John Taylor

(ex)Google software engineer, maintainer of Sky Map for Android. Likes 80s computers because it's the last time I understood them.

[Andrew Moore @awm_ai]

Today is a big day for us.

When we started this company, we had one conviction: that AI needed to be worthy of the decisions that truly matter. Not helping with homework or recommending the next song to play, but the decisions where fortunes are won or lost, lives are on the line, and national security cannot afford to be wrong. The more we dug in, the clearer the obstacle became. It was never the quality of the models. It was the absence of a structured, verified, agent-navigable layer of context sitting between those models and the chaos of real data.

We kept running into this problem everywhere we looked, so we stopped working around it and built the solution. Lovelace's answer? Instead of waiting for models to learn the world, we give agents the context they need to navigate it today, built from your data, verifiable at every step.

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@madebygoogle Thanks! I'm now getting some support via email. I think they were just backed up. Still - you should get someone to fix the support page (from with the app it's even worse as it says 'refresh' the page and there's no obvious way to do so).

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@madebygoogle Did you know that your support page is broken? https://t.co/eefdb9jmN6 -> "Refresh this page and try again. Sorry, there was a problem with the form." So now I'm using the feedback function to send you feedback on your mechanism for receiving feedback. 🤦

[Sky Map Team @skymapdevs]

Look west tonight just after sunset: Venus, Mercury (if you're lucky). Slightly higher: Saturn, Neptune (with a telescope). Overhead: Uranus (with a telescope). And then behind you, a little away from the Moon: Jupiter. #6PlanetParade.

[Sky Map Team @skymapdevs]

Rolling out now! Sky Map v1.11.1 "Venus". Now with info cards. Check out the latest at https://t.co/eBpV5sLsOQ

[Wrexham AFC @Wrexham_AFC]

Rounding off the year with three points and an injury time winner 👊

🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

Not only too fast, but turn on red without stopping - actually barely slowing.

[BikePGH @BikePGH]

Sadly, a pedestrian was killed by a driver on S.Dallas & Reynolds St this morning.

While we don’t know a lot of details, we do know that Dallas Ave is on the City’s High Injury Network, and drivers tend to go too fast here and use it as a cut through between Forbes and Penn...

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@PGHCityPaper I'm not claiming you're responsible for today's death but your article _is_ the work of irresponsible pricks.

[Pittsburgh Dumpster @aerial_nft]

@PghPublicSafety Investigate @PGHCityPaper

https://t.co/vJQ4D3goNv

[Pittsburgh Dumpster @aerial_nft]

@PghPublicSafety Investigate @PGHCityPaper

https://t.co/vJQ4D3goNv

[Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh_scanner]

Point Breeze. Edgerton Street. A motorist has killed a pedestrian. Edgerton is being shut down for scene processing with buses being rerouted. Expect delays.

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@Benstonium Also saw it! Looking towards downtown from cupples stadium

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@ChingCh08964877 Last night?

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@soccer_rabbi That would make sense. Unclear if @PIAASports allows some sports to be in District 8 and some in (an expanded) District 7. I wouldn't be surprised if the bureaucrats favor an easy life over the good of the sport.

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

Community trying to reverse controversial change keeping Allderdice soccer from playoff berth https://t.co/q6k8tUFKzA

@pghsoccernow @soccer_rabbi

[Pittsburgh Soccer Now @pghsoccernow]

In an editorial response to near end-of-season action to erase their WPIAL record, Allderdice boys soccer ( @DiceBoysSoccer ) players (and supporters) respond with petition to have a chance to finish 2024 season in WPIAL & playoff spot they earned

https://t.co/3IGCMIDtUE

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@JohnKrysinsky Great to see that Knoch turned up to play Obama tonight despite the WPIAL debacle. They could teach @HTSDAthletics a lesson in sportsmanship.

[Pittsburgh Allderdice Boys Soccer @DiceBoysSoccer]

https://t.co/MkuD7B1boy

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

@JohnKrysinsky Would have been great to have that show of solidarity from @HTSDAthletics . I asked Obama players what they would have wanted if the situation were reversed. They'd have played.

[Pittsburgh Soccer Now @pghsoccernow]

PSN's @Soccer_Rabbi ponders how PIAA and WPIAL could screw up the high school soccer season for Taylor Allderdice and Obama Academy in such an unfair and anti-competitive manner.

But Mark has a simple solution...

https://t.co/hBQts0LWix

[John Taylor @jaydeetay]

Hey PIAA: Let Them Play https://t.co/gcF4o2gcue