Trovo affascinante l'idea stessa del Beta Testing. Questo articolo la porta molto avanti con aspetti che mi intrigano
Money quote:
"In other words: instead of just asserting that a thing would be better or more popular if done a different way, tell a story with details.
Maybe that’s not right for every beta test, but that’s what works for me. I like stories. A single person can convince me with a good story. Voting is not necessary or desired"
https://inessential.com/2016/08/27/on_beta_testing
Money quote:
"In other words: instead of just asserting that a thing would be better or more popular if done a different way, tell a story with details.
Maybe that’s not right for every beta test, but that’s what works for me. I like stories. A single person can convince me with a good story. Voting is not necessary or desired"
https://inessential.com/2016/08/27/on_beta_testing
E se fosse vero? Un segnale alieno che arriva dalle stelle... Diceva una famosa ricercatrice alla domanda se credesse all'esistenza di civiltà aliene: "Esistono sicuramente ma spero che non ci trovino mai".
Money quote: "“The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission from an extraterrestrial source,” said Alan Boyle, author of The Case for Pluto who reported the story for Geekwire. “In any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by those who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.”"
https://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-drill-seti-is-investigating-a-possible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/
Money quote: "“The signal conceivably fits the profile for an intentional transmission from an extraterrestrial source,” said Alan Boyle, author of The Case for Pluto who reported the story for Geekwire. “In any case, the blip is interesting enough to merit discussion by those who specialize in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.”"
https://observer.com/2016/08/not-a-drill-seti-is-investigating-a-possible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/
Observer
Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space
The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.
Se n'è andato il più grande degli Incredibles: Joe Sutter, papà del jumbo jet (747) ma anche del 707 e del 737. Aveva 95 anni.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN116001
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN116001
Reuters
Joe Sutter, father of the 747, passes away at 95
| Reuters
| Reuters
Joe Sutter, known for leading Boeing Co's engineering team for the iconic 747 jumbo jet in the mid-1960s, died on Tuesday at the age of 95.
Facebook ha licenziato i suoi redattori in carne ed ossa per affidarsi a degli algoritmi, scrivono i nostri giornali. Somma di imprecisioni. Nessun licenziamento: erano freelance e collaboratori esterni (già così nostri giornali cambierebbero tono, se non altro viste le condizioni di lavoro dei giornalisti nostrani). E poi si sottovaluta la notizia più succosa: i sistemi automatici hanno subito sbagliato alla grande, da farsi licenziare, loro sì!
Money quote: "In a post about the changes, Facebook said the early move to eliminate human editors was a direct response to "the feedback we got from the Facebook community earlier this year," an oblique reference to the raging controversy unleashed by the Gizmodo revelations. Facebook explained that the new, non-human Trending module is personalized "based on a number of factors, including Pages you’ve liked, your location (e.g., home state sports news), the previous trending topics with which you’ve interacted, and what is trending across Facebook overall." Instead of paying humans to "write topic descriptions and short story summaries," the company said "we’re relying on an algorithm to pull excerpts directly from news stories." Which is why millions of Facebook readers this morning saw the "news" that Megyn Kelly is a traitor who has been fired."
https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/facebook-fires-human-editors-algorithm-immediately-posts-fake-news/
Money quote: "In a post about the changes, Facebook said the early move to eliminate human editors was a direct response to "the feedback we got from the Facebook community earlier this year," an oblique reference to the raging controversy unleashed by the Gizmodo revelations. Facebook explained that the new, non-human Trending module is personalized "based on a number of factors, including Pages you’ve liked, your location (e.g., home state sports news), the previous trending topics with which you’ve interacted, and what is trending across Facebook overall." Instead of paying humans to "write topic descriptions and short story summaries," the company said "we’re relying on an algorithm to pull excerpts directly from news stories." Which is why millions of Facebook readers this morning saw the "news" that Megyn Kelly is a traitor who has been fired."
https://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/facebook-fires-human-editors-algorithm-immediately-posts-fake-news/
Ars Technica
Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news
Facebook makes its Trending feature fully automated, with mixed results.
Fantastica, essenziale ma completa spiegazione di come funziona la lingua giapponese scritta nei suoi elementi base.
Money quote: "Since we already have symbols for all the sounds we can pronounce, let's use this symbol to encode an entire word instead. I'll pick the word "mouth"."
https://www.candyjapan.com/%E5%8F%A3
Money quote: "Since we already have symbols for all the sounds we can pronounce, let's use this symbol to encode an entire word instead. I'll pick the word "mouth"."
https://www.candyjapan.com/%E5%8F%A3
candyjapan
Japanese writing system basics
Il liceo classico è inutile? Riprendo per par condicio la polemica sulla scuola delle nostre eccellenze da un altro, fenomenale punto di vista...
Money quote: "Sententiam, dixi? Ne "Facebook" nomen quidem Gramellinus recte latine convertit. Considerate. Si lyceum tam efficacem est, ubi sunt latinis litteris docti viri aetatis nostrae?"
https://leonardo.blogspot.it/2016/09/de-inutilitate-lycei-classici-oratio_1.html
Money quote: "Sententiam, dixi? Ne "Facebook" nomen quidem Gramellinus recte latine convertit. Considerate. Si lyceum tam efficacem est, ubi sunt latinis litteris docti viri aetatis nostrae?"
https://leonardo.blogspot.it/2016/09/de-inutilitate-lycei-classici-oratio_1.html
leonardo.blogspot.it
Leonardo: De inutilitate lycei classici, oratio non confutatura
Straordinari monumenti più duraturi del bronzo. Templi buddisti in India, vecchi di duemila anni, scavati nella roccia.
Money quote: "Some of the sites are easy to visit and popular with tourists visiting from Mumbai or Pune, the two biggest cities within range of the caves. Others were so remote he trekked for several hours, relying on the directions of local guides or even 19th century maps"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/temples-inside-caves-are-what-remains-of-an-ancient-buddhist-society
Money quote: "Some of the sites are easy to visit and popular with tourists visiting from Mumbai or Pune, the two biggest cities within range of the caves. Others were so remote he trekked for several hours, relying on the directions of local guides or even 19th century maps"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/temples-inside-caves-are-what-remains-of-an-ancient-buddhist-society
Atlas Obscura
Temples Inside Caves Are What Remains of an Ancient Buddhist Society
Western India is home to the last relics of a 2,000-year-old culture.
Piccolo viaggio di qualche giorno a Los Angeles: fisiologicamente gli aggiornamenti saranno più "sparpagliati", come si dice. Buona giornata a tutti!
Ma prima di partire: pensieri e appunti di Prince sulle sue stesse canzoni.
Money quote: "When liner notes for The Hits were posted on thedawn.com three years later, fans were shocked to see that, rather than simply replicating Leeds’ writing, the notes on the site were clearly Prince’s own thoughts. The notes omit many tracks, include mention of songs that weren’t included in the box set at all, and include what appear to be editorial suggestions for Leeds."
https://medium.com/@anildash/princes-own-liner-notes-on-his-greatest-hits-3a7baf4aec66#.7mv2jx4vf
Money quote: "When liner notes for The Hits were posted on thedawn.com three years later, fans were shocked to see that, rather than simply replicating Leeds’ writing, the notes on the site were clearly Prince’s own thoughts. The notes omit many tracks, include mention of songs that weren’t included in the box set at all, and include what appear to be editorial suggestions for Leeds."
https://medium.com/@anildash/princes-own-liner-notes-on-his-greatest-hits-3a7baf4aec66#.7mv2jx4vf
Medium
Prince’s Own Liner Notes On His Greatest Hits
When Prince’s first greatest hits collection was released, Prince made private comments as a guide for the liner notes. Later briefly…
Fotografare il cibo. Sedici fotograficda oggi provano a reinterpretare le immagini di uno dei principali aspetti della vita. Vale un'occhiata.
Shootfood | A Food Photography Project
https://www.shootfood.it/
Shootfood | A Food Photography Project
https://www.shootfood.it/
I vestiti - e il vestirsi - come forma di pensiero e di cultura. Da buon italiano ero partito prevenuto (dopotutto da noi la cultura della moda, dell'abbigliamento, bla bla bla) ma mi sono subito ricreduto. Spettacolare.
Money quote: "Where language falls short though, clothes might speak. Ideas, we languidly suppose, are to be found in books and poems, visualised in buildings and paintings, exposited in philosophical propositions and mathematical deductions. They are taught in classrooms; expressed in language, number and diagram. Much trickier to accept is that clothes might also be understood as forms of thought, reflections and meditations as articulate as any poem or equation. What if the world could open up to us with the tug of a thread, its mysteries disentangling like a frayed hemline?"
https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-philosophy-hold-clothes-in-such-low-regard
Money quote: "Where language falls short though, clothes might speak. Ideas, we languidly suppose, are to be found in books and poems, visualised in buildings and paintings, exposited in philosophical propositions and mathematical deductions. They are taught in classrooms; expressed in language, number and diagram. Much trickier to accept is that clothes might also be understood as forms of thought, reflections and meditations as articulate as any poem or equation. What if the world could open up to us with the tug of a thread, its mysteries disentangling like a frayed hemline?"
https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-philosophy-hold-clothes-in-such-low-regard
Aeon
What do clothes say?
Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down?
Qualche buon consiglio per l'ascolto di palati fini da BlogRegular
"Un unico disastro che ha nome vita enorme:" Bruckner e dintorni
https://blogregular.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/abruckner/
"Un unico disastro che ha nome vita enorme:" Bruckner e dintorni
https://blogregular.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/abruckner/
BLOGregular ...RELOADED!
un unico disastro che ha nome vita enorme: Bruckner
Então, desanimamos. Adeus, tudo! A mala pronta, o corpo desprendido, resta a alegria de estar só, e mudo. (C. Drummond de Andrade) Il mio appetito per la classica, risvegliatosi vorace durante l’es…
Se ancora usate i libri di carta, forse è ora di diventare digitali. Consigli per gli acquisti di reader di Ebook. Praticamente tutti di Amazon.
Money quote: "Of course, there are plenty of ebook readers out there. So which one should you get"
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/still-lugging-around-paper-books-184551674.html
Money quote: "Of course, there are plenty of ebook readers out there. So which one should you get"
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/still-lugging-around-paper-books-184551674.html
Yahoo
Still lugging around paper books? The 5 best ebook readers will convert you
If you're a bookworm, an ebook reader can be an important part of your life, one that allows you to read your books whenever and wherever you'd like. But which should you get? Here are five of our favorite models, whether you prefer Amazon's wears or those…
E se poi volete leggere qualcosa in inglese, ecco i 12 must-read tramgli ebook più venduti per questa estate appena finita (ma si può leggere sempre...
Money quote: "Summer is the second best time for reading, after late autumn. Many readers review their wish lists to pack their e-readers and book reading apps with new titles they could during sunny holidays"
https://ebookfriendly.com/ebook-bestsellers-summer-2016/
Money quote: "Summer is the second best time for reading, after late autumn. Many readers review their wish lists to pack their e-readers and book reading apps with new titles they could during sunny holidays"
https://ebookfriendly.com/ebook-bestsellers-summer-2016/
Ebook Friendly
12 must-read ebook bestsellers – summer 2016
New ebook releases to be included on your summer reading list 2016. Books from J.K. Rowling, Emily Giffin, Liane Moriarty, and Terry Pratchett.
Breve storia del più corto articolo del NYTimes
Monete quote: "But first we had to decide if we really, actually wanted to publish this. Would anyone get the joke? Was it even funny? Were we ruining our reputations, individually and institutionally? Would we be fired?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/insider/a-short-history-of-the-timess-shortest-story.html
Monete quote: "But first we had to decide if we really, actually wanted to publish this. Would anyone get the joke? Was it even funny? Were we ruining our reputations, individually and institutionally? Would we be fired?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/insider/a-short-history-of-the-timess-shortest-story.html
Nytimes
A Short History of The Times’s Shortest Story
Daniel Victor’s story clocked in at one word (two letters) — which will be “pretty hard to beat.”
Strano, strano racconto, anzi "reverie", di Yosemite e non solo. Scritto da un ex ranger
Money quote: "hile a ranger-naturalist, I was often asked what I most liked about Yosemite. ‘Light,’ I said. The Native Americans, who named a large part of what is now Yosemite ‘Pywiack’, meaning ‘Lake of the Shining Rocks’, knew that the permanent essence of this incomparable place is light"
https://aeon.co/essays/in-reverie-the-fleeting-beauty-of-yosemite-is-recalled
Money quote: "hile a ranger-naturalist, I was often asked what I most liked about Yosemite. ‘Light,’ I said. The Native Americans, who named a large part of what is now Yosemite ‘Pywiack’, meaning ‘Lake of the Shining Rocks’, knew that the permanent essence of this incomparable place is light"
https://aeon.co/essays/in-reverie-the-fleeting-beauty-of-yosemite-is-recalled
Aeon
In reverie, the fleeting beauty of Yosemite is recalled | Aeon Essays
‘At times it returns, in the motionless calm of the day, that memory of living immersed, absorbed, in the stunned light’
3300 anni dopo, rispuntano i tatuaggi della sacerdotessa
Money quote: "Some parts of the body are so dark and covered in embalming product that it's impossible to see the skin. So using an infrared camera, it sees through layers and sees skin as it was."
https://boingboing.net/2016/08/29/infrared-cameras-reveal-tattoo.html
Money quote: "Some parts of the body are so dark and covered in embalming product that it's impossible to see the skin. So using an infrared camera, it sees through layers and sees skin as it was."
https://boingboing.net/2016/08/29/infrared-cameras-reveal-tattoo.html
Boing Boing
Infrared cameras reveal tattoo-covered mummy priestess
Pantsuit, racconta la sua creatrice, è il sistema uniforme di interfaccia digitale di tutta la campagna di Hillary Clinton. La storia è raccontata dalla sua autrice. Notevole.
Money quote: "Pantsuit is Hillary for America’s internal design system. Its primary goal is to serve as a single source of truth for the design and front-end teams"
https://medium.com/git-out-the-vote/pantsuit-the-hillary-clinton-ui-pattern-library-238e9bf06b54#.ofvnfcnjs
Money quote: "Pantsuit is Hillary for America’s internal design system. Its primary goal is to serve as a single source of truth for the design and front-end teams"
https://medium.com/git-out-the-vote/pantsuit-the-hillary-clinton-ui-pattern-library-238e9bf06b54#.ofvnfcnjs
Medium
Pantsuit: The Hillary Clinton UI pattern library
Building a (presidential) design system
In questi giorni a Los Angeles sto usando spesso Uber e soprattutto il servizio "pool" (corsa a metà con altri che costa meno). Questo articolo dà molto bene una sintesi su quel che succede a Google e a Uber con l'evoluzione delle auto che si guidano da sole come modello di business grazie a Ben Thompson
Money quote: "It’s the routing piece that is the most important; Uber investor Bill Gurley has called the development of the necessary algorithms to make UberPool a success a BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal, and it’s an investment that will be critical for Uber going forward"
https://stratechery.com/2016/google-uber-and-the-evolution-of-transportation-as-a-service/
Money quote: "It’s the routing piece that is the most important; Uber investor Bill Gurley has called the development of the necessary algorithms to make UberPool a success a BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal, and it’s an investment that will be critical for Uber going forward"
https://stratechery.com/2016/google-uber-and-the-evolution-of-transportation-as-a-service/
Stratechery
Google, Uber, and the Evolution of Transportation-as-a-Service
The competition between Uber and Google has broken out into the open: who has the advantage in the evolution of transportation-as-a-service, and who will likely win?
Può sembrare una cosa da poco: il consorzio dietro alla presa multimediale HDMI (quella dei televisori, per intendersi) ha rilasciato le specifiche per l'Alternate Mode compatibili con la USB Type-C, cioè quella ultra sottile e reversibile per adesso utilizzata da pochi computer e telefonini (vedi tra tutti il MacBook 12 che ce l'ha come unica presa per tutto, alimentazione inclusa).
Il segnale da leggere è che la USB Type-C sta diventando davvero mainstram. Potrebbe farcela, insomma.
Money quote: "HDMI Alt Mode will support the full range of HDMI 1.4b features such as: resolutions up to 4K, Audio Return Channel (ARC), 3D, HDMI Ethernet Channel, and Consumer Electronic Control (CEC). The HDMI cable will utilize the USB Type-C connector on the source side and any HDMI connector on the display side. Unlike the other Alt Mode display technologies which require various adapters or dongles to connect to HDMI displays, HDMI Alt Mode enables an easy connection via a simple USB Type-C to HDMI cable."
https://www.macprices.net/2016/09/02/hdmi-releases-alternate-mode-for-usb-type-c-connector/
Il segnale da leggere è che la USB Type-C sta diventando davvero mainstram. Potrebbe farcela, insomma.
Money quote: "HDMI Alt Mode will support the full range of HDMI 1.4b features such as: resolutions up to 4K, Audio Return Channel (ARC), 3D, HDMI Ethernet Channel, and Consumer Electronic Control (CEC). The HDMI cable will utilize the USB Type-C connector on the source side and any HDMI connector on the display side. Unlike the other Alt Mode display technologies which require various adapters or dongles to connect to HDMI displays, HDMI Alt Mode enables an easy connection via a simple USB Type-C to HDMI cable."
https://www.macprices.net/2016/09/02/hdmi-releases-alternate-mode-for-usb-type-c-connector/
www.macprices.net
HDMI Releases Alternate Mode for USB Type-C Connector
A minute avviso Leonardo Tondelli da solo vale il Post o quasi. In ogni caso, con questo racconto di Madre Teresa di Calcutta, "La Morte biancoazzurra", ha superato se stesso
Money Quote: "Perché nessuno guardava volentieri Madre Teresa. Di lì a poco di solito l’obiettivo si sarebbe allargato e intorno a lei sarebbero comparsi bambini denutriti o lebbrosi e mosche e tutto il resto, e da questa parte del televisore era quasi sempre ora di pranzo o cena. Madre Teresa è l’unica celebrità internazionale davanti alla quale veniva spontaneo abbassare lo sguardo. Questo, paradossalmente, potrebbe essere stato il segreto del suo straordinario successo"
https://www.ilpost.it/leonardotondelli/2012/09/05/la-morte-biancoazzurra/
Money Quote: "Perché nessuno guardava volentieri Madre Teresa. Di lì a poco di solito l’obiettivo si sarebbe allargato e intorno a lei sarebbero comparsi bambini denutriti o lebbrosi e mosche e tutto il resto, e da questa parte del televisore era quasi sempre ora di pranzo o cena. Madre Teresa è l’unica celebrità internazionale davanti alla quale veniva spontaneo abbassare lo sguardo. Questo, paradossalmente, potrebbe essere stato il segreto del suo straordinario successo"
https://www.ilpost.it/leonardotondelli/2012/09/05/la-morte-biancoazzurra/
Il Post
La Morte biancoazzurra
5 settembre – Beata Teresa di Calcutta (1910-1997), mendicante.