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mamund, 6 months ago to evolution

Research demonstrates the power of rhythm as a design element in evolution and robotics

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-power-rhythm-element-evolution-robotics.html

"As the internet quickly fills with viral videos of futuristic robots darting and racing around like the animals they're built to mimic, Duke researchers say that there's an element of their movement's programming that should not be overlooked: rhythm." -- #DukeUniversity

#theBody #evolution #robotics

mamund, 6 months ago to random

Seriously, Write Your API Spec First

https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/seriously-write-your-spec-first/

"Imagine you’re building a house. Would you rather the crew draft a blueprint ahead of time and build to that spec? Or would you rather them go off and build your house then create a blueprint of what they built when they were done?" -- #AllenHelton #ReadySetCloud

#api360 #apiDesign #apiFirst

baldur, 6 months ago to random

Had to open twitter for the first time in a while to handle a DM (wish I could set up an auto-reply telling people to just email me instead) and one of the first things I see, other than the endless AI hype, is a thread where a bunch of web devs with decades of experience are all agreeing with each other that all HTTP verbs other than GET and POST are useless.

And I'm just🤦‍♂️

How did we get to this point? These are the people who are supposed to be senior developers in the industry.

RuthMalan, 7 months ago to random

Scanned over the ‘festo and … it’s … well… it’s … ok it’s … like this..

“We believe in nature, but we also believe in overcoming nature. We are not primitives, cowering in fear of the lightning bolt. We are the apex predator; the lightning works for us.”

…

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, 7 months ago to Java

IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/ibm-taps-ai-to-translate-cobol-code-to-java/

"Code Assistant for IBM Z is designed to assist businesses in refactoring their mainframe apps, ideally while preserving performance and security, according to IBM Research chief scientist Ruchir Puri." -- #KyleWiggers

#api360 #gen_ai #cobol #java

mamund, 7 months ago to random

Over $90 Billion Lost Each Year To Poor API Quality

https://apimetrics.io/over-90-billion-lost-each-year-to-poor-api-quality/

"The infographic we’re releasing today shows the raw numbers of how cloud and geographic factors impact API performance and shows the cost of living with poor-quality APIs." -- #DavidONeill

#api360 #techDebt

mamund, 7 months ago to random

Gall's Law

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1414-a-complex-system-that-works-is-invariably

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." -- #JohnGall

#systemThinking #platforms #api360

mamund, 7 months ago to random

Broken Promises of the Low-Code Approach

https://thenewstack.io/broken-promises-of-the-low-code-approach/

"Though promising simplicity and an answer to the IT skills gap, it can be more of an illusion than boosting your team's ability to deliver real value." -- #JyeCusch #theNewStack

#lowCode #api360 #apiDesign

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, 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, 8 months ago to politics

Savings and loan crisis (1980s)

"Neil Bush [the President's son] paid a $50,000 fine, paid for him by Republican supporters,[37] and was banned from banking activities for his role in taking down Silverado, which cost taxpayers $1.3 billion. An RTC suit against Bush and other Silverado officers was settled in 1991 for $26.5 million."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan

#politics #scandals

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, 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, 8 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, 9 months ago to random

Breathing helps to synchronize neural activity in cognitive areas of the waking brain, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/2023/06/breathing-helps-to-synchronize-neural-activity-in-cognitive-areas-of-the-waking-brain-study-finds-165839

"This may explain how breathing exercises or the conscious control of breathing in meditation can modulate cognitive and emotional states." -- #EricWDolan

#theMind #theBody

mamund, 9 months ago to random

If you have a complex project, follow “Gall’s law” — or it will fail

https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/complex-project-galls-law/

"Functional complex systems arise from functional simple systems. Failing to heed this advice can and will lead to disaster." -- #JenniferPahlka

#systemsThinking #GallsLaw

timbray, 9 months ago to random

Feeling emotionally bruised - trying to figure out why the loss of Lahaina has hit me so hard: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/living-through-mauis-unimaginable-wildfires

I realized it’s the first place where I have direct lived experience that has been demolished as a consequence of our poor environmental stewardship.

Lots more well-loved places are going to go, lots more people are going to be feeling these feelings.

At what point do we wake up and say stop?

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, 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, 10 months ago to random

space telescopes (e.g. Hubble, James Webb, etc.) are time machines.

that is all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

mamund, 10 months ago to random

Wheels down at SFO.

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

#mcaTravels