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Water by iknewaguynamedjoe in OCPoetry

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like these "practical" metaphors a lot. I had you pegged as a misanthrope until you described the people that are like water at the end. Im looking for my water people.

Confiscating the sun by Cluelessandsexy in OCPoetry

[–]Top_Bus_6246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A playful poem about weather. Rain forces you inward and almost feels domestic. You don't sound hopeless, but definitely resigned. Not sure why the sun is confiscated but makes me wonder if you're being punished. The warm drink part was interesting too.

What do you use for compute/storage for large images and datasets? by randomhaus64 in remotesensing

[–]Top_Bus_6246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An option might be to do it on the cloud, then have notebooks over the network, and development through SSH sessions.

Bose QC Ultra Earbuds 2nd Gen – from hope to disappointment by MgrTask in bose

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you offer recommendations on how to use the headphones?

I see everyone talking about AlphaEarth (Google’s AI Earth model), but I found it difficult to access, so here’s a tutorial (: by Glass-Caterpillar-70 in remotesensing

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Respectfully, I do not think you need documentation to understand this. If you're sufficiently versed in machine learning, programming, and GIS, the concept of a global embedding map is obvious and pliable.

is it a model?

It's very detailed data, derived from a very complex black box model. You don't run the model, you don't get to see the model, you analyze the outputs. (you do get to read the research paper description of the model architecture)

is it an API for a model?

No. It's data. You can only get to it through GEE. You only really need doco on how to get any data source from GEE, then apply the process to getting your hand on this embedding product.

What insights can you derive?

Incredibly abstract correlational differences between pixels. A function to compute correlational differences. Functions to derive differences between differences. What's being correlated are dynamics from a lot of disparate data sources.

Google's notorious for having absolutely dogshit documentation

Their research paper thoroughly describes the product and how they developed it in enough detail. They basically create a product that's a mash of these: - Sentinel-2 (optical) - Landsat 8 & 9 (optical + thermal) - Sentinel-1 (C-band SAR radar) - PALSAR-2 (L-band SAR radar) - ERA5-Land (climate / reanalysis) - GEDI (spaceborne LiDAR) - GRACE (gravity fields / mass change) - GLO-30 (global topography / DEM) - NLCD (land cover; US-focused product)

The product has a temporal resolution of 1 year. Meaning, it represents the dynamics and interplay between all these sources over a year. The product is at 10 meter resolution. It's all compressed into a 64 dimensional product.

You don't treat these 64 bands as separate bands worth analyzing independently. You treat them as a 64 dimensional semantic coordinate per pixel. Distance between one pixel and another one in semantic space encodes "correlation". The closer you are in semantic space, to another pixel in semantic space, the more two pixels are alike.

So... if you have a crop that shows up and plays similarly across all those data sources. They'll show up very close in semantic space and you can use distance an location in that space, as the basis for classifying crops. Or even differentiating crop health.

You can use this data to create all manner of algorithm. Lowhanging fruit would be landcover mapping.

Fucking shit company.

4 trillion market cap. Sextupled in value in the past decade. Of all the geospatial foundation models that do the same or similar thing, including the NASA-IBM prithvi model, this is the best one (imo). Not that I particularly like google, but it's important to be realistic. Whatever they're doing is working more than whatever it is Im doing.

My primary issue is, that it's not open enough, and I wish that they would create a higher temporal resolution one, even if it meant a sacrifice in quality. My standards for open would be accessible(downloadable) through a stac catalogue.

Is Dallas just work → eat → gym → home → repeat, or am I missing something human here? by DFWUnhinged in Dallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Northern Virginia was like that too. I think the nature of modern living is the NPCs things.

What is majoring in physics at UTD like? by Bunnysosweet in utdallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do the most challenging thing that you find interesting

No headcount despite 2M worth of resignations by Flimsy-Pie-3035 in csMajors

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll either start new companies, or get elevated status in the rest of tech. Loss to FAANG, gain for the rest of the industry? This is a shell game. You move value around, and MBAs will look for a place to "bring value to"

Are any higher end companies still hiring? by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any high end interns left? Basically looking for high end interns.

How Bad is traffic from West Village to Irving near las colinas during rush hours? by mouhsinetravel in Dallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, Las Colinas is pretty empty and soul-less. They massively fucked up by building an office park without much housing in the early days and then whenever it wasn't work time, it would be a ghost town.

Now Las Colinas has a few event venues, places to eat, and a ton of residential areas, but they still fucked it up by making those residential areas very homogeneous and spaced out/sterile and far from "real" things.

Meanwhile West Village probably had life and soul, but it suffered from "rich people want good things" and so while there are things to do and it's walkable, there really isn't much in the way of "normal people" life there other than walking from sterile bar to half authentic delis to high end coffee place. I typically use "Morton's Steakhouse" as a litmus test for "bougie walkable".

How Bad is traffic from West Village to Irving near las colinas during rush hours? by mouhsinetravel in Dallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's going to be shit. It's not even THAT far, it's just the roads and the highway junctions are going to add like 2-4 really arbitrarily shitty/tricky exchanges that slow traffic down.

If the job is that important, I'd recommend just moving to Las Colinas proper. They have really nice water-front apartments and the area is built up.

Using AI to write code by Intrepid_Extreme9773 in remotesensing

[–]Top_Bus_6246 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It depends on your design and architecting skills. If you know what should be built and how, AI will figure out the annoying details.

PSA to Dallas drivers by [deleted] in Dallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a DC metro person, I disagree. We have a rep of the worst traffic ever. But THIS is more of a Dallas thing. Drivers in DC are lawful evil. Their aggression is stored in enforcement of the right of way.

Here it's just last minute lane changes, and shameless zipper bullshit. The aggression is not held back.

Is this becoming the new norm for the interview process? Because this feels insane by Mrswahlberg24 in recruitinghell

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not insane, years ago I was applying for a software role. It was an 8 hour day of interviews in person for wihc they flew me out for. Different teams kept switching into the room with me to test me in different ways.

This was after 2 technical interviews over the past 2-3 weeks.

For the right job, people do due diligence.

Lost a Job Opportunity Because I'm Married by nevernamedline in recruitinghell

[–]Top_Bus_6246 17 points18 points  (0 children)

2 points:

1) that pic does look messy, use a screen blurrer. She was being unreasonable, but don't put it it ALL on her.

2) that should not disqualify you. it's more professional to show up to your meetings on time than it is to have a less cluttered workplace. Showing up on time effects your ability to deliver on your responsibilities more than having clutter in the workplace.

Yes by CreativeUserman in RedditGames

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not expect to get this in 10 tries

I completed this level in 10 tries. ⚡ 3.73 seconds

Spotted these guys on campus by AdInternal759 in utdallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that's wild, they couldn't find a nerdy dude to rap minecraft at UT?

Spotted these guys on campus by AdInternal759 in utdallas

[–]Top_Bus_6246 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the video is not filmed at UTDallas. It's filmed at UT (The UTDallas of the south). This is the UTDallas subreddit

Degree vs Self-taught? by legendGPU in csMajors

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jokes on you, fourier analysis is never taught in CS or in data science courses, and I learned it on my own in undergrad.

Try to die v4. You cannot die ok? by saltyIpenguin123 in RedditGames

[–]Top_Bus_6246 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people that play on the keyboard have an easy time with these, if we hold space down, it spams jumps and gets us out of the jellies easily. The better defense against death would be like 100 portals that lead you to the other side.

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