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AI-GISer's Weekly Issue 115,2021-12-10

GeoSpatial

  1. These Mighty Shorebirds Keep Breaking Flight Records

A tagged Bar-tailed Godwit in Australia in October—after flying 239 hours nonstop from Alaska and breaking a flight record.

The 239 hours also include time for foraging and rest time. It's hard to imagine that this bird has such muscular endurance. Respect✊.

  1. Decentraland

Decentraland is an Ethereum-powered virtual reality platform. You purchase plots of land that you can later traverse, build upon, and monetize in this virtual world. There's no limit to what you can do. It's the first digital platform that its users entirely own.

  1. Wave Function Collapse

Walkthrough an infinite, procedurally generated city.

AI

  1. 2021: A Year Full of Amazing AI papers- A Review

A curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI by release date with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article, and code.

Research

  1. China Deep Sea Exploration Mission

"Tan Suo Yi Hao" (literally "Exploration No.1") together with "Fen Dou Zhe Hao" (literally "Endeavor") heading for the western Pacific Ocean for deep-sea exploration has safely returned, completing their tasks for the planned stage. During the 59-day-long voyage, "Fen Dou Zhe" carried out its first regular scientific research by making 28 dives, 7 of which exceeded 10,000 meters and explored the deepest area of "Challenger Deep" in Mariana Trench, which is also the deepest area of the world.

  1. Design and Development of an Integrated Internet of Audio and Video Sensors for COVID-19 Coughing and Sneezing Recognition

To provide COVID-19 situational awareness and early warnings, authors proposed a real-time integrated Internet of Things (IoT) architecture to improve the results of coughing and sneezing recognition by combining audio and video processing results.

Tool

  1. Supabase

Superbase is an open-source Firebase alternative. We're building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.

  1. Sandpack

The sand pack is a component toolkit for creating your own live-running code editing experience powered by CodeSandbox.

  1. TOML

TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. For example, TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. Therefore, TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages.

Resources

  1. Top 4 Ethereum testnets for testing intelligent contracts

This guide demonstrated free Eth on the Rinkeby, Kovan, Ropsten, and Goerli Ethereum testnets. It also walked through how to get free Eth on these testnets using their respective faucets.

An Ethereum testnet is a collection of nodes used to test the Ethereum protocol. Tests are run on the testnets to ensure that the protocol is working as expected.

  1. POP: A New Framework for Memorable Writing

POP writing has three attributes: it's personal, it's observational, and it's playful.

  • PERSONAL: Connect through human experiences.
  • OBSERVATIONAL: Notice what others didn't.
  • PLAYFUL: Bring out the kid in your reader.
  1. 7 GITHUB ACTIONS TRICKS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED

Here are seven tricks with GitHub actions that changed the author's CI/CD pipeline. These tricks helped the author create a more maintainable workflows code and boosted the performance of the whole CI/CD process.

Comments

  1. We're trapped in a Never-Ending Now-blind to our place in history, engulfed in the present moment, overwhelmed by the slightest breeze of chaos. --David Perell

  2. Grit, ambition and energy are more valuable than a specific skill set. --Jeff Bezos hired this Amazon applicant 'on the spot'

  3. People like the virtual world as straightforward because the real world burden is too heavy, life is too tiring and boring. The virtual world is spiritual sustenance and a refuge, which lets you temporarily forget the real troubles and have a better and more exciting world to go. --Yifeng Ruan

  4. You only need to know the direction, not the destination. The direction is enough to make the next choice. — James Clear

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