mamund

mekkaokereke, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday, Xavier Worthy ran a 40 in 4.21 seconds, setting a new NFL combine record. That is really fast!

Xavier:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1xhUAMEA2E

But then NFL commentators said that he's faster than Usain Bolt, because Bolt ran a 4.22, and just... No.🤡

Usain Bolt ran the 40 in 4.22 in his late 30s, after he retired, without training, in sweatpants and street shoes!🤯

Bolt:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADoySgg-njI

A top track athlete running a 40 properly, gets a time closer to 4.12

Coleman:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_yoRayOIA

mamund, 1 day ago to random

‘Tis but a Scratch: Does TypeSpec Reignite the Specification Wars?

https://nordicapis.com/tis-but-a-scratch-does-typespec-reignite-the-specification-wars/

"TypeSpec is an attempt to combine the design-first and code-first worlds into something that works across both methodologies and reduces cognitive load for designers. ... The TypeSpec approach also means a general decrease in complexity, which, for Microsoft, eases its use across the organization." -- #ChrisWood

#api360 #apiDesign #typeSpec

mamund, 5 months ago to llm

ELIZA Effect: Why We Fall in Love With AI

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/eliza-effect-ai/

"Users quickly attribute human-like characteristics to artificial systems, which reflect their personality back to them. This phenomenon is called the ELIZA effect." -- #CalebSponheim

#LLM #genAI #theMind

mamund, 8 months ago to random

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

https://www.cio.com/article/648023/the-hardest-part-of-building-software-is-not-coding-its-requirements.html

"This article will talk about the relationship between requirements and software, as well as what an AI needs to produce good results." -- #JaredToporek

#gen_ai #api360 #CIO

mamund, 10 months ago to random

Wheels down at SFO.

the city of cable cars, sea lions, and silicon.

#mcaTravels

mamund, 8 months ago to ChatGPT

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

"'Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose,' the team's paper concluded. 'Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well-articulated language style.' Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong." -- #ThomasClaburn

#api360 #chatGPT #programming

mamund, 3 months ago to advice

February is unsubscribe month.

take the time each day this month to clean out your email subscriptions to reduce clutter and improve your own helath and welfare.

#advice #email #productivity

mamund, 1 month ago to internet

35 years after first proposing the World Wide Web, what does its creator Tim Berners-Lee have in mind next?

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/35-years-after-first-proposing-the-world-wide-web-what-does-its-creator-tim-berners-lee-have-in-mind-next-inrupt

"After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again." -- #TimDanton

#WWW #internet #timbl

mamund, 21 days ago to UX

AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-design-tools-not-ready/

"Our research and evaluation shows that there are currently few design-specific AI tools that meaningfully enhance UX design workflows." -- #CalebSponheim #MeganBrown

#api360 #UX #DX

mamund, 1 month ago to random

OAuth: "grant" vs "flow" vs "grant type"

https://aaronparecki.com/2024/03/29/3/oauth-terminology

"Is it called an OAuth 'grant' or a 'flow'? What about 'grant type'?" -- #AaronParecki

#api360 #apiSecurity #OAuth

mamund, 9 months ago to random

New psychology research indicates that social rigidity is a key predictor of cognitive rigidity

https://www.psypost.org/2023/07/new-psychology-research-indicates-that-social-rigidity-is-a-key-predictor-of-cognitive-rigidity-166284

"The study, published in Psychological Research, provides evidence that people who embrace rigid political and social attitudes tend to perform worse on tests of problem-solving abilities." -- #EricWDolan

#theMind

mamund, 9 months ago to random

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

"The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields, so I’m certain that this reimplementation of a psychic’s con is entirely accidental." -- #BaldurBjarnason

#gen_ai #theMind

mamund, 8 months ago to ai

Cruise Blames Outside Lands For Stalled Robotaxis in San Francisco

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/13/cruise-north-beach-stalled-robotaxis-aaron-peskin/

"As many as a dozen stalled Cruise autonomous vehicles blocked streets in San Francisco's North Beach and near this weekend's Outside Lands music festival, snarling traffic and frustrating riders barely a day after state regulators voted to allow the unlimited expansion of robotaxi companies." -- #GeorgeKelly #SFStandard

#autonomousVehicles #RoboTaxi #AI

mamund, 7 months ago to random

Tim O’Reilly on AI’s Role in the Attention Economy

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-conversations-in-ai/tim-oreilly-on-the-attention-economy/

"[A]fter decades of analyzing patterns at the intersection of technology and the economy, [O'Reilly] believes [AI] offers a new, and more productive, way to engage with endless content."

#gen_ai #attentionEconomy

mamund, 6 months ago to random

The No. 1 key to a happier, longer life "that younger people don’t" know, according to the oldest and "wisest" Americans

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/06/no-1-key-to-a-happier-longer-life-according-to-the-oldest-americans-i-wish-i-knew-this-in-my-30s.html

"And the biggest regret they had? Worrying about things that never happened: “Worrying wastes your life,” one respondent said." -- #SHANE_A_PARRISH

#theMind #theBody

mamund, 9 months ago to random

Humans will trade pain for useless information

https://www.science.org/content/article/humans-will-trade-pain-useless-information

"This willingness to endure pain in exchange for noninstrumental information may stem from a deep-seated aversion to uncertainty, Bode says — to the point that some people are willing to go through physical discomfort for a few scraps of solid information." -- #PHIE_JACOBS

#theMind

mamund, 8 months ago to math

Unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics discovered

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230808/Unexpected-link-between-pure-mathematics-and-genetics-discovered.aspx

"[T]he team of researchers (from Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, GUST, MIT, Imperial, and the Alan Turing Institute) have discovered a deep connection between the sums-of-digits function from number theory and a key quantity in genetics, the phenotype mutational robustness."

#math #nature #genetics

mamund, 9 months ago to random

Germany’s Ivy raises €7 million to ‘build a better payments world’ with its global API for instant bank payments

https://tech.eu/2023/07/15/germanys-ivy-raises-eur7-million-to-build-a-better-payments-world-with-its-global-api-for-instant-bank-payments/

"Ivy's solution allows merchants to accept instant bank payments at checkout, cutting out card transactions and speeding up the process" -- #FionaAlston #techEU

#api360 #payments #finTech

mamund, 19 days ago to ai

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai are now begging governments to regulate the A.I. forces they’ve unleashed

https://fortune.com/2023/05/23/openai-sam-altman-google-sundar-pichai-begging-governments-regulate-a-i/

"Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone was prepared for -- and it's starting to scare people." -- #PRARTHANA_PRAKASH

#genAI #AI #AGI

mamund, 1 month ago to internet

Computer Networks - The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (Arpanet, 1972)

https://archive.org/details/ComputerNetworks_TheHeraldsOfResourceSharing

Ini 1972, Bob Kahn was "arranging for a professional film crew to create a thirty-minute-long 16mm movie explaining the Arpanet, complete with an electronic-synthesizer soundtrack to set an appropriately futuristic mood." -- #MichaelWaldrop in "The Dream Machine (2001)

#internet #arpanet #history

mamund, 3 months ago to programming

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

"If we see ‘lines of code’ as ‘lines spent’, then when we delete lines of code, we are lowering the cost of maintenance. Instead of building re-usable software, we should try to build disposable software." -- #tef

#api360 #systems #programming

mamund, 27 days ago to TierraSapiens

#ErikWilde (@dret) and I have been delivering our #APIMforDevs workshop. The discussion topic of #Versioning comes up and, though we only touch on it in the workshop, here's a pointer to my #Substack ("The Modifiability Problem") https://buff.ly/3JDNSAW

Here's my #video on the subject, too: https://buff.ly/49Xy6vE

#api360

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mamund, 14 days ago to space

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

"So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS." -- #NaomiHartono

#nasa #software #voyager

mamund, 2 months ago to random

What Are the Core Principles of Good API Design?

https://thenewstack.io/what-are-the-core-principles-of-good-api-design/

"An API should be easy to learn and write to, and hard to misuse. Your API will also need to evolve, and a good design takes this into account." -- #CharlesHumble

#api360 [#apiDesign #theNewStack