«Nessuno dei cinque elementi predomina costantemente; nessuna delle quattro
  stagioni dura per sempre. I giorni sono brevi oppure lunghi, e la luna muore e
  rinasce.»
    -- Sun Tzu

 /Colonna sonora: ``Autechre - Doctrine''/


``The Linguistic Relativity of Programming Languages'', Jenna Zeigen
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV3vUZ9y8AU>
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Talk di Jenna Zeigan alla PolyConf 2016, direttamente dall'abstract:

 «The hypothesis of linguistic relativity says that the languages we speak
  influence the way we think. I argue this applies to programming languages too.
  However, key differences between spoken languages and programming languages
  enable us to adapt and shift our ways of thinking more fluidly as we learn
  programming languages than as we learn spoken languages. We can and should
  leverage these differences to grow individually as programmers and further
  advance our favorite programming languages.»


``Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race.'', Mike Orcutt
<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601786/are-face-recognition-systems-accurate-depends-on-your-race/>
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Per la serie `biased algorithms'...


``The Neverending Quest for "Firsts"'', Hansen Hsu
<http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-neverending-quest-for-firsts/>
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Riflessione riguardo ai "primi" (per quanto riguarda le invenzioni, e in questo
caso soprattutto i "calcolatori").

 «Most "discoveries" or "inventions" are not objectively singular
  but multiple, with many scientists or engineers pursuing the same
  problem in parallel.  Particular inventions such as the light bulb
  take place within a larger socio-technical system and are often an
  incremental step, rather than a giant leap, in a succession of
  advances. Claims to "firsts" rely on "the concealment of context,"
  Dag [Spicer] wrote. At best, they are an oversimplification, a
  "twelve-year-old's" version of history, serving to prop up the
  heroic, singular "Great Man" myth of history that is the popular
  image of science and technology.»


``Your Smart Watch Can Steal Your ATM PIN'', Megan Scudellari
<http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/your-smart-watch-can-spy-on-your-pin>
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Articolo su come gli smart watch hanno abbastanza sensori per rubare i PIN che
digitiamo negli ATM.

Per i più curiosi, l'intero articolo è disponibile qui:

 <https://www.stevens.edu/sites/stevens_edu/files/ChenWearablesPaper.pdf>

(o per i posteri ecco il DOI <http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2897845.2897847>)