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The art of knowing

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It may seem obvious, but doing so is very unusual and usually has an unexpectedly positive response. Jobs learned it With 12 years, Altman cost a few more years. There are those who will never learn The art of knowing. HP? I need your help With only 12 years, Steve Jobs had nothing better to do with his free time than to build his own frequency counter. However, in 1967, the necessary components to build this device were not in any store and only had access to them the large technology companies. Far from throwing the towel due to the lack of pieces, the preteen Jobs had the audacity to call the office Bill Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard co-founder (HP), and directly ask for the components. As Steve Jobs himself remembered In an interview 1994, Bill Hewlett responded to his surprised call. “I said ‘Hello, my name is Steve Jobs, I am 12 years old, I study at the institute, I am doing a frequency meter and I am missing some pieces, and I wondered if you had plenty of spare parts that I could use,’ he laughed, he gave me the pieces and offered me a summer job mounting frequencimeters in the HP mounting chain. I was in paradise,” Jobs confessed in the video. This early experience not only provided Jobs experience and technical knowledge, he also confirmed that ask for things what do you need can take you to get them. “I never found anyone who didn’t want to help me if I asked for it,” Jobs recalled. Sam Altman’s secret: ask for what he needs Another example of success is Sam Altman, which after many years in the trench of the startups, began to create OpenAi. In his Interview for Bill Gates Podcast Unconfuse meAltman shared one of his most tips important to achieve success: “Ask for whatever you want.” Altman already shared this Council in his popular Decalogue for success “How to Be Successful” he published in 2019 in his personal blog. According to the founding millionaire of Openai, “you will not normally get it, often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it does so surprisingly well,” he said. As Altman himself explained, the secret of this method is that it implies overcoming the fear of expressing your desires openly and directly for fear of rejection or seem insistent, thus self -limiting the success options. Why work for help Although it may seem simple, the disposition of Jobs and Altman to ask for help has psychological roots in which the belief of that oneself have to solve all your problems. A study From the University of Columbia, he studied this psychological block to ask for help, and the researchers concluded that people tend to underestimate the probability (50%) that others access their direct requests for help. Is what is known as Substimation bias. According to this study, help applicants tended to focus more on the instrumental costs of aid, that is, the effort that implies helping, without taking into account The social cost of refusing -the discomfort of saying “no” -, of the person who receives the petition. Social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorsson, in her book ‘Reinforcements: How to get people to help you ‘He explains that a application for clear, specific help and does not put the other person in an awkward position is more likely to be successful. Wayne Baker research, a professor at the University of Michigan, suggests that between 75% and 90% of the aid provided in the work environment begins with a simple request and people who ask for help at work are seen as more competent, no less, as many believe. These people improve their skills and knowledge with what they learned from their classmates. “Most people are willing to even help strangers if they ask for it. The problem is that most people do not ask for what Professor Baker said in An interview for the podcast of Harvard Business Review. Amanda Palmer, author of ‘The art of asking‘, argued in his Ted Talk That we all have the right to ask for what we need. According to the singer and writer, denying someone that right can have negative consequences in their well -being and in their interpersonal relationships. Already be face to facethrough a phone call like Steve Jobs made to Bill Hewlett, an email or a crowdfunding campaign, the key is in overcome fear of rejection and dare to ask What you need. In Xataka | In 2005, Steve Jobs revealed in Stanford the keys to his success. Two decades later, Sam Altman has traced his speech Image | AppleFlickr (Techcrunch), Unspash (Rémi Walle)

The day that United Kingdom invaded Tenerife without knowing what was inside

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Almost all the nations of the old continent have a historical figure in war. However, few as the figure of the vice courage HORATIO NELSONOfficer of the British Royal Navy (Royal Navy) whose name became omnipresent during the contests of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. To get an idea, it is considered one of the greatest naval commanders in history. Everything changed when it arrived in the Canary Islands. He fled. And without an arm. Context: Cádiz and British frustration. To understand how the plan to take the island of Tenerife began we must go back to The Battle of Cabo San Vicente In February 1797. It was a British victory over the Spanish Navy, but failed to completely weaken the enemy fleet. In fact, the Admiral John Jervisfrustrated by The resistance in Cádiz And the difficulties in maintaining an effective block, decided to divert his attention to the south. Destination: Tenerife, a key point on Spanish trade routes with America. Plus: The report that several Spanish ships They transported wealth from the American continent Towards the island he convinced Jervis that a surprise attack on the capital of Santa Cruz could result in an easy victory. Thus, he called and ordered Horathio Nelson to command an expedition with the aim of taking the city and looting his treasures. The game. Nelson’s historical figure entrusted to the mission. The commander left on July 14, 1797 with a powerful squad of 4,000 men and more than 400 cannonscomposed of its HMS toheus flagship and other vessels such as the HMS Culloden, HMS Zealous next to several frigates and auxiliary ships. The plan consisted of a night operation with landing at two strategic pointsfollowed by a final assault against the port. Defensive preparations. It happens that the general lieutenant Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero and Santayanawho had already defeated the British in two previous attempts, anticipated the attack and Fortified Santa Cruz With 91 artillery batteries, regular troops, local militiamen and French sailors captured from the Mutine frigate. Although his strength was less, With 1,700 menthe fortified position of the city gave him a decisive advantage. Nelson portrait The British attack. On July 20, Nelson sent an ultimatum demanding the surrender of the city and threatening its destruction if their demands were not met. Gutiérrez categorically rejected the proposal. Thus, in The night of July 22the British attack began with a first wave of landing on the beach of Valseco, but the strong currents and Spanish fire caused confusion among the attackers. Several boats sank, and the soldiers who managed to reach the ground were easy white for Spanish artillery. Seeing the failure, Nelson ordered the withdrawal of this first incursion. Determined to take Santa Cruz, Nelson devised A second assaultthis time led by himself. At 10:30 pm on July 24, he directed A flotilla of 700 men towards the port with the hope of surprising the defenders. However, the Spanish sentries detected the maneuver and gave the alarm. At 11:00 pm, an intense rain of cannon shots and musket shot fell on the British, who met their wet and unused ammunition. The arm. Here is one of the most notable facts of the battle due to the importance of the character. Nelson, who had just landed on the beach, was reached by A cannon shot In the right arm. Seriously injured, his stepson, Lieutenant Nisbet, made an improvised tourniquet and took him back to HMS tohels. Once on board, the surgeon He amputated his arm and the remains were thrown into the sea. Nelson, frustrated and weakened, was removed from combat. Canarian resistance. Meanwhile, the British who managed to disembark on the beach of the butchers tried to take the city, capturing the convent of the consolation. What happened? Who were surrounded and harassed by Cross fire from strengths And the roofs of the houses, where citizens joined the defense shooting at the invaders. The British managed to momentarily block access to the port, but without support from the sea and with many casualties, they realized that they were trapped. Toubridge, the British commander in command after the withdrawal of Nelson, threatened to set the entire city on fire if they were not allowed to retire with honor. Gutiérrez, experienced military, refused to give in to intimidation and increased bombing About the besieged British. The surrender. In the early hours of July 25, seeing that there was no escape, Toubridge requested a truce. Gutierrez, in a gesture that historians have always defined as of gentlemenityhe agreed to negotiate and allowed the British to retire with military honors, on condition that they did not attack Tenerife or the Canary Islands. The final figures threw a clear winner: the Spaniards lost only 30 men, while The British suffered 250 dead and 128 injured. Gutiérrez even lent ships to the British to transport their wounded soldiers back to England. Beer and cheese. In fact, in an unusual courtesy exchange in times of war, Nelson sent a letter of thanks to Gutiérrez, apparently accompanied by English beer and cheese. Gutiérrez replied by sending him Spanish wine and cheese. Despite the friendly gesture, Nelson never forgot that humiliation suffered in Tenerife, a battle that later I would describe how “The most horrible hell I’ve ever endured.” Impact and legacy. This was folded to a story that could have changed the Canary Islands flag. The Defeat in Santa Cruz de Tenerife It marked the end of British ambitions in the islands. The Royal Navy never tried to invade Tenerife, and the victory strengthened Spanish morality at a crucial moment of the United Kingdom. Since then, in Santa Cruz the battle is commemorated every year The recreation of the deed of July 25, in which actors dressed in replicas of the uniforms of the time recreate the confrontation. With a lower army in number and resources, Gutiérrez and his troops showed that strategic resistance and knowledge of the land could even impose himself on the most … Read more

a car capable of throwing a drone without us knowing very well why

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Since childhood, I feel a curious obsession with cinema cars and small screen. Kitt –The fantastic car– I don’t seem so science fiction anymore if we consider that we already have cars that are controlled with the voicebut the Aston Martin by James Bond They keep hallucinating. Not so much for the beauty of the different models that we have seen over the years, but for the amount of gadgets they incorporate, as well as the gates that open to launch something or show a weapon. Like the car that tells us, that of deploying a gadget from the car ceases to be fiction because Byd has just presented something, as little, curious: a line of cars that are capable of transporting and displaying a drone. One of DJI, to be more concrete. We have already seen some Chinese cars who are betting on crazy ideas that combine cars and dronesbut what Byd has just presented is something much more tangible. The big question is … What do we want to throw a drone from the car? Shuttle car Lingyuan We are going to start with what the company has presented. In a releaseByd has presented Lingyuan, a system designed to achieve a total integration of drone into the vehicle. The system is like a ceiling chest that has location and guidance sensors, as well as a gate that opens and from which drone can deploy. Don’t tell me it’s not movie. This “heliport” can be in that kind of ceiling chest, but in larger vehicles the company comments that it can be integrated directly into the upper part of the vehicle, which, we assume, would compromise somewhat less the aerodynamics of it. The system has been designed so that the height of the vehicle does not exceed 2.05 meters and, for the moment, there are two versions. On the one hand, Lingyuan Battery Swap Edition for Yangwang models, byd’s luxury brand. This pack equips the DJI Mavic 3 And it is the highest range option. For denza and byd cars, the name is Lingyuan Fast Charging Edition that incorporates a DJI Air 3s. Wang Chuanfu, president of Byd, commented that “the collaboration between Byd and DJI goes far beyond the simple placement of a drone in a car. Instead, we have developed the entire integration system from scratch, designing and developing it to achieve a perfect fusion between the vehicle and drone. This advance offers a synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ” These drones They can take off with the car in progress At a speed of up to 25 km/Hy we can order that the vehicle follow at a speed of up to 54 km/h. On the other hand, they also load at the station, being able to recover from 20% to 80% in half an hour. I recreate and … anything else? The goal of ByD is that this movement is a first step to boost the industrialization and large -scale adoption of intelligent drone systems in cars, but as we said some paragraphs ago, the big question is why we would want something like that. In the statement, everything focuses on creativity. The arch in which the drone goes has a wide angle camera with 4K resolution that can record next to the drone camera to have a double perspective and the Lingyuan application has a tool to edit those videos with algorithms that automate the process if we want it and a repertoire of 30 templates. The brand wants us to record “our vehicle adventures” with a stupid ease. However, I can think of two more interesting and everyday uses. If we go on an adventure on roads that we do not know, stop and launch the drone can be great to explore the area. And, if it were a lighter drone or could fly in the city, it seems to me a tremendous function to look for parking. Of course, for now, this technology is only available in Continental China and the brand has not spoken about the launch of the platform in other countries. Images | Byd In Xataka | The first flying electric car is already here (the only problem is that it is neither a car nor fly)

Every day thousands of people make fun without knowing about an empire when they have breakfast. THE RESPONSIBLE: THE COUPASAN

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If something has demonstrated over the centuries, gastronomy is that kitchens serve more than elaborate tasty dishes. In the heat of their stoves they usually curdle culinary traditions, legends and mythslike the one that explains that every time we have breakfast a crucisan we are actually participating in a war. Because? Because with that seemingly innocent gesture we make fun of the defeat of one of the empires more influential of history. We explain ourselves. Cruasanos and wars? Yes. The relationship may sound a bit strange, but it comes with Google to find dozens of Blogsforums, magazines and Diaries that tell the same story: how the cross was created to commemorate the defeat of the Ottoman in Vienna at the end of the 17th century. To be more precise, the frustrated siege of the city by the great vizier Kara Mustafa which resulted in Kahlenberg battle and marked the beginning of the Ottoman decline in Europe. A great victory, a great cake to celebrate it. An epic story. There are war deeds that inspire poems, songs, operas, movies, paintings, novels; But … a cake? Why commemorate the siege of a city with a bun that thousands of people have breakfast throughout the world? The answer is quite simple: The legend He says that the Viennese pastries played a key role in the Ottoman defeat of 1683, so the guild wanted to celebrate it as best knew, kneading and baking mass. Of plots and noctámbulos. The story is of course worthy of the great romantic chronicles. Desperate to take Vienna, around 1683 the Ottomans began to think about ways to mock the fortification of the city. Some versions They say they decided to do so by excavating an underground gallery. Others, which set out to open tunnels to Place mines. In any case, the legend tells that, to dodge the vigilance of the Viennese, the Ottomans worked at night, among Quinqués and the moonlight, while their enemies slept. What the Muslims did not tell is that not all the residents of Vienna got into bed at night. There was a guild who worked every day from the sunset to dawn and ended up listening to the noise that the soldiers made with their peaks and shovels, which allowed him to alert the authorities and repel the enemy attack. What noctámbulos guild was that? Correct: The bakers. And the ‘Larousse’ of 1938 arrived. That this romantic dyes has reached us is explained for two reasons: centuries of oral tradition and the pen of the French chef Posper Montagnéwho in 1938 published an iconic work of universal cuisine, the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. In addition to explaining how the crossings are elaborated, in its pages the scholar recounts the origin of the cake, echoing a version similar to the Viennese legend of the seventeenth century. In the work (at least in which it can Consult online) Montagné tells a similar story, although he places the plot during The Buddha site In 1686, not in the siege of Vienna of 1683. “The Turks besieged the city and to reach their hearts they excavated underground galleries. Some bakers, who worked at night, heard the noise made by the Turks and gave the alarm,” He recounts. But … why is it a mockery? Simple. Because when creating their new commemorative cake the Viennese pastries noticed A symbol From Islam: The growing moon. It is also explained by Montágne’s encyclopedia: “To reward the bakers who had saved the city, they were given the privilege of making a special cake that, in memory of the emblem that decorated the Ottoman flag, had to be shaped like a crescent,” duck The gastronomic encyclopedia. In summary: the new cake served to celebrate the Christian resistance and endurance of the city … and incidentally mocked the Ottoman forces. As Collect National Geographicwhen a Vienne devour one of those tasty cakes that emulated a moon really “ate the Turks.” The story was curious. The story, powerful. And for more inri it appeared ratified in a work of the prestige of the ‘Larousse Gastronomique’. So what was expected to be expected: the myth extended, gained strength and made the crosss become more than simple pastry. In their own way, they became a symbol. But is it true? The million dollar question. If gastronomy is good (in addition to satisfying palates), it is to create Myths and traditions of rigor more than questionable. Italian cuisine, Spanish either Japanese (To name only three examples) leave a few examples. And the Viennese legend of the Cruasan seems to be only that: a legend of truthfulness at least difficult to check. With you, the Kipferl. The story tells that the city’s bosoms elaborated two commemorative breads of the victory: the Kaiseremmela kind of “imperial panecillo”; and Kipferlwith a crescent -shaped. That this is the origin of what we understand today is however more than questionable, Remember From the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE). “He Kipferla baked panecillo from a dough of wheat with yeast, is common in central Europe, ” Clarifies the institution in his blog, in which he remembers that there are records that suggest that he Kipferl He ate already in the thirteenth century. Moreover, there are those who believe that their origins are older and more sweet in a similar way they can be seen in Magreb (Tchareke) or Türkiye itself, where the Ay çöreği. History and stories. “It’s almost certain that these stories are false,” assures Austrian chef Jürgen David. In fact they can be found Other stories that also relate the invention of the Capuchino with the Ottoman siege of Vienna. The popular Dunkin breakfast chain It echoes On its website for the legend that maintains that the famous coffee, with its characteristic color (similar to the habit of the Capuchin friars) it was first served in Vienna after its citizens found the sacks of coffee that the Ottoman had left behind. If true, the breakfast with which thousands of Europeans start their … Read more

Tired of people talking about the end of the world without knowing, Newton decided to calculate it. And he explained it in a letter of 1704

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By 1665 the bubonic plague arrived in London in a cotton ship from Amsterdam. In the following years, between overcrowding, dirt, hunger and rats, they would die More than one hundred thousand people In the country. In August, the great plague arrived in Cambridge and forced the university to close. It was then that a very young Isaac Newton had to return to Woolshorpe Manor, the family home. Over there, According to a probably fraudulent traditionsat down one of the three apple trees of the farm and the blow of one of the fruits brought to mind the theory of gravity. We do not know if the craniocerebral trauma produced by the happy apple was also responsible for everything that came in the last part of his life. Sir Isaac Newton was not any. On the one hand, Newton was, in fact, an intellectual giant. “The greatest scientific brain that the world has known,” According to Asimov; the person responsible for that “perhaps the greatest advance of thought that a single individual has ever done”, According to Albert Einstein. “Nature and its laws were hidden at night; God said ‘that Newton’ becomes and made the light,” he says Alexander Pope’s famous epitaph. On the other, it was someone complicated – especially after The nervous breakdown he suffered in 1693. The most controversial example is its passage through the house of La Moneda de England (a stage of your life Full of torture, hanging and dismembered falsifiers); However, a brief review of his personal life and friendship gives good account of it. But what interests us today is that he was passionate about the Bible. It is estimated that more than half of what Newton wrote It had to do with theology and alchemy; And, as a good mathematician, one of the themes that worried him most was the end of the world. The end of the world? Yes, at that time (remember that The English revolution had just “finished”) Religious debates were in the flower. And the end of the world was a usual issue in public conversation. But Newton was convinced that people did it wrong. Lincolnshire’s genius analyzed the biblical text (And, specifically, Daniel’s book and the Apocalypse) and concluded that people were exaggerating the closeness of the end of the world. And gave a date? Yes and no. As Newton seems to identify the year 800 d. C. as the moment when the Church entered the “great apostasy.” This is a key date in the texts and, from there, he deduced that there was no reason to think that before 1260 years the apocalypse arrived. That means that We are relatively safe until 2060. Because, as he said “he may end later, but I don’t see any reason for him to end before.” But did he really think he was going to end the world? According to Stephen Snobelen, professor at the King’s College University of Halifax (Nueva Scotia) that has studied the matterNewton did not believe that the world would end in a literal sense. “For Newton, 2060 AD would be rather a new beginning. It would be the end of an ancient era, and the beginning of a new era: the era to which the Jews refer as the messianic era and the era to which Christians premillennials call the millennium or kingdom of God “, Snobelen defended. Obviously, we are not faced with weight to think that the apocalypse is just around the corner. But knowing The close we are from the end of the worldwe can take all this as an invitation to take advantage of the moment. Image | Godfrey Kneller In Xataka | When Newton reached the fundamental laws of physics there was already a sign that said “Leonardo was here”

60 -minute matches, without South Koreans and without knowing who wins

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If finally Kim Yong’s dreams are fulfilled and North Korea becomes a kind of Asian Benidormthe first foreign tourists who arrive can take some surprise. For example, if they sit on a terrace to take something and expect to see an international football match, it will be difficult for them to see the Spanish or the Italian league. There you only see the Premier League, although in its own way. Devotion for the Premier. It The Guardian counted this week in a report. For a country so suspicious of external influences As is North Korea, the nation seems unable to resist the attractiveness of football, and expressly of the Premier League of England, the most watched sport (and one of the few) on the country’s television screens. The result, as we will see, is a “medium” and little legal access to the parties, a viewing marked by strong restrictions, censorship and a significant delay in the transmissions, as detailed in An analysis of site 38 North. Delays and modifications. To start, Premier League broadcasts on North Korean television They are not live and are usually transmitted with considerable delay. For example, the first broadcast of the 2024-25 season began on January 13, with a match between the Ipswich and the Liverpool that had been played … 150 days before. There are more. The footage of each party is edited and reduced from the original 90 minutes one houreliminating pauses and politically inconvenient moments, whether advertising or other signal that the regime does not approve. Besides, Any graphic in English is replaced by signs in Koreanand the logos of foreign chains are blurred to hide their origin. Yes indeed, The Guardian told That, although in the past censorship came to hide advertising in the stadiums, this practice seems to have been abandoned. Another peculiarity is that The full season is not broadcast. In the 2023-24 season, for example, only 21 games were issued, and these were repeated in a loop on multiple occasions. In other words, the lack of a complete calendar prevents North Korean viewers know who wins the leaguesince the parties are not transmitted in chronological order. They leave that to the imagination of the spectators. No trace of the neighbor. The ideological filter of the Kim Jong-un regime is also reflected in the selection of the matches that are issued. The teams where South Korean soccer players play, such as Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), the super star are heung-min (Tottenham) or Kim Ji-Soo (Brentford), They do not appear in programming. Like the regime Consider South Korea its “hostile state number one”any reference to its athletes is excluded. And it is not new. This censorship has already been applied in previous tournaments. During the 2022 World Cup, KCTV transmitted all matches a few hours late, except the three matches of the group stage of South Korea and the confrontation between the United States and Wales. Of course, the regime did not hesitate to Show the elimination of South Korea at the hands of Brazil. And in the 2023 Asian Women’s Tournament, the North Korean TV graphics labeled South Korean players as “puppets.” And how do you access the North Korea signal? The nation It does not have the emission rights of the Premier League or the Champions, Which implies that the issuance of these parties should be a violation of international sanctions directed against the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The truth is that In the report it is not clear how KCTV obtains the recordingsbut it is presumed that it is material without license. In fact, in the past, North Korea also transmitted matches of the leagues of England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, but Since 2023 he has reduced his approach to the Premier League, the Champions League and the World Cup. Soccer and propaganda. Although North Korean state television is dominated by News with revolutionary tone, war films and propaganda on the Kim dynastyfootball continues to represent one of the few moments of entertainment without an explicit ideological message. An obsession with football in the nation that is not new. North Korea reached the quarterfinals of the 1966 World Cup After beating Italy in a historic party, and His female team has won the U-20 World Cup up to three times. So, despite censorship and restrictions, football is still an escape valve for North Korean viewers. Even if they never get to know the Premier League champion. Image | (Stephan)38 North In Xataka | Kalma is the first real effort of North Korea to become a holiday place. For now only for Russians In Xataka | As the rent is crazy, a man devised a plan in a hotel in New York. He paid the first night and stayed for free five years

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