Virtual Meetings: Camera on or off?
If looking for excuse to turn off camera in virtual meetings, cite new study from Purdue, Yale, & MIT: “reduce carbon footprints by 96%”
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AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts
I found the University of Washington news on what they have done with their AI model quite interesting. Briefly, weather forecasting is done today via very complex computing models that fully simulate as best as can be managed using the fastest biggest supercomputer available. I’m not kidding, the UK’s Met office announced in Feb this … Read more
Bots: 25% of Climate tweets are fake
The Guardian reports that as many as 25% of climate related tweets are bots. How can you tell if a twitter account is human or a bot?
Foreign Astroturfing for BREXIT Leave on Twitter
Your are perhaps familiar with the term “grassroots“. In a political context this is bottom up – it is collective action from the local level to effect change at the local, regional, national, or international level. Astroturfing is where malicious forces promote propaganda that is designed to look and feel like a grassroots movement, but … Read more
Why do people believe in a Flat Earth?
A Recent talk at AAAS reveals an insight into why there are some who sincerly believe that planet earth is flat.
Finding Patterns in Big Data with machine learning
At the recent AAAS meeting Dr Genevera Allen gave a talk in which she highlights a rather interesting problem that specifically relates to the use of machine learning. Sitting between our ears is a pattern seeking engine that can and will at times identify false positives. We build in our own image and so we … Read more