{"id":2080,"date":"2015-03-05T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2015-03-05T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:00:59","slug":"magic-meets-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/magic-meets-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Magic meets honesty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell am I doing at Google, anyway? Why am I here, specifically?<\/p>\n<p>I like what Neven Mrgan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mrgan.tumblr.com\/post\/112545721907\/try\">had to say<\/a>\u00a0about an ambitious <a href=\"http:\/\/oneshot.link\/\">screenshot\/OCR app<\/a> (emphasis mine). The last paragraph resonates with what we\u2019re trying to do here (composing movies, stories, and more that you can edit):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now here\u2019s where\u00a0<strong>magic meets honesty<\/strong>: OneShot shares its uncertainty with\u00a0you. If it\u2019s not totally sure about which article you want to highlight, it has you\u00a0choose it.<\/p>\n<p>Easy enough for you take it from here, right? OneShot tried, and shaved off\u00a0some work from this task, and that\u2019s helpful enough.\u00a0<strong>If it got it wrong, oh\u00a0well, no harm done<\/strong>. My instinct says Apple wouldn\u2019t ship a feature like this\u2014they\u2019d want it to work 100% of the time, or not at all.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to see more software\u00a0try\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>do a good job of a fuzzy task, let you help\u00a0it with the last mile, and give you a fallback option<\/strong>. That kind of magic can be\u00a0more delightful than behind-the-scenes, guess-and-stick-with-it magic we\u2019re\u00a0often promised.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell am I doing at Google, anyway? Why am I here, specifically? I like what Neven Mrgan\u00a0had to say\u00a0about an ambitious screenshot\/OCR app (emphasis mine). The last paragraph resonates with what we\u2019re trying to do here (composing movies, stories, and more that you can edit): Now here\u2019s where\u00a0magic meets honesty: OneShot shares its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}