Gente di città che scopre l’agricoltura (per così dire). Grazie pandemia?
Money quote: “For a city boy like me, born and raised in Brooklyn, where I had spent most of my adult life, this was all very new. Once you get your hands in soil—really get dirty with it, feel it under your fingernails—there’s a change in perspective, and you’re someone different. You’ve opened the tiniest of windows onto the ecological reality of the forces that sustain human existence, the biogeophysical relationships of water, sunlight, air, earth. Quite suddenly, what seemed mysterious quotients—say, the balance of phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, and potassium—become commonalities of understanding and, eventually, of wisdom. The plants that depend on all those factors in harmony rise up, or they don’t. “
https://www.outsideonline.com/2412782/coronavirus-victory-gardens
Money quote: “For a city boy like me, born and raised in Brooklyn, where I had spent most of my adult life, this was all very new. Once you get your hands in soil—really get dirty with it, feel it under your fingernails—there’s a change in perspective, and you’re someone different. You’ve opened the tiniest of windows onto the ecological reality of the forces that sustain human existence, the biogeophysical relationships of water, sunlight, air, earth. Quite suddenly, what seemed mysterious quotients—say, the balance of phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, and potassium—become commonalities of understanding and, eventually, of wisdom. The plants that depend on all those factors in harmony rise up, or they don’t. “
https://www.outsideonline.com/2412782/coronavirus-victory-gardens
Outside Online
The Pandemic Has Turned Us All into Gardeners
Once you get your hands in soil—really get dirty with it, feel it under your fingernails—there's a change in perspective, and you're someone different.
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel
Una possibile spiegazione di Tenet di Christopher Nolan, e il famoso palindromo da cui deriva il titolo del film.
Link: https://www.vox.com/culture/21419050/tenet-explained-sator-square-nolan
Link: https://www.vox.com/culture/21419050/tenet-explained-sator-square-nolan
Vox
The ancient palindrome that explains Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
A puzzle dug up all over Europe holds the key to Tenet — and turns it into more than a movie.
C’era una volta la pirateria, e c’è ancora: il ritorno di eMule - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/09/05/news/c-era-una-volta-la-pirateria-e-c-e-ancora-il-ritorno-di-emule-1.39263192
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/09/05/news/c-era-una-volta-la-pirateria-e-c-e-ancora-il-ritorno-di-emule-1.39263192
La Stampa
C’era una volta la pirateria, e c’è ancora: il ritorno di eMule
Un aggiornamento riporta in vita dopo dieci anni lo storico software p2p per il download di musica, film e programmi. Negli anni Novanta aveva contribuito alla grande crisi dell’industria discografica
Ci siamo, è domenica: esce Mostly Weekly. Abbonarsi non vi costa nulla. Ma ci sono delle novità di cui vi parlerò più avanti. Intanto, se state per riceverla, buona lettura. Sennò: http://tinyletter.com/mostlyiwrite
La rappresentazione di Gesù è sicuramente lontana da qualsiasi forma di verità storica si possa immaginare. E allora come poteva essere il figlio di Dio, nella Palestina di duemila anni fa? Cosa indossava?
Money quote: “And so Jesus’ appearance would have had much to do with what he was wearing. Once we’ve got the palette for his colouring right, given he was a Jewish man of the Middle East, how do we dress him? How did he seem to people of the time?”
https://pocket.co/sd_AuB?cta=1&src=ph
Money quote: “And so Jesus’ appearance would have had much to do with what he was wearing. Once we’ve got the palette for his colouring right, given he was a Jewish man of the Middle East, how do we dress him? How did he seem to people of the time?”
https://pocket.co/sd_AuB?cta=1&src=ph
Pocket
What Did Jesus Wear?
We may imagine Jesus in long robes with baggy sleeves, but this is far from how he would have dressed.
Scrivere usando Git, il tutorial – parte terza - il mio articolo per Macity che conclude la trilogia
https://www.macitynet.it/scrivere-usando-git-il-tutorial-parte-terza/
https://www.macitynet.it/scrivere-usando-git-il-tutorial-parte-terza/
macitynet.it
Scrivere usando Git, il tutorial – parte terza
Faq e Tutorial
La psicologa cinquantenne, nell’arena degli appuntamenti via app per la mezza età, dispensa consigli e punti di vista su come si fa, uomini e donne, a gestire i primi appuntamenti. Dopodiché, manda tutto in vacca. Chissà cosa le manca davvero.
Money quote: “Maybe we need to learn to listen more and to talk less.
As for me, over a week ago I decided to take a break. I’m going in a different direction and have hired a matchmaking service. I’ll let the matchmaker vet my dates so I don’t have to. Let’s see if that works any better.”
https://psiloveyou.xyz/my-problem-with-first-dates-and-fifty-something-year-old-men-e94b6fafab44
Money quote: “Maybe we need to learn to listen more and to talk less.
As for me, over a week ago I decided to take a break. I’m going in a different direction and have hired a matchmaking service. I’ll let the matchmaker vet my dates so I don’t have to. Let’s see if that works any better.”
https://psiloveyou.xyz/my-problem-with-first-dates-and-fifty-something-year-old-men-e94b6fafab44
Medium
My Problem with First Dates and Fifty-Something-Year-Old Men
How to improve the art of conversation.
Cose agghiaccianti che vengono fatte con il machine learning: disturbare i morti. La diceria che una foto rubava l’anima era profetica.
Money quote: “With new machine learning technologies, we can try to create the videos with these people, we can ask them to say something. During this project, this will not be something meaningful, but we can at least test the animation results”
https://greetingsfromthepast.net/en/about
Money quote: “With new machine learning technologies, we can try to create the videos with these people, we can ask them to say something. During this project, this will not be something meaningful, but we can at least test the animation results”
https://greetingsfromthepast.net/en/about
greetingsfromthepast.net
About / EN
Greetings From The Past About Page / EN
Forwarded from Riccardo
RUN IS IT 01 È ONLINE!
È un primo tentativo, e sono sicuro che vi sembrerà di ascoltare una puntata de Il Mordente dove si parla solo di corsa. Col tempo avrà un suo garbo.
Nella puntata di oggi si parla di: scelta delle scarpe, correre con il dolore, cadenza, alimentazione. Rispondo alle vostre domande e mi faccio un po' conoscere dai nuovi. Potete ascoltare il podcast ovunque, anche dal sito. Tra pochi giorni vi potrò dare il link alla skill per Alexa e, voglio-vedere-quanto-ci-mettono, a Google Podcast.
EDIT: Google Podcast c'è!
https://riccardo.im/podcast/run-is-it-1/
È un primo tentativo, e sono sicuro che vi sembrerà di ascoltare una puntata de Il Mordente dove si parla solo di corsa. Col tempo avrà un suo garbo.
Nella puntata di oggi si parla di: scelta delle scarpe, correre con il dolore, cadenza, alimentazione. Rispondo alle vostre domande e mi faccio un po' conoscere dai nuovi. Potete ascoltare il podcast ovunque, anche dal sito. Tra pochi giorni vi potrò dare il link alla skill per Alexa
https://riccardo.im/podcast/run-is-it-1/
La dimostrazione matematica che la cultura delle startup è arrivata al palo già da mo’
Forwarded from 📢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 - 𝘣𝘺 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙤 𝙍𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙞 (FraRon)
Ideas on this page are 100% generated by OpenAI's GPT-3.
The idea (lol) is to give you inspiration to make something cool, if you lack inspiration right now. There might be ideas here that aren't perfect but that give you the spark of thinking to get to a really good idea further on.
Please upvote ideas that you feel are promising and downvote ideas that are bad, too vague, too obvious, or already exist. Ideas and their rating are fed back into GPT-3, so you (and others) constantly train the model what good and bad ideas are which improves the next ideas it comes up with! At least, that's the idea (aye!).
The A.I. never sleeps, so it's continously thinking of new ideas and when it comes up with a new one, it shows up here automatically (scroll down to New to see them come in).
The idea (lol) is to give you inspiration to make something cool, if you lack inspiration right now. There might be ideas here that aren't perfect but that give you the spark of thinking to get to a really good idea further on.
Please upvote ideas that you feel are promising and downvote ideas that are bad, too vague, too obvious, or already exist. Ideas and their rating are fed back into GPT-3, so you (and others) constantly train the model what good and bad ideas are which improves the next ideas it comes up with! At least, that's the idea (aye!).
The A.I. never sleeps, so it's continously thinking of new ideas and when it comes up with a new one, it shows up here automatically (scroll down to New to see them come in).
L'economia, ce ne dimentichiamo tutti, è una scienza sociale. Nononstante usi un metodo massicciamente quantitativo e faccia ricorso a formalizzazioni matematiche, non è una scienza "dura", come la fisica. Non è cioè basata su principi verificabili con il metodo scentifico. La matematica, dopotutto, è un linguaggio e si può usare per descrivere anche la musica o la pittura, ma nessuno darebbe a queste due attività la valenza di scienze esatte. Bene, Paul Krugman lo ricorda a tutti e lo fa in termini non equivocabili durante la crisi che si sta mangiando gli Usa. E che si mangerà anche noi.
Money quote: "But the stock market isn’t the economy: more than half of all stocks are owned by only 1 percent of Americans, while the bottom half of the population owns only 0.7 percent of the market.
Jobs and G.D.P., by contrast, sort of are the economy. But they aren’t the economy’s point. What some economists and many politicians often forget is that economics isn’t fundamentally about data, it’s about people. I like data as much as, or probably more than, the next guy. But an economy’s success should be judged not by impersonal statistics, but by whether people’s lives are getting better.
And the simple fact is that over the past few weeks the lives of many Americans have gotten much worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/trump-economy-jobs.html
Money quote: "But the stock market isn’t the economy: more than half of all stocks are owned by only 1 percent of Americans, while the bottom half of the population owns only 0.7 percent of the market.
Jobs and G.D.P., by contrast, sort of are the economy. But they aren’t the economy’s point. What some economists and many politicians often forget is that economics isn’t fundamentally about data, it’s about people. I like data as much as, or probably more than, the next guy. But an economy’s success should be judged not by impersonal statistics, but by whether people’s lives are getting better.
And the simple fact is that over the past few weeks the lives of many Americans have gotten much worse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/trump-economy-jobs.html
NY Times
Gross Domestic Misery Is Rising
The recovery is bypassing those who need it most.
Tanti anni dopo di nuovo la storia di Maxine Hong Kingston sul The New Yorker. E un altro libro da rileggere.
Money quote: “The characters tell one another stories drawn from Chinese lore and Chinatown gossip, imagining alternative time lines. The book is complex and captivating, a constant toggling between the mundane grit of the family’s laundry business and epic, surreal dreamscapes. By the end, you don’t know which, if any, of these stories are true, or whether they constitute a reliable depiction of Chinese-American life.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/maxine-hong-kingstons-genre-defying-life-and-work
Money quote: “The characters tell one another stories drawn from Chinese lore and Chinatown gossip, imagining alternative time lines. The book is complex and captivating, a constant toggling between the mundane grit of the family’s laundry business and epic, surreal dreamscapes. By the end, you don’t know which, if any, of these stories are true, or whether they constitute a reliable depiction of Chinese-American life.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/maxine-hong-kingstons-genre-defying-life-and-work
The New Yorker
Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work
The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.
L’Antitrust Uk multa Amazon: ritardi sulla consegna del “fascicolo” Deliveroo - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/lantitrust-uk-multa-amazon-ritardi-sulla-consegna-del-fascicolo-deliveroo/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ecommerce/lantitrust-uk-multa-amazon-ritardi-sulla-consegna-del-fascicolo-deliveroo/
CorCom
L'Antitrust Uk multa Amazon: ritardi sulla consegna del "fascicolo" Deliveroo - CorCom
L'Autorità procede con la sanzione: l'azienda non ha fatto pervenire per tempo la documentazione legata al merger necessaria a consentire le analisi di mercato facendo slittare in avanti l'esame del deal. Ma l'azienda puntualizza: "Abbiamo lavorato duramemte…
Crisi finanziaria, pandemia, scoppio del porto: il Libano, e Beirut in particolare, sono in ginocchio. La scuola, ad esempio, se la stanno facendo da casa con WhatsApp.
Money quote: "In Lebanon, where schools have been closed for over five months, WhatsApp has become an informal distance-learning app for students and teachers. The app allows educators to share their lessons using voice notes, videos, and photos in group chats that mimic a classroom structure. "
https://restofworld.org/2020/lebanon-schools-whatsapp-group
Money quote: "In Lebanon, where schools have been closed for over five months, WhatsApp has become an informal distance-learning app for students and teachers. The app allows educators to share their lessons using voice notes, videos, and photos in group chats that mimic a classroom structure. "
https://restofworld.org/2020/lebanon-schools-whatsapp-group
Rest of World
WhatsApp school is now in session
When 27-year-old Lebanese teacher Sara Mazbouh heard news of the Covid-19 stay-at-home order, her mind went straight to her students. Mazbouh, who has been teaching for nine years at a school in the…
In Europa boom di vendite dei tablet. Samsung ruba il trono a Apple. Ma l’outlook non è roseo - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/in-europa-boom-di-vendite-dei-tablet-samsung-ruba-il-trono-a-apple-ma-loutlook-non-e-roseo/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/in-europa-boom-di-vendite-dei-tablet-samsung-ruba-il-trono-a-apple-ma-loutlook-non-e-roseo/
CorCom
In Europa boom di vendite dei tablet. Samsung ruba il trono a Apple. Ma l'outlook non è roseo - CorCom
Il ricorso allo smart working e soprattutto alla didattica a distanza nella fase di lockdown ha fatto impennare gli acquisti nell'area Emea. Incremento del 23,8% dopo sei anni al ribasso. Sulla seconda metà dell'anno stime prudenti: la crisi economica potrebbe…
Giorno che vai, teoria che trovi
Money quote: “Lockdowns beyond two months impose massive economic costs without any real health benefits because they only delay an inevitable second wave of the virus, according to a new international COVID-19 study by former Reserve Bank of Australia economist Greg Kaplan.”
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/lockdowns-beyond-two-months-do-more-harm-than-good-20200909-p55ty9
Money quote: “Lockdowns beyond two months impose massive economic costs without any real health benefits because they only delay an inevitable second wave of the virus, according to a new international COVID-19 study by former Reserve Bank of Australia economist Greg Kaplan.”
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/lockdowns-beyond-two-months-do-more-harm-than-good-20200909-p55ty9
Australian Financial Review
Lockdowns beyond two months do more harm than good
The economic consequences of the virus also disproportionately hurt people working in socially exposed occupations, such as waiters and hairdressers, who are typically more financially vulnerable.
Nathan Tankus ha 28 anni, si deve laureare e la sua newsletter di economia sta facendo furore. Non l’ho mai letta quindi non so se è un genio o un fenomeno da baraccone (o entrambi). Però il suo approccio “social” rapace e veloce è noto ed è già stato usato per devastare altri ambiti culturali. In bocca al lupo all’economia.
Money quote: “Tankus understands his niche in the ecosystem of economics. Akin to journalism, it’s about writing the first draft of history. “I’m writing a lot when other people aren’t necessarily putting things out there,” he says. “You can be a great academic, but if you’re not writing all the time you’re not necessarily in people’s minds as someone they would want to ask a question to. I write so much that there’s always something for people to pick up.””
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas
Money quote: “Tankus understands his niche in the ecosystem of economics. Akin to journalism, it’s about writing the first draft of history. “I’m writing a lot when other people aren’t necessarily putting things out there,” he says. “You can be a great academic, but if you’re not writing all the time you’re not necessarily in people’s minds as someone they would want to ask a question to. I write so much that there’s always something for people to pick up.””
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-02/nathan-tankus-s-newsletter-subscribers-don-t-care-about-diplomas
Bloomberg.com
A 28-Year-Old With No Degree Becomes a Must-Read on the Economy
Subscribers to Nathan Tankus’s newsletter, Notes on the Crises, aren’t bothered by his lack of diplomas.
La rivisitazione fumettistica, quasi da albo dei supereroi, della vita dei romani e di Giulio Cesare in particolare. A saperlo che nel xxi secolo avrei letto blogger americani su Medium che straparlano di Roma, avrei preteso qualcosa di più di sei meno meno a Latino.
Money quote: “The Roman society promoted sexuality. Prostitution was legal and public. Houses had “pornographic” paintings. No moral punishment was directed at men who enjoyed sex with other women and men, even if they were of inferior status, as long as their actions weren’t deemed as excesses.”
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/julius-caesar-2cc2a509cd26
Money quote: “The Roman society promoted sexuality. Prostitution was legal and public. Houses had “pornographic” paintings. No moral punishment was directed at men who enjoyed sex with other women and men, even if they were of inferior status, as long as their actions weren’t deemed as excesses.”
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/julius-caesar-2cc2a509cd26
Medium
The Curious Sex Life of Julius Caesar
Every woman’s man, every man’s woman
Connected car in pista, nel 2030 saranno oltre 350 milioni - il mio articolo per CorCom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/connected-car-al-galoppo-nel-2030-saranno-oltre-350-milioni/
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/connected-car-al-galoppo-nel-2030-saranno-oltre-350-milioni/
CorCom
Connected car in pista, nel 2030 saranno oltre 350 milioni - CorCom
Secondo il rapporto di Capgemini Invent si tratta di un fattore di crescita fondamentale per lo sviluppo del settore automobilistico. Ma i brand tradizionali devono accelerare sugli investimenti in innovazione per non essere scalzati dai nuovi player digitali