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stavo ripensando a quando facevo le elementari e non riesco a ricordare nemmeno una lezione in cui si sia parlato di selezione naturale o di Darwin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLR1Un97Myg

Premio Wolf per Parisi

https://www.ansa.it/canale_scienza_tecnica/notizie/fisica_matematica/2021/02/10/a-parisi-il-premio-wolf-fra-i-piu-prestigiosi-per-la-fisica-_18eeaba2-6dd0-4373-8cdf-482a57883e4d.html

MACCO's razor:
_entia sunt multiplicanda propter necessitatem_

(cit. Umberto Eco)

some background:

if you're wondering what WSPR is, look here https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wspr.html

it's a radio propagation tool devised by Joe Taylor, a grumpy old guy was won the nobel prize for discovering a new kind of pulsar.

a few years back, I had fun telling him that his fortran code for WSJTX was ugly, lacked any comments, and it's full of bugs. he replied this: "it's open source, if you want it better, just write your own, piss off". and I did it. but open source shouldn't be like this, I think.

if you write bad/ugly/obfuscated code on purpose, in order for others not to participate to the project and maintain control, I wouldn't call that open source just cause it was released under the GPL.

my little kiwiSDR is about to reach the top three worldwide WSPR spotters on 17m and 30m bands. and I have exactly zero merit for that. apart from living in the countryside. http://mardie4.100webspace.net/wspr/top_wspr_spotters_30m.html

@oppen look at this!

Stephen Wolfram: mental sickness, to the extreme

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/05/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-spacex-blue-origin

evvabbè...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1357375069253730304

WhatsApp and the domestication of users
https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html

da poco ho visto Coffee and Cigarettes di Jim Jarmusch e in uno dei tanti sketch ci sono Tom Waits e Iggy Pop. e' carino anche se forse non e' il migliore del film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKxTnw6JkE

ci ho messo 40 anni a capire che johnny cash è un grande. chissà cosa tutto mi sto perdendo d'altro...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3QDDlWmR9Q

ora, immaginate Draghi che organizza un banchetto in strada per parlare ai giornalisti. io non ci riesco.

le crisi di governo hanno questo potere di riesumare gente come tabacci e mastella. sinceramente pensavo si fossero ritirati a vita privata da anni. e invece son sempre lì, nell'ombra, a drenare risorse pubbliche e a tramare per inedite alleanze.

apparently, SN9 is about to perform the test launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M
#spacex