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

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:

https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Il numero 111 di Mostly Weekly è appena uscito. Se correte potete abbonarvi (tanto è tutto gratuito). Se vi siete abbonati e non vi è mai arrivato niente, o non vi arriva più, perché non guardare nella maledetta cartella dello spam? (Se trovate qualcosa, “promuovetelo” a email normale con il pulsante apposito: servizi come Gmail si basano su una forma di reputazione diffusa dei sender). Intanto, per iscriversi:

https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/

I migliori libri per la scrittura creativa, il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-per-la-scrittura-creativa/

Hackerare la propria amica senza che lei lo sappia (e che amico l'hackeratore, eh?)

Money quote: "Hello and welcome to a blog post. I am writing it and you are reading it. It’s amazing what we can do with computers these days."

Money quote 2: "Alright uh I’m pretty sure the first thing you do when you’re hacking someone is find all their personal information. I’m talking about her email, phone number, address, star sign, whether she uses Android or Windows Phone, her birthday, and so on."

https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing

Il fantastico mondo del self-publishing. La guida nerd.

Money quote "tl;dr: A list of useful resources aimed to self-publish a book on Amazon using Bookdown."

https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/

La prova: il monitor curvo e ultralargo di Lg - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/prove/2021/04/19/news/la-prova-il-monitor-curvo-e-ultralargo-di-lg-1.40170426

La startup dei miracoli, un affare di famiglia. Quanto adoro quando Bloomberg prende l'aria e la frigge fino a trasformarla in gustosi suppli del capitalismo. Questa è una vecchia storia ma sempre gustosa

Money quote: "Ryan, 40, is the chief executive and public face of a startup that -- unusually -- resisted taking venture money for over a decade before finally agreeing to deals with Accel and Sequoia Capital. Last valued at $2.5 billion, Qualtrics makes customer-survey software used by the likes of Microsoft Corp. to General Electric Co., helping boost its revenue more than eight-fold over the past seven years."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-12/how-one-family-built-8-billion-startup-far-from-silicon-valley