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Except as the corporate spending card company they see just how much their customers are spending on inference and have made it a cornerstone of their marketing for the last two years. Their positioni…

To be fair we were done transcribing and double verifying in about 2015. We’d get a batch of new menus from the imaging team, tweet it and no matter the size it’d be gone in about an hour.

And alligator pears are avocados!

The dataset of menus and items is all hand labeled and verified at menus.nypl.org.

This is why I preferred Mike Migurski’s nickname for PHP: Apachescript; easy to integrate to the web server and next fastest thing to C for Apache.

This absolutely rocks: like an open and usable version of the once beloved and now deprecated Echo Nest Audio Analysis api [0]. There used to be a tool to use this data to manage your own (Spotify-onl…

11 years ago, NY Magazine published my favorite startup zeitgeist article of the Uber-For-X era: “Let’s, like, demolish Laundry”. This feels like a perfect revisit of that for our darker and more cyni…

Seriously - I find myself coming back to read this once every few years because of how riveting the piece is (oh no -just realized the pun) Also I’ve heard wonderful things about The Great Miscalcula…

There have been several projects over the past few years to make text embeddings visually explorable (notably Nomic.ai's Nomic Atlas). However, Apple's just released a tool that makes this k…

> Polygons, curves, or lines are an afterthought. For example, the polygonToCells function returns a set of cells that are entirely within the polygon. If you want to join, you'd need to also …

Chronicling America is great, but as you’ve noticed it’s limited to issues that are in the public domain. It’s not just LC, the National Digital Newspaper Program[1] has been funding hundreds of libra…

It’s good to hear that PWAs are still on Firefox Android, even though they’re out of Desktop. From my [fairly-out-of-the-loop-for-the-past-few-years] vantage point, Mozilla’s been a lot less invested …

It’s not. If it holds up well in terms of operating it and extending it when things change, then it’s not “too simple”. You’ve just built on 4 extremely resilient and scalable technologies which have …

Likewise; this ticks so many boxes for me, but as a hippy-dippy non-gmail user I too have to second the IMAP/JMAP ask. Gmail absolutely hits that sweet spot of API capabilities and where the user…

This is genuinely awesome. The crossstreet based search is a perfect approach in NYC. Reminds me of how I used to use Google’s sms service to get directions from about 2004-2010.

Sunday service has always been particularly important to the New York City public libraries. Andrew Carnegie’s original deal always was, he would find the construction of the branches the libraries wo…

This is a big step forward, and is also making me nostalgic for the Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF)[0] blogrolls of the early 00’s. RDF-in-HTML standard that could express recommendations and relationships.…

> In this context-- the section in article where it says present data is of virtually zero importance to analytics is no longer true. We need a real solution even if we apply those (presumably comp…

Indeed they did. I also fondly remember how wonderful the web development deployment workflow was in Coda. This was back before source control was ubiquitous and CI/CD was required for any real p…

Not gaming related but if you want to know the origins of where everything in computation came from, George Dyson’s “Turing’s Cathedral” is a revelation. It’s the story of computer, told by interviews…

It seems like you're putting the text out under CC-4.0-BY-SA [1] (Attribution, Share-Alike), which is great (the updated version of the same copyright for Wikipedia content). However, you're…

One of the under-appreciated aspects of Colaboratory is that it's completely integrated into the Google Drive ecosystem, including multiple real-time users of the same notebook (sharing the same …