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Why not? I've seen your daily routine. You're not busy.

A larger challenge is to encourage the shift from rationalism, which assumes that algorithms are the answer, to empiricism, which assumes that continuous exploration, persistent questioning, and vigorous dialog will promote a deeper understanding of our world.

Dimitris Chloupis made a remarkably astute observation - Lisp is a factory for making programming languages; Smalltalk is a factory for making programming environments.

31 March 2019

Computers

The Programming Language Conundrum - on why don't we all use Lisp and Smalltalk.

Minard / Morse / Tufte and Authenticity on the Web - on the famous chart of Napoleon's Russian Campaign.

Shadama: A Particle Simulation Programming Environment for Everyone

Ton Roosendaal and Blender receives ASIFA-Hollywood Ub Iwerks Award

Ghost Villages Are for Sale in Spain

30 March 2019

Health

The world must wake up to the threat of latest Ebola outbreak

Weather

Thunderstorms in Europe

Thunsderstorms in Europe paper.

28 March 2019

Weather

Build an environment and air quality monitor with raspberry pi.

Visualisation

EuroVIS 2019 is in Porto.

IEEE VIS 2019 is in Vancouver

2019 SciVis Contest

BioVis at IEEE VIS

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures: An interview with visualization pioneer Ben Shneiderman

27 March 2019

OpenVDB

OpenVDB

OpenVDB github

Documentation

Siggraph 2015 presentation.

Another presentation.

Another

OpenVDB course.

OpenVDB paper.

OpenVDB paper Siggraph 11.

Siggraph 09

Siggraph 14

26 March 2019

Oil/Gas data

UK Oil and Gas Authority

Equinor

Equinor Releases Usbsurface data from NCS field.

UK releases 130TB of data.

Geoscience on the UK open data portal

Example - This zipped folder contains data from a study, by petroleum geoscience team at the BGS, which was created as part of the 21st Century exploration Roadmap

25 March 2019

AI

Help Rescue Weather data from the 1860s.

Compiling Knowledge into Probabilistic Models

Society

Asperger's work in Vienna.

22 March 2019

Topography

Digital Topographic Data.

19 March 2019

Graphics

Making 3D Terrain Maps

Diet/Exercise

Losing wait with Exercise

Death of the Calorie

18 March 2019

LandSat

New crop data providers cash in on US shutdown

Gro Intelligence

LandSat on AWS

LandSat 8 on AWS

Start using LandSat on AWS

More docs on Landsat on AWS.

16 March 2019

Plan9

Plan9 on a PI Cluster

Clouds

FailOver Architectures - excesses in the data centre industry.

10 March 2019

AI

(Big) Data Journalism with Spark and R

Weather

Cloudy with a chance of war.

06 March 2019

AI

This is bad. Really bad. How automated tools discriminate against Black Language. And let's keep in mind that this is probably just the tip of the iceburg.

Microsoft machine learning for Apache Spark.

Earth

Topography and Bathymetry

5 March 2019

Earth

Seabed 2030 Project

UNB Engineering - Seabed 2030 project

GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans.

Getting Involved.

Seabed 2030 Concept Paper released.

Seabed 2030 roadmap.

gebco.net's Data and Products.

NetCDF

ESRI ASCII

GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data

4 March 2019

Graphics

Who links to whom.

Ray Tracing Gems

Climate/Weather

IGEO - Instituto de Geosciencias

UCM.es

Ciemat.es

DFM Consultores Ambientales

Climate Change Is Hereā€”and It Looks Like Starvation

3 March 2019

Climate/Weather

WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting Model

WRF Github

WRF Releases


Bruce O'Neel

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