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.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
How To Build A Boat Dock With Styrofoam
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.
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.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Rollers For Curly Frizzy Hair
Le proposte bislacche di un ex ministro
The former president, former minister, former director of the Bank of Italy Lamberto Dini has listed seven key points to secure your confidence in the Prodi government.
you can read them here , Corriere della Sera.
If the proposals were a customer of a bar for truckers, it is reasonable smile. Being a former president, former minister and former director of the Bank of Italy there is to be dismayed. And you can give the same reason Dini, when he says that there is no meritocracy in Italy: in fact, do not understand how to make a character like becoming director della Banca d'Italia eccetera.
Partiamo dall'introduzione.
"Neanche al culmine di una fase economica espansiva il nostro bilancio pubblico raggiunge il pareggio; e si continua ad alimentare quel debito che costituisce la fornace nella quale l'Italia brucia le proprie speranze in un futuro migliore."
Benissimo. Quindi, un obiettivo chiaro sarebbe (o dovrebbe essere) quello di raggiungere il pareggio di bilancio, e accelerare la riduzione del debito pubblico. Siccome inoltre, a parlare non è l'avventore di cui sopra, ma un ex ministro del Tesoro, si potrebbe sperare di vedere qualche numero, almeno vagamente sensato. Tanto per discutere di cose serie.
Niente di tutto ciò.
It begins with a fantastic "reduction of 5% of the PA staff through early retirement."
Now, since you can not gassing people, the staff of the PA will be taken as official money to make money as a pensioner. You will also need to pay him the settlement (which agrees, is a debt already in the budget, but the cash required to pay this debt still has a cost). And, last but not least, would further reduce Italy's ability to achieve one of the Lisbon objectives in relation to the percentage of people employed.
Then we discuss the policy: which means "the 5% of staff"? It 's a way of thinking by accountants, not by managers. Any manager knows that, in a company, the point is being able to throw out the bums and move staff where needed. Back to square one. Dini is proposing to reduce by 5% tax inspectors? those of work? judges? Who, exactly, are we talking about?
It 's very convenient to speak generally. Much less comfortable trying to point the finger, and indicate who should go away.
Point 2 is now an evergreen: the scaling of the cost of politics by abolishing the provinces. I wonder why when it comes to the cost of politics Roman politicians always start from the periphery and center ever since. The same Courier has, for example, shows how the containment measures cost of the two Houses of Parliament are exceptionally small. But there's no evidence of a position of Dini on the subject.
Now, as noted by Dini, to do something like we need a revision of the Constitution. A triviality. With the same review could reduce the number of Italian MPs, which has looked strangely Dini from proposing. Even here, however, no indication of how the operation would save. But let's move on.
Section 3 is "A reduction in the tax burden for taxpayers." However, it must be consistent. If one considers that Italy has a balanced budget, and has a very large public debt, then he can not speak for the reduction of tasse. Potrebbe (e dovrebbe) chiedere che ogni centesimo in più sia destinato alla riduzione del debito. E avrebbe perfino senso: facciamo cinque anni di sacrifici, riduciamo il debito e riconquistiamo un futuro per i nostri figli. Anche qui, nicht numeretti.
Con il punto 4 si parla di rinunciare "alle centinaia di programmi inconcludenti" di sviluppo del Meridione. Se sono centinaia, Dini avrebbe potuto avere l'accortezza di indicarne una decina, magari su un sito su Internet. Tanto per far capire che un ex ministro non gioca a fare il qualunquista. Poi, che ci siano sprechi, nessuno lo nega. Ma ci vorrebbe una capacità di indicarli per nome e cognome. Così, tanto per fare una cosa nuova.
Trascuro i punti 5, 6 e 7 that are in the same tone.
There is a number.
There is a number.
There is a clear goal to be one.
Above all, you do not understand why the proposals should reduce debt, bringing the budget to balance and revive the Italian economy.
Just do not understand.
But maybe to understand you have to be former presidents, former ministers and former Directors of the Bank of Italy.
The former president, former minister, former director of the Bank of Italy Lamberto Dini has listed seven key points to secure your confidence in the Prodi government.
you can read them here , Corriere della Sera.
If the proposals were a customer of a bar for truckers, it is reasonable smile. Being a former president, former minister and former director of the Bank of Italy there is to be dismayed. And you can give the same reason Dini, when he says that there is no meritocracy in Italy: in fact, do not understand how to make a character like becoming director della Banca d'Italia eccetera.
Partiamo dall'introduzione.
"Neanche al culmine di una fase economica espansiva il nostro bilancio pubblico raggiunge il pareggio; e si continua ad alimentare quel debito che costituisce la fornace nella quale l'Italia brucia le proprie speranze in un futuro migliore."
Benissimo. Quindi, un obiettivo chiaro sarebbe (o dovrebbe essere) quello di raggiungere il pareggio di bilancio, e accelerare la riduzione del debito pubblico. Siccome inoltre, a parlare non è l'avventore di cui sopra, ma un ex ministro del Tesoro, si potrebbe sperare di vedere qualche numero, almeno vagamente sensato. Tanto per discutere di cose serie.
Niente di tutto ciò.
It begins with a fantastic "reduction of 5% of the PA staff through early retirement."
Now, since you can not gassing people, the staff of the PA will be taken as official money to make money as a pensioner. You will also need to pay him the settlement (which agrees, is a debt already in the budget, but the cash required to pay this debt still has a cost). And, last but not least, would further reduce Italy's ability to achieve one of the Lisbon objectives in relation to the percentage of people employed.
Then we discuss the policy: which means "the 5% of staff"? It 's a way of thinking by accountants, not by managers. Any manager knows that, in a company, the point is being able to throw out the bums and move staff where needed. Back to square one. Dini is proposing to reduce by 5% tax inspectors? those of work? judges? Who, exactly, are we talking about?
It 's very convenient to speak generally. Much less comfortable trying to point the finger, and indicate who should go away.
Point 2 is now an evergreen: the scaling of the cost of politics by abolishing the provinces. I wonder why when it comes to the cost of politics Roman politicians always start from the periphery and center ever since. The same Courier has, for example, shows how the containment measures cost of the two Houses of Parliament are exceptionally small. But there's no evidence of a position of Dini on the subject.
Now, as noted by Dini, to do something like we need a revision of the Constitution. A triviality. With the same review could reduce the number of Italian MPs, which has looked strangely Dini from proposing. Even here, however, no indication of how the operation would save. But let's move on.
Section 3 is "A reduction in the tax burden for taxpayers." However, it must be consistent. If one considers that Italy has a balanced budget, and has a very large public debt, then he can not speak for the reduction of tasse. Potrebbe (e dovrebbe) chiedere che ogni centesimo in più sia destinato alla riduzione del debito. E avrebbe perfino senso: facciamo cinque anni di sacrifici, riduciamo il debito e riconquistiamo un futuro per i nostri figli. Anche qui, nicht numeretti.
Con il punto 4 si parla di rinunciare "alle centinaia di programmi inconcludenti" di sviluppo del Meridione. Se sono centinaia, Dini avrebbe potuto avere l'accortezza di indicarne una decina, magari su un sito su Internet. Tanto per far capire che un ex ministro non gioca a fare il qualunquista. Poi, che ci siano sprechi, nessuno lo nega. Ma ci vorrebbe una capacità di indicarli per nome e cognome. Così, tanto per fare una cosa nuova.
Trascuro i punti 5, 6 e 7 that are in the same tone.
There is a number.
There is a number.
There is a clear goal to be one.
Above all, you do not understand why the proposals should reduce debt, bringing the budget to balance and revive the Italian economy.
Just do not understand.
But maybe to understand you have to be former presidents, former ministers and former Directors of the Bank of Italy.
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