Radar @RadarHits 8,100 drones in this stunning performance – a new world record set in China. https://pic.x.com/wisfylhho4 Replying to @RadarHits Filed as: Coordinating dynamic real time systems for sustainable global and heliospheric systems If the software and technology is shared openly with the world, it could help grow new global and space industries and
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Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi A student told me that he visited a lab to explore a possible postdoc position. He spoke to a dozen people, and no student/postdoc explained him what they were doing or show any data. What a sad, wrong and self-defeating way of doing science. Replying to @AdrianoAguzzi If you hate disease and
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World Bank, UN, USA, .cn and the world can combine their information to map (Myanmar OR Burma) deeply @WorldBank I am looking at your Country Partnership Framework for countries which leads to pages like https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/110961589818564510/pdf/Myanmar-Country-Partnership-Framework-for-the-Period-of-FY20-FY23.pdf On those pages the “Official PDF” download link is still coded as HTTP (not secure) and Chrome browser
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Infinite Books @InfiniteB88ks William Faulkner, read read read https://pic.x.com/bbwyfy56ab Replying to @InfiniteB88ks The Internet needs random sampling, lossless storage, open indexes and open processes Read, verify, predict and verify, write, write, write Never throw anything away. File it and review periodically with more read and verify. Randomize so your gathered materials can be statistically combined
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Günter Klambauer @gklambauer Towards Symbolic XAI — Explanation Through Human Understandable Logical Relationships Between Features Abstractions on top of traditional XAI methods are used. These are combined with logical operators to provide explanations… P: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17198 https://pic.x.com/m6patfa7jz Replying to @gklambauer All knowledge, all human languages, all domain specific languages in an open system – verifiable, accessible
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Forest Research @Forest_Research Stem cracks are defects in firs and conifers. Affected timber isn’t suitable for structural uses, reducing value. We’re researching this. Snr Scientist Ruben Manso explains why and asks forestry professionals to report cracks using TreeAlert. 🔗 https://forestresearch.gov.uk/news/139764-stem-cracks-in-conifers-report-it-via-treealert/ https://pic.x.com/kabfzsdnse Replying to @Forest_Research I carved wood for several decades and my first thought seeing
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FAO Forestry @FAOForestry @FAO’s flagship publication The State of the World’s Forests 2024 contains 18 case studies from around the world that illustrate how forest-sector innovation can bring about positive change. Read it now https://ow.ly/CFGN50SGXZG #SOFO2024 https://pic.x.com/7jnkduob0r Replying to @FAOForestry and @FAO Global open models, global open resources, billions of voices and lives – some
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Tomorrow We Vote: What Do State Representatives Actually Do? – TWV University (Lesson 2) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqe9cyxIDI It would be a lot of work, but I think it would be a good exercise in government to ask “What do the State Representatives of all States in the United States do? What are they paid to do?
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Julian Stirling @stirling_julian I’m delighted to still be publishing papers almost 2 years after leaving academia to become freelance. This article is more of a “rant with references”, I try to tackle the problem of perverse incentives that prevent open science from flourishing. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2023.0215 Replying to @stirling_julian There are fundamental experiments that can examine fundamental
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @ATinyGreenCell Over 800 million people are food insecure today. We have done a great good since the year 2000, but the ones who need it most are still suffering from famine globally. I wish our iteration and progress on food security would be in lock step with progress in AI. We all
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