Algoritmo per il riconoscimento facciale: adesso l’intelligenza artificiale si guarda il porno da sola. Ok computer...
Money quote: “Pornhub announced that it is using machine learning and facial recognition to detect over 10,000 porn stars across the site in a bid to make searching for your favorite star or fetish more efficient. So far, it's scanned 50,000 videos in the last month of beta testing, and Pornhub plans to scan all five million videos currently hosted on the site by early next year. Eventually—with the help of users, who will upvote and downvote the AI's guesses—the company says it'll get to the point where the computer vision can discern hair color, sex position, and fetish.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3kmpb/facial-recognition-for-porn-stars-is-a-privacy-nightmare-waiting-to-happen
Money quote: “Pornhub announced that it is using machine learning and facial recognition to detect over 10,000 porn stars across the site in a bid to make searching for your favorite star or fetish more efficient. So far, it's scanned 50,000 videos in the last month of beta testing, and Pornhub plans to scan all five million videos currently hosted on the site by early next year. Eventually—with the help of users, who will upvote and downvote the AI's guesses—the company says it'll get to the point where the computer vision can discern hair color, sex position, and fetish.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3kmpb/facial-recognition-for-porn-stars-is-a-privacy-nightmare-waiting-to-happen
Vice
Facial Recognition for Porn Stars Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen
The underlying tech being used by Pornhub could one day be used by more nefarious actors to identify amateur and unwitting porn models.
Scrivere codice: Recensione Buffer editor per iOS - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/scrivere-codice-recensione-buffer-editor-ios/
https://www.macitynet.it/scrivere-codice-recensione-buffer-editor-ios/
Macitynet.it
Scrivere codice: Recensione Buffer editor per iOS - Macitynet.it
Iniziamo con questo editor di testo una serie di prove dei migliori software per lavorare con l’iPad (e l’iPhone) su codice e non solo
Forwarded from Fumettologica
I curatori della sezione dedicata ai libri del portale di e-commerce Amazon USA hanno stilato la propria classifica dei migliori fumetti del 2017. Di questi, solo nove sono stati tradotti in italiano.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/11/amazon-migliori-fumetti-2017/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/11/amazon-migliori-fumetti-2017/
Fumettologica
I 20 migliori fumetti del 2017, secondo Amazon USA - Fumettologica
Il portale di e-commerce Amazon.com ha stilato le proprie classifiche dei migliori prodotti del 2017. Solo nove di questi sono stati tradotti in italiano.
Cambio della staffetta con la Cina, che dopo l’America diventa la nazione che ascolta le stelle in attesa degli alieni. I quali, peraltro,, se mai arriveranno, ci mangeranno probabilmente tutti. Liu Cixin, lo scrittore di fantascienza più noto in Cina e anche da noi, è stato convocato come consulente.
Money quote: “But in other ways Liu is a strange choice to visit the dish. He has written a great deal about the risks of first contact. He has warned that the “appearance of this Other” might be imminent, and that it might result in our extinction. “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent,” he writes in the postscript to one of his books. “But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.”“
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/
Ps: l’illustrazione di questa storia in edicola con the Atlantic secondo me è mondiale.
Money quote: “But in other ways Liu is a strange choice to visit the dish. He has written a great deal about the risks of first contact. He has warned that the “appearance of this Other” might be imminent, and that it might result in our extinction. “Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent,” he writes in the postscript to one of his books. “But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.”“
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/
Ps: l’illustrazione di questa storia in edicola con the Atlantic secondo me è mondiale.
The Atlantic
What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.
Finti mariti, finte mogli, ma anche finti nonni, figli, nipoti, fratelli, sorelle, amici. In Giappone pare stia impazzando l’idea di usare attori per sostituire figure famigliari nelle relazioni in pubblico o per il proprio benessere spirituale in casa. E ci sono agenzie con centinaia di figuranti che affittano gli impersonatori di questi ruoli.
Money quote: “His 8-year-old company, Family Romance, provides professional actors to fill any role in the personal lives of clients. With a burgeoning staff of 800 or so actors, ranging from infants to the elderly, the organization prides itself on being able to provide a surrogate for almost any conceivable situation”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/
Money quote: “His 8-year-old company, Family Romance, provides professional actors to fill any role in the personal lives of clients. With a burgeoning staff of 800 or so actors, ranging from infants to the elderly, the organization prides itself on being able to provide a surrogate for almost any conceivable situation”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/
The Atlantic
The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business
You can pay an actor to impersonate your relative, spouse, coworker, or any kind of acquaintance.
Se volete farvi una idea di come funziona il meccanismo interno di Facebook, questo è un buon punto di partenza.
Money quote: “We want to help you understand how your Facebook posts get viewed on Facebook. So we’re collecting all the relevant Facebook algorithm factors, updates, and changes and placing them here in this post for easy reference.”
https://medium.com/social-media-tips/decoding-the-facebook-algorithm-e106dc2f7d15
Money quote: “We want to help you understand how your Facebook posts get viewed on Facebook. So we’re collecting all the relevant Facebook algorithm factors, updates, and changes and placing them here in this post for easy reference.”
https://medium.com/social-media-tips/decoding-the-facebook-algorithm-e106dc2f7d15
Medium
Decoding the Facebook Algorithm
A Fully Up-to-Date List of the Algorithm Factors and Changes
iA Writer mi piace molto: non è il mio unico editor di testo ma è stato e continua ad esssre il mio preferito in molte situazioni. Negli ultimi tempi aveva perso un po’ di spinta: adesso con la versione 5 per iOS sono elettrizzato di nuovo.
Conosco il suo sviluppatore e mi piace molto il suo modo di ragionare. Qui ci sono un po’ di considerazioni sullo sviluppo evolutivo del software in generale e degli editor di testo in particolare che trovo molto interessanti.
Money quote: “Technology evolves from raw to complex to simple. From the fist to the hand axe to the hammer. From carts to the Model T to Tesla. From switchboard-operated phones to digital phones to smartphones. From SMS to Facebook to Messenger. From the crude to the cooked to Sushi. After seven years of development, where on this path is iA Writer?”
https://ia.net/writer/blog/ia-writer-5-from-raw-to-cooked-to-sushi/
Conosco il suo sviluppatore e mi piace molto il suo modo di ragionare. Qui ci sono un po’ di considerazioni sullo sviluppo evolutivo del software in generale e degli editor di testo in particolare che trovo molto interessanti.
Money quote: “Technology evolves from raw to complex to simple. From the fist to the hand axe to the hammer. From carts to the Model T to Tesla. From switchboard-operated phones to digital phones to smartphones. From SMS to Facebook to Messenger. From the crude to the cooked to Sushi. After seven years of development, where on this path is iA Writer?”
https://ia.net/writer/blog/ia-writer-5-from-raw-to-cooked-to-sushi/
ia.net
iA Writer 5: From Raw to Cooked to Sushi – iA Writer: The Focused Writing App
Technology evolves from raw to complex to simple. From the fist to the hand axe to the hammer. From carts to the Model T to Tesla. From switchboard-operated phones to digital phones to smartphones. From SMS to Facebook to Messenger. From the crude to the…
Angolo ricreativo: i dolori della giovane libraia (tranquilli: è un fumetto web)
Money quote: "Intanto finalmente vi posto un fumetto che avevo in mente da un po' e affronta il tema sempre più pressante della gran libreria bazar, ossia quelle sempre più numerose librerie che a furia di inserire merceologie nell'assortimento, finiscono per essere dei negozi di varia con, incidentalmente, dei libri."
http://idoloridellagiovanelibraia.blogspot.it/2017/11/gran-bazar-libreri-ovvero-del-cercare.html
Money quote: "Intanto finalmente vi posto un fumetto che avevo in mente da un po' e affronta il tema sempre più pressante della gran libreria bazar, ossia quelle sempre più numerose librerie che a furia di inserire merceologie nell'assortimento, finiscono per essere dei negozi di varia con, incidentalmente, dei libri."
http://idoloridellagiovanelibraia.blogspot.it/2017/11/gran-bazar-libreri-ovvero-del-cercare.html
idoloridellagiovanelibraia.blogspot.co.uk
"Gran bazar libreria", ovvero "Del cercare assurde merceologie in libreria" (che però sì, lo so, da qualche parte qualche libreria…
In queste ultime due settimane sono stata più latitante del solito, i motivi sono due: 1) Ho avuto gli ultimi giorni di ferie prima de...
Tra il Volga e gli Urali qualcuno ha fatto un pasticcio nucleare. Niente di grave, ma è stato registrata la nuvola sopra l’Europa.
Money quote: “The IRSN analysis suggests that the ruthenium did not come from a nuclear reactor accident. Instead, it most likely came from either the chemical reprocessing of old nuclear fuel or the production of isotopes used in medicine. Based on the size of the release, Gariel says, whatever happened had to have been accidental.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/10/563286253/mysterious-radioactive-cloud-over-europe-hints-at-accident-farther-east
Money quote: “The IRSN analysis suggests that the ruthenium did not come from a nuclear reactor accident. Instead, it most likely came from either the chemical reprocessing of old nuclear fuel or the production of isotopes used in medicine. Based on the size of the release, Gariel says, whatever happened had to have been accidental.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/10/563286253/mysterious-radioactive-cloud-over-europe-hints-at-accident-farther-east
Avete letto gli articoli che ho pubblicato su VIm, vi siete convertiti e adesso avete deciso di usarlo. Ma la scelta dei suoi quattro tasti direzione, cioè hjkl, proprio non vi riesce. Non è per niente naturale. Di conseguenza vi state arrendendo.
Ebbene, non fatelo. Con Vim-Game-Snake acquisterete mobilità e coordinamento in poco tempo divertendovi. Ed è pure gratuito. Il divertimento del fine settimana...
https://github.com/johngrib/vim-game-snake
Ebbene, non fatelo. Con Vim-Game-Snake acquisterete mobilità e coordinamento in poco tempo divertendovi. Ed è pure gratuito. Il divertimento del fine settimana...
https://github.com/johngrib/vim-game-snake
GitHub
GitHub - johngrib/vim-game-snake: Vim Game : Snake
Vim Game : Snake. Contribute to johngrib/vim-game-snake development by creating an account on GitHub.
C'è uno che sta facendo i soldi vendendo cose su Amazon che ha comprato da WallMart. Praticamente, campa sullo spread, un baco del sistema. I margini di errore sono minimi però.
Money quote: "Since he started selling on Amazon, Grant says the business is on track to top $8 million in total sales by the end of this year. Profits are heavily reinvested back into the company, though Grant was still able to take a salary of around $150,000 when he was working for the venture full time.
The team also made mistakes made along the way. They lost $6,000 when a faulty nail filing product for dogs got Grant's Amazon seller account temporarily suspended, for example. They also had to pay the fees Amazon charges for products that failed to sell and sat idly in Amazon's warehouses.
All the same, Grant believes he has found an easy and effective formula for success. "I think anyone can do it if they're willing to put in the work," he says."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/28-year-old-makes-millions-buying-from-walmart-selling-on-amazon/ar-AAupB8i
Money quote: "Since he started selling on Amazon, Grant says the business is on track to top $8 million in total sales by the end of this year. Profits are heavily reinvested back into the company, though Grant was still able to take a salary of around $150,000 when he was working for the venture full time.
The team also made mistakes made along the way. They lost $6,000 when a faulty nail filing product for dogs got Grant's Amazon seller account temporarily suspended, for example. They also had to pay the fees Amazon charges for products that failed to sell and sat idly in Amazon's warehouses.
All the same, Grant believes he has found an easy and effective formula for success. "I think anyone can do it if they're willing to put in the work," he says."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/28-year-old-makes-millions-buying-from-walmart-selling-on-amazon/ar-AAupB8i
Msn
28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon
It seems too easy to be true that you could make millions by raiding the clearance aisle at your local Walmart or Target and then selling your haul on Amazon. But that's exactly what 28-year-old Ryan Grant is doing.
È successa una cosa strana ma bella: un lettore di questo canale, per ringraziarmi del tempo e della competenza che metto nella selezione delle notizie ovviamente fatta sempre in modo gratuito, ha deciso di ricambiare il dono con un altro dono. E mi ha mandato il codice di una gift card di Netflix. Regalo estremamente apprezzato! Grazie Stefano.
Per questo voglio tentare un esperimento: o lettori a cui piace questo canale, se avete voglia di compensare il regalo dell'informazione con il regalo del cinema e serie televisive, mandatemi codici delle gift card di Netflix: si comprano nei supermercati e nei negozi della grande distribuzione di apparecchi elettronici: dai Carrefour ai Media World, insomma.
Purtroppo a quel che ho capito non si comprano online e c'è comunque un taglio minimo di 15 euro, cioè un sacco di soldi (negli Usa si possono comprare su Amazon indicando un valore anche di un solo euro) che io non so se avrei voglia di spendere per "ringraziare" un canale Telegram. Se però avete voglia e magari vi federate in piccoli gruppetti, il vostro nome potrebbe comparire nel posto dello sponsor sopra il televisore del soggiorno: la piccola audience di casa Dini ne sarebbe estasiata.
Purtroppo a quel che ho capito non si comprano online e c'è comunque un taglio minimo di 15 euro, cioè un sacco di soldi (negli Usa si possono comprare su Amazon indicando un valore anche di un solo euro) che io non so se avrei voglia di spendere per "ringraziare" un canale Telegram. Se però avete voglia e magari vi federate in piccoli gruppetti, il vostro nome potrebbe comparire nel posto dello sponsor sopra il televisore del soggiorno: la piccola audience di casa Dini ne sarebbe estasiata.
Comunque, con sette gift card qui ci faremmo un anno di Netflix, che sarebbe un riconoscimento ai due anni e mezzo di vita di "Mostly, I Write" al di sopra di qualsiasi aspettativa. Non vi dico come luccicano gli occhi alla piccola audience di casa Dini...
Detto questo, io continuo a pubblicare come e più di prima a prescindere, non preoccupatevi.
Detto questo, io continuo a pubblicare come e più di prima a prescindere, non preoccupatevi.
(Due cose: se vi va, il mio contatto privato su Telegram è @antoniodini . L'altra cosa: sì, mi piacciono gli Yes, penso si intraveda dalla foto di prima...)
Ci sono molte cose da trovare in questo articolo brillante e difficile. C’è il rapporto tra sesso e genere, il ruolo del corpo (con la differenza tra essere spogliati ed essere nudi), una riflessione non banale sulle statue romane e la scoperta (per me) di un favoloso Ermafrodito, l’identità è il corpo femminile, l’Italianità vista da fuori.
Insomma, buona domenica.
Money quote: “In one of the rooms lies a sleeping Hermaphroditus. The statue resists panoptic interpretation — the viewer may approach from all sides, but with only a limited view, in order to surprise the viewer as they walk around it. At the same time, Hermaphroditus lies naked and unconscious for the viewer to expose at will. The statue is a succinct commentary on sex, gender, and the presentation of bodies. It is also a joke”
https://eidolon.pub/the-body-in-question-d28045d23714
Insomma, buona domenica.
Money quote: “In one of the rooms lies a sleeping Hermaphroditus. The statue resists panoptic interpretation — the viewer may approach from all sides, but with only a limited view, in order to surprise the viewer as they walk around it. At the same time, Hermaphroditus lies naked and unconscious for the viewer to expose at will. The statue is a succinct commentary on sex, gender, and the presentation of bodies. It is also a joke”
https://eidolon.pub/the-body-in-question-d28045d23714
Medium
The Body in Question
Looking at Nonbinary Gender in the Greek and Roman World
In un mondo di telai numerici e robot, vedere artigiani americani che costruiscono violini in un video di chiara meditazione zen è semplicemente surreale.
Money quote: “bzzzz”
https://aeon.co/videos/from-carving-the-wood-to-the-final-varnish-hand-crafting-a-violin-has-a-musicality-all-its-own
Money quote: “bzzzz”
https://aeon.co/videos/from-carving-the-wood-to-the-final-varnish-hand-crafting-a-violin-has-a-musicality-all-its-own
Aeon
From carving the wood to the final varnish, hand-crafting a violin has a musicality all its own
As machines supplant people in every field from production to the arts, there are still some things that are simply better done with a human touch. A violin that comes off a factory line just can’t compare with one crafted in a workshop. Shot at the the Chicago…
Ci sono quelli che dicono che l'Apple Watch è solo una barzelletta, un mezzo fallimento. Peccato che, se si vanno a guardare i numeri (con un po' di elaborazioni) si scopre che l'Apple Watch sta sorpassando l'iPod. Che, per chi se lo fosse dimenticato, è stato il sinonimo del successo di Apple a partire dal 2002.
Money quote: "Overtaking the iPod is quite an achievement considering that the iPod was once synonymous with Apple itself. Although Watch may overcome iPod, Apple may never be known as the Watch company. That’s perhaps for the best. I’ve noted before that Apple was once seen as the Apple II company, became the Mac company then the iPod company. Now of course it is thought of as the iPhone company though it’s no more that than it ever was any of the other things."
http://www.asymco.com/2017/11/08/when-watch-surpassed-ipod/
Money quote: "Overtaking the iPod is quite an achievement considering that the iPod was once synonymous with Apple itself. Although Watch may overcome iPod, Apple may never be known as the Watch company. That’s perhaps for the best. I’ve noted before that Apple was once seen as the Apple II company, became the Mac company then the iPod company. Now of course it is thought of as the iPhone company though it’s no more that than it ever was any of the other things."
http://www.asymco.com/2017/11/08/when-watch-surpassed-ipod/
Asymco
When Watch surpassed iPod
The last time Apple reported iPod unit and revenues was for the third quarter of 2014. Thereafter the product segment called “Other Products” was used to include what was formerly the iPod segment …
Ecco come un articolo su "che cosa ne pensano i Bush padre e figlio di Donald Trump" si trasforma anche in un interessante spaccato di come ha funzionato la relazione tra due presidenti degli Stati Uniti, secondo i giornalisti del New York Times.
Money quote: "The younger Mr. Bush resented the implication that anyone was steering him. “The fact that there was any doubt in anyone’s mind about who the president was blows my mind,” he said. He added that Mr. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, his defense secretary, “didn’t make one fucking decision.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/us/politics/bush-president-book-trump.html
Money quote: "The younger Mr. Bush resented the implication that anyone was steering him. “The fact that there was any doubt in anyone’s mind about who the president was blows my mind,” he said. He added that Mr. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, his defense secretary, “didn’t make one fucking decision.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/us/politics/bush-president-book-trump.html
NY Times
Both Bush Presidents Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.
A new book on the father-and-son presidents provides a glance at their apprehension over Mr. Trump’s rise to power and what it means for the country.