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A first look at Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter Are you interested in learning more about the ways in which AI is actually being used? We’ve launched a new weekly newsletter ...

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

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