av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 18, 2019 | Lästipset
Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins says he “stumbled into filmmaking,” attending Florida State University for some years before discovering its film school. “I went to film school right at the turn between old school cinema and new school cinema,” Jenkins says, “so we actually learned to edit films on these things called flat beds … you have to actually physically cut the film and tape it back together. So, doing that for a full year and then transitioning to what they call non-linear editing, it was shocking.
“But I took the lessons with me,” he continues. “Only make the cuts you absolutely have to make.”
In last year’s Behind the Mac campaign that celebrates creators using Mac in their work, Jenkins is seen holding his MacBook Pro while standing under an umbrella in the rain. The director was exporting the final cut of his 2017 Academy Award-winning feature film, “Moonlight.”
Källa: Behind the Mac creator celebrates his literary icon
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 17, 2019 | Lästipset
The first time Azim Shariff met Iyad Rahwan—the first real time, after communicating with him by phone and e-mail—was in a driverless car. It was November, 2012, and Rahwan, a thirty-four-year-old professor of computing and information science, was researching artificial intelligence at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a university in Abu Dhabi.
He was eager to explore how concepts within psychology—including social networks and collective reasoning—might inform machine learning, but there were few psychologists working in the U.A.E. Shariff, a thirty-one-year-old with wild hair and expressive eyebrows, was teaching psychology at New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi; he guesses that he was one of four research psychologists in the region at the time, an estimate that Rahwan told me “doesn’t sound like an exaggeration.” Rahwan cold-e-mailed Shariff and invited him to visit his research group.
Källa: A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 8, 2019 | Lästipset
My favorite aunt, Auntie Len, when she was in her eighties, told me that she had not had too much difficulty adjusting to all the things that were new in her lifetime—jet planes, space travel, plastics, and so on—but that she could not accustom herself to the disappearance of the old. “Where have all the horses gone?” she would sometimes say. Born in 1892, she had grown up in a London full of carriages and horses.
I have similar feelings myself. A few years ago, I was walking with my niece Liz down Mill Lane, a road near the house in London where I grew up. I stopped at a railway bridge where I had loved leaning over the railings as a child. I watched various electric and diesel trains go by, and after a few minutes Liz, growing impatient, asked, “What are you waiting for?” I said that I was waiting for a steam train. Liz looked at me as if I were crazy.
Källa: The Machine Stops
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2019 | Lästipset
En intressant iakttagelse, bok och fakta som pekar mot att i ett mer jämställt samhälle så kan föräldrar slappnar av på ett annat sätt när det handlar om barnuppfostran.
Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans
Fabrizio Zilibotti was born in Italy and met his wife (who’s Spanish) in London. Their daughter was born in Sweden, where she spent some of her childhood before the family moved to the U.K. and then Switzerland.
As he spent time in each of these countries, Zilibotti—who now lives in the U.S., teaching economics at Yale—became intrigued by the variety of parenting philosophies he encountered, from Sweden’s laissez-faire style of child-rearing to the U.K’s more rule-oriented approach. Parents in every country, he reasoned, loved their children more or less equally, so it seemed a little puzzling that they had such divergent ideas about what was best for their kids.
The Atlantic
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 5, 2019 | Lästipset
Axios har kommit över Trumps arbetsscheman för de tre senaste månaderna och de visar hur den amerikanske presidenten jobbar. Inga möten före 11 och massor av det som kallas exekutiv tid.
Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in ”Executive Time”
A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump’s private schedule for the past three months.
Why it matters: This unusually voluminous leak gives us unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules, whoch cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured ”Executive Time.”
Källa: Scoop: Leaked private schedules show Trump spent 60% of last 3 months in ”Executive Time”
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 28, 2019 | Lästipset
APNewsBreak: Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
Detta är den märkliga historien om forskare som upptäckt att israelisk spionprogramvara använts för att avlyssna kretsen runt den mördade saudiske journalisten Jamal Khashoggi. Efter det att forskarnas undersökning publicerats så har de bjudits in till möten med okända personer som försökt förhöra sug om deras verksamhet och de har övervakats av okända, hemliga agenter. Associated Press har publicerat historien.
NEW YORK (AP) — The researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s inner circle before his gruesome death are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives, The Associated Press has found. Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveillance and the details of their personal lives. In both cases, the researchers believe they were secretly recorded.
Källa: APNewsBreak: Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
