The Talk Show

‘I Do Feel the Pea’, With Special Guest Guy English

Saturday, 27 August 2016

Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.

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Links:

• WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester.
• Tim Cook’s excellent interview in The Washington Post.
• Jan Dawson: “Five Years of Tim Cook’s Apple in Charts”.
• Steven Levy: “An Exclusive Inside Look at How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Work at Apple”.
• Levy’s excellent books, The Perfect Thing (about the iPod) and In the Plex (about Google’s inner workings).
• Andy Hertzfeld’s book on the development of the original Macintosh, Revolution in the Valley, and the website with much of the same source material, Folklore.org.
• Yours truly: “Vesper, Adieu”.
• Brent Simmons: “Last Vesper Update”, “More Notes on Vesper”, and “Why Vesper Didn’t Start as a Web App”.
• Yours truly: “Apple and the Pistol Emoji”.
• Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
• “The High and the Flighty” — classic Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn short.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.