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  1. Su_G @[email protected] ·

    RE: mastodon.social/@gwaldby/11687

    A few highlights (didn’t read to end but I’m captivated by the notion of ‘purchasing intelligence by the syllable’): “… Microsoft, which has invested approximately $13 billion in OpenAI and writes up to 30 percent of its own code with generative AI, instructed engineers in a major division to stop using an AI coding assistant because the bills became untenable. One unnamed company, per Axios, ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after management forgot to set a usage cap. These are structural miscalculations about what intelligence costs when you purchase it by the syllable.

    “Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's vice president of applied deep learning, put it bluntly: the cost of compute for his team now far exceeds what the company spends on the employees using it. The company that manufactures the hardware powering the AI revolution acknowledges that the technology is more expensive than the people it was supposed to augment.””

    Says everything about (or describes) the inefficiency of the tool & the wealth of certain parts of the world. Also perhaps absence of (or breakdown in) cost-benefit analysis or perhaps - more widely - values.

    #AI #costOfAIReplacingPeople #inefficiency #costBenefitAnalysis #costBenefit #purchasingIntelligenceByTheSyllable #costOfIntelligenceBySyllable

    #ai #costofaireplacingpeople #inefficiency #costbenefitanalysis #costbenefit #purchasingintelligencebythesyllable
  2. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    Where To Restore And Conserve? A Regional Benefit/Cost Analysis Of Coral Reef Protection And Restoration For Coastal Flood Resilience
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    doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025 <-- shared paper
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    #USVirginIslands #USVI #coast #coastal #flood #mitigation #flooding #risk #hazard #humanimpacts #cost #benefit #costbenefit #benefitcost #analysis #BCA #coral #reef #conservation #restoration #management #economics #protection #riskreduction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GIS #spatial #mapping #climatehazard #climaterisk #hydrodynamic #model #modeling #casestudy #extremeweather #storm #stormsurge #infrastructure #SaintCroix #SaintJohn #SaintThomas #valuation #validation #protection #riskmanagement #quantification

    #usvirginislands #usvi #coast #coastal #flood #mitigation
  3. WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    The advice of a father to his son “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee,” is good, and yet not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-10-26) to J. M. Cutts

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2191…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #anger #argument #backdown #consequences #contention #costbenefit #fight #priorities #prudence #quarrel #selfcontrol #temper #yielding

    #quotes #quote #fight #abrahamlincoln #qotd #priorities
  4. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    Beavers Were Brought To The [Utah] Desert To Save A Dying River. Six Years Later, Here Are The Results.
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    upworthy.com/beavers-refresh-u <-- shared technical media article
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    youtu.be/9-L___3vV9s?si=7H4JJ7 <-- shared media video
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    sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/ <-- shared local media article on the revitalization
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    bbc.com/future/article/2021071 <-- shared international media article on the translocation
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    H/T @upworthy
    #water #hydrology #desert #Utah #PriceRiver #SanRafaelRiver #restoration #ecosystem #river #waterresources #arid #wildlife #agricultrure #tourism #economics #ROI #costbenefit #humaninpacts #climatechange #overfarming #pollution #Colorado #ColoradoRiverBasin #drought #extremeweather #fluvial #pluvial #wildfire #risk #hazard #fisheries #beaver #translocation #landform #geomorphology #dam #dams #beaverdam #ponds #wetlands #natural #waterquality #reintroduction #keystonespecies #trophiccascade #recreation #fisheries #riparian #habitat #diversity #flow #engineering #fedscience

    #water #hydrology #desert #utah #priceriver #sanrafaelriver
  5. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    USGS and Australia To Continue Partnership in Landsat Next Satellite Mission
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    usgs.gov/news/featured-story/u <-- shared press release
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    linkedin.com/posts/gregcocks_g <-- link to post with resources about Landsat Next
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    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact #australia #cooperation #agreement
    U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Geoscience Australia

    #gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring
  6. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    Landsat Next – Satellites Offers Improved Data To Earth
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    doi.org/10.3133/fs20243005 <-- link to USGS fact sheet 2024-3005
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    landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellit <-- NASA page
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    usgs.gov/landsat-missions/land <-- USGS page
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    youtu.be/339KeL29tig?si=kr9asL <-- NASA Goddard overview video
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    “With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years. This new plan for Landsat Next, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is designed to provide more frequent, and finer resolution, data of the changing surface of Earth…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact
    @USGS @nasa @NASAGoddard @USGSEROS

    #gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring