Slack «Bot e intelligenza artificiale lavoreranno per noi» - il mio articolo (scritto e pubblicato in volo) per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/slack-lintelligenza-artificiale-faville/

Ecco la rete per la digital society: intuitiva e "autodidatta", il mio articolo per CorCom

http://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital/49193_ecco-la-rete-per-la-digital-society-intuitiva-e-autodidatta.htm

Sulla base di un algoritmo - una cosa che ho scritto un po’ di tempo fa per Link

http://www.linkideeperlatv.it/motori-di-raccomandazione/

Addio AOL Instant Messenger, dopo 20 anni chiude un pezzo di storia del web - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/addio-aol-instant-messenger-venti-anni-chiude/

Ryan Goslin mi sta cominciado ad essere simpatico...

Papyrus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

Perché non bombardare la Corea del Nord e chiudere la partita con un paio di atomiche o anche più? Sembra incredibile, ma c'è chi se lo chiede. Ma cosa sono oggi le armi atomiche e quali effetti avrebbero?

Money quote: “Maybe this is why Trump has been psychotically cavalier about the notion of starting a nuclear war lately. It’s as if we’ve time-traveled to 1950 when the Korean War gave Douglas MacArthur the idea to nuke China in response for intervening with his forces, an idea that was rebuffed as not to invite Russian use of nuclear weapons in otherwise conventional conflicts, and ultimately cost the general his job after he went rogue and tried to defy Truman’s orders on the subject. Just like MacArthur, Trump seems unable to grasp the real world consequences of deploying humanity’s deadliest invention on a whim”.

https://rantt.com/heres-what-would-happen-if-donald-trump-nuked-north-korea-ea40416581af

Uno di quegli articoli che poi ritrovate su Repubblica (o sul Post, ma in modo un po’ più divertito) che spiega con “dati scientifici alla mano” perché le donne tradiscono (e indirettamente perché gli uomini: ma quello si dà per acquisito). Con tanto di percentuali di quante, dopo il tradimento, si innamorano (70%) rispetto agli uomini (30%) che invece evidentemente pensano solo a una cosa.

Neuroscienza del luogo comune? Nuovi corsi per sceneggiatori di telenovele?

Money quote: “Our studies, led by the psychologists Daniel Conroy-Beam at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Cari Goetz at California State University San Bernardino, suggest that women tracking alternative mates operate in three dimensions. The first is interest: does the potential mate show attention, attraction and desire? Prolonged eye contact, selective smiles and sideways glances are some documented indicators here. Do these indicators signal long-term interest or a fleeting sexual desire? Many women are reluctant to leave their regular partner for a passing fancy, although some see it as an important signal that something is seriously wrong in their regular relationship. The second dimension is mate value: only large increments in value over the committed partner are likely to be worth the costs of breaking up. The third dimension for tracking is eligibility: is the interested alternative actually free of encumbering commitments such as an existing spouse or crushing obligations to dependent children? Conroy-Beam, Goetz and I also found that women scaled back on the effort to retain their regular partner only when operating in one or more of the dimensions above”

https://aeon.co/essays/does-the-mate-switching-hypothesis-explain-female-infidelity

Fotografare i fiocchi di neve. Questo tizio, uno dei milioni e milioni di tizi su internet, con una macchina fotografica economica e un secondo obiettivo russo di risulta da pochi soldi, fa delle foto spettacolari. Davvero spettacolari.

Money quote: “Currently, i use low cost variation of well-known lens reversal macro technique: compact camera Canon Powershot A650is at maximum optical zoom (6x) shoots through lens Helios 44M-5 (taken from old film camera Zenit, made in USSR), reversely mounted in front of built-in camera optics. Compared to Canon A650 standard macro mode, this simple setup achieves much better magnification and details, lesser chromatic aberrations and blurring at image corners, but also very shallow depth of field”

https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

L’intervista al CEO di Google, Sundar Pichai, è molto, molto buona: tecnologia, tasse, uguaglianza dei generi, protezione dei dati, come creare il futuro. Bravo Guardian, lettura veramente ricca. Non so però se l’apertura dell’articolo sia pensata per creare simpatia per la vita preistorica in India trent’anni fa: a me sembra l’Italia di inizio duemila...

Money quote: “hen Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren’t ready.

It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.””

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/google-boss-sundar-pichai-tax-gender-equality-data-protection-jemima-kiss

Amazon rilancia con il nuovo Kindle Oasis resistente all’acqua - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/kindle-oasis-resistente-allacqua/

Hanno i terminali, hanno la rete, ma non hanno le prese elettriche per ricaricare i telefonini. L’Africa e l’Asia stanno vivendo un altro paradosso che definirà il modo nel quale si svilupperà l’innovazione in quei mercati.

Money quote: “While delivering the next billion smartphones to first-time customers is relatively easy, finding ways to charge them is not, because many people in developing countries lack reliable access to electricity. Solving this problem will challenge the rich world’s assumptions about what services should be provided by which kinds of network companies.

In most countries where people lack reliable access to electricity, they have better access to a 3G or better cellular network. This means the smartphone -- and its business, social and entertainment uses -- will create greater demand for electricity.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-challenge-to-keep-the-world-s-smartphones-charging

Due errori che Apple non doveva concedersi - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/due-errori-apple-non-doveva-concedersi/

La scalata al successo di Robert Kirkman, i perché della sua popolarità e come ha rivoluzionato il fumetto e l'entertainment statunitense. L'articolo di Evil Monkey:

http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/robert-kirkman/

Le prime mille formule di Homebrew. Una lista che fotografa alcuni mesi di utilizzo del repository e sistema di distribuzione che ha completamente cambiato il mio modo di usare il Mac e la riga di comando. Qual è la formula che è stata scaricata di più? Quante volte?

Le prime tre: node, git e wget; il mio vim è in 17ma posizione. Macvim molto, molto più in giù.

https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/

Richard Branson ha scritto una autobiografia intitolata “My Virginity”, sull’idea di affrontare sempre nuove sfide. In questo caso Hyperloop, il treno ad aria compressa e levitazione magnetica.

Money quote: “Delighted to announce Virgin Group’s investment in Hyperloop One – the world’s most revolutionary train service. This is an incredibly innovative and exciting new way to move people and things at airline speeds on the ground. At the same time we have also agreed to rebrand the company as Virgin Hyperloop One”

https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/introducing-virgin-hyperloop-one-worlds-most-revolutionary-train-service

Dentro Qualcomm a San Diego: il costo di chip e tecnologie è per l’innovazione - il mio articolo per Macity dalla città californiana.

https://www.macitynet.it/qualcomm-la-voglia-innovare/

Rientrato a Milano. Ma mi fermo poco in città. Intanto, qui su Mostly continuiamo con tranquillità a pubblicare cose. Se vi capita, segnalatelo a qualche amico/a che potrebbe essere interessato. È gratuito! Grazie!

Posti di lavoro in quota

La guerra dei bike sharing in Cina. Mamma mia...

Money quote: “Start-ups have flooded the city with shared bikes, he complained, and people have been leaving them all over the place without thinking about other residents. “There’s no sense of decency anymore,” he muttered, picking up the discarded bike and heaving it into the air in anger. “We treat each other like enemies.”

There are now more than 16 million shared bicycles on the road in China’s traffic-clogged cities, thanks to a fierce battle for market share among 70-plus companies backed by a total of more than $1 billion in financing. These start-ups have reshaped the urban landscape, putting bikes equipped with GPS and digital locks on almost every street corner in a way that Silicon Valley can only dream of.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html

Intanto che Alitalia agonizza e dalla sua app non si riescono a vedere biglietti che non siano stati comprati nella app stessa, Delta si inventa il check-in automatico...

Dedicato al mio amico Roberto e a tutti quelli con un super cervello perennemente fuori giri.

Money quote: “For Pinker, the root cause of so much bad writing is what he calls "the Curse of Knowledge", which he defines as "a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose."”

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/the-single-reason-why-people-cant-write-according-.html

Ps: in realtà da noi si scrive male anche per eccessiva ignoranza: il “tardo burocratico” degli uffici postali o delle caserme dell’Arma è un classico. Però...