My Blogs
Traveling with Sofia -- In viaggio con Sofia
In English and Italian. In Italiano e Inglese.
A photographic travelogue in the Southwest -- Un racconto di viaggio fotografico negli stati del sud-ovest.
In English. A blog about photography, life, and other wonders.
From a recent post:
The Gift: ...I walked into the sacred cave and I saw her. A young girl, she must have been thirteen, if at all. Dark eyes, as dark as a night without moon. Her look transfixed, looking beyond everything, beyond me, beyond the rocks of this cave, beyond this island, beyond the sea....
The Voice in the Machine
A blog inspired by my book The Voice in the Machine. Speech recognition is one of the main themes, but also language understanding and machine intelligence in general.
From a recent post:
Musings on Semantics: W. Brian Arthur, in his book The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, describes the evolution of technology as a combinatorial process. Each new technology consists in a combination of existing technologies that “beget further technologies.” Moreover, each technology springs from the harnessing of one or more physical, behavioral, mathematical, or logical principles that constitute its foundation...
Pensieri da oltre oceano
Un blog in italiano, con storie e considerazioni di un italiano che vive in America.
Da un post recente:
A casa a Berkeley, California: ...Vivo adesso sulla costa Ovest degli Stati Uniti, cioè la costa di sinistra, dopo aver passato più di vent’anni sulla costa Est, cioè quella di destra. Come il dice il detto falsamente attribuito a Kurt Vonnegut: vivi almeno una volta a New York, ma vattene prima di diventare troppo duro; vivi almeno una volta a San Francisco, ma vattene prima di diventare troppo tenero ...