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Project can boost the Web

22 Jun

A project that is being jointly developed by Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Apple can createWebAssembly a new Internet platform combining software written for excutar in native systems (OSs) and the Web reach, would make the web faster. The WebAssembly was initial result of the unification of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox teams, provides a lighter experience Web application load. Another effect is the “liberation of the programmer” because it helps the development programs in iOS dispute Apple and Google Android operating systems, the announcement of this project can be seen in the GitHub site. The project leader Luke Wagner told CNET that he is satisfied with the project, said: “I am happy to report that Mozilla has begun working with Chromium, Edge, and WebKit engineers on creating a new standard, WebAssembly” . At the basic level of the WebAssembly program provides a different way to let browsers run software written in C, C ++ or other languages, allowing the development of which is among the traditional programming languages ​​and machine code, which releases browser from the work of creating the machine code, and this is independent of the device hardware, allowing you to work in the language they choose. The common today is to develop JavaScript program that can be translated into machine code, with the Assembly Web programmer could develop many programs that would be between these two levels: the machine code and the high level of program that produces applications.

 

Manuscripts reading platform

06 May

A digital platform was launched by the library at the University of Uppsala offering works database scanned fromUppsalaLibrarycultural heritage collections, with handwritten works with surveys from handwriting recognition software.

The initiative was made from the competition with other software worldwide for applications become feasible to search for text, making available collections of enormous value not only historical but also economic, as noted by researcher Anders Brun of the University of Uppsala, as the site of this university.

The decoding of the manuscripts was made by a method that enables a computer to interpret a digital image of text using expertise, which uses a small portion of the material to identify the form and style of writing a small piece of text, then reading It is automated using standard experimental sample.

An interdisciplinary collaborative focus due to the relevance of the project to various humanities was needed, for example, the research done in the Vatican Library manuscripts, which if done without this digital process would cost a small fortune, explained Anders Brun on the website news University of Uppsala.

 

Another view of the formation of the Brazilian State

07 Apr

Caio Prado Jr., wrote in 1942 Brazil Contemporary Formation which is a book around the three centuries of colonial Brazil, forFormaçãoEstadoBrasileiro him the country was structured as a country colony “to provide tobacco, sugar some other genres; later, gold and diamonds; then, cotton, coffee, and then, for European trade, “revealing only the economic face.

In your country balance the work is negative in this colony stage, said: “extensive exploration and simply speculative, unstable in time and space, natural resources of the country”, made the country stay late and very strong land bases.

In his “rediscovery of Brazil” would be a more radical way than that of Gilberto Freyre and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, as a Manichean view would be next to the “Well” along with Sergio Buarque de Holanda while Gilberto Freyre is the “Evil “a comparative analysis made by many historians São Paulo.

Caio Prado will always ask for the “sense of Brazilian history,” understood as “sense” the story of a people considered in a long-term process observing the essential elements, which direct the general events in the middle.

His political legacy is broader than his work, according to many historians, who point out that the author is often criticized for being economistic and criticized for failing to use primary sources.

I think that none of the works should be removed for a wider analysis of the origins of the Brazilian state, and along with Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Raymundo Faoro complete authors who make a wide reading of the origins of Brazilian thought.

 

Where does Europe

04 Apr

If Easter is passing, it is hard to imagine where will the world without wonder where is Europe, although theNewEurope East and the Middle East are not more European colonialism expression, was in Europe that was born the modern state and its democracy and there also germinated the industrial revolution and liberalism, but in digital times she is still the center?

Caught two exponents of European thought, because I think you have to be European to understand the crisis itself, Peter Sloterdijk wrote that “If Europe awakening” (São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2002) and Edgar Morin “Culture and Barbarism European” (Lisbon: Piaget Institute, 2005), a German and a Frenchman, Europe seems well represented.

I take them and not others, because they are in my view really postmodern, that is, there is a critical modernity revisiting the role of the Illuminist State, the liberal idealista- thought and finally and especially, colonialism and neocolonialism European.

Morin when considering the emergence of totalitarianism in Europe sees it as “out of all predictions … the result of a historical process out of the disaster that was World War … that was a trigger murderous barbarism while one suicidal act for Europe. “(Morin, p 51), while Sloterdijk says,” most European statesmen, Felippe II Churchill, understand the meaning of the allegorical image of the seventeenth century that depicts the Emperor Charles V as Atlas: on the shoulders of the Emperor rests a globe girded by a garland with the couplet The quam serious onus (as a burden pedado) “(Sloterdijk, 2002, p. 14).

It is the result of a colonial mentality, expressed in Morin: “This colonial barbarism, of excessive brutality, continue to manifest itself in France in the twentieth century, as is confirmed by the Sétif massacre committed on the day of the end of Second World War, the May 8, 1945, and the numerous atrocities during the war of Algeria” (Morin, 2002, p. 26).

Finally the crisis of thought expressed in Sloterdijk with the tripod: absurd, frivolity and lethargy, absurdity of the two wars, lethargy speech of the “return of Europe” after the war with “psicopolíticas and cultural characteristics” and consumer lethargy the late twentieth century, and frivolous “is one that no serious foundation in the nature of things, must be decidir- by this or that: it is bright green and not crimson, the salmon teriyaki and not mouton loaded in, … etc “(Sloterdijk, 2002, p. 27), finally connotations of a typical existential emptiness of a cultural crisis.

The Morin ideas are well known and have expressed here and in the recent post of knowledge necessary for the future, as well as the way out of this crisis “key idea refers to the process I call the planetary era” (Morin, 2005, p . 40).

Only this planetary perspective without neocolonialism and solidarity with humanity, Europe can find your destination united to all people.

 

Numbers in Social Networking Media

17 Mar

Social networks have worked in this manifestation as work in many others, however, the adhesion power, unlike dreamingGlocal vain philosophy, has nothing to do with the mainstream media, as a hashtag success was #VemPraRuaBrasil, that on 15 March was among the world Treding Topics also had more right-wing demonstrations calling for the return of the military and other hate to PT.

While Folha de São Paulo gave the number of 200 000 protesters as the military police and other sectors gave numbers near a million in São Paulo, and in the world every major newspaper abroad gave news: The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde , El Pais and many others, highlighting the scandal of Petrobrás and the Impeachment.

Curious, because also the government side there is always a severe critique of mainstream media, which we know is indeed a monopoly of a few families and this continues to be subject both in social networks as the political wheels of Brazil, but the highlight of the mainstream press was small, perhaps because the budget funds on advertisements such as Petrobrás and Banco do Brazil, in addition to the government’s own traditional suit them.
Far from ideological political positions, often extreme and seemingly fanatical supporters of football teams, Brazil and Latin America is in a difficult situation, the economic backwardness can not be accepted by anyone, least of all by an ideological current whatsoever, no we have a clear answer to neoliberalism and not a real breakthrough solution of social issues, a radicalism of brazilian ignorant pseudo-intellectuals.

Great thinkers around the world are concerned about humanity as a whole, the civilizing process is in check a long time, and so the problem is not the fans of Juventus (small team of São Paulo, Brazil), but the world without forgetting local issues of course, a glocal design.
Glocal is what brings a holistic perspective (‘holos’, in greek “All”) local and global levels to building a sustainable society.

 

Pirate Bay returned to the Web

02 Feb

PirataBayAfter numerous lawsuits and arrests, a former director of the Pirate Bay have disabled your blog, now he is in the air again since yesterday, changed the logo pirate ship by the Phoenix.
One of the founders of the site, Peter Sunde, said that the file download via torrent platform was overcome and full of advertisements that did not belong to the domain, and then said the best thing to do was the same decree the end.
Peter Sunde that is no longer part of the team, said the new online community will bring more surprises and should be more efficient than the previous site.
To celebrate the “rebirth” of the site, the pirate ship logo was replaced by the drawing of a phoenix, a legendary bird of Greek mythology, who died when he returned after some time from its own ashes.

 
Around the air was scheduled for early February, but stepped forward, to the delight of users, the site’s domain remains the same and also all original collection of links.
According to the site Torrent Freak, who conducted research on the servers of The Pirate Bay, the number of lost files seems to have been minimal.
Share is a right, like lending a book or a disc, but holders of content business enterprises do not agree with it, and play hard to make the internet also a business territory, but one day this right will be recognized.

 

Golden Globe would change the Oscar 2015?

14 Jan

Maybe yes, the Birdman awarded (led the Golden Globes for best comedy actor and best screenplay), is a radical critiquefilmesOscar2015 the pursuit of “fame” at any price, curiously starring Birdman curiously starring actor Michael Keaton also actor of Batman (1989) Batman Returns (1992) and remember?

There are 10 films nominated for an Oscar, often the best drama at the Golden Globes won the Oscar for Best Picture, but the Academy is double the direct this critical and very well made?

There are 10 movies that are in contention for the Oscar for best picture, “The Grand Hotel Budapest” director Wes Anderson, who spent Birdman in best comedy at the Golden Globes, an Academy would retaliate rewarding Birdman or “Selma” (Golden Globe for best original song), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. a statement of the Academy since it is a rare black director Ava DuVarney, while “Forever Alice” which tells of a patient in early-onset Alzheimer’s (Julianne Moore won the globe for best actress in a drama) and the story of physicist Stephen Hawking on “the theory of everything” (played by Eddie Redmanyne, best actor in a drama), would be a reaffirmation of the Academy.

Have the other awarded a clear critique of American cinema is “Boyhood: From Childhood to the youth.” this is not exactly an anti-hero, but to recover humility in a satire of show business.

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With a small budget, done in 14 years (with the same actors), the producer Jonathan Sehring referred to the director Richard Linklater as: “When he came to us with this project 14 years ago, I said yes, the man has so much humanity.

He is so humble and he dedicated much of his life to this film, “the actors did a movie for long 12 years, to the extent that grew in wisdom and humility.

“The Grand Hotel Budapest” by director Wes Anderson, which was a blow to “Birdman” tells story of a hotel porter involved in a murder and robbery mystery just won a prize at the Globe would be retaliation.

Run aside “The disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” “Interstellar”, “Mr. Tuner “,” How to Train Your Dragon 2 “,” The Imitation Game “(on the precursor of computing Alan Turing),” Invincible “(directed by Angelina Jolie) and Big Eyes (serious biography of the painter Margaret Keane, directed by Tim Burton tomorrow out the list of 10 nominees.

 

Dystopia: discourse and corruption

30 Dec

Barry_LyndonIn the brazilian elections speeches were positive all was well, passed the elections and now goes wrong, go up gasoline, energy and of course the salary of corrupt, that is the dystopia (in Brazil).
Historically the term is connected to totalitarianism systems, authoritarianism, by a large oppressive control of society, shown corruptible easing norms created for the common good where technology is used as a control tool, is the State, whether institutions or even corporations, not by its citizens.
The term appeared the first time in a speech Stuart Mill (also attributed to Gregg Weber in the British Parliament in 1868, he said: “It is probably too flattering to call them utopian, should instead be called dis-topics [‘provisions ‘of the ancient Greek δυσ, translit dys:.’ distress, pain ‘] or shard-topics [‘ Caco ‘, the Greek κακός, translit kakos:. “. Bad, bad’] what is commonly called utopia is too good to be feasible, but what they seem to defend is too bad to be feasible. “
In cinema Stanley Krubick is an expert of dystopias: “A Clockwork Orange”, “The brave new world,” but we can also mention the epic: “Blade Runner”, “Minority Report”, later: “Matrix”, “Children of Men “(2006) and” Black Swan “(2010) and the very recent” Interstellar “(2014).
I’ll see (had read) the film Kubrick “Barry Lyndon” based on the novel of the Indo-British William Thackeray “Barry Lyndon Memories” (1884), which tells of the rise and fall of a penetrates the Irish nobility, while showing the negative face of this nobility.
Any resemblance to our reality is not mere coincidence, gives food for thought.

 

(Português) Levinas e Morin: infinito

25 Nov

Sorry, this entry is only available in Brazilian Portuguese.

 

Exhusted, Framented Politics and networking

31 Oct

PoliticaThe policy we have today in the world and not just here level, was well summarized by Edgar Morin in his book, “Earth Homeland”, showing that the diverse aspects of contemporary life are fragmented and exhausted that includes economics, technical, medicine, biology, etc. and the various manifestations of discontent in the networks are not heard.

Morin says you have to take a “man” who “should take the multidimensionality and all human problems, but without becoming totalitarian” (Morin, 2001, pg. 155).

This policy needs “technicality, of scientism, but should not undergo the specialization system that destroys the global, and the fundamental responsibility” (ibid, pg. 155).

Although numbers are presented by sector, is in overall everything is extremely flawed, there is no indication of change unless what Morin calls himself “providential and religious way, totalitarianism expressed characteristics of contemporary politics that touches all aspects of human life “(ibid, p. 154).

The social media networks are forms of empowerment and answers the absence of a comprehensive policy able to respond to social demands, which also sometimes is subject to manipulation, but it becomes a stronghold for consciousness realize that the absence of a global policy, which makes the harmonic ensemble of the social forces advance.

Morin, E. EarthHomeland: A Manifesto for the New Millennium, Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity and the Human Sciences, 1999.