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01 Le cose che devi sapere per fare un buon viaggio e altre amenità: Mostly Weekly è appena uscita.
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02 Letture per la domenica.
I piccoli leggono, leggono tantissimo. Poi, tutto a un tratto, fra gli 8 e i 9 anni, smettono. Alcune riflessioni e dati che aiutano a capire un fenomeno più complesso di quel che sembra.
Money quote: "Most alarmingly, kids in third and fourth grade are beginning to stop reading for fun. It’s called the “Decline by 9,” and it’s reaching a crisis point for publishers and educators. According to research by the children’s publishers Scholastic, at age 8, 57 percent of kids say they read books for fun most days; at age 9, only 35 percent do. This trend started before the pandemic, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated things."
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
Il Decline by 9 spiegato bene:
https://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/navigate-the-world.html | 284 | 5 | Loading... |
03 Il dietro le quinte dell'ultimo special project per il primo di aprile di xkcd: The Machine
Money quote: "This is the story of how we built Machine in 3 weeks, and what I learned along the way."
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
E ovviamente The Machine:
https://xkcd.com/2916/
(Se volete farvi divorare la ram del computer da una singola pagina web, non c'è niente di meglio). | 449 | 3 | Loading... |
04 Lo sapevate che fine ha fatto la città dei pirati per definizione, cioè Porth Royal? Io no. Ma qui l'ho scoperto. E vorrei andarla a vedere, un giorno.
Money quote: "Located on the southeast coast of Jamaica, the natural harbor at Port Royal became the center of English life in Jamaica. By the late 1600s it had become one of the largest European cities in the new world, second only to Boston. It had also become the infamous home of pirates, sex workers, and Englishmen on the make. Far from home, they made their livings off of the slave trade, slave labor in plantations, and the money that the pirates brought in from their looting forays against the Spanish."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sunken-pirate-stronghold-at-port-royal | 511 | 4 | Loading... |
05 Chi ha dato il volto a James Bond? È il tema della mia rubrica per Fumettologica.
https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/james-bond-volto-fumetti/ | 3 368 | 4 | Loading... |
06 Stanisław Lem è un autore notevolissimo e molto celebrato tra chi ama la buona letteratura. Trascende il genere della fantascienza, anche se non ne fuoriesce completamente. Forse per questo alcune delle sue traduzioni in italiano sono problematiche?
Money quote: "Qualcuno potrebbe pensare che questa mia postilla alle prefazioni/postfazioni italiane di Solaris nasca da una petulante pignoleria filologica più o meno fine a sé stessa, quindi di natura nevrotico-masturbatoria. Ma non è così, perché purtroppo la stessa storia delle traduzioni italiane di Solaris si rivela teatro di inesattezze, per non dir peggio, francamente inaccettabili."
https://www.indiscreto.org/storia-indiscreta-di-solaris-in-italia/ | 551 | 7 | Loading... |
07 Il modo in cui sono fatti i complessi per appartamenti di New York è sempre la stessa minestra sciapa e priva di personalità. Magari la facciata (qualche volta) è interessante, ma dentro no, sono sempre cubi su cubi su cubi collegati da porte. Fino ad ora, perlomeno. Perché c'è chi cerca di fare le case diversamente.
Money quote: "I don’t know whether this hodgepodge of references was conscious, but it’s surely not coincidental. SO-IL has been working for years to deconstruct a building’s mass to make it seem less like a monolith and more like a town. If that still qualifies as a radical move, it’s because the typical New York apartment building is a closed box crisscrossed by hollow passages. Even architecturally ambitious towers, like those by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and David Adjaye, work essentially the same way before the surfaces go on, reserving innovation for the final fit-out."
https://www.curbed.com/article/architecture-review-so-il-brooklyn-chapel-warren-vanderbilt.html | 591 | 7 | Loading... |
08 Prendetela con un po' di spirito. L'idea è che siamo tutti devastati dall'eccesso di interruzioni e micro-cose da fare (cose di "manutenzione") e non si riesce più a trovare il tempo per concentrarsi e fare le cose che servono veramente e che richiedono parecchia attenzione: il cosiddetto "Deep Work". Ecco, questo articolo cerca di affrontare questo problema suggerendo alcune soluzioni. La chiave di lettura secondo me è che non siamo solo noi a essere nelle peste: è un fenomeno reale ed è diventato epidemico: è davvero difficile lavorare sul serio.
Money quote: "Accessing that kind of deep work zone can feel nearly impossible. If you’re busy with multiple tasks, finding a solid chunk of time for uninterrupted productivity may be utterly unrealistic. Fortunately, there are methods to optimise the limited ‘deep work’ time we have, plan for interruptions and produce meaningful work despite competing demands for our attention."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-busiest-people-get-deep-work-done | 643 | 15 | Loading... |
09 L'intervista che è stata fatta un po' di mesi fa al numero uno di Rolex, Jean-Frédéric Dufour. È molto raro che si faccia intervistare, quindi anche se è un po' vecchia fatevela durare ancora un bel po'.
Money quote: "Question: Two or three years ago, watches were seen more as an investment than a dream. Cryptocurrency millionaires, for example, converted some of their money into real assets.
Dufour: I don’t like it when people compare watches to stocks. It sends the wrong message and is dangerous. We make products, not investments."
https://www.nzz.ch/english/watches-and-wonders-2024-rolex-ceo-on-cooling-markets-and-the-idea-behind-the-watch-fair-ld.1825387 | 674 | 4 | Loading... |
10 Questa settimana su Mostly Weekly
~277 qualche consiglio utile: ricordatevi di a crivere la mattina presto, andare a letto. Sempre alla stessa ora, imparare nuove parole e ascoltare sempre tutti.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/277/ | 696 | 0 | Loading... |
11 Un articolo illuminante sulle malattie mentali, dalla depressione al bipolare. La psicologa clinica e autrice Kay Redfield Jamison esplora i disturbi dell'umore dall'antichità a oggi, mescolando scienza, storia e memorie personali. Notevolissimo, se posso dire.
Money quote: "The physicians of antiquity knew depression, mania, and psychosis well. Thousands of years ago, they described these conditions in their patients and instructed their students in how best to diagnose and treat them.2 One medical historian states that manic and depressive psychoses are the “scarlet threads” most clearly discernable throughout the “twisted strands of history.”3 Long before the time of Hippocrates, 500 years before Christ, physicians and priests in Egypt, China, India, and Persia described patients with melancholy, who slept poorly, ruminated ceaselessly on death, obsessed about their unworthiness, lacked will and the energy to act, were irritable, confused, and wished only to die. Their manic patients, on the other hand, needed little sleep and were grandiose and psychotic; in their exaltation, they believed themselves to be gods, kings, or prophets, and thought themselves to be invincible, at one with the universe. They were irrational and uninhibited; they talked, ran, approached others indiscriminately, and danced without restraint. They were indefatigable, quick to rage, impulsive, suspicious, and at times violent; their thoughts and words sped in all directions."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/in-their-own-words-narratives-of-mania-and-depression/ | 744 | 14 | Loading... |
12 C'è un'area di sovrapposizione nella nostra mente tra il dolore fisico e il dolore sociale. Essere tagliati fuori dal gruppo, sentirsi esclusi, è veramente un problema, non è una "fisima per femminucce". Ci sono studi ed esperimenti, come quello che segue.
Money quote: "The premise is simple: Participants play a virtual game of ball toss with (supposedly) two or more other players. In reality, they’re using a program designed to include or exclude them to various degrees. Researchers have manipulated different variables across experiments, from the number of players to the length of the game—and the lesson of Cyberball across the board? It doesn’t matter if it’s as low stakes as throwing around a fake ball with strangers we’ll never meet—we hate feeling left out.
Like, really hate it. According to Dr. Williams, he and his team have even rigged the game so people earned money when they were excluded. “But even if they were left with the reward, it still made them feel just as bad,” he says."
https://www.self.com/story/feeling-left-out-tips | 675 | 7 | Loading... |
13 Il modello più recente di Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, è considerato pari o superiore a GPT-4 di OpenAI e Gemini di Google in un'ampia varietà di compiti. Il modello ottiene buoni risultati nei benchmark: a quato pare Anthropic ha creato un valido concorrente nel settore. Claude 3.5 Sonnet è ora disponibile per gli utenti web e iOS e sarà accessibile anche agli sviluppatori. Anthropic ha anche aggiunto una nuova funzionalità chiamata Artifacts che permette agli utenti di visualizzare, interagire e modificare i risultati delle loro richieste a Claude in un “box” separato, rendendo l’interazione molto piu comoda.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24181961/anthropic-claude-35-sonnet-model-ai-launch | 678 | 7 | Loading... |
14 Dev'essere stato veramente un personaggio difficile, Stanley Kubrik. Il libro che non volle far uscire si chiama "The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick" di Neil Hornick. Questa è la storia di quella battaglia di quasi mezzo secolo fa.
Money quote: "Stanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films.
The director of Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey, warned the book’s author and publisher that he would fight “tooth and nail” and “use every legal means at his disposal” to prevent its publication – and he did.
Now, 25 years after his death, the book Kubrick did not want anyone to read is being published, more than half a century late."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/21/stanley-kubrick-director-book-block-flaws-films-published | 754 | 8 | Loading... |
15 Se n'è andato Donald Sutherland, star di ‘M*A*S*H’ e molti altri film. Aveva 88 anni.
- The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-dead.html | 796 | 0 | Loading... |
16 In Giappone, ma anche negli Usa, vanno tutti pazzi per queste retro fotocamere digitali. Fatte su licenza Kodak, sono praticamente nate vecchie di vent'anni o quasi. Ma nella folle ossessione della "memoria", le vogliono tutti. Anche perché le punta e scatta di oggi o non si trovano o costano un rene.
Money quote: "The FZ55 is a blast from the past. It features a small 16-megapixel sensor and a five-times zoom lens that is 28mm at its widest. Small and compact, it is reminiscent of the point and shoot camereas from the mid-2000s through the early 2010s — and it very well could be. It looks remarkably similar to multiple Sony CyberShot cameras from the early 2010s, including the Cyber-Shot W650, although the case is slightly different as are the internals (it might be using the sensor from the inside of an old Minolta). The retail price of this and the other two cameras that lead sales charts can best be described as “dirt cheap,” so the actual components inside have to be very old."
https://petapixel.com/2024/05/29/kodak-branded-cameras-with-decade-old-tech-are-outselling-all-others-in-japan/ | 864 | 4 | Loading... |
17 Certo che abbiamo un modo tutto nstro per cercare di risolvere i problemi, noi esseri umani. Si va per tentativi. Alle volte tremendi e faticosi. Come i 100 anni passati cercando di fare le bottiglie di carta.
Money quote: "The paper-bottle push comes as paper is growing in popularity as a substitute for plastic packaging, with companies already using it to sell chocolate, ice cream, chewing gum and chips.
“People have a very good perception of paper,” said Ron Khan, head of drinks packaging at PepsiCo decrease, which has run tests to gauge consumers’ appetite for a paper bottle. “The minute consumers saw it we didn’t have to explain the sustainability credentials.”"
https://www.wsj.com/business/the-100-year-quest-to-make-a-paper-bottle-6670bc8c
Archivio https://archive.is/z2tjV | 798 | 3 | Loading... |
18 Cosa ne penso della nuova serie di Star Wars, The Avolyte, spiegato bene per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/the-acolyte-la-seguace-serie-tv-recensione-star-wars/ | 6 250 | 13 | Loading... |
19 Un modo per spiare il traffico di informazioni del pianeta? Infilare un sondino da qualche parte nelle migliaia di migliaia di chilometri di cavi in fibra ottica sottomarini. A quanto pare sta succedendo.
Money quote: "U.S. officials have told companies, including Google and Meta, about their concerns that Chinese companies could threaten the security of U.S.-owned cables, a person familiar with the briefings said. In some cases, the conversations have included discussion of Shanghai-based S.B. Submarine Systems, the person said.
Senior Biden administration officials have also received briefings in recent months about the risks posed by Chinese companies, including SBSS, working on repairs to undersea cables, according to the person."
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/china-internet-cables-repair-ships-93fd6320 | 929 | 6 | Loading... |
20 Per chi vuole cambiare lettore di ebook oppure usarne uno nuovo per questa estate, ho testato il Kobo Libra Colour con la penna. Non super economico ma permette di fare un paio di cose interessanti, tipo scrivere e tipo leggere i fumetti a colori
https://www.italian.tech/2024/06/18/news/la_prova_di_libra_colour_il_nuovo_lettore_di_ebook_a_colori_di_kobo-423248585/ | 830 | 5 | Loading... |
21 4 ore e 40 minuti di documentario, con diverse interviste mai tradotte prima, sullo sviluppo e la commercializzazione di Sega Rally Championship per Saturn. Devo aggiungere altro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CEdmZ5P0jA&t=2224s | 602 | 6 | Loading... |
22 Quei fantastici test giornalistici che non hanno niente di scientifico ma diventano più popolari dei risultati del telescopio Hubble. Ecco a voi qual è l'intelligenza artificiale discorsiva più affidabile (rullo di tamburi)
Money quote: "With the help of Journal newsroom editors and columnists, we crafted a series of prompts to test popular use cases, including coding challenges, health inquiries and money questions. The same people judged the results without knowing which bot said what, rating them on accuracy, helpfulness and overall quality. We then ranked the bots in each category.
We also excerpted some of the best and worst responses to prompts, to give a sense of how varied chatbots’ responses can be."
Money quote 2: "What did these Olympian challenges tell us? Each chatbot has unique strengths and weaknesses, making them all worth exploring. We saw few outright errors and “hallucinations,” where bots go off on unexpected tangents and completely make things up. The bots provided mostly helpful answers and avoided controversy.
The biggest surprise? ChatGPT, despite its big update and massive fame, didn’t lead the pack. Instead, lesser-known Perplexity was our champ. “We optimize for conciseness,” says Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity AI. “We tuned our model for conciseness, which forces it to identify the most essential components.”"
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-gemini-copilot-perplexity-claude-f9e40d26
Archivio: https://archive.is/jxENy | 809 | 2 | Loading... |
23 Le AI possono percepire le emozioni "guardando" il volto delle persone? Microsoft e altri ci stanno provando. E quindi? Molto semplicemente: no, non funziona.
Money quote: "In 2019, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest engaged five senior scientists, including me, to examine the scientific evidence for the idea that people express anger, sadness, fear, happiness, disgust and surprise in universal ways. We came from different fields—psychology, neuroscience, engineering and computer science—and began with opposing views. Yet, after reviewing more than a thousand papers during almost a hundred videoconferences, we reached a consensus: In the real world, an emotion like anger or sadness is a broad category full of variety. People express different emotions with the same facial movements and the same emotion with different facial movements. The variation is meaningfully tied to a person’s situation.
In short, we can’t train AI on stereotypes and expect the results to work in real life, no matter how big the data set or sophisticated the algorithm. Shortly after the paper was published, Microsoft retired the emotion AI features of their facial recognition software."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/think-ai-can-perceive-emotion-think-again-2b4c7d29 | 898 | 4 | Loading... |
24 La domanica succedono tante cose. Una di queste è (quasi sempre) Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter. Tutto sugli effetti collaterali della meritocrazia e le invasioni dei libri orribili
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/276/ | 876 | 0 | Loading... |
25 Era uscito per la festa della mamma, ma me l'ero perso. Un bell'articolo per celebrare tutte le madri.
Money quote: "I don’t believe in a fixed definition for a “good mother.” Doesn’t it depend a lot on who a kid is and what they need? But I do believe there is something universal about being a good friend. I think it has to do with freely given care and acceptance. So go ahead and “spoil Mom” or whatever, take her to brunch, buy her a candle. But what the day is really about, to me, is the mothering we give one another and how it holds all of us together."
https://www.thecut.com/article/mothers-day-celebrate-mom-friends.html | 947 | 2 | Loading... |
26 L'AI è senziente? Una spiegazione sul perché no, non lo è.
Money quote: "If the LLM were to say, “I have a sharp pain in my left big toe,” would we conclude that it had a sharp pain in its left big toe? Of course not, it doesn’t have a left big toe! Just so, when it says that it is hungry, we can in fact be certain that it is not, since it doesn’t have the kind of physiology required for hunger.
When humans experience hunger, they are sensing a collection of physiological states—low blood sugar, empty grumbling stomach, and so forth—that an LLM simply doesn’t have, any more than it has a mouth to put food in and a stomach to digest it. The idea that we should take it at its word when it says it is hungry is like saying we should take it at its word if it says it’s speaking to us from the dark side of the moon. We know it’s not, and the LLM’s assertion to the contrary does not change that fact.
All sensations—hunger, feeling pain, seeing red, falling in love—are the result of physiological states that an LLM simply doesn’t have. Consequently we know that an LLM cannot have subjective experiences of those states. In other words, it cannot be sentient."
https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6980134/ai-llm-not-sentient/ | 963 | 5 | Loading... |
27 Milano aspira disperatamente a diventare una meta turistica e rompere il triangolo "Roma-Firenze-Venezia". Al tempo stesso, non vuole pagare il prezzo di chi trasforma una città in Disneyland.
Money quote: "When Milan’s authorities embarked years ago on plans to promote the city as a buzzy destination by building on its reputation as Italy’s hip fashion and design capital, the resulting noise and rowdy overcrowding were perhaps not quite what they had in mind.
Now, after years of complaints and a series of lawsuits, the city has passed an ordinance to strictly limit the sale of takeaway food and beverages after midnight — and not much later on weekends — in “movida” areas, a Spanish term that Italians have adopted to describe outdoor nightlife. It will go into effect next week and be in force until Nov. 11."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/world/europe/milan-nightlife-crowd-control.html
Archivio: https://archive.is/PaiOO#selection-7073.0-7077.353
Articolo di Elisabetta Povoledo
https://www.nytimes.com/by/elisabetta-povoledo | 961 | 4 | Loading... |
28 Ma i tecno-boss sognano davvero pecore elettriche? - la mia rubrica per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/ma-i-tecno-boss-sognano-davvero-pecore-elettriche/ | 5 345 | 6 | Loading... |
29 Aurora è un'azienda americana che vuole trasportare merci su gomma usando camion senza autisti. Volvo è uno dei partner di questa idea. Cosa potrebbe mai andare male?
Money quote: "The reveal of the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck comes as Aurora continues to push towards its stated goal to commercialize self-driving trucks by the end of 2024. The company initially plans to carry freight between Dallas and Houston using up to 20 driverless Class 8 trucks — this time with no human behind the wheel. Aurora declined to share whether trucks made by Volvo, or its other partner Paccar, would be in that inaugural driverless fleet."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/20/aurora-volvo-unveil-self-driving-truck-driverless-future/ | 973 | 0 | Loading... |
30 Un sito che fa fare un viaggio nella storia del Macintosh e del modo con il quale si possono organizzare le informazioni. Usando la metafora del vecchio Finder, c'è da rinfrescarsi gli occhi. È un uso intelligente di un template che fa sentire noi vecchi utenti un po' più a casa.
Money quote: "I was inspired by Stuart Brown‘s Retro MacOS Theme, and modified it for my use. Brown’s original design magnifies pixel elements 2x, for a post-modern take on the original look-and-feel. For this project, I wanted to see what the original artwork would look like on a 1:1 scale."
https://32by32.com
Il precedente non più in linea:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706075807/http://retromactheme.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk:80/
fatto da
https://web.archive.org/web/20140327135059/http://stua.rtbrown.org/ | 868 | 6 | Loading... |
31 Javascript, il linguaggio che ha praticamente creato un modo per sviluppare applicazioni alternativo a quelli tradizionali, è notoriamente un po' bastardo, almeno rispetto ad altri linguaggi di scripting come Lua (semplice, pulito, potente). Beh, se vi consola, una volta era anche peggio.
Money quote: "However, I’m also very fortunate because while there’s been a lot of improvements made to JavaScript since then, the fundamental way the language works is still the same, so having a deeper understanding of the new syntax (sans sugar) is useful when it comes to debugging, working with legacy projects, or digging deeper into lower-level code. I’m also able to better appreciate just how good us JS devs have it these days."
https://jonbeebe.net/2024/05/javascript-got-good/ | 913 | 2 | Loading... |
32 Supplemento culturale della domenica.
È uscito il nuovo romanzo di Michael Crichton, che però è morto da 16 anni. Era a metà, poi l'ha finito James Patterson, altro esperto di best seller. Lo stanno pompando tanto, forse non è un capolavoro però (Patterson è uno che tira molto via quando scrive e Crichton invece riscriveva le sue cose più volte, quindi ci sta che sia un mezzo limone).
Money quote: "Eruption is based on an unfinished manuscript left by Michael Crichton. The Chicago-born writer, who died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 66, was one of the most successful novelists of all time, selling 200m books, among them titles that became blockbuster franchises, from Jurassic Park to Westworld and ER. The manuscript was discovered by his widow Sherri and has now been completed by the no-less-successful writer James Patterson, renowned for several thriller series of his own, from Alex Cross to Women’s Murder Club.
Patterson challenges readers of Eruption to spot where he took over. “There is a definite moment,” he says. “Wonder if your readers can spot it?” Is it when hunky Mac and sexy demolition expert Rebecca Cruz start flirting? “I’m not going to tell you!” snaps Patterson".
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/03/michael-crichton-eruption-jurassic-park-westworld-james-patterson | 915 | 1 | Loading... |
33 Letture per la domenica. Una storia del mondo anglosassone che nel sud dell'Europa non è stata neanche intravista sia perché precedente alla guerra sia perché tagliata su quel pubblico: cento libri di 100 pagine ciascuno che spiegava tutto, dalla monogamia alla religione e alla scienza, passando per società e cultura. È iniziato con "Daedalus, or Science and the Future" ed è andato avanti con la collana "To-day and To-morrow".
Money quote: "Following Daedalus's success, its publisher Kegan Paul ended up publishing more than 100 additional volumes about the future of anything and everything, in a series called "To-day and To-morrow". Running until the early 1930s, an array of writers, thinkers and intellectuals imagined the future of science and technology, but also so much else: women, religion, clothes, family, humour, justice, censorship, leisure, sleep, alcohol and even swearing. Anything that seemed to have a future was eligible.
On the 100-year-anniversary of Haldane's Daedalus, what can we learn from his influential work, as well as the ambitious To-day and To-morrow series that it inspired?"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231212-to-day-and-to-morrow-the-100-year-old-series-that-predicted-a-wild-and-wonderful-future | 890 | 5 | Loading... |
34 Non sapevo neanche che questa collezione esistesse, figuriamoci che fosse gratuita e open. Sono icone per il web (ma non solo) molto belle, se piace lo stile.
Money quote: "Welcome to Hugeicons React Icons, your premier destination for free React icons. Our expansive collection features over 3,800 stroke React icons, available at no charge and crafted to meet a diverse array of design requirements. These icons are perfect for devs and designers seeking top-quality, customizable options for enhancing their digital product.
Hugeicons Pro is trusted and utilized by thousands of designers, devs, and content creators for unlimited personal and commercial projects, establishing it as one of the most versatile and user-friendly React icons libraries in the market."
https://github.com/hugeicons/hugeicons-react
Qui il sito del progetto
https://hugeicons.com | 1 186 | 14 | Loading... |
35 Un resoconto del Guardian sulla prima conferenza dedicata allo AI Warfare. Lo Schmidt citato è Eric Schmidt, ex ceo di Google (nonché prima cofondatore di Sun) e adesso lobbysta per la corsa ai cyberamarmenti intelligenti. Quello che emerge è uno di quegli articoli da ritagliare e conservare, per ritrovare tra qualche anno le conseguenze di quanto qui scritto.
Money quote: "Swarms of people migrated across the hall to see the main panel, where Karp and Schmidt spoke alongside the CIA deputy director, David Cohen, and Mark Milley, who retired in September as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, where he advised Joe Biden and other top officials on war matters. When Schmidt tried to introduce himself, his microphone didn’t work, so Cohen lent him his own. “It’s always great when the CIA helps you out,” Schmidt joked. This was about as light as things got for the next 90 minutes."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology | 848 | 7 | Loading... |
36 Nelle stories Instagram del mio account (@gianlucaneri) sta andando avanti ormai da tempo un torneo tra le migliori serie tv. L’elenco dei titoli partecipanti è stato ottenuto dando in pasto a ChatGPT vari articoli (soprattutto stranieri) contenenti classifiche delle migliori serie degli ultimi anni. Siamo partiti da 64 titoli. Ora siamo ai quarti di finale e ne sono rimasti 8.
Questo è il thread per commentare (durante e dopo) il risultato di Modern Family vs. Scrubs (si vota qui: https://www.instagram.com/stories/gianlucaneri/3384028948394692604?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MXBkMWhhZnZ3NjJ0eA==). | 858 | 1 | Loading... |
37 Non stanno "barando" solo gli studenti, che copiano a man bassa e si fanno fare compiti, tesine ed esami dall'AI. Adesso salta fuori che anche gli insegnanti non sono da meno. Fantastico.
Money quote: "Teachers are turning to AI tools and platforms — such as ChatGPT, Writable, Grammarly and EssayGrader — to assist with grading papers, writing feedback, developing lesson plans and creating assignments. They’re also using the burgeoning tools to create quizzes, polls, videos and interactives to up the ante” for what’s expected in the classroom."
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/06/tech/teachers-grading-ai/ | 965 | 13 | Loading... |
38 Liberation in occasione degli ottanta anni dallo sbarco in Normandia racconta la storia del reportage radiofonico che si è dato per perso per quarant'anni.
Money quote: "A l'occasion du 80e anniversaire du Débarquement, «Libération» raconte l'histoire d'un reportage audio réalisé le 6 juin 1944. L'enregistrement, perdu durant des années, a été retrouvé dans une cave en 1994."
https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/histoire/on-dirait-que-nous-allons-avoir-une-sacree-nuit-ce-soir-le-debarquement-a-travers-un-reportage-radio-ressurgi-de-loubli-20240606_6ATORZ23NBCFFNJFNAMSS4NPIY/ | 841 | 4 | Loading... |
39 Signore e signori, ecco a voi "Landing". Meglio di Pinterest, meglio di Instagram. E molto più camp.
Money quote: "One site capitalizing on both Pinterest's popularity and faults that has exploded with its unfaithful is Landing. Landing’s creators even acknowledge the comparisons to Pinterest on their website, “Many Landing creators are active Pinterest users, and many of the creators on Landing actually discovered Landing through Pinterest!”
It was when I was scrolling through Instagram for more inspiration for my invitation that I came across an ad for Landing, pitching itself as my new “creative escape”. I signed up for the app and a bright, oxidized yellow landing page greeted me as I searched disco on their main page. I was able to collect over a dozen images that I then assembled into my disco invitation."
https://www.bylinebyline.com/articles/landing | 1 247 | 14 | Loading... |
40 Atlas, La mia recensione per Fumettologica.
https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/atlas-netflix-recensione-film-jennifer-lopez/ | 5 249 | 3 | Loading... |
Le cose che devi sapere per fare un buon viaggio e altre amenità: Mostly Weekly è appena uscita.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/278/
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Letture per la domenica.
I piccoli leggono, leggono tantissimo. Poi, tutto a un tratto, fra gli 8 e i 9 anni, smettono. Alcune riflessioni e dati che aiutano a capire un fenomeno più complesso di quel che sembra.
Money quote: "Most alarmingly, kids in third and fourth grade are beginning to stop reading for fun. It’s called the “Decline by 9,” and it’s reaching a crisis point for publishers and educators. According to research by the children’s publishers Scholastic, at age 8, 57 percent of kids say they read books for fun most days; at age 9, only 35 percent do. This trend started before the pandemic, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated things."
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
Il Decline by 9 spiegato bene:
https://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/navigate-the-world.html
The Real Reading Crisis Involves the Kids Who Don’t Have Phones
It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?
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Il dietro le quinte dell'ultimo special project per il primo di aprile di xkcd: The Machine
Money quote: "This is the story of how we built Machine in 3 weeks, and what I learned along the way."
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
E ovviamente The Machine:
https://xkcd.com/2916/
(Se volete farvi divorare la ram del computer da una singola pagina web, non c'è niente di meglio).
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.
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Lo sapevate che fine ha fatto la città dei pirati per definizione, cioè Porth Royal? Io no. Ma qui l'ho scoperto. E vorrei andarla a vedere, un giorno.
Money quote: "Located on the southeast coast of Jamaica, the natural harbor at Port Royal became the center of English life in Jamaica. By the late 1600s it had become one of the largest European cities in the new world, second only to Boston. It had also become the infamous home of pirates, sex workers, and Englishmen on the make. Far from home, they made their livings off of the slave trade, slave labor in plantations, and the money that the pirates brought in from their looting forays against the Spanish."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sunken-pirate-stronghold-at-port-royal
Jamaica's Sunken Pirate City
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
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Chi ha dato il volto a James Bond? È il tema della mia rubrica per Fumettologica.
https://fumettologica.it/2024/06/james-bond-volto-fumetti/
Stanisław Lem è un autore notevolissimo e molto celebrato tra chi ama la buona letteratura. Trascende il genere della fantascienza, anche se non ne fuoriesce completamente. Forse per questo alcune delle sue traduzioni in italiano sono problematiche?
Money quote: "Qualcuno potrebbe pensare che questa mia postilla alle prefazioni/postfazioni italiane di Solaris nasca da una petulante pignoleria filologica più o meno fine a sé stessa, quindi di natura nevrotico-masturbatoria. Ma non è così, perché purtroppo la stessa storia delle traduzioni italiane di Solaris si rivela teatro di inesattezze, per non dir peggio, francamente inaccettabili."
https://www.indiscreto.org/storia-indiscreta-di-solaris-in-italia/
Storia indiscreta di Solaris in Italia
Ci sono cose che non sappiamo sul capolavoro letterario di Stanisław Lem. In copertina la copertina di solaris, il film del 1972 di Luigi Marinelli Nella sua dotta postfazione all’edizione Sellerio di Solaris, Francesco M. Cataluccio scriveva: Il problema di fondo che Lem ha
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Il modo in cui sono fatti i complessi per appartamenti di New York è sempre la stessa minestra sciapa e priva di personalità. Magari la facciata (qualche volta) è interessante, ma dentro no, sono sempre cubi su cubi su cubi collegati da porte. Fino ad ora, perlomeno. Perché c'è chi cerca di fare le case diversamente.
Money quote: "I don’t know whether this hodgepodge of references was conscious, but it’s surely not coincidental. SO-IL has been working for years to deconstruct a building’s mass to make it seem less like a monolith and more like a town. If that still qualifies as a radical move, it’s because the typical New York apartment building is a closed box crisscrossed by hollow passages. Even architecturally ambitious towers, like those by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and David Adjaye, work essentially the same way before the surfaces go on, reserving innovation for the final fit-out."
https://www.curbed.com/article/architecture-review-so-il-brooklyn-chapel-warren-vanderbilt.html
The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO-IL’s Apartment Buildings
Three midsize Brooklyn projects display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
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Prendetela con un po' di spirito. L'idea è che siamo tutti devastati dall'eccesso di interruzioni e micro-cose da fare (cose di "manutenzione") e non si riesce più a trovare il tempo per concentrarsi e fare le cose che servono veramente e che richiedono parecchia attenzione: il cosiddetto "Deep Work". Ecco, questo articolo cerca di affrontare questo problema suggerendo alcune soluzioni. La chiave di lettura secondo me è che non siamo solo noi a essere nelle peste: è un fenomeno reale ed è diventato epidemico: è davvero difficile lavorare sul serio.
Money quote: "Accessing that kind of deep work zone can feel nearly impossible. If you’re busy with multiple tasks, finding a solid chunk of time for uninterrupted productivity may be utterly unrealistic. Fortunately, there are methods to optimise the limited ‘deep work’ time we have, plan for interruptions and produce meaningful work despite competing demands for our attention."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-busiest-people-get-deep-work-done
How the Busiest People Get ‘Deep Work’ Done
For busy people, finding time for uninterrupted work may feel utterly unrealistic. But there are methods we can use to optimise what limited ‘deep work’ time we have.
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L'intervista che è stata fatta un po' di mesi fa al numero uno di Rolex, Jean-Frédéric Dufour. È molto raro che si faccia intervistare, quindi anche se è un po' vecchia fatevela durare ancora un bel po'.
Money quote: "Question: Two or three years ago, watches were seen more as an investment than a dream. Cryptocurrency millionaires, for example, converted some of their money into real assets.
Dufour: I don’t like it when people compare watches to stocks. It sends the wrong message and is dangerous. We make products, not investments."
https://www.nzz.ch/english/watches-and-wonders-2024-rolex-ceo-on-cooling-markets-and-the-idea-behind-the-watch-fair-ld.1825387
Watches and Wonders 2024: Rolex-CEO on cooling markets and the idea behind the watch fair
This week, Swiss watch manufacturers are presenting their new products at Watches and Wonders in Geneva. The trade fair’s management duo tell the NZZ why they founded the event and where they want to take it.
Questa settimana su Mostly Weekly
~277 qualche consiglio utile: ricordatevi di a crivere la mattina presto, andare a letto. Sempre alla stessa ora, imparare nuove parole e ascoltare sempre tutti.
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/277/
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