliche amministrazioni locali che, a loro volta, li utilizzeranno per offrire servizi informativi alla cittadinanza.
Progettare in ottica G2G2C è una doppia sfida, perché implica seguire due percorsi in parallelo, svolgendo attività differenti ma interconnesse durante tutto il processo progettuale e ottenendo output distinti, quello nei confronti della Pubblica Amministrazione e quello rivolto all’utente finale. Questo è avvenuto proprio nel caso del modello di sito per i musei civici."
https://medium.com/designers-italia/favorire-il-cambiamento-in-ecosistemi-di-servizio-complessi-il-modello-per-i-musei-civici-edf12360d256
Money quote: "I modelli sono, di fatto, prodotti government-to-government-to-citizen (G2G2C), ovvero forniti da una PA centrale, il Dipartimento per la trasformazione digitale, alle pubbliche amministrazioni locali che, a loro volta, li utilizzeranno per offrire servizi informativi alla cittadinanza.
Progettare in ottica G2G2C è una doppia sfida, perché implica seguire due percorsi in parallelo, svolgendo attività differenti ma interconnesse durante tutto il processo progettuale e ottenendo output distinti, quello nei confronti della Pubblica Amministrazione e quello rivolto all’utente finale. Questo è avvenuto proprio nel caso del modello di sito per i musei civici."
https://medium.com/designers-italia/favorire-il-cambiamento-in-ecosistemi-di-servizio-complessi-il-modello-per-i-musei-civici-edf12360d256
Medium
Favorire il cambiamento in ecosistemi di servizio complessi: il modello per i musei civici
Progettare in ottica G2G2C risorse e strumenti standard per migliorare l’esperienza di fruizione dei siti web museali
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Visto che il post di ieri ha suscitato un certo interesse, qui si può approfondire la questione: dove e come nasce il progetto della creazione dei nuovi servizi online, come si chiama e quali tecnologie adopera.
Money quote: "Dopo un lavoro durato un anno, il design system del Paese esce dalla versione alpha e passa alla v1-beta, segnando un momento cruciale per la progettazione dei servizi pubblici digitali. E lo fa, per la prima volta, con il nuovo nome .italia, scelto insieme a 400 persone della community nei mesi scorsi, dimostrando che con piccole azioni è possibile far convergere il Paese in direzione di obiettivi rilevanti per la comunità.
Il design system .italia raccoglie indicazioni e risorse pratiche per realizzare siti e servizi pubblici di qualità, efficienti e accessibili, fornendo soluzioni basate sui bisogni delle persone, già testate, pronte all’uso e che rispettano le linee guida previste dall’articolo 53 del Codice dell’amministrazione digitale. Come diciamo spesso, “senza dover reinventare la ruota ogni volta”."
https://designers.italia.it/community/notizie/20240308-ciao-italia-la-terza-generazione-del-design-system-ha-un-nome-ed-entra-in-fase-beta/
Money quote: "Dopo un lavoro durato un anno, il design system del Paese esce dalla versione alpha e passa alla v1-beta, segnando un momento cruciale per la progettazione dei servizi pubblici digitali. E lo fa, per la prima volta, con il nuovo nome .italia, scelto insieme a 400 persone della community nei mesi scorsi, dimostrando che con piccole azioni è possibile far convergere il Paese in direzione di obiettivi rilevanti per la comunità.
Il design system .italia raccoglie indicazioni e risorse pratiche per realizzare siti e servizi pubblici di qualità, efficienti e accessibili, fornendo soluzioni basate sui bisogni delle persone, già testate, pronte all’uso e che rispettano le linee guida previste dall’articolo 53 del Codice dell’amministrazione digitale. Come diciamo spesso, “senza dover reinventare la ruota ogni volta”."
https://designers.italia.it/community/notizie/20240308-ciao-italia-la-terza-generazione-del-design-system-ha-un-nome-ed-entra-in-fase-beta/
designers.italia.it
Ciao .italia: la terza generazione del design system ha un nome ed entra in fase beta
L'ecosistema di risorse per realizzare siti e servizi pubblici diventa ora un elemento imprescindibile per la Pubblica Amministrazione.
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Un saggio molto interessante sul concetto di terra di confine inteso come metafora che descrive le identità e gli stati emozionali a cavallo tra realtà, culture e sentimenti diversi.
Money quote: "Anzaldùa ibrida l’inglese con lo spagnolo della sua eredità chicana e così facendo disattiva meccanismi di controllo, riscrive i confini in dissolvenza. È la sua teoria della soglia, del *nepantla*, dove si inizia a guarire non muovendoci verso una presunta felicità, ma perché impareremo, sfaldando le certezze, a familiarizzare con quel luogo di mezzo, dove corpo e spirito sono intercambiabili, dove l’intelligenza emotiva ridisegna gli scenari di progresso e conquista. Il suo attivismo spirituale è intriso di prossimità".
https://www.indiscreto.org/tra-terre-di-confine/
Money quote: "Anzaldùa ibrida l’inglese con lo spagnolo della sua eredità chicana e così facendo disattiva meccanismi di controllo, riscrive i confini in dissolvenza. È la sua teoria della soglia, del *nepantla*, dove si inizia a guarire non muovendoci verso una presunta felicità, ma perché impareremo, sfaldando le certezze, a familiarizzare con quel luogo di mezzo, dove corpo e spirito sono intercambiabili, dove l’intelligenza emotiva ridisegna gli scenari di progresso e conquista. Il suo attivismo spirituale è intriso di prossimità".
https://www.indiscreto.org/tra-terre-di-confine/
L'INDISCRETO
Tra terre di confine
Una terra di confine è un luogo vago e indefinito, creato dal residuo emotivo di un limite innaturale. Vale la pena scoprirla? in copertina e lungo il testo opere di Stefania Ivanovna Bazylenko di Francesca Matteoni
“L’esperienza personale è tutto ciò che…
“L’esperienza personale è tutto ciò che…
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Buono Star Wars Day a tutti
Money quote: "May The Forth Be With You"
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day
Money quote: "May The Forth Be With You"
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day
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La casa diventa intelligente e si pone il problema di quale piattaforma la gestisce. Ce n'è anche una open source con un'ampia community dietro che potrebbe essere una alternativa ai soliti noti Amazon, Apple, Google.
Money quote: "Home Assistant is known for its unmatched power and flexibility, but so far the platform, which has an estimated one million users, has struggled to reach the mainstream. Home Assistant can have a steep learning curve, especially when compared to the relative simplicity of a platform like Alexa or Apple Home. Onboarding devices can be complicated, the UI has lots of room for improvement, and integrations can be hit or miss.
“Home Assistant is no one’s first smart home platform,” says Schoutsen. “When people outgrow their existing systems and want more advanced control, that’s when they come to Home Assistant.” But he sees that the platform is at a tipping point."
https://www.theverge.com/24135207/home-assistant-announces-open-home-foundation
Money quote: "Home Assistant is known for its unmatched power and flexibility, but so far the platform, which has an estimated one million users, has struggled to reach the mainstream. Home Assistant can have a steep learning curve, especially when compared to the relative simplicity of a platform like Alexa or Apple Home. Onboarding devices can be complicated, the UI has lots of room for improvement, and integrations can be hit or miss.
“Home Assistant is no one’s first smart home platform,” says Schoutsen. “When people outgrow their existing systems and want more advanced control, that’s when they come to Home Assistant.” But he sees that the platform is at a tipping point."
https://www.theverge.com/24135207/home-assistant-announces-open-home-foundation
The Verge
The little smart home platform that could
With a new ownership structure, Home Assistant is making its next big move
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Buona domenica con Mostly Weekly, Jerry Seinfeld e altri 8 miliardi di persone statisticamente fortunate
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/270/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/270/
Mostly Here
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Jerry è Jerry – La fortuna di essere vivi oggi
La società invecchia e adesso emerge un'idea matta ma tutta da studiare: essere giovani non è la ricetta per il successo. Considerando i notevoli sforzi degli ultimi venti anni per affermare esattamente il contrario, direi che è uno sviluppo decisamente interessante.
Money quote: "A study, conducted by MIT in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau, analyzed 2.7 million people who started companies between 2007 and 2014 and found that among the fastest growing tech companies, the average founder was 45-years-old at the time of founding. The researchers also found that a 50-year-old is twice as likely to have a massive success—defined as a company that performs in the top 0.1 percent—than a 30-year-old. “These findings strongly reject common hypotheses that emphasize youth as a key trait of successful entrepreneurs,” write the authors of the study. “The view that young people produce the highest-growth companies is in part a rejection of the role of experience.”"
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-ode-to-being-old
Money quote: "A study, conducted by MIT in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau, analyzed 2.7 million people who started companies between 2007 and 2014 and found that among the fastest growing tech companies, the average founder was 45-years-old at the time of founding. The researchers also found that a 50-year-old is twice as likely to have a massive success—defined as a company that performs in the top 0.1 percent—than a 30-year-old. “These findings strongly reject common hypotheses that emphasize youth as a key trait of successful entrepreneurs,” write the authors of the study. “The view that young people produce the highest-growth companies is in part a rejection of the role of experience.”"
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-ode-to-being-old
Pocket
An Ode to Being Old
On the harder-to-measure benefits of age and experience.
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Trovo che fare le recensioni di prodotti tecnologici (ma di qualunque prodotto in generale) sia una specie di missione suicida. Da un lato è estremamente soggettiva, anche quando viene coperta di numeri, statistiche e benchmark. Dall'altro è indubitabilmente problematica per l'effetto sui consumi e quindi sui guadagni che può portare. È un tipo di responsabilità commerciale che sempre più diventa difficile da gestire. The Verge ha provato a rendere esplicito il processo di valutazione, facendo secondo me ancora più danni.
Money quote: "Product reviews can be a tricky thing. Every reviewer has a different style and different way of assessing a product, which is why no two reviews of the same product will ever read the same. At The Verge, we have built a reviews program that strives to standardize our reviews without abandoning the uniqueness of each of our reviewers. Below is a short guide to our methods and an explanation of our rating practices."
https://www.theverge.com/pages/how-we-rate
Money quote: "Product reviews can be a tricky thing. Every reviewer has a different style and different way of assessing a product, which is why no two reviews of the same product will ever read the same. At The Verge, we have built a reviews program that strives to standardize our reviews without abandoning the uniqueness of each of our reviewers. Below is a short guide to our methods and an explanation of our rating practices."
https://www.theverge.com/pages/how-we-rate
The Verge
How we rate
A primer on how we review products and score them
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Un settore tech dove la Cina guida? Quello dell'AI. Sul serio.
Money quote: "China has nurtured so much A.I. talent partly because it invested heavily in A.I. education. Since 2018, the country has added more than 2,000 undergraduate A.I. programs, with more than 300 at its most elite universities, said Damien Ma, the managing director of MacroPolo, though he noted the programs were not heavily focused on the technology that had driven breakthroughs by chatbots like ChatGPT.
“A lot of the programs are about A.I. applications in industry and manufacturing, not so much the generative A.I. stuff that’s come to dominate the American A.I. industry at the moment,” he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/china-ai-talent.html
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240406201044/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/china-ai-talent.html
Money quote: "China has nurtured so much A.I. talent partly because it invested heavily in A.I. education. Since 2018, the country has added more than 2,000 undergraduate A.I. programs, with more than 300 at its most elite universities, said Damien Ma, the managing director of MacroPolo, though he noted the programs were not heavily focused on the technology that had driven breakthroughs by chatbots like ChatGPT.
“A lot of the programs are about A.I. applications in industry and manufacturing, not so much the generative A.I. stuff that’s come to dominate the American A.I. industry at the moment,” he said."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/china-ai-talent.html
Archivio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240406201044/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/china-ai-talent.html
NY Times
In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.
In autunno arriveranno i nuovi telefoni di Apple. L'anno prossimo però ci potrebbe essere anche un'altra sorpresa: la quarta generazione di iPhone SE. Che potrebbe diventare un apparecchio low cost molto interessante: schermo più grande, niente pulsante home, Usb-C, fotocamera "tosta".
(Attenzione, le generazioni precedenti non sono state annunciate e commercializzate a settembre ma marzo).
Money quote: "While the iPhone 16 garners most of the attention, Apple also has another new iPhone model in the works. The iPhone SE 4 is expected to be a dramatic update to Apple’s most affordable iPhone, with an all-new design, USB-C for charging, and more.
Here are four things to expect from the iPhone SE 4."
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/iphone-se-4-new-features/
(Attenzione, le generazioni precedenti non sono state annunciate e commercializzate a settembre ma marzo).
Money quote: "While the iPhone 16 garners most of the attention, Apple also has another new iPhone model in the works. The iPhone SE 4 is expected to be a dramatic update to Apple’s most affordable iPhone, with an all-new design, USB-C for charging, and more.
Here are four things to expect from the iPhone SE 4."
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/iphone-se-4-new-features/
9to5Mac
Four things to expect from the next-generation iPhone SE - 9to5Mac
While the iPhone 16 garners most of the attention, Apple also has another new iPhone model in the works. The...
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