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I'm not so sure Postman's view of ChatGPT would have been entirely negative. One thing he might have liked -- perhaps very much -- is that the medium is linear, rational, and conve…

I wanted something like this as well, and I have a prototype of something much simpler (using node2vec to generate embeddings using data from Wikidata and DBpedia (and Twitter)). I…

Note that the Environmental Defense Fund is planning to launch MethaneSAT in 2022 to monitor methane emissions. Data will be open. https://www.edf.org/climate/space-technology-can-…

Agree the people and process side is very difficult to do well. Familiar with all those and more -- we have extremely good, dedicated employees who care deeply about doing those th…

Clover CEO here. Won't comment on a competing device but this may not work the way you think. In Clover's approach the touch controller input isn't reaching the Application Process…

Clover has had an offline feature for payments on all our devices (except our dongle/peripheral solution). It's very heavily used -- thanks to flakey ISPs, routers, WiFi, cellular,…

Note this is in Canada -- unfortunately there's still a lot of Offline Plaintext PIN cards there. See CreditCall's blog on the subject: https://www.level2kernel.com/blog/2012/02/sd…

It's complicated. U.S. EMV credit is (virtually) all chip and signature. Debit is split between PIN and signature. US Debit Common AID is Online PIN, but you can legally do PIN byp…

Yes. Most new-ish deployments of chip-and-PIN using online PIN verification, such as Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and the U.S.

I run a subsidiary of First Data (called Clover). I wrote and published the code for a few reasons: - so I could answer questions more accurately and thoroughly during press interv…

Apple Pay is very standards compliant and the networks are very global. So I wouldn't be surprised.

Banks in the U.S. have been largely content with username and password security, perhaps because their sites don't let you do all that much -- at least so far. Now, with more p2p f…