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by __sy__ 1106 days ago
oh! I have many, many thoughts on the W3C WoT :)

At the start of Seam, we spent a lot of time reading those specs and absorbing some of the key ideas expressing in its core documents. As a result, you'll see a lot of W3C WoT terminology throughout our API and its docs ("capabilities", "events, properties, actions", "affordances"...etc). My mom (of all people!) is the one who pushed us to really spend time in those docs and understand where the designs were coming from.

I think ultimately we began diverging a bit from those specs when it came time to solve customer needs, such as device-category standardization, async handling of access codes...etc. But I have fond memories of going over those docs with my mom, highlighting certain passages of their docs on paper printouts, and debating the merits of different approaches.

Also feel free to ping me sy@seam.co if you guys need help with various integrations.
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hadjian 1106 days ago
That’s great to hear. I will take you up on your offer.

Also I’ll check out your product in more depth.

BTW, what’s your mom‘s background? Sounds like awesome parenting

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__sy__ 1106 days ago
She's pretty cool! She's former math teacher, then PhD in stats, reconverted to scientific computing programmer (CERN, Astronomy Labs...etc), and then eventually moved over to large system / mainframe stuff. She also spent a lot of time writing docs (she wrote some of the Seam API docs!) and has a knack for going deep on technical stuff. Lately she's been translating Aurélien Geron (https://github.com/ageron) Hands-On Machine Learning books into French.
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hadjian 1105 days ago
Wow. Your mom is a wizard.

Thanks for the hint, that Geron has books on machine learning. I know him from a YouTube video, where he explains how they use the google knowledge graph for YouTube: https://youtu.be/ywfYMQD6yYk

He explains it so well. Then his books are worth a read.

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