Articulos de Daniel Pratt

Ex-editor panfletonegro.com - ex-poeta, ex-artista callejero, ex-desarrollador, ex-ciudadano, ex-geek.

Futurity.org – Why computers crash but we don’t

The reason living organisms tend to malfunction less than computers may have something to do with the way software engineers create control systems—compared to nature’s approach. Both E. coli and the Linux networks are arranged in hierarchies, but with some notable differences in how they achieve operational efficiencies. The molecular networks in the bacteria are […]

Como en un Aleph de pesadilla | Hector Torres

Su rutina diaria es pedir dinero en el Metro. Nominalmente, porque tiene un ojo prodigioso para las partes blandas. Nadie como él para notar una lonchera descuidada, un blackberry a tiro, un cierre de cartera discretamente abierto. El hambre inagotable es el más ardiente de los estímulos. Un diálogo íntimo de poderosos instintos en el […]

How to Build a Monument to Nazi Evil Without Celebrating It | Fast Company

These were some of the most evil 11 acres in Germany, a place where Nazi leaders hatched plans to terrorize millions as casually as you might send an email. Heinrich Himmler had an office there. So did Adolf Eichmann, the «architect of the Holocaust.» It was there that, in a matter of months, German democracy […]