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- Efficiency Gains; I Understand You, But Could Never Be You; Can You Teach A Machine To Be Human? … if only people had an API! They’re so messy! Why can’t things just get done?! And sure, a bunch of mundane things can get done, ok …
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … Letting token stream modeler drive browsers, as demonstrated in Simon Willison’s early use of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 API, Computer Use [13] I tried to figure …
- Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts … Google’s opening up its smart home API [2] Some xooglers have launched a smart mini-split heat pump system [3] On the first, here’s an excerpt …
- What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … Apps / the companies that make them, are incentivized to not share, despite the purported promise of aging Web2.0 to API-fy everything. “Gemini feels like a preview …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Mastodon, which is a sort of agglomeration of protocols, extensions, applications, APIs, and clients, is the least-bad, most-successful application running on the ActivityPub platform. Mastodon is …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … Platforms are already localized and yes there’s clearly a difference between private, internal APIs and commercially supported external APIs. With so many companies now wanting to speedrun …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Should one reflect the other? APIs can (and do?) reflect functionality that isn't necessarily exposed in any front-end, so fine. At least, public APIs do! Should …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … Mastodon, the federated social network built upon the ActivityPub protocol (the Mastodon API provides access to an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol), provides for interoperability in the sense …
- Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge … It means that Justin can ask me for an API key for my Stripe account, noodle around, and then recreate all of the payment products, even when they …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Twitter closes down its API and restricts bots, Reddit follows suit. Does anyone even remember when Instagram, Facebook and Twitter co-operated until it made more sense financially …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … Mastodon was (is) interesting because of its openness in terms of API: just this year, Twitter and Reddit demonstrated that when push comes to shove, openness in terms …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … enough[^] people have moved and there's enough critical mass that maybe Those Other Places with that API key you can just get without having to ask anyone …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation … Mastodon itself has its own particular API, its own extensions. There's a very readable blog post about this from Manton Reece about the Venn diagram intersections between …
- Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency … can only inexpertly describe as expertly mashing up Datasette and the GPT-3 API , training and implementing prompt/query-engineering against his 3,000 blog posts. Art of …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … fact that I can just go and click on something and get an API key is... super weirdly exciting?) Actually, this is less about Mastodon, and more about …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … So the vibe (sorry) is that stuff that you used to have to do (business agreements, engineering teams doing a lot of prep API work), you now don …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … look quite different and we would have more things like open banking an APIs. But that would also require those setting policy to understand and be persuaded that …
- There Was No User Need … hi! Best, Dan Releasing our Digital Vaccine Record code on GitHub , and the California Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record UI , API , and QR code generation repositories. ↩︎ Wherein we …
- Just Put Dr. Ian Malcolm On Our Tombstone Already … OpenAI researches and develops models It charges access, via an API, for those who wish to use the models on-demand Sometimes it provides open access to the …
- News; More News … It all hinges on the API for Google Docs documents , and honestly, ever since I read this a few days ago I've been reeling. Anyway. Fantastic work …
- Actually, it's about the ethics in dataset collection, attribution and licensing in machine learning … The UK Government's advice on documenting APIs is some more government-focussed advice on API documentation which I am noting here for my attention/interest thanks to …
- Independent Verification and Validation … a vendor isn't doing really simple stuff like "document your APIs, dummies" and the buyer doesn't know that the API they're paying for isn't …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … Providing unsophisticated access to "law" via APIs just sets off an arms race. Think like this: with now rate limiting, you end up with flash trading. People want …
- Wirecutter Reviews: The Best Person To Determine Health Insurance Coverage For Most People Is You … healthcare legislation that mandates a standard API, returning a determination of insurance coverage (e.g. in/out-of-network and cost), with an SLA gurarantee of returns in …
- Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode … What do they have, if they don't have those things? They use a bunch of APIs, so it's the same old story of "internet lets more …
- This is an Excel system, I know this … Google Sheets lets you import data via API, and Microsoft kind of lets you do this now with Excel, but that also requires, I don't know, people …
- CAPTCHAs, Cryptography and Personhood … An API for accessing Public Key Credentials, Level 3 Editor’s Draft, 5 May 2021 ↩︎ ↩︎ Regarding the paper Trust in blockchain-based systems , commented on in s09e18: Cursed …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … The issue with Microsoft's "closed-ness" was instead issues like having proprietary APIs and not letting anyone have access to them, purposefully deteriorating competitors' products, and a …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … very-much, but also b) turning making voice calls into something that’s API-able/automatable, which in the end means c) scaleable. Scaleable and cheap means spammy …
- Eleven things, and I'm still terrified about that Twitter one … should government offer just an API for tax filing, etc. and let the private/non-profit/etc sector battle it out to provide services for that API, or …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … A public search engine? A publicly available API for commercial companies to build services on (sorry, create value ), in the same way that the European unbundled the local …
- Aren't we all just so tired … Last time I wrote about some governments letting large technology companies lead them around by the nose in setting API standards that, effectively, limit what a government can …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … which apps have accessed your location in a time period (24h, week, etc), but only when they’re using OS-supplied APIs and not doing, say, some browser …
- Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains … Would be much more computationally efficient than doing this all over API. https://t.co/oOFOmj5wEX Alex Stamos @alexstamos Twitter should allow people to upload limited service workers …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … I mean, you think you’ve figured out how to solve for dealing with, say, “abusing API keys” in the context of reposting content from a Tumblr. What …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … Until recently, although some Apple devices had NFC hardware (used to implement Apple Pay), Apple didn’t provide access through an API. That led to a workaround where …
- Division by Infinity … sexual orientation alpha via the Department of Motor Vehicles’ convenient driver license headshot API within, say, three sprints? And it doesn’t even have to be *accurate*. * (The …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … is now, like, a robot manager? She is slowly moving up beyond the API layer. I mean, this kind of makes sense? Someone who knows what the robot …
- End of Process … for any *process* you can think of where there are a bunch of rules and humans make *decisions*, substitute a machine learning API. It means that I now …
- Interesting Times … The developers were given a problem and a public data set through a California Health and Human Services Agency API, a deadline, and asked to show their work …
- Netflix Should … who should release a Netflix dating app? Well, no-one can because they closed down their API. Which, when thinking about things this way, kind of makes sense …
- ROUND HOUSE … it's now nigh-incomprehensible[5] as to how you use Google's APIs to do a simple thing like retrieve your spreadsheet in JSON) but we're …
- Patterns in the noise … a) API rate limitations; b) API terms of service not allowing certain kinds of combinations of resulting services; c) red-tape from HR. [1] Laura E. Hall (@lauraehall …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … What will stop it is intellectual property law and licensing conditions as well as things like API rate-limiting. Well, that's what will stop the *legal* version …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … Just stop. [1] Friends of Hue program - Update | Philips Hue API -- 2:44pm, 2,355 words in about 46 minutes. Send me notes, let's just pretend it …
- Stock; Two Thoughts … Things That Have Caught My Attention - lots of ranting about what would presently be called "jobs under the API curve" and yet another mention of Bruce Sterling's …
- The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck … conduct, including all of the ones conduct on our behalf down in the API plumbing layers that enable the modern web as we know it. Hume pointed out …
- Bureaucracy Is An Algorithm; Vapourware; No New Ideas … the first, the re-linking recently of a Forbes piece by Anthony Wing Kosner about Jobs Below The API[2], and the second being Sam Altman's blog …
- Not Every Node Is Equal; Stop Hitting Yourself … Maly leaves hanging the question as to why the labour that was internalised and now has been externalised - replaced by an API call or to a posting on …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … Today's release of their API pretty much confirms that for me. So really, what we're talking about, is the matter of jobs. 4.0 They Create …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … 2] Pine Information Center [3] Mulberry [4] Slack , from Tiny Speck [5] Gmail API 2.0 Snow Crashing (10) We're at chapter eight of Snow Crash, and …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit … is this a zero-sum race to the bottom where the entity that provides the best, basest API-to-humans wins? Or at some point is someone going …
- Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally … input spectrogram[1] that runs on Chrome or Firefox through the web audio API. This is the kind of thing that makes me incredibly excited for my son …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … Whether you like them or not, zero-hour contracts and API-mediated employment are making dents in everyday life. A proliferation of sensing devices - whether mobile or remote …
- Symptom Masquerading As Disruption (2); The Model Is The Modeled; Labour Not Employment; Superstar Ratings, Here We Go; Not Swarm … There was someone at work who got super excited about "an API for the world!" and I think that's kind of the problem for me: an API …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … If you were going to develop something that *used* Fuel, though, that was fine for their API, but the problem there was that the install base was never …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … No provider is going to allow API access to allow anyone to implement universal search (Xbox *kind of* does this, but it's still a pain in the …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … That entire fictional universes under the control of an API with binary decisions (albeit enforcing human will) could well be a severe stunt to the creativity of fandom …
- Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On … All this is to say that I remain excited about the possibilities of the Marvel Universe API. Because once you have an API, you have Things and when …
- I Miss Dopplr, InfiniFriends … Ellis, now that Marvel has a fucking universe API, algorithmically generated Marvel Universe comics. Ha. Where is your algorithm god now. [1] http://infovore.org/archives/2014/02 …
- We Build Worlds … First off, the news that Marvel, the Disney-owned powerhouse movie studio née comics publisher has launched a developer API[1]. Now, I might be sounding a bit …