Bisogna sempre avere voglia di imparare qualcosa di nuovo. Questo tizio, ad esempio, voleva imparare a fare l’hardware, essendo già a posto con le competenze software. Così, ha preso e si è messo di buzzo buono per fare una cartuccia di GameBoy Color da zero, con al suo interno un inedito porting di Wolfenstein 3D.
Fatto!
Mica male.
Money quote: “I wanted to learn how to design PCBs, work with surface mount components, and generally learn more about hardware. I am a software guy and consider myself still very much a novice when it comes to hardware.
It always helps having a specific problem to solve when learning something so I decided to see if I could make something in the spirit of the Super-FX, but for the Gameboy.
The Gameboy was a natural choice, I started my career in games way back in the days working on the Gameboy so I thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane – I was right! :)”
http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dS5ZPRZJw
Fatto!
Mica male.
Money quote: “I wanted to learn how to design PCBs, work with surface mount components, and generally learn more about hardware. I am a software guy and consider myself still very much a novice when it comes to hardware.
It always helps having a specific problem to solve when learning something so I decided to see if I could make something in the spirit of the Super-FX, but for the Gameboy.
The Gameboy was a natural choice, I started my career in games way back in the days working on the Gameboy so I thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane – I was right! :)”
http://www.happydaze.se/wolf/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dS5ZPRZJw
La classifica di The Verge degli 11 giochi migliori del 2016, il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/gli-undici-migliori-giochi-del-2016/
http://www.macitynet.it/gli-undici-migliori-giochi-del-2016/
Macitynet.it
Gli undici giochi da non perdere del 2016
La classifica di The Verge sui capolavori dell’anno che sta finendo: avventura, azione e intrattenimento su tutte le piattaforme: Playstation 4, Xbox One, Windows e Mac
Sappiamo che il grande tema del prossimo futuro è quello delle intelligenze artificiali che prenderanno il posto di lavoro di molti colletti bianchi. È una fase ulteriore dell’automazione iniziata con la prima e poi la seconda rivoluzione industriale (non a caso in Germania la chiamano “Industria 4.0).
Il punto è che questa trasformazione dovrebbe creare nuovi tipi di posti di lavoro oppure addirittura creare un mondo in cui non c’è più bisogno di lavorare. Siamo lontani da questo, a quanto mi risulta, ma la cosa interessante invece è un’altra. In Giappone i colletti bianchi stanno cominciando a saltare. Forse anche da altre parti. Forse anche da noi.
Money quote: “Artificial intelligence systems like IBM’s are poised to upend knowledge-based professions, like insurance and financial services, according to the Harvard Business Review, due to the fact that many jobs can be “composed of work that can be codified into standard steps and of decisions based on cleanly formatted data.” But whether that means augmenting workers’ ability to be productive, or replacing them entirely remains to be seen.”
http://qz.com/875491/japanese-white-collar-workers-are-already-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence/
Il punto è che questa trasformazione dovrebbe creare nuovi tipi di posti di lavoro oppure addirittura creare un mondo in cui non c’è più bisogno di lavorare. Siamo lontani da questo, a quanto mi risulta, ma la cosa interessante invece è un’altra. In Giappone i colletti bianchi stanno cominciando a saltare. Forse anche da altre parti. Forse anche da noi.
Money quote: “Artificial intelligence systems like IBM’s are poised to upend knowledge-based professions, like insurance and financial services, according to the Harvard Business Review, due to the fact that many jobs can be “composed of work that can be codified into standard steps and of decisions based on cleanly formatted data.” But whether that means augmenting workers’ ability to be productive, or replacing them entirely remains to be seen.”
http://qz.com/875491/japanese-white-collar-workers-are-already-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence/
Quartz
Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence
Automation isn't just about manufacturing and transportation.
Cambio al vertice di Wired Usa: esce l'attuale direttore Scott Dadich ed arriva il capo dell'online del New Yorker, già caporedattore di Wired dal 2005 al 2010.
Money quote: "People familiar with Dadich said he had previously floated the idea of gathering a group of investors and buying Wired himself."
http://www.recode.net/platform/amp/2017/1/3/14156884/wired-editor-in-chief-scott-dadich-out-conde-nast
Money quote: "People familiar with Dadich said he had previously floated the idea of gathering a group of investors and buying Wired himself."
http://www.recode.net/platform/amp/2017/1/3/14156884/wired-editor-in-chief-scott-dadich-out-conde-nast
Recode
Wired’s top editor, Scott Dadich, is out
New Yorker digital editor Nicholas Thompson will replace him.
Trent’anni fa nasceva Zelda, uno dei più importanti e influenti videogiochi della storia. Ecco un po’ di storia e i disegni originali (a matita su fogli a quadretti!) che diedero inizio a tutto quanto
Money quote: “It’s The Legend of Zelda’s 30th anniversary this year, and so we thought you might appreciate a look at some illustrations created during the development of the first The Legend of Zelda game, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System!”
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda--1169414.html
https://youtu.be/pFtcwL3P1N0
Money quote: “It’s The Legend of Zelda’s 30th anniversary this year, and so we thought you might appreciate a look at some illustrations created during the development of the first The Legend of Zelda game, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System!”
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda--1169414.html
https://youtu.be/pFtcwL3P1N0
Nintendo of Europe GmbH
Take a look behind-the-scenes with design documents from The Legend of Zelda!
See the original The Legend of Zelda as you never have before…
Ma siamo davvero consapevoli di quel che pensiamo? Pare di no. E questo è filosoficamente (e non solo) un prolbema
Money quote: “What seems to be happening is that the subjects engage in unconscious self-interpretation. They don’t know the real explanation of their action (a bias towards the right, hypnotic suggestion), so they infer some plausible reason and ascribe it to themselves. They are not aware that they are interpreting, however, and make their reports as if they were directly aware of their reasons.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/whatever-you-think-you-don-t-necessarily-know-your-own-mind
Money quote: “What seems to be happening is that the subjects engage in unconscious self-interpretation. They don’t know the real explanation of their action (a bias towards the right, hypnotic suggestion), so they infer some plausible reason and ascribe it to themselves. They are not aware that they are interpreting, however, and make their reports as if they were directly aware of their reasons.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/whatever-you-think-you-don-t-necessarily-know-your-own-mind
Aeon
Whatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind
Do you think racial stereotypes are false? Are you sure? I’m not asking if you’re sure whether or not the stereotypes are false, but if you’re sure whether or not you think that they are. That might seem like a strange question. We all know what w...
Buon compleanno, Legend of Zelda - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/buon-compleanno-legend-of-zelda/
http://www.macitynet.it/buon-compleanno-legend-of-zelda/
Macitynet.it
Buon compleanno, Legend of Zelda
Il dietro le quinte per i 30 anni. Backstage con carta e penna per capire come è stato creato uno dei più grandi capolavori del mondo dei videogame di tutti i tempi. Una saga che ancora oggi incanta grandi e piccini
Macity mette alla prova il re degli eReader: Kobo Aura One - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/macity-mette-alla-prova-re-degli-ereader-kobo-aura-one/
http://www.macitynet.it/macity-mette-alla-prova-re-degli-ereader-kobo-aura-one/
Macitynet.it
Macity mette alla prova il re degli eReader: Kobo Aura One - Macitynet.it
Test approfondito per l’ebook reader tra i più grandi sul mercato: Kobo considera l’Aura One il suo prodotto più riuscito di sempre. È davvero così?
Kobo compra Tolino. Il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/kobo-compra-tolino-grande-avversario-amazon/
http://www.macitynet.it/kobo-compra-tolino-grande-avversario-amazon/
macitynet.it
Kobo compra Tolino: ecco il nuovo, grande avversario di Amazon
Amazon, E-reader, Kindle, Kobo
Un po' di tempo fa ne avevo scritto per Il Post, anche perché Gigi è il mio spacciatore e riparatore di macchine fotografiche per eccellenza. Adesso è diventato famoso, direi!
Money quote: 'Camera Master'
https://www.dpreview.com/news/2462298490/camera-master-gian-luigi-carminati-has-been-repairing-cameras-for-almost-60-years
Money quote: 'Camera Master'
https://www.dpreview.com/news/2462298490/camera-master-gian-luigi-carminati-has-been-repairing-cameras-for-almost-60-years
dpreview.com
'Camera Master' Gian Luigi Carminati has been repairing cameras for almost 60 years
A short video introduces Gian Luigi Carminati, a 76-year-old technician from Italy, who has been repairing analog cameras for nearly 60 years. Watch the video
Le dieci storie che avrebbero voluto scrivere quelli di Bloomberg
Money quote: “Every year, Bloomberg News publishes a “Jealousy List” — the stories Bloomberg staffers wish they had published. It’s a delightful and endearing concept, and one that makes us incredibly — what’s that word? — envious.
So, here are the stories other folks published in 2016 that made the FiveThirtyEight staff super duper jelly.”
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/damn-we-wish-wed-written-these-11-stories/
Money quote: “Every year, Bloomberg News publishes a “Jealousy List” — the stories Bloomberg staffers wish they had published. It’s a delightful and endearing concept, and one that makes us incredibly — what’s that word? — envious.
So, here are the stories other folks published in 2016 that made the FiveThirtyEight staff super duper jelly.”
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/damn-we-wish-wed-written-these-11-stories/
FiveThirtyEight
Damn, We Wish We’d Written These 11 Stories
Every year, Bloomberg News publishes a “Jealousy List” — the stories Bloomberg staffers wish they had published. It’s a delightful and endearing concept, and o…
Una logica conseguenza del boom edilizio è l'aumento degli ascensori. Che adesso sono quasi tutti in Cina
Money quote: "China is experiencing an elevator boom. Over the past decade, the vast majority of elevators installed around the world have been placed in China, where rapid urbanization has met with a desire for ambitious “super-tall” skyscrapers. It has been estimated that by 2020, 40 percent of all elevators will be in China."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-surprisingly-cutthroat-race-to-build-the-worlds-fastest-elevator/2017/01/03/8f6a83ae-8910-4786-b1da-dd049b702f20_story.html
Money quote: "China is experiencing an elevator boom. Over the past decade, the vast majority of elevators installed around the world have been placed in China, where rapid urbanization has met with a desire for ambitious “super-tall” skyscrapers. It has been estimated that by 2020, 40 percent of all elevators will be in China."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-surprisingly-cutthroat-race-to-build-the-worlds-fastest-elevator/2017/01/03/8f6a83ae-8910-4786-b1da-dd049b702f20_story.html
Washington Post
The surprisingly cutthroat race to build the world’s fastest elevator
China’s growth is slowing, but its cities still battle over tall towers and speed records.
Cuffie 3D: diventa sempre più economica la tecnologia per ascoltare musica come non l'abbiamo mai sentita. È la nuova frontiera?
Money quote: "The shape of our ear canals is unique to each of us, he tells me, even more so than our fingerprints. This is why your average pair of earphones keep falling out, have poor sound quality, and a habit of sharing your music tastes with everyone else in the train carriage"
http://www.thememo.com/2017/01/06/snugs-earphones-review-3d-printing-lube-hearables/
Money quote: "The shape of our ear canals is unique to each of us, he tells me, even more so than our fingerprints. This is why your average pair of earphones keep falling out, have poor sound quality, and a habit of sharing your music tastes with everyone else in the train carriage"
http://www.thememo.com/2017/01/06/snugs-earphones-review-3d-printing-lube-hearables/
The Memo
Snugs: 3D printed earphones that won't keep falling out
The Snugs Earphones are 3D printed to fit your own unique ear canal, but you'll need to lube up to put them in.
Kodak annuncia che riprende a produrre una pellicola analogica - si chiama Ektachrome - invertendo la tendenza degli ultimi quindici anni a togliere dal mercato le varietà del film per via dell'avvento del digitale. Da qualche anno stanno vedendo una domanda in crescita costante e vogliono seguire il mercato.
Sui social: #EktachromeIsBack
Insieme alla nuova/vecchia pellicola, hanno hanno fatto anche un notevole spot che è un mini-film. Dura tre minuti ed è molto bello.
https://youtu.be/sZBrowcWnMU
Sui social: #EktachromeIsBack
Insieme alla nuova/vecchia pellicola, hanno hanno fatto anche un notevole spot che è un mini-film. Dura tre minuti ed è molto bello.
https://youtu.be/sZBrowcWnMU
YouTube
Understanding - A 35mm Film by Director Terry Rayment
Director Terry Rayment's 35mm film "Understanding" poignantly depicts the transformational power of love and happiness. Cinematographer Kate Arizmendi captured all of the emotions beautifully on KODAK VISION3 500T 5219.
CREDITS:
NOLAN: Jaz Goodreau
FATHER:…
CREDITS:
NOLAN: Jaz Goodreau
FATHER:…
Videorecensione di I–1, la prima Polaroid Impossibile - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/videorecensione-1-la-polaroid-impossibile/
http://www.macitynet.it/videorecensione-1-la-polaroid-impossibile/
Macitynet.it
Videorecensione di I–1, la prima Polaroid Impossibile
Macity mette alla prova la prima macchina istantanea che utilizza le pellicole serie 600 prodotte da the Impossibile Project. Convince ma solo a metà
Gli gli artisti, soprattutto gli attori, sono sempre qualcosa di più e qualcosa di meno della loro opera. Nel caso di Carrie Fisher, scomparsa recentemente come sappiamo, c'è veramente da pensarci un po' sopra. Perché forse era qualcosa di più e qualcosa di meno della principessa Leia Organa.
Money quote: "Carrie Fisher's legacy as a mental health advocate and her fiercely ironic sense of humor were encapsulated in one final gesture: Her Prozac pill-shaped urn."
http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/carrie-fisher-urn-prozac-pill-debbie-reynolds/
Money quote: "Carrie Fisher's legacy as a mental health advocate and her fiercely ironic sense of humor were encapsulated in one final gesture: Her Prozac pill-shaped urn."
http://mashable.com/2017/01/06/carrie-fisher-urn-prozac-pill-debbie-reynolds/
Mashable
Carrie Fisher's urn is shaped like a giant Prozac pill, like she would've wanted
She would have laughed the loudest.
Dietro le quinte della campagna elettorale di Donald Trump, seguita dal giornalista del Washington Post che è bravino
Money quote: “Trump saw.
The next night, he called me to say he had just then given away the $1 million, all in one swoop, to a nonprofit run by a friend. That meant when Lewandowski said Trump’s money was “fully spent,” it was actually still in Trump’s pocket.
On the phone, I asked Trump: Would you really have given this money away if I hadn’t been asking about it?
“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahrenthold-tells-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-his-year-covering-trump/2016/12/27/299047c4-b510-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html
Money quote: “Trump saw.
The next night, he called me to say he had just then given away the $1 million, all in one swoop, to a nonprofit run by a friend. That meant when Lewandowski said Trump’s money was “fully spent,” it was actually still in Trump’s pocket.
On the phone, I asked Trump: Would you really have given this money away if I hadn’t been asking about it?
“You know, you’re a nasty guy,” he said. “You’re really a nasty guy.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahrenthold-tells-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-his-year-covering-trump/2016/12/27/299047c4-b510-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html
Washington Post
David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump
A reporter reveals how he investigated Trump’s claims on his donations to charity.
È ufficiale, siamo figli dei Turchi. La mia gioventù di splendido etrusco se n’è andata così, in un lampo del Dna, rubata da un articolo del Guardian.
Ps: e poi, anche la “fiorentina” è turca. Ma dai!
Money quote: “Another recent genetic study, of "chianina" and three other Tuscan cattle strains, found they were unrelated to Italian breeds. Yet matches were found in Turkey and the Balkans, along the supposed route of some of ancient Italy's most enigmatic immigrants.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/18/italy.johnhooper
Ps: e poi, anche la “fiorentina” è turca. Ma dai!
Money quote: “Another recent genetic study, of "chianina" and three other Tuscan cattle strains, found they were unrelated to Italian breeds. Yet matches were found in Turkey and the Balkans, along the supposed route of some of ancient Italy's most enigmatic immigrants.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/18/italy.johnhooper
the Guardian
The enigma of Italy's ancient Etruscans is finally unravelled
DNA tests on their Italian descendants show the 'tuscii' came from Turkey.
La coscienza: che cos’è? Un problema che ha traversato la storia dell’umanità, con le migliori menti del passato che si sono dedicate a indagare, speculare, riflettere per cercare di offrire una risposta. Oggi i filosofi non vengono più considerati le migliori menti della nostra società ma le domande di questo genere però non sono scomparse: sono finite in mano a neuroscienziati, psichiatri e cognitivisti, per tacer dei fisici e dei matematici.
Questo passaggio sta pian piano ridefinendo anche i punti chiave del problema stesso: anziché avere due problemi, uno facile e uno difficile (lo diceva Cartesio: quello facile è l’esistenza della coscienza nel cervello, quello difficile è la motivazione per cui essa esiste), siamo arrivati al “vero problema”.
Al di là dell’indagine di per sé, l’aspetto rilevante ma apparentemente invisibile è il radicale cambiamento di impostazione, una trasformazione dell’uomo e del suo modo di riflettere che segna proprio a cavallo della nostra epoca una traccia profonda, separante l’uomo del ‘900 da quello del XXI secolo.
Money quote: “But there is an alternative, which I like to call the real problem: how to account for the various properties of consciousness in terms of biological mechanisms; without pretending it doesn’t exist (easy problem) and without worrying too much about explaining its existence in the first place (hard problem). (People familiar with ‘neurophenomenology’ will see some similarities with this way of putting things – but there are differences too, as we will see.)”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one
Questo passaggio sta pian piano ridefinendo anche i punti chiave del problema stesso: anziché avere due problemi, uno facile e uno difficile (lo diceva Cartesio: quello facile è l’esistenza della coscienza nel cervello, quello difficile è la motivazione per cui essa esiste), siamo arrivati al “vero problema”.
Al di là dell’indagine di per sé, l’aspetto rilevante ma apparentemente invisibile è il radicale cambiamento di impostazione, una trasformazione dell’uomo e del suo modo di riflettere che segna proprio a cavallo della nostra epoca una traccia profonda, separante l’uomo del ‘900 da quello del XXI secolo.
Money quote: “But there is an alternative, which I like to call the real problem: how to account for the various properties of consciousness in terms of biological mechanisms; without pretending it doesn’t exist (easy problem) and without worrying too much about explaining its existence in the first place (hard problem). (People familiar with ‘neurophenomenology’ will see some similarities with this way of putting things – but there are differences too, as we will see.)”
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one
Oggi iPhone compie dieci anni: ecco come ha cambiato il mondo e come lo cambierà - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/oggi-iphone-compie-dieci-anni-cambiato-mondo-lo-cambiera/
http://www.macitynet.it/oggi-iphone-compie-dieci-anni-cambiato-mondo-lo-cambiera/
macitynet.it
Oggi iPhone compie dieci anni: ecco come ha cambiato il mondo e come lo cambierà
IPhone