Ritratto della donna che sta trasformando l'intelligenza artificiale
Money quote: "At the hearing, Li was the last to speak. With no evidence of the nerves that drove her late-night practice, she began. “There’s nothing artificial about AI.” Her voice picked up momentum. “It’s inspired by people, it’s created by people, and—most importantly—it impacts people. It is a powerful tool we are only just beginning to understand, and that is a profound responsibility.” Around her, faces brightened. The woman who kept attendance agreed audibly, with an “mm-hmm.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/fei-fei-li-artificial-intelligence-humanity/
Money quote: "At the hearing, Li was the last to speak. With no evidence of the nerves that drove her late-night practice, she began. “There’s nothing artificial about AI.” Her voice picked up momentum. “It’s inspired by people, it’s created by people, and—most importantly—it impacts people. It is a powerful tool we are only just beginning to understand, and that is a profound responsibility.” Around her, faces brightened. The woman who kept attendance agreed audibly, with an “mm-hmm.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/fei-fei-li-artificial-intelligence-humanity/
WIRED
Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity
Artificial intelligence has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.
Gli Expo sono i luoghi dell'innovazione? Un tempo erano proprio quello: succedeva durante le grandi esposizioni internazionali dell’Ottocento e dell’inizio del Novecento che si incontrassero le persone e le idee migliori di quel momento storico. Gli Expo erano il posto in cui si registravano i miglioramenti del mondo. Tutto merito dell’intuizione di due personaggi poco noti ma che hanno avuto un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra società: Alberto di Sassonia-Coburgo-Gotha, marito della regina Vittoria, e il signor Henry Cole, amico di corte.
Ne ho scritto qualche anno fa, potete leggerlo qui di seguito.
Money quote: "L’intuizione di Alberto e Cole ruota attorno anche a un’altra idea: l’Expo è un momento di potente sintesi fra due schieramenti, quello degli inventori e quello degli industriali. Il rapporto tra queste due anime della rivoluzione industriale e poi dell’epoca vittoriana è a dir poco dialettico. Riuscire a ricondurre su uno stesso seminato anime così diverse è quello che permette all’industria di crescere, accogliendo un metodo scientifico nell’organizzazione dell’impresa prim’ancora che nella produzione e d’altro canto permettendo agli innovatori di cercare in modo legittimo uno sbocco pratico e un ritorno economico non di tipo mecenatizio per le proprie creazioni. La sottile trama tessuta dal principe consorte Alberto e da Henry Cole più di un secolo e mezzo fa caratterizza ancora oggi le polemiche nella dialettica tra ricerca di base e applicativa, nel rapporto tra scienza e industria."
https://antoniodini.com/bottega/essais/expo-posto-innovazione.html
Ne ho scritto qualche anno fa, potete leggerlo qui di seguito.
Money quote: "L’intuizione di Alberto e Cole ruota attorno anche a un’altra idea: l’Expo è un momento di potente sintesi fra due schieramenti, quello degli inventori e quello degli industriali. Il rapporto tra queste due anime della rivoluzione industriale e poi dell’epoca vittoriana è a dir poco dialettico. Riuscire a ricondurre su uno stesso seminato anime così diverse è quello che permette all’industria di crescere, accogliendo un metodo scientifico nell’organizzazione dell’impresa prim’ancora che nella produzione e d’altro canto permettendo agli innovatori di cercare in modo legittimo uno sbocco pratico e un ritorno economico non di tipo mecenatizio per le proprie creazioni. La sottile trama tessuta dal principe consorte Alberto e da Henry Cole più di un secolo e mezzo fa caratterizza ancora oggi le polemiche nella dialettica tra ricerca di base e applicativa, nel rapporto tra scienza e industria."
https://antoniodini.com/bottega/essais/expo-posto-innovazione.html
A tutti quelli che si vogliono cancellare da Facebook dopo la fuga di dati di 533 milioni di utenti: già che siete lì cancellatevi anche da LinkedIn:
Money quote: "LinkedIn è l'ultima vittima di una massiccia violazione e i dati di oltre 500 milioni dei suoi utenti sono stati prelevati dalla piattaforma e messi in vendita online. Il set di dati include informazioni sensibili come indirizzi e-mail, numeri di telefono, informazioni sul posto di lavoro, nomi completi, ID degli account, link ai loro account sui social media e dettagli sul sesso""
Money quote: "LinkedIn è l'ultima vittima di una massiccia violazione e i dati di oltre 500 milioni dei suoi utenti sono stati prelevati dalla piattaforma e messi in vendita online. Il set di dati include informazioni sensibili come indirizzi e-mail, numeri di telefono, informazioni sul posto di lavoro, nomi completi, ID degli account, link ai loro account sui social media e dettagli sul sesso""
La terza via di Apple alla privacy: regole per la buona pubblicità - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2021/04/09/news/la-terza-via-di-apple-alla-privacy-regole-per-la-buona-pubblicita-1.40126579
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2021/04/09/news/la-terza-via-di-apple-alla-privacy-regole-per-la-buona-pubblicita-1.40126579
La Stampa
La terza via di Apple alla privacy: regole per la buona pubblicità
L'azienda di Cupertino ritiene che sia possibile dare il controllo all'utente e al tempo stesso tenere in piedi il mercato dell'advertising digitale. Le regole dell'azienda per il trattamento dei dati ora sono tradotte in italiano
Lo scrigno dei ricordi. Com'è andato il 2018, il podcast di Ben Evans
Money quote: "Close to three quarters of all the adults on earth now have a smartphone, and most of the rest will get one in the next few years. However, the use of this connectivity is still only just beginning. Ecommerce is still only a small fraction of retail spending, and many other areas that will be transformed by software and the internet in the next decade or two have barely been touched. Global retail is perhaps $25 trillion dollars, after all. "
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning
Money quote: "Close to three quarters of all the adults on earth now have a smartphone, and most of the rest will get one in the next few years. However, the use of this connectivity is still only just beginning. Ecommerce is still only a small fraction of retail spending, and many other areas that will be transformed by software and the internet in the next decade or two have barely been touched. Global retail is perhaps $25 trillion dollars, after all. "
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/11/16/the-end-of-the-beginning
Benedict Evans
Presentation: The End of the Beginning — Benedict Evans
Close to three quarters of all the adults on earth now have a smartphone, and most of the rest will get one in the next few years. However, the use of this connectivity is still only just beginning. Ecommerce is still only a small fraction of retail spending…
Ci siamo, è sabato, sto preparando la newsletter. È un lavorino di fino e ci vorrà del tempo, ma ci sono abituato. Ci si iscrive qui:
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Mi dimentico spesso di parlarne, ma in realtà oltre alla newsletter c'è anche il mio sito, che sta finalmente passando una fase di evoluzione e crescita. Ci saranno novità, più avanti. Per adesso, magari andate a dare un'occhiata alla sezione degli articoli, se avete voglia di leggere qualcosa su un viaggio a Los Angeles per vedere i campionati del mondo di Call of Duty
https://antoniodini.com/storie/articoli/call-of-duty-2.html
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Mi dimentico spesso di parlarne, ma in realtà oltre alla newsletter c'è anche il mio sito, che sta finalmente passando una fase di evoluzione e crescita. Ci saranno novità, più avanti. Per adesso, magari andate a dare un'occhiata alla sezione degli articoli, se avete voglia di leggere qualcosa su un viaggio a Los Angeles per vedere i campionati del mondo di Call of Duty
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I migliori libri per iniziare a creare siti web - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-creare-siti-web/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-creare-siti-web/
Macitynet.it
I migliori libri per iniziare a creare siti web
Non ci sono solo i social: anche il web "fatto da noi" è importante. E sapersi sporcare le mani, o almeno capire le problematiche sollevate dagli sviluppatori è fondamentale per tutti gli operatori del settore
Un po' di cose sulla fotografia notturna, che alla fine è la grande sfida computazionale del momento. Sfida solo parzialmente vinta, secondo me. I progressi sono stati infatti relativi, se confrontiamo ad esempio le cose che diceva Google tre anni fa con quello che sappiamo oggi.
Money quote: "Anybody who has photographed a dimly lit scene will be familiar with image noise, which looks like random variations in brightness from pixel to pixel. For smartphone cameras, which have small lenses and sensors, a major source of noise is the natural variation of the number of photons entering the lens, called shot noise. Every camera suffers from it, and it would be present even if the sensor electronics were perfect. However, they are not, so a second source of noise are random errors introduced when converting the electronic charge resulting from light hitting each pixel to a number, called read noise. These and other sources of randomness contribute to the overall signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a measure of how much the image stands out from these variations in brightness. Fortunately, SNR rises with the square root of exposure time (or faster), so taking a longer exposure produces a cleaner picture. But it’s hard to hold still long enough to take a good picture in dim light, and whatever you're photographing probably won't hold still either."
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/night-sight-seeing-in-dark-on-pixel.html
Money quote: "Anybody who has photographed a dimly lit scene will be familiar with image noise, which looks like random variations in brightness from pixel to pixel. For smartphone cameras, which have small lenses and sensors, a major source of noise is the natural variation of the number of photons entering the lens, called shot noise. Every camera suffers from it, and it would be present even if the sensor electronics were perfect. However, they are not, so a second source of noise are random errors introduced when converting the electronic charge resulting from light hitting each pixel to a number, called read noise. These and other sources of randomness contribute to the overall signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a measure of how much the image stands out from these variations in brightness. Fortunately, SNR rises with the square root of exposure time (or faster), so taking a longer exposure produces a cleaner picture. But it’s hard to hold still long enough to take a good picture in dim light, and whatever you're photographing probably won't hold still either."
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/night-sight-seeing-in-dark-on-pixel.html
research.google
Night Sight: Seeing in the Dark on Pixel Phones
Posted by Marc Levoy, Distinguished Engineer and Yael Pritch, Staff Software Engineer Night Sight is a new feature of the Pixel Camera app that let...
Ve la ricordate? È stata "La" battaglia legale negli Stati Uniti, con quella specie di sintesi Falcone/Borsellino delle investigazioni americane che è Robert Mueller. Oggi ce la siamo dimenticata completamente.
Money quote: "“Investigators certainly know more than they’re saying—they often repeat as much in court appearances and documents in their various cases,” NPR’s Philip Ewing wrote on Saturday. “But an ostensible conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and the Russians who attacked the election is nowhere near close to being proven.” I’ve argued previously that what’s publicly available so far points toward soft collusion at a minimum: a mutually acknowledged confluence of interests between Trump and Moscow. At the same time, federal investigators have yet to formally allege hard collusion—an explicit quid pro quo between the two sides."
https://newrepublic.com/article/152717/robert-muellers-legal-masterpiece
Money quote: "“Investigators certainly know more than they’re saying—they often repeat as much in court appearances and documents in their various cases,” NPR’s Philip Ewing wrote on Saturday. “But an ostensible conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and the Russians who attacked the election is nowhere near close to being proven.” I’ve argued previously that what’s publicly available so far points toward soft collusion at a minimum: a mutually acknowledged confluence of interests between Trump and Moscow. At the same time, federal investigators have yet to formally allege hard collusion—an explicit quid pro quo between the two sides."
https://newrepublic.com/article/152717/robert-muellers-legal-masterpiece
The New Republic
Robert Mueller’s Legal Masterpiece
The special counsel has spun a web of investigations that draw closer to Trump every day.
Il disastro è vicino. Bisogna documentare tutto.
Money quote: "Think of every single thing in each room and catalogue it—even an old shower curtain, shampoo/conditioner, bath bombs, serums, etc. Tallying each of those up will get you a much larger payout. No matter how mundane something is, list it and put a price next to it. Have a bottle of Redken shampoo? That stuff is expensive—list the price."
https://twocents.lifehacker.com/how-to-document-your-personal-possessions-in-case-of-em-1830995883
Money quote: "Think of every single thing in each room and catalogue it—even an old shower curtain, shampoo/conditioner, bath bombs, serums, etc. Tallying each of those up will get you a much larger payout. No matter how mundane something is, list it and put a price next to it. Have a bottle of Redken shampoo? That stuff is expensive—list the price."
https://twocents.lifehacker.com/how-to-document-your-personal-possessions-in-case-of-em-1830995883
Two Cents
How to Document Your Personal Possessions in Case of Emergency
In the aftermath of a disaster that destroys your house, it can be all but impossible to think through everything you’ve lost. Fires, floods, hurricanes, damaged roofs—when you’re putting your life back together, you might not be thinking about how to catalogue…
Il fantastico mondo della psicanalisi. Freud, Jung e... Beh, la loro vita tribale, direi.
Money quote: "Freud was hugely impressed by Jung’s intellect, but his desire to sweep Jung into the psychoanalytic world was also politically motivated. As an intellectual movement, early psychoanalysis resembled a political party – perhaps even a nascent religion – with Freud as its immoveable centre. He called the expansion of psychoanalysis ‘the Cause’, to be furthered by converting mainstream psychiatrists and ruthlessly expelling wayward epigones, such as Wilhelm Stekel, who had once called Freud ‘my Christ’. Within the Freudian circle, ideas could be honestly criticised, but, as he told Lou Andreas-Salomé, ‘one must hold on to the homogeneity of the core, otherwise it is something else’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/freud-versus-jung-a-bitter-feud-over-the-meaning-of-sex
Money quote: "Freud was hugely impressed by Jung’s intellect, but his desire to sweep Jung into the psychoanalytic world was also politically motivated. As an intellectual movement, early psychoanalysis resembled a political party – perhaps even a nascent religion – with Freud as its immoveable centre. He called the expansion of psychoanalysis ‘the Cause’, to be furthered by converting mainstream psychiatrists and ruthlessly expelling wayward epigones, such as Wilhelm Stekel, who had once called Freud ‘my Christ’. Within the Freudian circle, ideas could be honestly criticised, but, as he told Lou Andreas-Salomé, ‘one must hold on to the homogeneity of the core, otherwise it is something else’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/freud-versus-jung-a-bitter-feud-over-the-meaning-of-sex
Aeon
Freud versus Jung: a bitter feud over the meaning of sex
How mutual admiration was torn asunder by the sex drive: Freud, Jung and the schism at the heart of psychoanalysis
Siete pronti a navigare la demo di una città infinita, generata in maniera procedurale?
Money quote: "An infinite, procedurally generated city, assembled out of blocks using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.
Currently, there is no gameplay, you can only walk around and look at the scenery.
Controls: WASD for walking, Shift to run, Ctrl to jetpack."
https://marian42.itch.io/wfc
Money quote: "An infinite, procedurally generated city, assembled out of blocks using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.
Currently, there is no gameplay, you can only walk around and look at the scenery.
Controls: WASD for walking, Shift to run, Ctrl to jetpack."
https://marian42.itch.io/wfc
itch.io
Wave Function Collapse by marian42
Walk through an infinite, procedurally generated city. Available for Windows, Linux
Forwarded from Riccardo
Da oggi Tilde, Run Is It, Tech Is It e Il Mordente sono su Amazon Music. E se non avete la versione completa del servizio seguite il link sotto per avere 3 mesi gratis (che potete cancellare anche subito così da non pensarci più).
Questo qua: https://www.amazon.it/music/unlimited?tag=eeepcit-21
Questo qua: https://www.amazon.it/music/unlimited?tag=eeepcit-21
Il che non vuol dire che Tilde sia a pagamento, eh. Solo che sta gli abbonati di Amazon Music se lo possono sentire più comodamente. E comunque, i podcast su Amazon si possono sentire anche senza abbonarsi. Insomma, è sempre gratuito
Di tutte le possibili interpretazioni e angoli prospettici grazie ai quali guardare il progetto Manhattan e la doppia bomba atomica che ha terminato la guerra con il Giappone (ma ci sono interpretazioni anche molto differenti), quello del senso di colpa di uno degli scienziati per la morte del fratello è veramente il più misero.
Money quote: "When Wheeler learned the news, he was devastated. He blamed himself. “One cannot escape the conclusion that an atomic bomb program started a year earlier and concluded a year sooner would have spared 15 million lives, my brother Joe’s among them,” he wrote in his memoir. “I could—probably—have influenced the decision makers if I had tried.”"
http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/haunted-by-his-brother-he-revolutionized-physics-rp
Money quote: "When Wheeler learned the news, he was devastated. He blamed himself. “One cannot escape the conclusion that an atomic bomb program started a year earlier and concluded a year sooner would have spared 15 million lives, my brother Joe’s among them,” he wrote in his memoir. “I could—probably—have influenced the decision makers if I had tried.”"
http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/haunted-by-his-brother-he-revolutionized-physics-rp
Nautilus
Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics
T he postcard contained only two words: “Hurry up.”John Archibald Wheeler, a 33-year-old physicist, was in Hanford, Wash., working…
Apple lancia Restore Fund, il fondo per salvare l'ambiente - il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2021/04/15/news/apple-lancia-restore-fund-il-fondo-per-salvare-l-ambiente-1.40155542
https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2021/04/15/news/apple-lancia-restore-fund-il-fondo-per-salvare-l-ambiente-1.40155542
La Stampa
Apple lancia Restore Fund, il fondo per salvare l'ambiente
Duecento milioni di dollari per accelerare le soluzioni naturali al cambiamento climatico e bloccare il depauperamento delle risorse naturali. È uno dei tasselli del piano che renderà l'azienda a impatto zero nel 2030
Breve corso per smettere di sabotare noi stessi, esseri super intelligenti ingannati da cattivi pensieri.
Mamma mia...
Money quote: "Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have leapfrogged him. Sometimes he wonders, “What am I doing wrong?”
Sound familiar? You might relate to Mark yourself, or have an employee or loved one who struggles with similar feelings. Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. If you’re in this situation, the good news is that when you understand these foibles you can turn them around. Here are five I’ve seen smart people particularly struggle with:"
https://hbr.org/2018/11/5-ways-smart-people-sabotage-their-success
Mamma mia...
Money quote: "Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have leapfrogged him. Sometimes he wonders, “What am I doing wrong?”
Sound familiar? You might relate to Mark yourself, or have an employee or loved one who struggles with similar feelings. Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. If you’re in this situation, the good news is that when you understand these foibles you can turn them around. Here are five I’ve seen smart people particularly struggle with:"
https://hbr.org/2018/11/5-ways-smart-people-sabotage-their-success
Harvard Business Review
5 Ways Smart People Sabotage Their Success
Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. Five things smart people tend to struggle…
Il piccolo grande problema di 7eleven con il proprio franchising: i negozi dove lavorano immigrati irregolari.
Money quote: "It’s a huge headache and a public-relations nightmare for the company and its chief executive officer, Joe DePinto. But the immigration crackdown has also given 7-Eleven something potentially useful: the names of franchisees who might be in legal jeopardy. Store owners found in violation of immigration law could be in breach of their franchise agreements. And as they well know, 7-Eleven has the contractual right to take back a store from someone who’s violated his or her agreement. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-09/7-eleven-is-at-war-with-its-own-franchisees-over-ice-raids
Money quote: "It’s a huge headache and a public-relations nightmare for the company and its chief executive officer, Joe DePinto. But the immigration crackdown has also given 7-Eleven something potentially useful: the names of franchisees who might be in legal jeopardy. Store owners found in violation of immigration law could be in breach of their franchise agreements. And as they well know, 7-Eleven has the contractual right to take back a store from someone who’s violated his or her agreement. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-09/7-eleven-is-at-war-with-its-own-franchisees-over-ice-raids
Bloomberg
The War Inside 7-Eleven
“All I hear is 7-Eleven being raided. It seems to be we are the only ones being targeted by ICE. Why?”
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https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-la-scrittura-creativa/
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I migliori libri per la scrittura creativa
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