Build Your Own Localized Events Calendar using Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph

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Finding out what’s going on in your city can be a bit of a chore. For me, I use a combination of Facebook, specifically accounts for local organizations and news channels, and our local Reddit forum. This is… haphazard at best. I’m sure local "city wide" calendars exist, but I’m not aware of any that is used by the majority of folks nor do I trust them to actually cover everything going on. Having played with Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph last month ("Automating and Responding to Sentiment Analysis with Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph"), I thought I’d do some digging to see what would be possible via their API. Here’s what I was able to... more →
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Let’s Build a Web App for Pinecone

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Yesterday I blogged about Pinecone’s excellent RAG as a service system for quickly building generative AI systems: "Checkout Pinecone for Serverless RAG". It was so easy, I decided to take a look into what it would take to build a "real" application around their service. With that in mind, I whipped up a quick Flask application to demo just that. I’m still very new to Flask, so take this with a grain of salt, and design isn’t my strong point, but who cares, let’s dig in! First off, a quick reminder of what I demonstrated yesterday. I used Pinecone’s Python SDK to: Create an "Assistant", which you can think of as a collection of documents. I... more →
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Roomba will soon be able to build a map of your home’s Wi-Fi … – The Verge

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The Verge Roomba will soon be able to build a map of your home's Wi-Fi …The VergeRoomba, the robotic vacuum, is gaining an indoor Wi-Fi mapping feature in its iRobot app later this month. The Wi-Fi Coverage map feature means Wi-Fi-enabled Roombas will be able to produce a map of indoor signals, which show weaker areas and signal …Roombas will soon build a Wi-Fi coverage map while they clean …Ars TechnicaRoomba is going to map your home's Wi-Fi coverageTechSpotRoombas will soon sweep your home for weak Wi-Fi signalsCNETall 16 news articles » map app – Google News… more →
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Meteor Raises $20M To Build The One JavaScript Stack To Rule Them All – TechCrunch

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TechCrunch Meteor Raises $ 20M To Build The One JavaScript Stack To Rule Them AllTechCrunchThe competitive landscape for app development tool providers keeps getting tighter, with Meteor Development Group raising $ 20 million for its stack of frameworks and tools for developing web and mobile applications in JavaScript. The round, led by …JavaScript framework startup Meteor Development Group takes on $ 20MVentureBeatall 4 news articles » JavaScript – Google News… more →
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