Despite the joyful celebration of what has certainly been an outstanding achievement of humanity´s smartest minds, the recent launch of a diversity of programs of generative artificial intelligence, many experts, leaders of the top AI companies, such as Open AI, Deep Mind, Anthropic, together with members of the academia and intellectual circles, as in a…
Joseph Conrad publica su novella Heart of Darkness en 1899. En su brevedad y su mirada desencantada se asemeja a La Muerte en Venecia de Thomas Mann, ambas envuelven al lector en un argumento que los asoma a la boca de dos abismos a los que se pueden acercar los hombres (extraviados por la codicia,…
“There is always, as I said, only one reality” the driver repeated slowly, as if underlining an important passage in a book. Published by Haruki Murakami in three volumes between 2009 and 2010, 1Q84 is an enveloping novel that gradually reveals its multiple meanings to the reader, as if each meaning were a layer of…
In his posthumous book of essays, Six Proposals for the Next Millennium (1989), the Italian novelist and essayist Italo Calvino dedicated the first of five essays (he died before writing the sixth essay) to Lightness. There Calvino argues that lightness should be preferred to weight (and his metaphor, gravity): [M]y work has consisted more often…
There are those who choose mentors just to then invent the traits of the character they shall become, passionately modeling and shaping these traits with unlikely tools. In the crime literature, an outstanding character that successfully accomplishes such a transformation is Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s legendary character first introduced in The Talented Mr Ripley (published in…
“So, again my friends, everything is caveat emptor in the Universe” says one day the Commendatore, a tiny but intimidating two feet height being that seems to have come out of a cereal box, when he was talking with the narrator of Killing Commendatore (1). This 681 page book, the fourteenth novel by Haruki Murakami,…
(No leer si no se ha visto la película) En estos tiempos de cuarentena global para frenar el avance de esta cruel pandemia, me he topado con la película El Hoyo (2019), cuya trama hace referencia a una cruda y cruel distopía futura de rasgos kafkianos que es la opera prima del director español…
TRATAMIENTOS En el presente post, se identifican algunos de los tratamientos contra el COVID-19 que equipos de científicos en todo el mundo están probando, en muchos casos iniciando pruebas clínicas de fase I, II o III para recoger evidencia sólida sobre su eficacia y seguridad. La búsqueda de tratamientos para el COVID-19 es una actividad…
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