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Goodbye Steve, great man.

October 6, 2011 – 7:09 pm

Bye great Man

I’ve been following Steve’s vicissitudes since 98% of the people i know didn’t even know what Apple was.

Today a cycle, a phase of my life ended. IT and the Internet are not that great frontier anymore, that something esoteric, but a sort of household appliance. Also thanks to Steve, also because of Steve.

I remember i damn wanted a Mac, but my budget allowed me to buy a Commodore 64 instead (but i’ll have loved it anyway!). I still can see that shopping windows with that 512k making a fine show of itself.

And then, suddenly, came my first Powerbook and Ipod (2003 at last!) and so on.

I already wrote about Steve’s vision of Life and today thousands of people are copying+pasting his words into their e-walls, so there’s nothing much more to say except for “Goodby Steve, great man”.

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Local maxima – Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

October 26, 2009 – 1:17 pm

Local maximum

Today i’d like to give a flash about an Artificial Intelligence concept wich is, in my opinion, very Zen.

Say you’re on the top of the hill (or near it), but if you can’t afford it, cope with it, it’s like watching tv on your sofa while a fire is burning down the house.

Well, maybe you are likely to be on the wrong hill!

Think about Steve Jobs’ Commencement address delivered on June 12, 2005.

‘You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life‘

In computer science, hill climbing is a mathematical optimization technique which belongs to the family of local search. It is relatively simple to implement, making it a popular first choice. Although more advanced algorithms may give better results, in some situations hill climbing works just as well. read more »

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