Apple Computer ecommerce site for iPod MP3 Player and computer listening (more)

The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc.[2][3] The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about 8+1⁄2 months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released. Apple sold an estimated 450 million iPod products as of 2022. Apple discontinued the iPod product line on May 10, 2022... At Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ direction, hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein recruited Tony Fadell, a former employee of General Magic and Philips, who had a business idea to invent a better MP3 player and build a complementary music sales store... Fadell found support for his project with Apple Computer and was hired by Apple in 2001 as an independent contractor to work on the iPod project, then code-named project P-68.[14] Because most of Apple's engineering manpower and resources were already dedicated to the iMac line, Fadell hired engineers from his startup company, Fuse, and veteran engineers from General Magic and Philips to build the core iPod development team.[11] Time constraints forced Fadell to develop various components of the iPod outside Apple.[11] Fadell partnered with a company called PortalPlayer to design software for the device; this work eventually took shape as the iPod OS... Apple contracted another company, Pixo,[14] to help design and implement the user interface (as well as Unicode, memory management, and event processing[14]) under Jobs' direct supervision... The iTunes Store (introduced April 29, 2003) is an online media store run by Apple and accessed through iTunes. The store became the market leader soon after its launch[70] and Apple announced the sale of videos through the store on October 12, 2005. Full-length movies became available on September 12, 2006.[71] At the time the store was introduced, purchased audio files used the AAC format with added encryption, based on the FairPlay DRM system. Up to five authorized computers and an unlimited number of iPods could play the files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod (more)

Author: Hrefna. FeatherPub is a dialect of ActivityPub that I am toying with creating for a personal project. (more)

From startups to NASA, Deepgram APIs are used to transcribe (transcript) and understand millions of audio minutes each day. Fast, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective.... ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) sucks and it costs too much. So we rebuilt it. We believe we can fundamentally change the way we live and work by unlocking insights trapped in our conversations. We are working to make voice intelligence available to all with faster, more accurate, more scalable speech recognition made possible by end-to-end deep learning. https://deepgram.com/ (more)

Making data visible as passing through the Real World (more)

I'm playing with Deepgram but it's not happy that I still have Python 3.8.x which is fair. (2021-02-07) Migrating to Python3 (on server) coming from (2020-10-02) Setting Up Python On New MacBookPro (more)

Book: Evidence Guided by Itamar Gilad (cf Evidence-Based) (more)

Scott Alexander: Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor. At its best, philosophy is a revolutionary pursuit that dissolves our common-sense intuitions and exposes the possibility of much deeper structures behind them. One can respond by becoming a saint or madman, or by becoming a pragmatist who is willing to continue to participate in human society while also understanding its theoretical limitations. Both are respectable career paths. The problem is when someone chooses to apply philosophical rigor selectively. (more)

Ed Zitron: Software Has Beaten The World. Every single stupid, loathsome, and ugly story in tech is a result of the fundamentally broken relationship between venture capital and technology. And, as with many things, it started with a blog. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Who Should Rule the Product? Recently the product sphere boiled-over over Airbnb’s controversial move to remove product managers from product teams and convert them to product marketing managers. The Airbnb transformation may be a one-of/One-off. (2023-09-09) Itamar Gilad On Linkedin Why Did Airbnb Kill Product Management (more)

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Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: محمد بن سلمان آل سعود, romanized: Muḥammad bin Salmān ʾĀl Su‘ūd; born 31 August 1985), colloquially known by his initials MBS or MbS, is Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. He is also the chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs and the chairman of the Council of Political and Security Affairs. He is considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, being deemed as such even before his appointment as prime minister in 2022. He was minister of defense from 2015 to 2022. He is the seventh son of King Salman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman

Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University,[1] and is a member of the Illinois Bar. Lessig is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election (Presidential Candidates 2016). Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on Copy Right, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon and to share legally. Prior to his most recent appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation; Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig (more)

Ethan Zuckerman: On me, and the Media Lab. A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that implicate Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky in Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes. Joi told me that evening that the Media Lab’s ties to Epstein went much deeper, and included a business relationship between Joi and Epstein, investments in companies Joi’s VC fund was supporting, gifts and visits by Epstein to the Media Lab and by Joi to Epstein’s properties (more)

Why MIT Media Lab thought it was doing right by secretly accepting Jeffrey Epstein’s money. What on earth were they thinking? On Sunday, we got a partial answer via an essay by Larry Lessig. (2019-09-08-LessigOnJoiAndMit) (more)

Larry Lessig: On Joi and MIT. A couple of weeks ago, I signed a petition (the site has since been taken down, but you can see it at archive.org) expressing my support for Joi Ito. Not unexpectedly, that signing produced anger and outrage among many, and among some of my friends. I had wanted, in the spirit of the Net, to respond and explain then. I was asked by Joi’s friends not to. Yesterday’s events terminate that injunction. (more)

Top MIT officials knew of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Media Lab, e-mails show. According to e-mails that circulated in 2014 and 2015 among university officials, at least two top MIT fund-raisers, along with a finance department administrator, were aware of Epstein’s involvement in the Media Lab and knew that his donations were to be treated as anonymous in the university’s donor tracking system. (more)

Justin Peters: The Moral Rot of the MIT Media Lab. The Lab’s leaders weren’t averse to making the world a better place, just as long as the sponsors got what they wanted in the process. (more)

Head of MIT Media Lab faces crisis that tears at lab he helped elevate. Last week, Joi Ito acknowledged that he had extensive personal and professional ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who committed suicide in prison this month while facing federal charges of sex trafficking of underaged girls. (more)

Jorge Arango interviews Dorian Taylor on Christopher Alexander. And I wrote something a while back when I was sort of thinking about like these 15 properties — there are 15 of them — from the perspective of information theory, like they kind of like cluster into three categories. And of course, I’m going to categorize the categories here. One of them is like, it generates information. The other one, it compresses. And then the other one kind of like de-noises, I think? (Nature of Order) (more)