Federated OpenMicroBlogging/OStatus app/network. (more)

Node.js port of Multi-user SocialCalc (WikiCalc) https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc

Spreadsheet in a Wiki, written by Dan Bricklin (more)

payment system

James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term social capital.[3] He may be considered one of the original neoconservatives in sociology.[4] His work Foundations of Social Theory (1990) influenced countless sociological theories, and his works The Adolescent Society (1961) and "Coleman Report" (Equality of Educational Opportunity, 1966) were two of the most cited books in educational sociology. The landmark Coleman Report helped transform educational theory, reshape national education policies, and it influenced public and scholarly opinion regarding the role of schooling in determining equality and productivity in the United States... In 1966, James Coleman presented a report to the U.S Congress where he presented his findings from his research where he spoke of how to reach a racial balance in public schools. He shared his most controversial findings that poor black children did better academically when integrated into middle-class schools... Coleman's publication of the "Coleman Report" included greatly influential findings that pioneered aspects of the desegregation of American public schools. His theories of integration also contributed. He also raised the issue of narrowing the educational gap between those who had money and others. By creating a well-rounded student body, a student's educational experience can be greatly benefited.[3] With Colemans many shocking findings and conclusions that were drawn from his research, many of the people who were interested and trusted his research including Coleman himself were reluctant to follow them as time passed. Colemans later studies suggested that his methods were failing due to “white flight” from areas in which students were bussed. This caused his intentions to reach racial balance to fail and not bring forth the positive change he had intended when starting the study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Samuel_Coleman

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,[a] and national origin.[4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act "remains one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 (more)

QuietCare is used in multiple settings - there are lots of different places that Senior-s live. (more)

brain-smushing book; widely referred to as GEB ISBN:0-465-02656-7, by Douglas Hofstadter (more)

business strategy book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (more)

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)

re-frame of technical debt as being associated with increasing complexity (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)