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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Togliersi le scarpe e bagnarsi i piedi
Del resto possiamo prevedere tutto? Sappiamo quando moriremo? Magari i nostri denari sono anche troppi se moriamo anzitempo! E chi ci dice che non sarà così? E nel frattempo, per questo dubbio, gettiamo via la vita che invece ora abbiamo sul serio, che tocchiamo con mano? E che…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The singularity as existential risk
The last few years have produced an increasing amount of popular discourse about the singularity, which describes events in technological development that would lead to human-level machine intelligence, and would lead to computers achieving superintelligence. Following this…
Plane crashes as chains of unlikely events
do not share Kurzweil’s faith in the reliability of even these safety-critical systems. He is correct in implying that humans are primarily responsible for most airplane accidents. The software on modern commercial airplanes is probably the most reliable software ever written…
Rare events cluster in time
Kevin’s point was that if you know what to look for, these kinds of faults are all over the place, but they are normally just treated as “anomalies.” A series of random anomalies might actually be a systematic pattern of faults with a single origin, like a crack. These kinds of…
Algorithms herd more than human investors
Today, the stock market is almost completely automated. Complex algorithms execute trades in milliseconds, making decisions involving billions of dollars without any human intervention. Each innovation to these algorithms makes them faster, so that one investment bank can…
Markets disconnected from the real economy
Furthermore, new algorithms that exploit the high volatility associated with distress and crashes are being aggressively developed. The presence of these “agents” in the market can cause self-perpetuating, reflexive hyper-volatility that can spiral out of control. Dr. Sornette…
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Episodes, brand and series
So a few episodes exist in isolation. Films are the obvious example of episodes that stand-alone (although I guess franchises like The Godfather or Star Wars or Home Alone could be grouped together). And occasionally (fairly often on Radio 4) there are single episode…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The free spirit
that overplus which confers upon the free spirit the perilous prerogative of spending a life in experiment and of running adventurous risks: the past-master-privilege of the free spirit. In the interval there may be long years of convalescence, years filled with many hued…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Intrappolati in un'esistenza comoda
Molte persone sono intrappolate nella loro comoda esistenza, giocano sul sicuro perché hanno paura di dire sì a qualcosa di più grande. (Lisa Nichols)
Mollate le cime
Tra vent’anni sarete più delusi per le cose che non avete fatto che per quelle che avete fatto. Quindi mollate le cime. Allontanatevi dal porto sicuro. Prendete con le vostre vele i venti. Esplorate… Sognate… Scoprite...(Mark Twain)
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
If you use impact factors you are statistically illiterate
I don’t wish to under-estimate the difficulties. I am well aware of the risks involved, particularly to young researchers trying to forge a career in a culture that is so inured to the impact factor. It will take a determined and concerted effort from those in a position of…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Blacking out in the bath
Finally, I washed them down with a wineglass of water and repacked the rest in the foil. I had barely stashed it away when the trip started to come on. I had never known a trip to kick in so fast or with such violence. I could just about ride the first surges, but then a huge…
Ego death and the risk of psychosis
The next morning I still felt dislocated and physically in shock. What had happened? I’d had experiences of overload before, brief episodes from trips I couldn’t recollect . . . but never total blackout for hours on end. Were the official warnings I dismissed with such…
Provocative and integrative halves of a trip
During that summer in the glade I read Christopher Bache’s Dark Night, Early Dawn, which had just come out and remains the outstanding attempt to get LSD studies on the road again. For a large part of his self-experimentation Bache had a series of horrendous trips. At the most…
Illusory sobering up
At which point I decided I would like to go for a walk through the woods. I felt perfectly capable of handling this; in fact I appeared to have come down and be functioning quite normally again. Unbeknownst to me, a new phenomenon had appeared in my sessions: one referred to in…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
Diventare committente di se stessi
Quando ha deciso di buttarsi in quest’impresa sapeva che caricarsi sulle spalle tutto l’onere del progetto sarebbe stato un impegno ben diverso dal suo abituale, nobilissimo lavoro da architetto. Del resto era stata proprio la dimensione della sfida ad attrarlo, il rischio…