Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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L'idiozia di un gruppetto di docenti(2)

As expected, now beginning to pay.

Luciano Maiani, former director of CERN, has seen blocked his appointment as president of CNR.


For what?

to lack of skills?

demerits for science?

No, for expressing an opinion in a letter (private, among other things).

I'd like to see what happened to all the fans of Voltaire.

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Facciamo una scommessa?

La scommessa è rivolta agli elettori del nostro ormai finito governo Prodi.

Scommettiamo che fra un anno saremo a rimpiangerlo? E a rimangiarci tutto quello che gli abbiamo detto contro?

Monday, January 21, 2008

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L'idiozia di un gruppetto di docenti

Andrea Romano, oggi, sulla Stampa , riprende il tema della ormai famosa lettera dei docenti della Sapienza sulla visita del Papa a Roma.

Si riferisce al loro atto come "l'idiozia di un gruppetto di docenti", e ne trae un articolo per parlare del Partito Democratico e delle sue dinamiche interne.

Sono perfettamente d'accordo con Romano. I professori sono stati idioti.

Sono stati idioti a pensare che una lettera interna al proprio rector would remain confined within the University.

idiots were hoping that someone took the trouble to read their letter, and review their arguments (perhaps by reading what he said Feyerabend, and trying to understand why Ratzinger was quoting).

were fools to assume that someone would have also asked their views on the whole story, and would grant them the same space that was given to their opponents tear them apart.

were fools to imagine that any politician would have defended them from the accusation of being-nothing professors who had obtained the position for the recommendation, and not one of the best representatives of the Departments of Physics in Europe.

were fools to believe that some reporters would have bothered to ask some questions, so as to find out if the original signatories were 67, the adhesions were more than 700.

were fools to trust that someone would remember that when Ahmadinejad went to Columbia University, has been heavily contested.

Yes, yes, they were idiots.

were idiots to forget to be in Italy.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

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Comunicazione di servizio ai politici del PD

I will not vote the Democratic Party politicians who present themselves, today, in Piazza San Pietro.

Friday, January 18, 2008

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Riepiloghiamo i fatti

useful for that purpose the intervention of Professor Parisi .

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Realtà virtuale

Nel paese reale, quello in cui viviamo tutti quanti, il Papa esterna su tutto e il contrario di tutto, con ampio risalto su quotidiani, tv e ogni altro mezzo di informazione.

Nel paese virtuale, la gerarchia cattolica lamenta che il Papa viene censurato.

Nel paese reale, alcuni professori hanno detto al loro rettore che non ritenevano giusto aver invitato il Papa all'inaugurazione dell'anno accademico.

Nel paese virtuale, i professori hanno impedito al Papa di andare alla Sapienza a tenere il suo discorso.

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"Ma la 194 la dobbiamo difendere noi fisici?"

Ci sono frasi fulminanti.

Quella del titolo è una, e viene da qui:


http://ipazia.blogspot.com/2008/01/intervista-ai-docenti-de-la-sapienza.html

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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Il Rettore: "Il Papa è molto amareggiato"

Ossia.

Hai un dipartimento di Fisica di eccellenza. A livello europeo. Riconosciuto.

I professori di quel dipartimento ti dicono: "Non invitare quella persona".

I tuoi professori. Quelli che tu devi difendere e tutelare. Le tue risorse umane, se vuoi usare un termine aziendale.

E tu dici: "Il Papa è molto amareggiato?"

Saturday, January 12, 2008

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Le tasse sono una cosa bellissima

Quando TPS ha pronunciato quella frase, le reazioni sono state molto forti fra i cittadini.

Solo che la frase incriminata non era quella. Era piuttosto "è una cosa bellissima che tutti paghiamo delle tasse per fare cose che servono a tutti, come scuole, strade e ospedali".

But the point is that that message was not directed to the citizens. Or rather, it was only for citizens.

was also addressed (I would say especially) politicians. To whom was saying "the only reason why you can withdraw the money from the pockets of citizens is to do things that everyone can use." Ie, roads, schools and hospitals. Or pay off the debt accumulated over the years.

Use them for anything else (like to fund this or that project, that this or that politician, and he alone, considers it very important) is not only a waste of public money: it is also a moral justification to those who try not to pay taxes .

TPS is saying that can come and ask for money as long as his colleagues in the government spend it the right way.

We believe that professional politicians were angry.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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Internet e la cultura minore

I do not know how thorough was the link between the development of Internet culture and that of the child, then it is likely to repeat what has been said by others. But so be it.

So.

The idea is the amount of information that the Internet can have on any cultural phenomenon recently. It may be a television series, a film director trash, a comic book.

are all cultural phenomena than in other periods, even very recent, were relegated to minor events. Simply, no one talked about it, quindile information available for discussion were scarce, and no one spoke.

None (apart from the superappassionati) disperses the different episodes of Space 1999, simply because they remember quite a few, so few could speak with knowledge. The series did not represent a true cultural phenomenon simply because there was no material to speak of, and there was no common ground to start talking.

Internet has profoundly changed all this: first through the sites of the fans, then through wikipedia, then using the P2P, everything has been made accessible to a very broad mass of people.

The fact itself is extremely interesting. Normally, the production of culture itself was limited to a relatively narrow group of people, who decided what would culture and what was not. It 's the proper function of that class of people we call intellectual. The television series were considered pure entertainment.

Now the audience who decides what is interesting is extremely enlarged. It does not cover the whole population, but it is certainly much larger than pre-Internet era.

The consequences are yet to be understood.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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Studiando la matematica...

I will discuss some ideas about mathematics on which it broods for a while 'time.
I think I will need a few posts, to put everything down.

Ten or more years since I Lauer, I started to study mathematics. Only now have much less time, and perhaps the brain is also more difficult to do very abstract and complex reasoning.

This is a disadvantage on the one hand, but on the other allows you to realize a number of very interesting problems that I had at the time the University completely ignored.

picking up some manuals (text relatively simple things to say two years of mathematics), I felt a growing sense of unease.

Not in the sense that the demonstrations did not understand, or definitions. No, maybe I difficulties, but it was a difficulty that could be overcome.

Then I realized where it came from the discomfort: those manuals, compelling in their logic, in their series of demonstrations were complete nonsense. A true triumph of the absurd.

Take a traditional manual. How to start? With a definition: "Given a set V on which an application is defined with the following property ...." and so on. This approach is' absurd.

We are, in a completely arbitrary definition, without a shred of justification in their choice. But, as it happens, then pull out the theorems that are working perfectly. They look like sleight of hand: as it happens, the objects we have exactly defined the properties we need to define our theorems.

E 'this absurdity. The manual is deceiving the reader into thinking that this is a path that runs through spontaneous, logical, obvious, but that is not understood to the reader.

The basic question to be answered is what, but why? Not what I choose, but why choose a set with certain properties? Why choose a demonstration to go in a direction which, coincidentally, leads me to exactly find the solution? Where is the sense?

sense there obviously. Only that the manual makes it incomprehensible, because it is spelled backwards. Mathematicians, despite what they tell themselves, they are human like everyone else and think just like everyone else.

Where are the clues? The definitions hidden within the proofs of the theorems. The math you encounter while trying to prove something: find an object with some properties, and cut them off from trying to define prorietà they saw that they need.

The definitions come from the practice of mathematics. I understand that talking about practice, about a mathematician may seem ridiculous, but the fact that the brain activity of the mathematician is not the practice makes it less of a mason. The tools he uses are different, but still practice.

And then things start to make sense: we define an object from the use we make of it. That the object itself is very abstract is a marginal. We understand how a mathematical object when we see it in operation, in a demonstration.

To understand how a mathematician, one should be able to rummage in his trash can: search all the demonstrations that have not discarded because they worked all the trials that led nowhere. Then things would highly respect, and become, at that point, even interesting.

This is extremely interesting, because it is very related to my work as a software developer. But this deserves another post.