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Or Buschenschank in Styria (where you traditionally don't get warm food, only "Brettljause")

I thought you'd mention plant poaching. Which is just evil.

Ah, I thought that was the main vegetation present beforehand? What kind of forest was it before it was cut down?

None of what you are writing is applicable to Landes. Outside of scandinavia Landes region is some of the most intensely managed forest in Europe. From planting to cutting is only …

With freely available satellite imagery you're looking at a 10x10m resolution per pixel. So basically entire tree stands have to die or crowns have to lose their leafs for it to be…

Yes, I'm well aware that Landes naturally should be an extensive sandy marsh. With how natural forest disturbances are more and more starting to affect the plantation, it proves to…

No, at the moment classifying disturbances is only done retrospective. Predicting fire likelihood is its own large area of research. An open case is more in terms of temperate fore…

Just an aside: I'm a researcher trying to classify forest disturbance types from satellite imagery. The Landes Forest which is currently burning is really interesting in that you h…

In this case no, all the water is drained. I don't think meaningful amounts are retained for agriculture.

What I can not wrap my head around: How are these models trained? What training mechanism or model architecture provides the glue to go from human text to images? Don't you need to…

Ah I thought you would link https://xkcd.com/605/

I was wondering why I don't get that animation. Turns out I turned on reduced motion in Windows 11, to get snappier UI and they actually set some accessibility tag correctly for th…

Same as for banks. Downloading some verification app with a confidence inspiring 1.2 rating on the app store, getting on a call with some random gig worker looking like they are ta…

The thing is that LLMs can only ever go forward. It might go into one direction, once that direction is in the context it will realize that it doesn't work, but can't delete. So it…

Something something bit flips, something something stateful

Yep. I don't see 500 million being even close to enough to develop broad-spectrum preventatives that would be easy enough and safe enough to administer, to get over 67% of the popu…

Yes all good points showing issues that academia has at the moment. However I often see this going from "there's issues" to discounting academia altogether and positioning private …

There's this crowd on HN which is very vocal against academia. From what I've seen, the main points are that academia isn't efficient, most of the science coming out of academia is…

It's tech from the 80s. Look up the Nishika N8000 and Nimslo 3D. Basically it's multiple lenses next to each other, each capturing a small slice on the 35mm film. Every lens has it…

there's also https://www.myvocab.info/en From what I can tell they actually have a bit more robust science behind their algorithm (and a lot less questions to answer)

Then I have a backup yubikey at home for services which allow to register two keys. For other's there's still good old password+some second factor.

Pretty happy with having a yubikey on my keychain. Log in someplace new? plonk in your yubikey and off you go!

Yes, you could do a lot more with the data. The only other thing I did was a wordle style guessing game: https://guess.landshade.com But the data is open source, so if you want to …

That's pretty cool. In a similar but very different vein: A few years ago I took twenty years of daily satellite imagery and computed the mean color for countries and the world htt…