Lotte Reiniger pioneered early animation, yet her name remains largely unknown.
We pay homage to her life and work, and reflect on why she never received the recognition
she deserves.
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman[1] (May 5, 1864[2] – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.[3] She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.[4] Bly was also a writer, inventor, and industrialist.
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001)[1] was an English musician and composer of electronic music.[2] She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.[3][4] She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music,"[3] having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital.[5]
Charity Adams Earley (5 December 1918 – 13 January 2002) was the first African-American woman to be an officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later WACS) and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African-American women to serve overseas during World War II. Adams was the highest ranking African-American woman in the army by the completion of the war.
Theresa Kachindamoto is the paramount chief, or Inkosi, of the Dedza District
in the central region of Malawi. She has informal authority over more than 900,000
people. She is known for her forceful action in dissolving child marriages and
insisting on education for both girls and boys.
Daryl Davis is no ordinary musician. He’s played with President Clinton and tours the country playing “burnin’ boogie woogie piano” and sharing musical stylings inspired by greats like Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. He’s a highly respected and electrifying performer who is currently an integral member of The Legendary Blues Band (formerly …
The .io country code top-level domain is pretty popular right now, particularly among tech startups that want to take advantage of the snappy input/output reference and the relative availability of names — Fusion.io, Wise.io and Import.io are just a few examples. But who benefits from the sale of .io domains? Sadly, not the people who ultimately should.
Your friends and colleagues are talking about something called “Bayes’s
Theorem” or “Bayes’s Rule,” or something called Bayesian reasoning. They
sound really enthusiastic about it, too, so you google and find a web page
about Bayes’s Theorem and... It’s this equation. That’s all. Just one
equation. The page you found gives a definition of it, but it doesn’t say
what it is, or why it’s useful, or why your friends would be interested in
it. It looks like this random statistics thing. Why does a mathematical
concept generate this strange enthusiasm in its students? What is the
so-called Bayesian Revolution now sweeping through the sciences, which
claims to subsume even the experimental method itself as a special case?
What is the secret that the adherents of Bayes know? What is the light
that they have seen? Soon you will know. Soon you will be one of us.
While there are a few existing online explanations of Bayes’s Theorem, my
experience with trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that
the existing online explanations are too abstract. Bayesian reasoning is
very counterintuitive. People do not employ Bayesian reasoning
intuitively, find it very difficult to learn Bayesian reasoning when
tutored, and rapidly forget Bayesian methods once the tutoring is over.
This holds equally true for novice students and highly trained
professionals in a field. Bayesian reasoning is apparently one of those
things which, like quantum mechanics or the Wason Selection Test, is
inherently difficult for humans to grasp with our built-in mental
faculties. Or so they claim. Here you will find an attempt to offer an
intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning—an excruciatingly gentle
introduction that invokes all the human ways of grasping numbers, from
natural frequencies to spatial visualization. The intent is to convey, not
abstract rules for manipulating numbers, but what the numbers mean, and
why the rules are what they are (and cannot possibly be anything else).
When you are finished reading this, you will see Bayesian problems in your
dreams.
Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy by which people avoid effort in the hopes of keeping potential failure from hurting self-esteem.[1] It was first theorized by Edward E. Jones and Steven Berglas,[2] according to whom self-handicaps are obstacles created, or claimed, by the individual in anticipation of failing performance.[3]
Learned Helplessness is behaviour exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused from the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness: discontinuing attempts to escape or avoid the aversive stimulus, even when such alternatives are unambiguously presented. Upon exhibiting such behavior, the subject was said to have acquired learned helplessness.[1][2] Over the past few decades, neuroscience has provided insight into learned helplessness and shown that the original theory actually had it backwards: the brain's default state is to assume that control is not present, and the presence of "helpfulness" is what is actually learned.[3]
Dieci anni fa usciva La casta, un libro che ridefiniva il discorso politico italiano: la fine dei partiti tradizionali, l’odio per le élite in generale, l’indignazione di chi si sentiva escluso e defraudato. Oggi quel risentimento si è rovesciato in orgoglio: la fine della politica come la conoscevamo non ha generato un vuoto, ma una galassia esplosa di esperienze tra il grottesco, il tragico e l’apocalittico. Dai forconi alle sentinelle in piedi, dai «cittadini» che s’improvvisano giustizieri alle proteste antimigranti, La Gente è il ritratto cubista dell’Italia contemporanea: un paese popolato da milioni di persone che hanno abbandonato il principio di realtà per inseguire incubi privati, mentre movimenti politici vecchi e nuovi cavalcano quegli incubi spacciandoli per ideologie. Leonardo Bianchi ha scritto il miglior reportage possibile su un paese che non si può raccontare se non a partire dalle sue derive, e l’ha fatto seguendo ogni storia con la passione di un giornalista d’altri tempi, il rigore dello studioso che dispone di una prospettiva e di un respiro internazionali, e un talento autenticamente narrativo, capace di attingere a una ferocia e a una forza profetica degne di un romanzo di James Ballard.
E ora, ora che anni sono, e saranno? Il ritorno in auge di podcasts e
newsletters mi sembra stia a rappresentare non tanto un ripiegamento,
quanto una nuova infiorescenza: oramai su internet convivono (combattono e
interagiscono e si sintetizzano) culture che vanno dal generazionale
all’intersezionale, e le buone battaglie (politiche, sociali, ecologiche)
sono tornate a essere combattute non solo in termini di risposta o
reazione. Il futuro forse non è ancora luminoso, ma diverse torce sono
state accese - si tratta, ora come sempre, di connetterle fra di loro.
Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".[5]
Tone policing (also tone trolling, tone argument, and tone fallacy) is an ad hominem (personal attack) and antidebate tactic based on criticizing a person for expressing emotion. Tone policing detracts from the validity of a statement by attacking the tone in which it was presented rather than the message itself.
"A brawler who tattoos a message onto his knuckles does not throw every
punch with the weight of First Amendment protection behind him," the
brief stated. "Conduct like this does not constitute speech, nor should
it. A deliberate attempt to cause physical injury to someone does not
come close to the expression which the First Amendment is designed to
protect."
It’s no secret that times are changing. It used to be that men were men,
jokes were jokes, and all facts came from one white guy in a suit who you trusted
because he looked like your dad. Now I know I could get in a lot of trouble for
just saying this, but I don’t care because someone has to tell the truth: These
days, you can’t say anything racist at all without being called a racist.
“So, I wrote my BIFF Response but Marvin wrote me another angry email.
Actually, he wrote 6 more this week, so what’s up with that? Why didn’t
he stop after my first email?”
The BIFF Response Method will teach you how to respond to angry emails, texts, or social media posts while maintaining your dignity and personal power.
«Listen. We're fairly certain it's true. The laws of the universe just
don't make sense the way they should and it's more and more apparent with every
atom of gold we run through the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and every
electron we smash up at the Large Hadron Collider that we are living in a
universe especially constructed for us. And, since we all know infinities
cannot be constructed, we must conclude that our universe has been simulated.…»
The Missionary Church of Kopimism (in Swedish Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet), is a congregation of file sharers who believe that copying information is a sacred virtue and was founded by Isak Gerson, a 19-year-old philosophy student, and Gustav Nipe in Uppsala, Sweden in the autumn of 2010.[6] The Church, based in Sweden, has been officially recognized by the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency as a religious community in January 2012, after three application attempts.
“Siccome @ciocci mi ha confessato che la cosa gli stava facendo esplodere la testa, e siccome io stesso da tempo ero alla ricerca di risposte adeguate sul tema, ho fatto un po’ di ricerche sull'usanza tutta islandese di celebrare il Natale intonando canzoni pop italiane 🎄🇮🇸🇮🇹”
Sono qui riportate le conversioni tra le antiche unità di misura in uso nel circondario di Bologna e il sistema metrico decimale, così come stabilite ufficialmente nel 1877.
Nonostante l'apparente precisione nelle tavole, in molti casi è necessario considerare che i campioni utilizzati (anche per le tavole di epoca napoleonica) erano di fattura approssimativa o discordanti tra loro.[1]
Elenco di popolari creature leggendarie e animali mitologici presenti nei miti, leggende e folclore dei diversi popoli e culture del mondo, in ordine alfabetico. Note Questa lista elenca solo creat…
Last week I wrote about about Meido, the Japanese Underworld, and how it has roots in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Buddhist-Taoist concepts. Today I'll write a little bit about where some unlucky
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz[1]) is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, once believed to grow sheep as its fruit. It was believed the sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all accessible foliage was gone, both the plant and sheep died.
Hanno fatto la storia del Novecento, non solo editoriale, anche culturale
ed esistenziale.
Desintati all'oblio per volontà suicida del regime distributivo, noi gli restituiamo una nuova
e ugualmente straordinaria vita, e per sempre
Questo opuscolo non porta sfiga, leggerlo non provoca effetti
collaterali. Si presenta così Come ti frego il virus, tascabile non solo di
nome ma anche di fatto: quando fu pubblicato i ragazzi se lo mettevano in
tasca, soprattutto dopo che ne fu “proibita” l’introduzione nelle scuole.
L’opuscolo - firmato nel 1991 dalla Commissione nazionale per la lotta
contro l'Aids, dall’allora ministro della Sanità e naturalmente da Silver -
provocò le ire dell’allora ministro dell’Istruzione.
Mix together a bit of freely accessible facial recognition software and a free live stream of the public space, and what do you get? A powerful stalker tool.
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity Bagrow et al., arVix 2017 If I know your friends, then I know a lot about you! Suppose you don’t personally use a given app/serv…
«In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we
kill people based on metadata." Now, a new examination of previously
published Snowden documents suggests that many of those people may have
been innocent.»
It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the fundamentals of third-party tracking, explain the scope of the problem, and suggest ways for users and legislation to fight back against the status quo.
On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a McDonnell Douglas
DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into
the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, killing all
81 people on board. Known in Italy as the Ustica massacre ("strage di
Ustica"), the disaster led to numerous investigations, legal actions and
accusations, and continues to be a source of controversy, including
claims of conspiracy by the Italian government and others. The Prime
Minister of Italy at the time, Francesco Cossiga, attributed the crash to
a missile fired from a French Navy aircraft, despite contrary evidence
presented in a 1994 report. On 23 January 2013, Italy's top criminal
court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight
was brought down by a missile.
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998, also called the Strage del Cermis ("Massacre at Cermis") occurred on 3 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
Il 3 febbraio di 14 anni fa un aereo militare Usa spezzò il cavo di una funivia uccidendo 20 persone. Ora uno dei marine che erano ai comandi ammette che quel volo era una sorta di gita per divertirsi. E che subito prima dell’incidente stava facendo riprese panoramiche con la sua videocamera. In un nastro …
Con Strage dell'Istituto Salvemini si fa riferimento a un disastro aereo avvenuto a Casalecchio di Reno il 6 dicembre 1990, in cui un aereo militare Aermacchi MB-326 cadde su un istituto tecnico causando la morte di dodici studenti e il ferimento di altre 88 persone.