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Friday, 07 June 2024

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Artificial Intelligence doesn't scale

Ontario-geofish [17:50:00]

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 It's interesting that all this AI hype started when they finally reached a 'critical mass' and put everything and the dog into a giant language model.  Then it went 'popular' and all the influencers tried complex prompts for instant fame.The whole thing is an influencer scam with no physics.  The physics here is the 'scaling problem'.  That means if you have a central

If Ice Could Talk: Environmental Personhood in Social Media

State of the Planet [16:30:36]

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What if the environment could speak for itself? Would people listen? Some parody social media accounts are trying to find

How Much Carbon Can the Ocean Hold? Lamont Researchers Aim To Find Out

State of the Planet [15:30:05]

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Galen McKinley and her research group are quantifying how much carbon the ocean removes from the atmosphere—and how much it fluctuates—to better understand climate

NEVADA'S UPPER TRIASSIC LUNING FORMATION

ARCHEA [11:00:00]

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Exposures of the Upper Triassic (Early Norian, Kerri zone), Luning formation, West Union Canyon, just outside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada.The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada is a very [...]

Recorriendo la línea temporal de la saga jurásica (I)

Koprolitos [08:19:00]

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Un año más llega el mes de junio, y con él la comunidad fan de la saga Jurassic se lanza a celebrar el Jurassic June, 30 días donde se demuestra en redes el amor por esta famosa franquicia dinosauriana [...]

Cold and miserable June continues

Ontario-geofish [14:51:00]

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 Without any Pacific heat, we continue to have cold and miserable weather.  The UK is worse.  We should get a nice 'heat dome' in July and August.  Those are due to stagnant [...]

Tate 2024 road update

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:25:39]

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Normally I crop, rotate, and color balance every photo within an inch of its life, but right now I have a talk to polish, hence the as-shot quality here. See you in the future — the real near future if [...]

Culmicrinus elegans Crinoid Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [01:07:00]

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This fossil appears to be a Culmicrinus elegans (Wachsmuth & Springer, 1897) crinoid calyx. It was found in the Chester Group of Glen Dean Formation in southern Indiana USA. The fossil dates to the [...]