January 2012
2 posts
“In other words, monkeys that lived in the most socially complex group had an...”
– Eric Michael Johnson: Social Networks Matter: Friends Increase the Size of Your Brain
Receptive fields, binocular interaction and... →
Hubel, D.H. and Wiesel, T.N.
December 2011
32 posts
The Marvels And The Flaws Of Intuitive Thinking... →
Kahneman spiega il pensiero intuitivo, dal suo punto di vista.
L'economist e le stampanti 3d →
Droga: meglio la via Portoghese →
“People smoke, Dichter explained, because it is both a sign of virility and a...”
– In America in the 1930s a Viennese psychologist named Ernest Dichter implored advertisers to explore consumers’ unconscious desires. His insights revolutionised marketing and brought sex to advertising. (via theeconomist)
Quanto investe l'Italia in venture capital →
L’Italia è ultima in Europa, per investimenti in venture capital. Se la Svizzera spende 69$ pro-capite all’anno l’Italia spende 1$ pro-capite all’anno.
Ce la meritiamo, la serie B (via Jacopo Paoletti e Stefano Quintarelli).
Siamo tutti teroni di qualcuno →
I paesi del Nord virtuoso, dalla Germania agli altri paesi tripla A. Che chiedono un “riequilibrio” geografico contro quello che considerano una sproporzione a favore di paesi del sud o comunque tra quelli a rischio per l’alto debito.
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Buon solztizio d’inverno 2011 →
“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes,...”
Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets →
data analysis and info patterns recognition are one of the most interesting trends.
Semi-supervised learning →
A MIT Press book, in pdf format (524 pages)
Telecommuting and teleworking →
To really lower the air pollution and the oil consumption, whenever possible, telecommuting and teleworking should be promoted.
Politica e analisi dei dati →
The R Project →
Se la borsa è un frattale (o un terremoto) →
This similarity between market movements and earthquake aftershocks seems weird if you think of a financial market as a system in equilibrium that naturally balances people’s conflicting aims and desires. But it looks less weird and even quite natural if you think of a market as just another system that, like the Earth’s crust, is perpetually driven out of balance by the action of various forces,...
Carta solare →
“From a sociocognitive point of view, ux design is about motivating people, where...”
– UX design: motivating users | L’uomo è misura di ogni cosa (via stain)
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Model‐based clustering for social networks →
We propose a new model, the latent position cluster model, under which the probability of a tie between two actors depends on the distance between them in an unobserved Euclidean ‘social space’, and the actors’ locations in the latent social space arise from a mixture of distributions, each corresponding to a cluster.
November 2011
3 posts
Ergonomics for Beginners →
Un libro, in formato pdf, di introduzione all’ergonomia.
Al posto di Pierre →
Il futuro dei giornali è open e bottom up →
October 2011
5 posts
September 2011
4 posts
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
1 post
Valutazione →
March 2011
1 post
