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

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

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

That's great! I'd like to use this but sending my enterprise data to a third party is not very secure. Do they provide a docker image or ami?

Now, I just assume you're being sarcastic :). But, if you would like, I can build docker image that does the same thing for a price ;).

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

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Listening to the essentially random sequence of notes, fancy recognizing Feynman's point

What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.

> I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant That is probably due to the choice of musical scale more than due to Pi. I believe the output of randint(0,10) on the same musical scale would sound just as pleasant.

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

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Pretty cool. I did look at my calendar quickly to see that it's not April 1. The "How we made this" part makes for a great parody of cloud computing.

> great parody of cloud computing I don't get it.

All that stack and overhead to serve what is basically static data? Come on, if this was released ~2 weeks from now it would be funny...

It kind of reminds me when all bitcoin private keys were leaked: http://directory.io/

Edit: It's impressive, but still funny.

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

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Most folks on HN are part of the startup crowd, and what that crowd misses is that while GCP is technically superior in every way, they have no idea how to sell to an enterprise. Google's sales method is, "There's the docs, good luck". Enterprises don't like that. They like to be hand held, they like lots of humans taking them out for lunches and dinners. So far Google has not shown any inclination that they know how…

Did you even watch GCPNext? The entire event was enterprise-focused. They brought a half-dozen companies on stage to basically say the same thing over and over again: "We moved to Google cloud, its so much better, Google helped us every step of the way." Its possible these companies were lying, but I think that conference should be evidence enough for any prospective customers that Google is ready.

> The entire event was enterprise-focused

Some very old-school enterprises are working with Google to onboard GCP in their organisations. A few of them even spoke at the event. I'm assuming they've done due diligence to ensure that Google will devote time and attention span to GCP and not treat it like a "side project".

Also, looking at this logically, whether Google offers GCP or not, you can't deny that that they'll continue to refine their internal infrastructure. Their internal platform is one of their crown jewels. It just makes sense to offer that to businesses willing to pay for it.

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What was Feynman's point? I've got Pi/Listen going in the background, and it's quite pleasant, so I'm doubly interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_nines_in_pi

It's amusing to read the talk page on this article - there was lengthy investigation about whether this really had any Feynman connection (i.e. was the story about him apocryphal) and what the article should be called. I think the current title is fantastic - I would have struggled to name such a thing.

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

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I've always wondered if you take the digits from Pi, do they represent a pseudo random sequence or not?

It's speculated that Pi is a normal number[1]. If it is in fact normal, then I believe the answer is yes. However determining whether a number is normal or not is an unresolved problem according to Wolfram, so the answer is a solid maybe.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html

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

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I've always wondered if you take the digits from Pi, do they represent a pseudo random sequence or not?

Pi is conjectured, but not proven to be a "normal number"[0] which is probably what you mean by a pseudorandom sequence.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

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

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Have you even used the service?

Currently a customer. But thank you for asking.

So you know about this: https://cloud.google.com/support/

What did you mean by no functioning customer support?

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

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> great parody of cloud computing I don't get it.

All that stack and overhead to serve what is basically static data? Come on, if this was released ~2 weeks from now it would be funny... It kind of reminds me when all bitcoin private keys were leaked: http://directory.io/ Edit: It's impressive, but still funny.

One of the great things about having all of this great tooling is it makes the easiest way to do something also the best way. They were able to quickly spin something up which, incidentally, could also massively scale should it need to.
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