"Stupidity of the scientifically arrogant"
"Stupidity of the scientifically arrogant"
Time lapse showing how mold takes over entire slice of bread in 16 days:
Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing: https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/07/urban-tree-canopy-green-space-wellbeing-research/595060/ #Regenerative #NeuroScience
Symbiotic Encounters: HCI and Sustainable Agriculture:
DARPA Launches Program to Transform Plants into Silent Sentinels : www.tandemnsi.com/2017/11/darpa-launches-program-transform-plants-silent-sentinels/ #Regenerative #Biology #FFHCI
Tony Pridmore - Image - based Plant Phenotyping - Computer Vision From Lab to Field:
Maggots, the future of food: high in protein with a small carbon footprint, the only issue is the cringe factor: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3018276/maggots-future-food-high-protein-small-carbon
Black soldier fly "recruited" to biodegrade kitchen garbage in south China:
Billions for European farms - 30min Documentary
Presidents used to boast with how many military machines they built (some idiots still do) - gradually they are shifting towards boasting with how many trees they planted. Great developments!
"Ethiopia has planted more than 200 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-africa-49151523
Pakistan plans to plant 10 billion trees to combat decades of deforestation: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-trees-planting-billions-forests-deforestation-imran-khan-environment-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-a8584241.html
The USA is 4.27% of global population, yet it consumes about 40% of all resources. The US military alone is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined. And its been like this for 80+ years. The US is the single biggest driver of climate change and simply put INSANE.
"Every Tree in the City, Mapped": https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/12/urban-tree-canopy-maps-artificial-intelligence-descartes-labs/578701/ "Researchers at Descartes Labs are using artificial intelligence to make a better map of the urban tree canopy." https://medium.com/descarteslabs-team/descartes-labs-urban-trees-tree-canopy-mapping-3b6c85c5c9cc
Mapping every tree on earth with satellites and machine learning (as was just done) is fascinating and impressive. Let's just not forgot that "AI is the triumph of the past over the future" and this easily can lead to "smashing the territory with the map". Perspective matters.
Question: Why bother playing with generative systems (computer simulations, fractals, etc.) if you can play with regenerative systems (flora, fauna) instead - which are far more beautiful than any simulation, often delicious to eat and critical for life on earth.
A "worrying analysis": "18 deeplearning algorithms presented at top-level research conferences. Only 7 of them could be reproduced w/ reasonable effort. 6 of them can often be outperformed w/ comparably simple heuristic methods." https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06902v1 #ML
"Strange Forest 'Superorganism' Is Keeping This Vampire Tree Alive": https://www.livescience.com/66025-kauri-tree-superorganism-root-grafting.html research paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4
In order to enable 300 mill users to watch their seedlings grow up, Ant Forest launched a new function enabling users to see the trees’ growth thousands of miles away on their phones:
https://pandaily.com/ant-forest-allowed-more-than-a-quarter-of-chinese-netizens-to-participate-in-charity-programs-through-the-mobile-internet/ #Regenerative #Garden
"Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface—Reality Check" - by R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D: https://rdouglasfields.com/2019/07/26/elon-musks-brain-computer-interface-reality-check/ #NeuroScience #BCI #Military
New Open Access Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2019/03/28/making-smarter-more-sustainable-cities/ #Regenerative #Urban #FFHCI
"brings together some of the most cutting-edge research on our planet’s urban future from economics, public health, ecology and natural sciences, to sociology, energy engineering and architecture"
Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/17/germany-bans-schools-from-using-tech-giants-clouds/ #Politics #Education #Technology
McKinsey Advised Johnson & Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/mckinsey-johnson-and-johnson-opioids.html #Business
If there was only 1 thing we could do this year to significantly reduce corruption, harm & insanity on earth - it would be making McKinsey & other consultancies illegal.
Green AI: “We want to shift the balance towards the Green AI option — to ensure that any inspired undergraduate with a laptop has the opportunity to write high-quality papers that could be accepted at premier research conferences.” https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10597
The greenest form of "AI" is "No AI". Let's ask ourselves earnestly, does this task really need to be computerized & automated - or is it possibly healthier & saner for humans, flora & fauna to do the task? There is no free lunch - every augmentation leads to amputation.