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scholar.social
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Making Contrails Visible: AI Insights into Aviation's Climate Impact Using Sat

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complex_pi
·18 dni temu·discuss
Where I live (western EU) it's simple. If the speed is limited to 25 km/h it's an e-bike. Above it's a speed pedelec and requires registration plate + insurance.
complex_pi
·24 dni temu·discuss
Academia is very broken. That's it actually.

It's a long time that the incentive and job structure make universities a very toxic environment. Professors are basically running a 40 years race (about from bachelor or master graduation to retirement). It is still amazing that some good comes out of it.
complex_pi
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I played the blog post game (using chatgpt).

Prompt: "The text of the blog article is copy-pasted below. Please summarize it in one parargaph."

Result: "The blog article explores the paradox that while AI has made coding easier by automating many tasks, it has also made the role of software engineers significantly harder. AI tools have raised expectations for productivity, leading to increased workloads and burnout without corresponding support or recognition. Engineers, especially juniors, are now expected to take on broader responsibilities—ranging from product thinking to deployment—while the hands-on act of writing code has diminished. This shift in roles and expectations is often unacknowledged by leadership, creating a disconnect between those who use AI tools and those who manage the work. The article emphasizes the growing complexity of the engineer's job, the burnout that results from unrealistic demands, and the identity crisis many engineers face as their core role changes. It calls for better leadership, structured training, and realistic expectations to avoid the erosion of trust and talent in the industry."

Whatever. Blog posts about AI that dance around the topic are not that valuable. For a project, you'll hire somebody, not some AI (as bcachefs' author does). What matters is that you trust a person to do the job, and expecting them to churn code is useless. The real benefits of someone appear on their CV (experience, known technologies, human abilities -- communication, empathy, understanding).

AI generated content is an existential threat to human knowledge.
complex_pi
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
EUMETSAT publishes data as CC-BY 4.0 past a timeliness of 1 hour https://www.eumetsat.int/data-policy/eumetsat-data-policy.pd...

Look for your dataset here https://data.eumetsat.int/ (Note: you need registration but it is free).
complex_pi
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
See also https://www.econtrail.com/
complex_pi
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
It's not specifically about logic. It is possible to model and measure the radiative effect of contrails.
complex_pi
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
The EU also has regulations, but somehow it does not make insulin as expensive as in the US. Maybe the existence of a regulation is not the issue here.
complex_pi
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Agree on that (that AI should not be in the loop and that humans are ultimately to blame).
complex_pi
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
The end result is the same to be honest.
complex_pi
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Welcome to the world. A PhD guarantees nothing, tenured position barely exist anymore. Weird that economists did not realize this yet...
complex_pi
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
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