Wondering what people’s thoughts are on how to most efficiently extract secondary data from observations, and how to put this data to use in e.g. research. As an example: I uploaded this observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26045826 a while back. When I tried the auto-suggest at fir…

i think you have 3 ideas here that may be only loosely related in terms how you would actually approach them. (how to most efficiently extract secondary data depends on what you’re trying to do, i think.) the first is related to leveraging the computer vision algorithm for custom applications. i do…

Cheers @pisum , really appreciate the reply and links. The mountain goat one is especially useful.

ah, ok… if that’s the kind of think you’re interested in, then you may be interested in Wildbook, too. this is the project website: https://www.wildbook.org , and here’s an article about one or two of the (many) projects using it: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/from-binoculars-to-big-data-citizen-scie…

[image] pisum: also, this is not in that vein, but it looks at the carbon cost of creating all these AIs for all these different things: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/ . that whole angle is truly odd…

yes, here’s a Vice article on the same subject, and they do go into that a bit towards the end: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/bj95qm/training-one-ai-model-produces-as-much-emissions-as-a-cross-country-flight-study-finds

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charlie June 24, 2019, 1:24pm 5

that whole angle is truly odd and i’m not sure how i feel about it, but it does seem that computer banks like that are uniquely suited for renewable energy use given their highly localized nature and consistent power pull.

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