Siamo sicuri che con la realtà virtuale stiamo facendo la cosa giusta? Perché dovremmo anche chiederci quali sono i rischi di uno strumento che interagisce direttamente con la nostra capacità percettiva.
Money quote: ““This is a scene from a movie from the 1940s called Gaslight,” Todd Richmond told the packed room, pointing to a screen showing a man and a woman standing by an old gaslight in a home. “How many people know what gaslighting is? So the term gaslighting comes from when lights used to be gas fueled. And it's a way of driving someone into mental distress by manipulating their environment without telling them and then denying that it's being manipulated. So the classic, the gaslight lamp lighting is that you slowly turn down the lights on your spouse because you're trying to drive your spouse nuts. Your spouse says, ‘Is it getting darker?’ And you say, ‘No, I don't know what you're talking about.’ And if you do that enough over time, you would begin to freak people out.
“So is VR the perfect platform for this? The answer is, yeah, if you're going to use it for that.””
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/4/7/15205366/vr-danger-close
Money quote: ““This is a scene from a movie from the 1940s called Gaslight,” Todd Richmond told the packed room, pointing to a screen showing a man and a woman standing by an old gaslight in a home. “How many people know what gaslighting is? So the term gaslighting comes from when lights used to be gas fueled. And it's a way of driving someone into mental distress by manipulating their environment without telling them and then denying that it's being manipulated. So the classic, the gaslight lamp lighting is that you slowly turn down the lights on your spouse because you're trying to drive your spouse nuts. Your spouse says, ‘Is it getting darker?’ And you say, ‘No, I don't know what you're talking about.’ And if you do that enough over time, you would begin to freak people out.
“So is VR the perfect platform for this? The answer is, yeah, if you're going to use it for that.””
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/4/7/15205366/vr-danger-close
Polygon
‘We’re running with scissors’: Why some experts worry about VR dangers
Virtual gaslighting, augmented torture
L'iPad Pro 2017 è ancora più "pro" di prima - il mio articolo per Il Post
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/06/16/ipad-pro-2017/
http://www.ilpost.it/antoniodini/2017/06/16/ipad-pro-2017/
Il Post
L’iPad Pro 2017 è ancora più “pro” di prima
La seconda edizione del tablet Apple con schermo 10.5 è un missile, ma bisognerà attendere iOS 11 in autunno perché l'iPad dia il massimo
Ricordate il fallimento dei televisori 3D? Incapaci di aggiungere profondità all'esperienza già consolidata della televisione e per di più limitativi delle sue funzionalità? Comincio ad avere la sensazione che l'enfasi su VR e AR possa ripetere errori simili.
Quando hanno messo il motore non hanno solo tolto il cavallo alle carrozze; hanno proprio reinventato il trasporto creando l'automobile. Mi sa che pensare a software, device e schede video per fare VR e AR sia la fine e non l'inizio della storia.
Money quote: "Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of big, open-world titles are the perfect application for VR — the medium needs games that can keep players entertained for more than a few hours, and people want to feel like they're really living in their favorite world.
I think, however, that you’d be wrong. Because so far, the little I’ve seen of both titles suggests that most of the great parts of present-day open-world games don’t translate well into a headset, and that the perfect VR open world won’t look anything like what we’re used to."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/16/15814724/fallout-4-skyrim-vr-bethesda-hands-on-e3-2017
Quando hanno messo il motore non hanno solo tolto il cavallo alle carrozze; hanno proprio reinventato il trasporto creando l'automobile. Mi sa che pensare a software, device e schede video per fare VR e AR sia la fine e non l'inizio della storia.
Money quote: "Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of big, open-world titles are the perfect application for VR — the medium needs games that can keep players entertained for more than a few hours, and people want to feel like they're really living in their favorite world.
I think, however, that you’d be wrong. Because so far, the little I’ve seen of both titles suggests that most of the great parts of present-day open-world games don’t translate well into a headset, and that the perfect VR open world won’t look anything like what we’re used to."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/16/15814724/fallout-4-skyrim-vr-bethesda-hands-on-e3-2017
The Verge
Playing Fallout 4 and Skyrim in VR is probably a bad idea
Earlier this week, Bethesda Softworks gave fans two big virtual reality announcements: VR versions of beloved RPGs Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You could argue that these kinds of...
Quando pensi che un articolo su come sistematicamente leggere più libri sia una banalità pazzesca che non vale il tempo di nessuno, ecco che nell'ultima riga si redime completamente e alla grande.
Money quote: "One more thing: Stop reading if a book sucks, you don’t need to complete it. Read the next book instead."
https://deanyeong.com/read-more-books/
Money quote: "One more thing: Stop reading if a book sucks, you don’t need to complete it. Read the next book instead."
https://deanyeong.com/read-more-books/
Dean Yeong
How to Read More Books: Three Tips to Maximize Learning | Dean Yeong
I love to read since the age of 15, but I stopped reading after I started working. This year, I decided to read more, and here is how I do it.
Abbiamo una opinione piuttosto stereotipata e generale dei Bitcoin, Tant'è vero che chi invece se ne sta occupando, utilizzando valute digitali per le sue transazioni, è in grado di fare ragionamenti più articolati e scelte maggiormente sofisticate.
Money quote: "To make micropayments of one cent, we can’t just use Stripe. Because Stripe’s fees are about 30 cents or higher, a one cent payment to a creator would cost 31 cents and 97% of the money would go to Stripe. So we have developed a micropayments solution on bitcoin. Our solution is like the lightning network, but is not dependent on segwit. We are the first and only group to demonstrate a working routed micropayment on bitcoin today. The marginal cost of a transaction on our network is zero, allowing genuine micropayments of one cent or lower."
https://stories.yours.org/why-were-switching-to-litecoin-d5157e445254
Money quote: "To make micropayments of one cent, we can’t just use Stripe. Because Stripe’s fees are about 30 cents or higher, a one cent payment to a creator would cost 31 cents and 97% of the money would go to Stripe. So we have developed a micropayments solution on bitcoin. Our solution is like the lightning network, but is not dependent on segwit. We are the first and only group to demonstrate a working routed micropayment on bitcoin today. The marginal cost of a transaction on our network is zero, allowing genuine micropayments of one cent or lower."
https://stories.yours.org/why-were-switching-to-litecoin-d5157e445254
Yours Stories
Why We’re Switching to Litecoin
Yours is like Medium with a pay wall. Our mission is to improve the quality of content on the internet and we believe getting creators and…
Terapia e depressione. Una storia.
Money quote: "In the days prior to my appointment, I was so ready to acknowledge that I was unwell, feeling lighter for the first time in months, counting down the days until I’d finally have help. But when faced with a clipboard and forms that reduced my suffering to a checklist of symptoms — I feel sad or depressed. I have felt very depressed daily for at least 2 weeks. I have had similar episodes during my lifetime. I feel hopeless and helpless. I have been thinking about suicide — suddenly, I wasn’t so confident"
https://medium.com/@susancheng_72531/therapy-taught-me-not-to-hate-myself-for-hurting-1cc5f1502b4a
Money quote: "In the days prior to my appointment, I was so ready to acknowledge that I was unwell, feeling lighter for the first time in months, counting down the days until I’d finally have help. But when faced with a clipboard and forms that reduced my suffering to a checklist of symptoms — I feel sad or depressed. I have felt very depressed daily for at least 2 weeks. I have had similar episodes during my lifetime. I feel hopeless and helpless. I have been thinking about suicide — suddenly, I wasn’t so confident"
https://medium.com/@susancheng_72531/therapy-taught-me-not-to-hate-myself-for-hurting-1cc5f1502b4a
Medium
Therapy Didn’t Rid Me Of My Depression. But It Helped Me Understand It
It’s true when they say pains that don’t get discussed aren’t perceived as important or even real to the rest of the world.
Invecchiare bene, invecchiare male, mantenersi giovani. Ma dopotutto cosa vuol dire invecchiare? Non c'è una definizione univoca, neanche un modo unico. E la mente, oltre agli stimoli ambientali e alle trasformazioni degli organi del corpo, gioca la sua parte.
Iniziando con un interessante esperimento, qui si ripercorre in maniera non banale la ricerca scientifica che cerca di capire il funzionamento dell'invecchiamento
Money quote: "As scientists have worked to pinpoint a person’s biological age, they have learned that organs and tissues often age differently, making it difficult to reduce biological age to a single number. They have also made a discovery that echoes Langer’s work. How old we feel—our subjective age—can influence how we age. Where age is concerned, the pages torn off a calendar do not tell the whole story."
http://aging.nautil.us/feature/218/why-you-cant-help-but-act-your-age
Iniziando con un interessante esperimento, qui si ripercorre in maniera non banale la ricerca scientifica che cerca di capire il funzionamento dell'invecchiamento
Money quote: "As scientists have worked to pinpoint a person’s biological age, they have learned that organs and tissues often age differently, making it difficult to reduce biological age to a single number. They have also made a discovery that echoes Langer’s work. How old we feel—our subjective age—can influence how we age. Where age is concerned, the pages torn off a calendar do not tell the whole story."
http://aging.nautil.us/feature/218/why-you-cant-help-but-act-your-age
Aging on Nautilus
Why You Can’t Help But Act Your Age
In 1979, psychologist Ellen Langer and her students carefully refurbished an old monastery in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to resemble a place that would have existed two decades earlier. They invited...
Superati i due miliardi di partite, l'app degli scacchi online si è bloccata. L'indirizzamento a 32 bit la limitava a un numero finito e troppo piccolo di match. Il forum che racconta in diretta cosa è successo
Money quote: "impossible de jouer depuis deux jours quel est le problème ???"
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/impossible-de-jouer-depuis-deux-jours-quel-est-le-probleme
Money quote: "impossible de jouer depuis deux jours quel est le problème ???"
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/impossible-de-jouer-depuis-deux-jours-quel-est-le-probleme
Chess.com
impossible de jouer depuis deux jours quel est le problème ??? - Chess Forums
iOS 11, finalmente anche uno strumento per il lavoro - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/linizio-dellera-della-produttivita-ios/
https://www.macitynet.it/linizio-dellera-della-produttivita-ios/
Macitynet.it
iOS 11, finalmente anche uno strumento per il lavoro - Macitynet.it
La versione 11 del sistema operativo mobile di Apple, assieme al nuovi iPad Pro, apre finalmente i cancelli della creatività e del lavoro per gli utenti? Files e il nuovo Dock lasciano immaginarlo
Sette consigli su come leggere di più.
Money quote: "Fai un budget, compra i libri che vuoi leggere, fanne una pila da cui attingere ogni giono (anche andare in una biblioteca è un’ottima idea, ovviamente)"
http://www.sulromanzo.it/blog/come-leggere-tanti-libri-all-anno
Money quote: "Fai un budget, compra i libri che vuoi leggere, fanne una pila da cui attingere ogni giono (anche andare in una biblioteca è un’ottima idea, ovviamente)"
http://www.sulromanzo.it/blog/come-leggere-tanti-libri-all-anno
www.sulromanzo.it
Come leggere tanti libri all’anno | Blog | Sul Romanzo
(Come leggere tanti libri all’anno) Leggere tanti libri all’anno è il sogno di tutti i lettori, ma spesso c’imbattiamo nella vita di tutti i giorni che rallenta la lettura o ci costringe a smettere pe
La terribile poesia dell'architettura del potere. Del lato oscuro del potere.
Money quote: "Mirrored and forbidding, the NSA campus stands as a fortress surrounded by a moat of parking. The public knows almost nothing about what happens inside: As Self writes, “the authorised information available on the building could practically be published in a single tweet.”"
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/the-dark-architecture-of-national-security/529302/
Money quote: "Mirrored and forbidding, the NSA campus stands as a fortress surrounded by a moat of parking. The public knows almost nothing about what happens inside: As Self writes, “the authorised information available on the building could practically be published in a single tweet.”"
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/the-dark-architecture-of-national-security/529302/
CityLab
The Dark Architecture of National Security
How the built environment of the security state reflects the anxieties of the modern age.
Vado a New York per qualche giorno: mi sto imbarcando adesso a Malpensa. Questo canale prosegue, ma in maniera più sporadica.
MXP-JFK Lock'n'loaded...
MXP-JFK Lock'n'loaded...
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Dice Mashable che le Stories hanno rovinato Instagram: prima pubblicavamo foto di tutto, senza preoccuparci particolarmente, mentre ora facciamo più attenzione allo stile delle foto che pubblichiamo, e riserviamo le scemenze o il racconto della nostra normale giornata alle Stories.
Link: http://on.mash.to/2sQcgcZ
Link: http://on.mash.to/2sQcgcZ
Simulare miliardi di miliardi di particelle per rappresentare materia ed energia oscura in maniera analizzabile, al fine di tarare un satellite che verrà lanciato nel 2020. Incredibile.
Money quote: "The simulation represents the culmination of three years of work on the simulation's code by the Swiss researchers. After finishing the code, it was deployed for 80 hours on the Piz Daint supercomputer in Switzerland, the most powerful supercomputer in the world"
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/largest-simulated-universe
Money quote: "The simulation represents the culmination of three years of work on the simulation's code by the Swiss researchers. After finishing the code, it was deployed for 80 hours on the Piz Daint supercomputer in Switzerland, the most powerful supercomputer in the world"
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/largest-simulated-universe
Motherboard
Behold, the Largest Simulated Universe Ever Made
25 billion galaxies populated with 2 trillion particles will help calibrate a satellite on the hunt for dark matter.
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Com'era il tempo qui a New York quando sono arrivato. Per forza poi negano il riscaldamento globale...
Una intervista interessante per capire di cosa si parla quando si parla di Digital Learning in Italia
Money quote: "Il viaggio alla scoperta del digital learning inizia con la sua definizione, perché — come ci spiega il professor Rivoltella — l’ambito è molto più sfaccettato di quanto potremmo credere. Sarebbe fuorviante ridurre il digital learning ai puri media digitali, o al solo contesto formale; pensare insomma che sia una lavagna digitale all’interno di una classe di scuola. Il digital learning è in realtà molto di più, è composto sia da media, sia da contesti diversi"
https://blog.bhuman.it/digital-learning-in-italia-cosa-significa-e-a-che-punto-%C3%A8-il-nostro-paese-f0252fd2101f
Money quote: "Il viaggio alla scoperta del digital learning inizia con la sua definizione, perché — come ci spiega il professor Rivoltella — l’ambito è molto più sfaccettato di quanto potremmo credere. Sarebbe fuorviante ridurre il digital learning ai puri media digitali, o al solo contesto formale; pensare insomma che sia una lavagna digitale all’interno di una classe di scuola. Il digital learning è in realtà molto di più, è composto sia da media, sia da contesti diversi"
https://blog.bhuman.it/digital-learning-in-italia-cosa-significa-e-a-che-punto-%C3%A8-il-nostro-paese-f0252fd2101f
Essere digitali
Digital Learning in Italia: cosa significa e a che punto è il nostro Paese
Intervista al professor Pier Cesare Rivoltella dell’Università Cattolica di Milano, tra i maggiori esperti oggi
Volete visibilità e cyber-potere? Commentate i tweet di Donald Trump
Money quote: "The area below the President’s tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/trollpotusgrowthhack
Money quote: "The area below the President’s tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/trollpotusgrowthhack
BuzzFeed
Inside The Chaotic Battle To Be The Top Reply To A Trump Tweet
The area below the president’s tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet.
L'ironia è che il documento sullo stato della guerra alla fuga di informazioni sui prodotti futuri da parte di Apple sia stato trafugato. Ciò non toglie che quello che l'azienda sta facendo per tenere segreti gli annunci dei nuovi prodotti (una manovra più che legittima per creare attesa nel pubblico) sia sotto attacco con tanta forza e determinazione. Un modo scorretto di terzi per fare un profitto alle spalle di chi lavora per produrre oggetti di valore per il mercato.
Money quote: "In the years since Tim Cook pledged to double down on secrecy, Rice’s team has gotten better at safeguarding enclosures. “In 2014 we had 387 enclosures stolen,” he says. “In 2015 we had 57 enclosures stolen, 50 of which were stolen on the night of announce, which was so painful.” In 2016, Rice says the company produced 65 million housings, and only four were stolen. “So it’s about a one in 16 million loss ratio, which is unheard of in the industry.”"
https://theoutline.com/post/1766/leaked-recording-inside-apple-s-global-war-on-leakers
Money quote: "In the years since Tim Cook pledged to double down on secrecy, Rice’s team has gotten better at safeguarding enclosures. “In 2014 we had 387 enclosures stolen,” he says. “In 2015 we had 57 enclosures stolen, 50 of which were stolen on the night of announce, which was so painful.” In 2016, Rice says the company produced 65 million housings, and only four were stolen. “So it’s about a one in 16 million loss ratio, which is unheard of in the industry.”"
https://theoutline.com/post/1766/leaked-recording-inside-apple-s-global-war-on-leakers
The Outline
Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers
Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
Tanti ritocchi per un balzo di qualità shock: iPad Pro 10,5” ha uno spirito inedito La mia recensione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-ipad-pro-10-5/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-ipad-pro-10-5/
Macitynet.it
Tanti ritocchi per un balzo di qualità shock: iPad Pro 10,5” ha uno spirito inedito, la recensione - Macitynet.it
Il "piccolo mostro" convince: il nuovo tablet di Apple, anche senza iOS 11, è particolarmente veloce e flessibile, con uno schermo spettacolare. La recensione di iPad Pro 10,5" di Macity
Dopotutto, a che serve, cos'ha mai fatto la Convenzione europea dei diritti umani, se siete inglesi?
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/apr/25/patrick-stewart-sketch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/apr/25/patrick-stewart-sketch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video
the Guardian
Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video
Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani perform a satirical take on the Tory party’s human rights policy, inspired by the classic Monty Python sketch