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Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 2:54 AM UTC

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Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by pugio » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 2:55 AM UTC

I know it's Pi day, and the title uses the word for the greek letter, but my mind read the domain and immediately thought Google was offering an API for automated pie delivery.

Now I really want this.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by Waterluvian » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 2:59 AM UTC

pugio wrote: post #12

I know it's Pi day, and the title uses the word for the greek letter, but my mind read the domain and immediately thought Google was offering an API for automated pie delivery. Now I really want this.

I thought it was someone with a large array of raspberry pi computers for rent. It would be like an itty bitty AWS with adorable APIs at cute as a button prices.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by lacampbell » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 3:22 AM UTC

Now, if only there was a service to leftpad my strings...

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by campoy » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 3:28 AM UTC

lechiffre10 wrote: post #9

JorgeGT wrote: post #2

> This is just for fun. There is NO SLA. It might be turned off at any time! Google service confirmed!

loooollll

I'm a Google employee and you made me LOL hahaha

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by hellbanner » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 3:30 AM UTC

Is there anything we can learn from the transition between numbers? Any pattern?

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by johnhenry » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 3:32 AM UTC

lacampbell wrote: post #14

Now, if only there was a service to leftpad my strings...

Not sure if you'r being scarcastic, but... https://api.left-pad.io/?str=be%20careful%20what%20you%20wis...

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 4:15 AM UTC

Things I would do if I were a better JS programmer:

1. Figure out how many BPM I need to to have the music simulation generate digits at the same rate as the visual simulation.

2. Figure out how to press both start buttons at the same time.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by nodesocket » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 4:35 AM UTC

I'm calling this: after attending Google Cloud Next last week, and seeing the huge improvements to GCP in the last 18 months, I am supremely confident that AWS should be worried about Google as a legitimate competitor.

$GOOG is betting big on GCP, and they are executing at a very high level releasing iterative products and new features.

I'm recommending GCP for all my clients (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) if they don't have any infrastructure setup or provisioned already. While AWS offers a wider array of integrated services (they do have a large lead time), GCP has learned from all the mistakes of other providers. They started off with a superior project based structure, then per-minute billing, then sustained-use discounts, then Container Engine (GKE), then the Firebase acquisition (genius), now Functions and SQL Postgres support.

Re: Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi

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Post by saturnism » Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 4:51 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #18

Things I would do if I were a better JS programmer: 1. Figure out how many BPM I need to to have the music simulation generate digits at the same rate as the visual simulation. 2. Figure out how to press both start buttons at the same time.

it's actually here: https://pi.delivery/demo/

but we didn't have time to make it look nice :(