#apinews — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #apinews, aggregated by home.social.
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5 Cryptos to Buy Before They Skyrocket in 2024 - As we approach the end of 2023, the crypto market is abuzz with a sense of optimism – exc... - https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2023/12/5-cryptos-to-buy-before-they-skyrocket-in-2024 #breakingnews #apinews
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Cargolux and DB Schenker connected via API for quotes and booking
https://theloadstar.com/cargolux-and-db-schenker-connected-via-api-for-quotes-and-booking/
"The API interface allows DB Schenker to directly connect its operating system to Cargolux’s system to receive quotes and book their freight onboard a Cargolux flight."
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https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/1856/Design-RulesThe-Power-of-Modularity
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity By Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark
"Drawing upon the literatures of industrial organization, real options, and computer architecture, the authors provide insight into the forces of change that drive today's economy."
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Event Sourcing Versus Event-Driven Architecture
https://medium.com/geekculture/event-sourcing-versus-event-driven-architecture-753aa5a5d0f6
"event-sourcing involves using events to persist the data changes. In contrast, event-driven architecture is about communicating events with data changes between service boundaries."
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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It
"Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality."
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A Harvard brain expert shares 6 things he never does in order to stay ‘sharp, energized and healthy’
"To continue staying sharp, energized and healthy, here are six things I never do:"
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PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf
"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."
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PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf
"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."
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PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf
"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."
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PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf
"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."
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PALMER:Perception-Action Loop with Memory for Long-Horizon Planning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04581.pdf
"The end result is an experiential framework for long-horizon planning that is significantly more robust and sample efficient compared to existing methods."
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Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1139780043/what-is-time-physics-atomic-clocks-society
"as technology to better count the time grows ever more sophisticated, our everyday understanding of time itself may need to start changing."
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Not just light: Everything is a wave, including you
https://bigthink.com/13-8/wave-particle-duality-matter/
"A concept known as 'wave-particle duality' famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you."
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The Woman Who Saved Native Song
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/03/frances-densmore/
“We understand the people better if we know their music, and we appreciate the music better if we understand the people themselves.”
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Jerry Seinfeld's Editing Tip Will Make Your Presentations Shorter and More Concise
"Editing is an act of selection, not compression."
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New BladeRobots serve wind turbines ‘4 times faster’ than conventional methods
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/bladerobots-improve-wind-turbine-performance
"AI is used by the robotic solution to swiftly adapt to all types of blades used in the sector."
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Design Rules: The Power of Modularity
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/1856/Design-RulesThe-Power-of-Modularity
"Using the computer industry as an example, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark develop a powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels of innovation and growth because it embraced the concept of modularity..."
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The next step in ecommerce? Replatform with APIs and micro frontends
"On this sponsored podcast episode, Ben and Ryan talk with Filippo Conforti, co-founder of Commerce Layer, an API-only ecommerce platform that focuses on the transaction engine."
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Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/san-francisco-waymo-cruise-self-driving-cars-robotaxis.html
"They’ve blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops—and the city is powerless to stop them."
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The State of APIs in the Container Ecosystem
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/api-container-ecosystem/
"[T]here's not one clear, overarching component when we talk about containers. There's runtimes. There's Kubernetes. There's OCI and runC."
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APIs Help Lean Accounts Payable Departments Do More With Less
https://www.pymnts.com/api/2022/apis-help-lean-accounts-payable-departments-do-more-with-less/
"[A]n increasing number of firms have given their finance teams approval to automate their activities through API or with other technologies."
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When women stopped coding
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-programming-computer-science
"[A] lot of computing pioneers, the ones who programmed the first digital computers, were women. And for decades, the number of women in computer science was growing. But in 1984, something changed. The number of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged."
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Top 5 Transformative Fintech Spaces to Watch in 2023
"So as we look ahead to 2023, what areas of fintech are likely to make the biggest impact in driving change and innovation for the global economy?"
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UK competition authority to use ‘full powers’ to challenge harmful online choice architecture
"In a discussion paper ' How digital design can harm competition and consumers', the authority said the way websites, apps and devices were designed – known as ‘online choice architecture’ (OCA) – had a potentially harmful impact on consumers and markets."
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Dennis Ritchie Thesis
"David Brock published an article in June 2020 that told the story of Dennis Ritchie’s Harvard doctoral thesis. Dennis never submitted it. Something happened, and then all mention of it just disappeared for 54 years until 2012, a year after Dennis died. And, as Brock reports, the concepts Dennis described in his dissertation represented breakthrough thinking in computer theory and were historically important."
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Roald Amundsen Had to Make Do With Being First to South Pole
"If Amundsen couldn’t be first to the North Pole, he would be first to the south."
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Designing out of difficult times
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-design/our-insights/designing-out-of-difficult-times
"Design matters—and not just in good times. CEOs who embrace design can enhance strategy and better navigate this age of volatility."
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When women stopped coding
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1141358586/women-coders-programming-computer-science
"[W]hat was going on in 1984 that made so many women give up on computer science? We unravel a modern mystery in the U.S. labor force."
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Exploring Composite APIs
https://theprogrammersrant.medium.com/exploring-composite-apis-f51270fd84a6
"Use this architecture when sequential calls to various services for data fetching are needed."
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A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse
https://thenewstack.io/the-creator-of-activitypub-on-whats-next-for-the-fediverse/
"Evan Prodromou talks about ActivityPub's creation, his complicated feelings about Mastodon, and opportunities for developers in the fediverse."
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A CEO’s Guide To Digital Transformation For Businesses
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2022/12/a-ceos-guide-to-digital-transformation-for-businesses/
"If you’re a CEO, you can check out this in-depth guide to understand the idea behind digital transformation. Keep reading to learn more."
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How brands can achieve lasting digital transformation
"The potential value of digital transformation is huge. It has been estimated that, by 2030, $13 trillion could be added to global GDP through digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence."
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A “Quantum Brain” Could Solve The Hard Problem of Consciousness, New Research Suggests
"In an intriguing new study, physicists using modified MRI machines say they may have found quantum entanglement between the heart and brain. These results suggest that the human brain operating like a quantum system could be the ticket to eventually solving the elusive, hard problem of consciousness."
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New Consortium Says API Standards Needed for Freight Scheduling
"The SSC’s objectives are to define an API standard for sharing scheduling information, implement those standardized interfaces to enable integrations in existing systems, and advocate for the standard across the industry."
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Driving success with automation https://b.mamund.com/3Hqqgjp
automation can have a massive impact everywhere within an organisation and create sustainable, efficient growth. And there is a clear cycle of automation progress in any single field.