Author Archives: Alfonso Russo
What Are Pronouns? Why Do They Matter?
“Hi! My name is ____ and my pronouns are ____.” Pronouns.org offers ample practical resources and information to help you understand personal pronouns, how to share/ask/use pronouns, correct mistakes, and more!
Source: What Are Pronouns? Why Do They Matter? — Pronouns.org Resources on Personal Pronouns
C’era una volta il bar
Il gusto del marcio – Il Post
I cibi fermentati e puzzolenti, nati per necessità, sono apprezzati e riscoperti un po’ ovunque, dallo squalo islandese al tofu peloso fino al kimchi
Source: Il gusto del marcio – Il Post
Questo artista riesce a dare nuova vita alle anonime facciate degli edifici con affreschi monumentali
Immaginate di tornare a casa dopo una vacanza e non riuscire a riconoscere il vostro palazzo. Impossibile? Dopo aver visto le opere di questo artista francese non ne sarete più così certi……
The End of Manual Transmission
Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost.
How Software Is Eating the Car
The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars. Can the auto industry cope?
Source: How Software Is Eating the Car
Unzipping Zipf’s law
In spite of decades of theorizing, the origins of Zipf’s law remain elusive. I propose that a Zipfian distribution straightforwardly follows from the interaction of syntax (word classes differing in class size) and semantics (words having to be sufficiently specific to be distinctive and sufficiently general to be reusable). These factors are independently motivated and well-established ingredients of a natural-language system. Using a computational model, it is shown that neither of these ingredients suffices to produce a Zipfian distribution on its own and that the results deviate from the Zipfian ideal only in the same way as natural language itself does.
Source: Unzipping Zipf’s law
Greatest Omurice Artist,Omelet Rice – Kyoto Japan
Cosa ci sarà tra centomila anni
Devono immaginarlo i progettisti di un deposito di scorie radioattive in Finlandia: come sarà il mondo? Come spieghiamo agli umani del futuro cosa c’è lì dentro?