Scottish universities initiative to “drive the transition to net-zero electronics”
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The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. Described as the UK’s first sustainable electronics centre, REACT aims to address both the environmental and economic challenges of […]
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European forest plants are migrating westwards because of nitrogen
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The common wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) migrates westwards at a speed of around 5 kilometres per year and northwards at around 0.1 kilometres per year, says the research (image credit: Petr Harant). Surprising westward shifts in the distribution of plants are explainable, according to new research, by nitrogen pollution, and to a lesser extent climate […]
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Device adds spatial dimension to air quality monitoring
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An Airly Orbital on a car roof. AI and air quality expert Airly launched ‘Airly Orbital’ on 9 October – a compact, low-power device with built-in GPS and cellular communications to allow mobile air quality monitoring. “Traditional air quality monitors are fixed in one location,” explains Airly CEO Wiktor Warchalowski. “But air quality does not […]
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Demed L’Her, CTO at DigitalRoute – Interview Series
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Demed L’Her serves as the CTO at DigitalRoute and is a software executive with a proven track record in enterprise software strategy. He combines a strong academic background with a pragmatic approach to leadership and technology. DigitalRoute offers a portfolio designed specifically to convert raw usage data into billable items. The DigitalRoute Usage Engine™ enables […]
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How Combining RAG with Streaming Databases Can Transform Real-Time Data Interaction
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While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and Llama are impressive in their capabilities, they often need more information and more access to domain-specific data. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solves these challenges by combining LLMs with information retrieval. This integration allows for smooth interactions with real-time data using natural language, leading to its growing popularity in […]
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DeBriefed 11 October 2024: Hurricane Milton; BP abandons oil reduction target; Scotland’s ancient stone circles and climate change
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Intensifying hurricanes STILL POWERFUL: Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on Wednesday “weakening but still tremendously powerful”, the Guardian reported, bringing “catastrophic winds likely to cause significant property damage” and leaving “nearly 3m homes and businesses…without power”. […]
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Norwegian study investigates why we burn more and recycle less than we think
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More and more of our residual waste is incinerated, as much as 65 per cent of it goes up in smoke. PhD candidate Kim Rainer Mattson believes much of this can be recovered and recycled (image credit: Photo: Sølvi W. Normannsen). In the sea of environmental problems over which we have little control, recycling has […]
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A Poisoning Attack Against 3D Gaussian Splatting
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A new research collaboration between Singapore and China has proposed a method for attacking the popular synthesis method 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). The new attack method uses crafted source data to overload the available GPU memory of the target system, and to make training so lengthy as to potentially incapacitate the target server, equivalent to […]
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Enhanced treatment can speed-up spill reduction
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Enhanced wastewater treatment holds the key to reducing sewage overflows to the environment in a sustainable way, says Dominic Hurd, managing director, ACWA Services. Public and political pressure on water companies to address the issue of sewage spills into rivers and seas means overflows are no longer solely an issue for operations teams. They top […]
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Geospatial data and climate action: New UN report
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Co-authors James Norris and Michelle St Claire. Using its trusted geospatial expertise, Ordnance Survey (OS) on behalf of the UK has been working closely with experts from Barbados and Tonga to co-author a new report from the UN-GGIM Task Team on Geospatial Information for Climate Resilience ‘Applying Geospatial Information to Climate Challenges’, which focuses on how […]
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Just Have a Think
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This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilization in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a greater level of equality in the world. The channel is not a debating forum about whether Human Induced Climate Change is […]
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Our Changing Climate
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Support the Channel patreon.com/OurChangingClimate Facebook facebook.com/occvideos Instagram instagram.com/occ.climate Twitter twitter.com/OurClimateNow Reddit reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate Video essays on a burning planet.
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Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently
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The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could think of “invisible threads” as tying together related objects, like the homes on a delivery driver’s route, or more nebulous entities, such as transactions in a financial network or users in a social network. Computer scientist Julian Shun studies […]
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7 Machine Learning Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know
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As a data scientist, you should be proficient in SQL and Python.
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CatBoost Essentials: Building Robust Home Price Prediction Systems
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This post is divided into five parts; they are: • Installing CatBoost • CatBoost’s Key Differentiators • Overlapping Features with Other Boosting Algorithms • Implementing CatBoost for Home Price Prediction • CatBoost Feature Importance Analysis CatBoost (short for Categorical Boosting) is a machine learning algorithm that uses gradient boosting on decision trees.
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7 Free Machine Learning Tools Every Beginner Should Master in 2024
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As a beginner in machine learning, you should not only understand algorithms but also the broader ecosystem of tools that help in building, tracking, and deploying models efficiently.
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How AI is Amplifying Human Potential in Sales and Marketing
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how professionals approach marketing and sales in every sector. By embracing AI, professionals in the field are enhancing efficiency, boosting outcomes and driving faster, more informed decisions. Sales and marketing’s AI evolution signifies not just a shift in tools, but an amplification of human potential. Supercharging Sales & Marketing Efficiency […]
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Joshua Xu, Co-Founder & CEO at HeyGen – Interview Series
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Joshua Xu is the Co-Founder and CEO at HeyGen a platform that enables users to effortlessly produce studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices. You co-founded HeyGen in 2020 with the vision of reinventing visual storytelling through AI. Can you share what inspired you to start HeyGen and your initial vision for this mission? Prior […]