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October 17, 2020
Three Halloween Stories
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Three Halloween Stories

Halloween is coming! This year we propose you a challenge: three stories. One of them is real, another one is folklore and the third one is completely made-up. Are you able to tell them apart?   History number 1: A Second Chance. Giuseppe, the local barber of Craco, Italy, [..]
July 30, 2020
Life is a game
Is literature doomed? Are movies doomed? In the future, maybe no one will read or watch a movie, but they will play a game instead. It's game over for books and movies
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Game over for books and movies

Is literature doomed? Are movies doomed? In the future, maybe no one will read or watch a movie, but they will play a game instead. Video games are considered an inferior form of art, but maybe they’re just an emerging form of art. Humanity really craves entertainment. Here you [..]
June 15, 2020
Neo and Morpheus talk about the Oracle
Oracles are a very important part of smart contracts, which are a very important part of blockchains, especially ethereum
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Is DeFi the new bitcoin?

No site about technology can be complete without a study of one of the most important breakthroughs in tech in history. That’s blockchain. In 2017 there was a huge bubble, followed by a huge burst. The burst was so big that many people, including many pundits, shrugged the technology [..]
June 3, 2020
Infographic about posts lengths on different social networks
Infographic about posts lengths on different social networks
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Do you want to innovate? Make things shorter!

In 1440, Gutenberg invented the printing press. The average length of a printed book is half a million characters, and the book with more prints is the King James Bible, with a staggering amount of  3,116,480 characters. Things didn’t change for many years. When the 20th century was ending, [..]
April 24, 2020
Vote for me
He is a son of P'ow
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Why math is hard and gossip is pleasurable

Or why you are probably smarter than your boss. Or why your political representative is never prepared for a crisis. There are two ways of confronting the world: the first one is trying to understand it; the second one is to climb the social ladder so you have power [..]
March 21, 2020
Sixteen parallel universes described as two possible states of four Schrödinger's cats. While the boxes are closed, the cats are half alive and half dead and we know only when we open the boxes. In that moment, we choose one of sixteen alternatives
Sixteen parallel universes described as two possible states of four Schrödinger's cats. While the boxes are closed, the cats are half alive and half dead and we know only when we open the boxes. In that moment, we choose one of sixteen alternatives
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Taking a peek at the infinite

Exponential functions are a way to look at the infinite. No human can comprehend how an exponential function grows; if you don’t believe me, here are a few examples. The first one would be the most famous one: the king who wanted to reward the inventor of chess with [..]
March 4, 2020
Unix has less virus infections than Windows
Unix has less known viruses than Windows
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What Unix can tell you about coronavirus

The spreading of viruses in computer ecosystems can teach us some lessons on how to fight coronavirus. A human virus is radically different than a computer virus, but if we look at them from a certain point of view, there are some similarities. What is that point of view? [..]
February 14, 2020
Insufficiently Advanced Technology - Very Complicated Stuff
Insufficiently Advanced Technology - Very Complicated Stuff
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Very silly stuff

At Very Complicated Stuff we have a goofy side. These are a few of the jokes/memes/videos/promotional material we have created in the last months. These have been published previously, mainly on our Facebook page, so we could say it’s Very Compilated Stuff (rimshot).   Many people don’t understand bitcoin, [..]
January 29, 2020
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The 7 greatest inventions of the (next) decade

  We are facing a change of decade. It’s time to go over the great inventions that change our lives, not always for the better. But, wait, we’re not talking about the past decade, but the next one. Remember 2010? There were no iPads, you could still buy a [..]
January 8, 2020
Reverso vs Dr. Heat
Superhero Reverso fights against his nemesis, Dr. Heat
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Computers of the future – Reversible computing

As Moore’s Law approaches its end, we’re going to need some creativity if we want to keep on moving. Can reversible computers be the answer? In 1965, Gordon Moore, CEO of Intel, noticed that computer science was advancing really fast. The brain of computers are microprocessors and, within those, [..]
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