Ne sono ancora orgoglioso: un mio piccolo articolo di dieci anni fa.
Money quote: “È il figlio di un piccolo tipografo di provincia, nato di Milwaukee nel Wisconsin, il padre dell'arte tipografica digitale open. Donald Knuth, 72 anni, è uno dei più importanti studiosi e docenti di informatica”
https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2010-12-16/tipografia-open-source-065019_PRN.shtml
Money quote: “È il figlio di un piccolo tipografo di provincia, nato di Milwaukee nel Wisconsin, il padre dell'arte tipografica digitale open. Donald Knuth, 72 anni, è uno dei più importanti studiosi e docenti di informatica”
https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2010-12-16/tipografia-open-source-065019_PRN.shtml
Ilsole24Ore
TIPOGRAFIA open source - Il Sole 24 ORE
NEL 1968 Donald Knuth HA PUBBLICATO «THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING» È il figlio di un piccolo tipografo di provincia, nato di Milwaukee nel
Milano, prima “passerella” digitale per la Settimana della Moda - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/milano-prima-passerella-digitale-per-la-settimana-della-moda/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/milano-prima-passerella-digitale-per-la-settimana-della-moda/
CorCom
Milano, prima "passerella" digitale per la Settimana della Moda - CorCom
A firma di Accenture e Microsoft la piattaforma live che consente di gestire eventi e iniziative. L'innovativo hub a disposizione di brand, stilisti emergenti e professionisti del settore per interagire con buyer, media e influencer
Softbank continua a cedere asset: è la volta del chipmaker Arm - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/softbank-continua-a-cedere-asset-e-la-volta-del-chipmaker-arm/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/softbank-continua-a-cedere-asset-e-la-volta-del-chipmaker-arm/
CorCom
Softbank continua a cedere asset: è la volta del chipmaker Arm - CorCom
L'opzione si fa strada e ci sarebbe già un papabile acquirente. Il dossier nelle mani di Goldman Sachs. Ma l'operazione non sarà semplice: la discesa in campo di un competitor aprirebbe il capitolo Antitrust. E l'ipotesi di un buyer cinese metterebbe a rischio…
E-commerce, italiani più consapevoli dopo la “full immersion” del lockdown - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/e-commerce-italiani-piu-consapevoli-dopo-la-full-immersion-del-lockdown/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/e-commerce-italiani-piu-consapevoli-dopo-la-full-immersion-del-lockdown/
CorCom
E-commerce, italiani più consapevoli dopo la "full immersion" del lockdown - CorCom
I dati dello studio Ipsos: dopo l'emergenza Coronavirus gli italiani passano più tempo a cercare prodotti in rete e a confrontarli. Ma la fase più critica degli acquisti digitali rimane quella della consegna
Ecco come Baidu ha inventato nuove strade per addestrare le reti neurali: merito delle differenze linguistiche tra inglese e cinese.
Money quote: “When Baidu researchers began developing their own language model, they wanted to build on the masking technique. But they realized they needed to tweak it to accommodate the Chinese language.“
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/26/131372/ai-baidu-ernie-google-bert-natural-language-glue/
Money quote: “When Baidu researchers began developing their own language model, they wanted to build on the masking technique. But they realized they needed to tweak it to accommodate the Chinese language.“
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/26/131372/ai-baidu-ernie-google-bert-natural-language-glue/
MIT Technology Review
Baidu has a new trick for teaching AI the meaning of language
Earlier this month, a Chinese tech giant quietly dethroned Microsoft and Google in an ongoing competition in AI. The company was Baidu, China’s closest equivalent to Google, and the competition was the General Language Understanding Evaluation, otherwise…
Ecco la Leica M 10-R da 40 megapixel - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/leica-m-10-r/
https://www.macitynet.it/leica-m-10-r/
macitynet.it
Ecco la Leica M 10-R da 40 megapixel
Foto Digitale, Leica
La mossa di Apple che sconvolgerà Microsoft - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/07/17/news/la-mossa-di-apple-che-sconvolgera-microsoft-1.39089116?refresh_ce
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/07/17/news/la-mossa-di-apple-che-sconvolgera-microsoft-1.39089116?refresh_ce
La Stampa
La mossa di Apple che sconvolgerà Microsoft
Tim Cook ha annunciato il passaggio a processori alternativi a quelli Intel. Quali saranno le conseguenze per Microsoft?
Il 2020 doveva essere l’anno dell’ebook. Ma qualcosa è andato storto (e non è il coronavirus).
Money quote: “And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger. It’s convenient.””
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad
Money quote: “And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger. It’s convenient.””
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad
Vox
The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came.
Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences.
L’evoluzione dei robot: arrivano quelli con il senso del tatto - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/levoluzione-dei-robot-arrivano-quelli-con-il-senso-del-tatto/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/levoluzione-dei-robot-arrivano-quelli-con-il-senso-del-tatto/
CorCom
L'evoluzione dei robot: arrivano quelli con il senso del tatto - CorCom
A elaborare il progetto i ricercatori della National University di Singapore, che stanno studiando come applicare agli automi la visione event-based e la sensibilità tattile grazie al computing neuromorfico
Facebook pronta a lanciare l’anti TikTok, in arrivo Reels - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-pronta-a-lanciare-lanti-tiktok-in-arrivo-reels/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-pronta-a-lanciare-lanti-tiktok-in-arrivo-reels/
CorCom
Facebook pronta a lanciare l'anti TikTok, in arrivo Reels - CorCom
L'app debutterà in 50 Paesi - Italia inclusa - nelle prossime settimane. Funzionerà tramite Instagram e permetterà di creare e condividere clip di 15 secondi, usando un ampio catalogo di musica commerciale
Un paper sui tre approcci della Artificial Intelligence rispetto alla società negli Usa, Uk e Ue.
Money quote: “In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we provide a comparative assessment of these three reports in order to facilitate the design of policies favourable to the development of a ‘good AI society’. “
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9901-7
Money quote: “In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we provide a comparative assessment of these three reports in order to facilitate the design of policies favourable to the development of a ‘good AI society’. “
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9901-7
SpringerLink
Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Good Society’: the US, EU, and UK approach
Science and Engineering Ethics - In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for...
John Lewis: “My philosophy is very simple: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to stand up and just say something. You have to do something. I got into good trouble, necessary trouble. Even today, I tell people, ‘We need to get in good trouble.’”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb è infastidito. Altro che cigno nero. Il coronavirus è stato ben previsto ed era evitabile.
Money quote: “Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.””
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system
Money quote: “Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.””
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system
The New Yorker
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “black swan.” He is frustrated whenever it is used to describe the coronavirus crisis.
Negli Stati Uniti si stanno rendendo conto di essersi messi nei guai da soli. Trump è il figlio dell’America, non solo la sua nemesi.
Money quote: “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal.”
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Money quote: “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal.”
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Harper's Magazine
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are…
Proseguendo il discorso del messaggio precedente, la lettera di dimissioni di Bari Weiss dal New York Times, dopo l’assunzione che aveva l’obiettivo di portare un po’ di conservatorismo in un giornale dalle opinioni liberali che aveva completamente mancato di prevedere il fenomeno Donald Trump. Una lettera pesante che spiega come il problema non sia solo di una parte degli elettori o dei giornalisti o dei politici. La responsabilità è comune.
Money quote: “But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Money quote: “But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
BARI WEISS
Resignation Letter — BARI WEISS
Chiude Odessa, uno dei tre grandi ristoranti alternativi del Village di New York
Money quote: "It was like a time capsule and a love letter to the East Village of three decades earlier. But even then, I could see that the restaurant’s days were numbered. Not only was the value of frontage on Tompkins Square zooming, but this kind of food was becoming increasingly less popular. Yes, you can still get it at places like Veselka (opened 1954), but now the troika of Kiev, Leshko’s, and Odessa will all be shuttered, depriving the East Village and its arts scene of an important vestige of its culinary history."
https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322961/odessa-closure-east-village-robert-sietsema-lookback
Money quote: "It was like a time capsule and a love letter to the East Village of three decades earlier. But even then, I could see that the restaurant’s days were numbered. Not only was the value of frontage on Tompkins Square zooming, but this kind of food was becoming increasingly less popular. Yes, you can still get it at places like Veselka (opened 1954), but now the troika of Kiev, Leshko’s, and Odessa will all be shuttered, depriving the East Village and its arts scene of an important vestige of its culinary history."
https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322961/odessa-closure-east-village-robert-sietsema-lookback
Eater NY
A Farewell to Odessa, the Counter-Culture Classic Closing This Week in the East Village
Senior critic Robert Sietsema remembers the time capsule of 1980s New York, now shuttering due to the pandemic
Digital tax, l’alert di Ibm: “No a ritorsioni contro l’Europa, per gli Usa effetto boomerang” - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/digital-tax-lalert-di-ibm-no-a-ritorsioni-contro-leuropa-per-gli-usa-effetto-boomerang/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/digital-tax-lalert-di-ibm-no-a-ritorsioni-contro-leuropa-per-gli-usa-effetto-boomerang/
CorCom
Digital tax, l'alert di Ibm: "No a ritorsioni contro l'Europa, per gli Usa effetto boomerang" - CorCom
L'azienda esce allo scoperto e chiede al Governo americano di riavviare le trattative in sede Ocse per evitare che si inneschi un pericoloso rialzo della pressione fiscale a catena. Intanto il titolo della compagnia guidata da Krishna balza in Borsa sull'onda…
Leica presenta la nuova M 10-R, la fotocamera d'elite diventa ancora più potente - il mio articolo per IlSole24Ore
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/leica-presenta-nuova-m-10-r-fotocamera-d-elite-diventa-ancora-piu-potente-ADVukxe
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/leica-presenta-nuova-m-10-r-fotocamera-d-elite-diventa-ancora-piu-potente-ADVukxe
Il Sole 24 ORE
Leica presenta la nuova M 10-R, la fotocamera d'elite diventa ancora più potente
Si tratta di una rivisitazione del sensore della fotocamera digitale a telemetro nata nel 1954, che passa da 24 a 40 megapixel
La prima cosa che mi ha attratto di questo articolo è la foto di apertura, che avevo visto anche io sui siti dove si distribuiscono foto gratuitamente per scrivere. Bella immagine, evocativa. L'idea dell'articolo, invece, è singolare: a differenza della retorica che circola adesso per cui lo smart work è qui per restare, secondo l'autore dell'articolo invece le cose non stanno così.
Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location."
https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169
Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location."
https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169
Medium
Remote Work Is Not Here to Stay
Enjoy it while it lasts.