#scale — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scale, aggregated by home.social.
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Challenges In The Use Of Local Data For Regional Scale Mapping Of C And N Stocks In The Continuous Permafrost Zone At The Yukon Coastal Plain | Heatwave Risks To Tipping Point Of Permafrost
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-113-2026 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02603-2 <-- shared paper
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/tipping-points-heatwaves-wildfires-permafrost-climate-crisis <-- shared media article
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/permafrost-slumps-herschel-island-qikiqtaruk-yukon-9.7168780 <-- shared media article
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[putting together two different ‘sorts’/focuses of research/reporting, but…]
H/T @gustaf Hugelius | Professor at Stockholm University
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“Permafrost soils are particularly vulnerable to climate change. To assess and improve estimations of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) budgets it is necessary to accurately map soil carbon and nitrogen in the permafrost region. In particular, soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks have been predicted and mapped by many studies from local to pan-Arctic scales. Several studies have been carried out at the Canadian Beaufort Sea coast, though no regional maps of terrestrial carbon stocks based on spatial modelling has been conducted yet. This study combines available field data from the Canadian Yukon coastal plain and uses it to map regional SOC and N stocks using the machine learning algorithm random forest and environmental variables based on remote sensing data. [The authors] developed models using the data for the entire region and separate models for the coastal mainland area and Qikiqtaruk Herschel Island. Each model was used to map SOC and N stocks for its respective area. [They] assessed the performance of the different random forest models by using crossvalidation. [They] further assessed model results using the Area of Applicability (AOA) method and the quantile regression forest approach, comparing the results and discussing their implications within the context of both methods. [They] explore[d] local differences in soil properties and how soil data distribution across the region affects the accuracy of the predictions of SOC and N stocks..."
#permafrost #soils #geology #climatechange #temperature #thawing #melting #emissions #CO2 #methane #carbon #nitrogen #GIS #spatial #mapping #Qikiqtaruk #HerschelIsland #Yukon #Canada #soilorganiccarbon #SOC #arctic #cryosphere #BeaufortSea #coast #coastal #machinelearning #model #modeling #remotesensing #earthobservation #carbonstocks #island #mainland #spatialanalysis #scale -
WeatherNext – [An] AI Model Achieves Breakthrough In Forecasting Cyclones
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https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ <-- shared technical Google DeepMind blog post
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2 <-- shared paper
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https://deepmind.google/science/weatherlab/ <-- shared data
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https://github.com/google-deepmind/weathernext <-- shared GitHub repository
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H/T @juliet Rothenberg | Product Director of Earth & Resilience AI at Google
[this post should not be considered an endorsement of a particular organisation or their approach]
“[The Google WeatherNext AI team] are showing how the WeatherNext AI model from Google DeepMind and Google Research has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure. On average, the WeatherNext Cyclones model gives forecasters an extra day’s worth of predictive accuracy- delivering an advance equivalent to roughly a decade of historical meteorological progress 🌀
Here is how WeatherNext is transforming cyclone forecasting:
• Gaining an Extra Day of Advanced Warning: WN 3-day forecasts are as good as what prior models were able to provide for 2-day forecasts, giving critical time for emergency response.
• Overcoming Traditional Trade-offs: WN bridges the gap between massive global atmospheric currents (which steer a cyclone's path) and fine-grained thermodynamic processes around its core (which drive its intensity) into a single AI model.
• Unprecedented Ensemble Scale: Using Functional Generative Networks (FGNs), WN now generates 1,000-member ensembles in less than a minute on a TPU to capture rare, consequential tail-risks like sudden rapid intensification – which means forecasters can see a broader range of possible scenarios.
• Real-World Impact: During the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the WN model helped the National Hurricane Center (NHC) make a historic forecast for Hurricane Melissa by predicting rapid intensification and landfall five days in advance.
[The] teams are open sourcing the operationalized models (WeatherNext Cyclones and WeatherNext 2), alongside a compact version (WeatherNext 2-mini) that can run on a single TPU in a free public Colab notebook – all with a goal of empowering local organizations worldwide.
Weather affects everyone. By combining advanced AI with the real-world expertise of human forecasters, we can build a collaborative ecosystem that saves lives and helps communities adapt to a changing climate…”
#Google #DeepMind #GoogleResearch #AI #ensembles #FunctionalGenerativeNetworks #WeatherNext #cyclone #operationalised #model #modeling #forecasting #spatialanalyis #spatiotemporal #track #intensity #windstructure #hurricane #weather #climate #metrology #cyclonetrack #risk #hazard #emergencyresponse #planning #tool #earlywarning #scale #magnitude #path #track #thermodynamic #scenarios #opensource #impacts #tropicalcyclones #WeatherNextCyclones #weathermodel #atmospheric #predictions #mitigation #warning #robust #publicsafety #infrastructure
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Spatiotemporal Distribution, Climatic Factors, And Seasonal Precipitation Patterns Characterizing 66 Years Of Widespread Shallow Landslide Events In Piedmont (Northwestern Italy)
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2026.1884300 <-- shared paper
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“Widespread shallow landslide events constitute one of the primary drivers of recurrent societal and economic losses in mountain regions. Although the influence of climate variability on landslide frequency and magnitude has been widely recognized, long-term, event-level analyses linking spatiotemporal landslide patterns to precipitation climatology at the regional scale remain scarce. This study presents a statistical analysis of 128 widespread shallow landslide events recorded in Piedmont, northwestern Italy, over the 66-year period 1960–2025, cross-referenced against the regional precipitation climatology. Events were characterized by season, primary physiographic unit, provincial coverage, and an ordinal magnitude index (scale 1–7) encoding combined spatial extent and estimated landslide count. Results indicate that no statistically significant monotonic trend in event frequency was detected over the study period (mean rate: 1.97 events yr⁻1); however, a moderate positive correlation was established between event magnitude and the number of provinces affected (R2 = 0.51, p < 0.00), validating the magnitude index as a proxy for spatial footprint. Mean event magnitude reached its highest value in the 2010s (3.71), while all five events of magnitude ≥ 6 occurred in autumn. The summer fraction of the catalogue increased markedly, from 6% in the 1960s to 31% in the 2000s and 25% in the 2020s, concurrent with stable or declining summer mean precipitation totals, consistent with Clausius–Clapeyron amplification of convective intensity under documented regional warming. Cross-analysis with regional records identifies three tiers of rainfall–landslide coupling: a stationary direct seasonal coupling; a non-stationary, strengthening intensity-mediated summer coupling; and a structural susceptibility-mediated spatial decoupling whereby the driest provinces generate the highest landslide occurrence frequencies due to the lower triggering thresholds characteristic of Tertiary Piedmont Basin sedimentary environments. A post-hoc assessment of the triggering thresholds used for regional shallow landslide early warning system demonstrates superior detection performance for high-magnitude autumn events (hit rate up to 89% for the 2000–2025 sub-period) and identifies sub-daily convective accumulation windows in summer as the primary domain requiring threshold recalibration…”
#massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #Italy #Piedmont #NorthernItaly #weather #rainfall #precipitation #climate #risk #hazard #corrleation #relationship #earlywarningsystems #damage #loss #community #infrastructure #mountain #spatiotemporal #mapping #spatialanalysis #statistics #geostatistics #climatology #regional #scale #weatherpatterns #physiography #geomorphology #water #hydrology #hydrogeomorphology #geology #soils -
#SCALE Daily Puzzle
🧗 SCALE #242
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Good words to guide your usage of APIs with AI agents!
"Get the API governance right, and the blast radius shrinks. Get it wrong, and it expands faster than any team can manage."
Your legacy APIs were never designed to work in autonomous systems of AI agents. Agents running autonomously at "machine speed" have the potential to be SERIOUSLY disruptive, and if your guardrails are insufficient, the adverse consequences and damages can accumulate faster than can be detected.
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/14/weak-api-controls-one-biggest-threats-agentic-ai-era/ #AI #APIs #AgenticAI #AIAgents #APIGovernamce #IT_Governance #Security #AISupplyChain #Scale #MachineSpeed #APIcontrols #AutonomousAgents #Software
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@downey I'm looking forward to @SeaGL in Seattle. It has infrastructure for remote attendance and presentations, but I hope to be in person now that it moved to October. Very FOSSy conference
@socallinuxexpo CfP just went out. Huge conference in Pasadena. One can watch remotely, but must be in person to present
Both have great hallway tracks. Both have excellent nearby restaurant options
OLF is still going in Ohio. Only made it there once, but enjoyed it
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WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265051
#HackerNews #WorldClaw #Agentic #3D #open-world #generation #at #scale #technology #gaming #3Dgraphics #innovation
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The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209921
#HackerNews #webserver #deployment #hobby #scale #softwaredevelopment #technews #coding
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TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112511
#HackerNews #TypeStax #vintage #audio #type #scale #generator #audio #interface #tech #innovation
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BLOG: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim
The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI
👉 https://copim.pub/wileys-acquisition-of-emerald-some-observations-from-copim/
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“Why does every mammal get one billion heartbeats in its lifetime?”
I’ve just watched one of the most fascinating episodes of Veritasium!
Approximate animals as spheres and plot empirical data to uncover patterns, that’s physics. Explore power laws and fractals in nature, that’s mathematics. Explain why Tusko the elephant died after receiving an LSD drug dose extrapolated from smaller animals using linear proportions, and why humans experience many more heartbeats than most mammals, that’s biology. The beauty of interdisciplinarity!
Now I’m curious to read more, starting with Scale by Geoffrey West. West also co-edited Scaling in Biology and co-developed the WBE theory, which attempts to explain Kleiber’s law: the relationship between an animal’s metabolic rate and its body mass.
There’s a reason this video has already attracted 3.3 million views in only two days!
#Science #Physics #Mathematics #Biology #Fractals #ScalingLaws #Scale
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😱🌍 Oh no, another shaky day in the land of the rising sun! Meanwhile, armchair seismologists everywhere are furiously Googling "Richter scale" while confusing it with their bathroom scales. 📉🔍 Rest assured, the real disaster is the #multilingual #chaos above the fold! 🌐💥
https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en #earthquakes #Richter #scale #Japan #HackerNews #ngated -
"With generative AI, the work of building efficient, scalable systems has not been done."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/
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NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': https://copim.pub/wileys-acquisition-of-emerald-some-observations-from-copim/
The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI.
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#SCALE Daily Puzzle
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From the "Why we can't have good things" Department:
> The Mechanisms Of Enshittification
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/the-mechanisms-of-enshittification
How the things you buy get worse, who profits from it, and how to tell before you pay.
> Enshittification is the gradual, deliberate degradation of a product or service by whoever controls it. Cory Doctorow coined the term in 2022 for digital platforms, which decay in a recognizable sequence...
#Doctorow #Krugman #economics #obsolescence #capital #reputation #scale #consumers
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🐘 All you need is PostgreSQL
｢ Complexity grows, not because the problems demand it, but because someone reached for a tool they saw in a conference talk ｣
https://ebellani.github.io/blog/2026/all-you-need-is-postgresql/
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#SCALE Daily Puzzle
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Haven't done this for, ages! Must be on holiday 😂
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Your content is your 24/7 sales team. It answers questions, overcomes objections, and builds desire while you sleep 💤
Invest in it❣️
#contentmarketing #sales #scale #automation #business
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Space Is Too Big for Games: How X4, Elite Dangerous, and No Man's Sky Wrestle with 93 Billion Light-Years
https://1ban.news/space-games-struggle-scale-universe/
#1ban #space #games #struggle #scale #astronomy
