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   by jsstylos 10y ago

   IBM Watson Senior Software Engineer, APIs | Littleton, MA | Full-Time | Onsite Join IBM Watson and help build the leading cognitive API platform! We’re looking for a Software Engineer or Researcher to help define and standardize the public
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   by jsstylos 10y ago

   IBM | Littleton, MA | API expert for Watson Join IBM Watson and help build the leading cognitive API platform! We’re looking for a software engineer or researcher to help define and standardize the public REST APIs for the Watson Developer
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   Woman behind Pakistan’s first hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, shot dead(boingboing.net)

   43 points by jsstylos 11y ago|4 comments
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/watson/ is our forum for issues with the services.
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   Hi, sorry you didn't have a good experience with the API and documentation. I'd love to get some more details on what the stumbling blocks were. Thanks, jsstylos@us.ibm.com
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   Yes, the API credentials for the service are different from the Bluemix login. To get the API credentials, you have to create a service through Bluemix, bind it to a Bluemix application and get the credentials from the VCAP_SERVICES of that
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   All of the Watson services are free in beta. (Bluemix, through which the services are accessed, requires a credit card after 30 days, but doesn't charge you for use of the beta Watson services.) We wanted to get the services into peopl
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   1. This is good feedback, thanks. 2. The rest API docs are at https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc... You can call the service directly, though the samples show using an http weba
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   by jsstylos 12y ago

   I'm on the Watson team and we're interested in learning from developers to make our APIs and documentation easier to use. Have feedback? We'd love to hear it. jsstylos@us.ibm.com Twitter: @jsstylos
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    New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more(developer.ibm.com)

    203 points by jsstylos 12y ago|106 comments
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    by jsstylos 12y ago

    The APIs can be used for all of the types of apps you mention -- there's nothing limited to, or even targeted to advertising. Here's an idea for an app: Imagine that you're a non-native English speaker, and you want to commun
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    by jsstylos 12y ago

    For the jobid example, the stringify is necessary because the jobid returned by the server includes a # symbol. Try the code you suggested and you get the result: "Error: ContextExpansion Error: jobid is in incorrect format."