MakeUseOf: “LinkedIn’s Focused Inbox feature helps you focus on the most relevant messages by separating them from other less important messages. This can help you stay organized and on top of your messages. However, some people prefer to turn off the Focused Inbox as it can sometimes make it difficult to track important conversations. If… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
How to Choose When to Use Google Search or Google Bard
Tech Republic: “Google Bard, at first glance, seems similar to Google Search. Both offer a text input box. Both respond to keyword and natural language queries. Both draw on data from the internet in their responses. But Bard and Google differ in major ways. Google bills Bard as an experiment that “won’t always get it… Continue Reading
Alarming scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform
The Guardian: “One million lorries of sand a day are being extracted from the world’s oceans, posing a “significant” threat to marine life and coastal communities facing rising sea levels and storms, according to the first-ever global data platform to monitor the industry. The new data platform, developed by the UN Environment Programme (Unep), tracks… Continue Reading
This Brutal Summer in 10 Alarming Maps and Graphs
Wired: “…As global temperatures rapidly climb, humanity is seeing more and more of the disastrous effects scientists warned us about: fiercer heat waves, more intense wildfires, and heavier rain. The extremes of the past few months are but a preview of the ever-worsening pain we’ll endure if we don’t dramatically reduce carbon emissions. “We have… Continue Reading
The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever
Wired: “…Books3 started as a passion project by a Midwestern guy going through a weird time. “I poured my soul into the work,” he says. He saw it as aligned with the open source movement, a way to democratize access to the kind of data sets OpenAI was already using. Some of his collaborators went… Continue Reading
Modeling extreme heat in a changing climate
“If it wasn’t clear before the summer of 2023 that climate change is raising temperatures, it better be clear now. This past July broke the record for the hottest month ever measured. And that was before a life-threatening heat dome boiled large swaths of the US Midwest in August. As extreme heat becomes commonplace, people… Continue Reading
AI Litigation Database
“This database presents information about ongoing and completed litigation involving artificial intelligence, including machine learning. It covers cases from complaint forward – as soon as we learn of them – whether or not they generate published decisions. It is intended to be broad in scope, covering everything from algorithms used in hiring and credit and… Continue Reading
Global Forest Watch Map
“Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests. By harnessing cutting-edge technology, GFW allows anyone to access near real-time information about where and how forests are changing around the world. Thousands of people around the world use GFW every day to monitor and manage forests, stop illegal… Continue Reading
TEMPO – Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Over North America
NASA: “The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument collected its “first light” measurements of nitrogen dioxide air pollution over North America on August 2, 2023. Beginning at 11:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time (8:15 AM Pacific Time), the instrument scanned the continent every hour for six consecutive hours. TEMPO measures sunlight reflected and scattered off… Continue Reading
California Wildfire + Landscape Resilience Interagency Treatment Dashboard
“As California works toward ambitious wildfire and landscape resilience goals, transparency and effective planning tools are critical to success. This beta version of the California Wildfire and Landscape Interagency Treatment Dashboard, for the first time ever in California, provides a single source for displaying recently completed (2022) forest and wildland projects from over a dozen… Continue Reading
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal Judges
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal Judges by James E. Baker, Laurie N. Hobart, Matthew Mittelsteadt – Judges must understand how AI works, its applications, its implications for the fact-finding process, and its risks. They should be able to answer the following four questions in context: 1. How is AI being used in court… Continue Reading
Loquacity and visible emotion: ChatGPT as a policy adviser
VoxEU CEPR: “Can ChatGPT really outperform humans in complex, creative, tacit-knowledge writing tasks? This column asks the app to compose a policy brief for the Board of the Bank of Italy. ChatGPT can accelerate workflows by providing well-structured content suggestions, and by producing extensive, linguistically correct text in a matter of seconds. It does, however,… Continue Reading
