AI’s “Help” Is an Illusion — And a 1991 Film Exposed Its Myth That video captures the true essence of human endeavor, that all efforts have costs and that no lunch is free. The trouble that isn’t in plain view, hidden in the shadows, is the devil in the details. It’s often missed and forgotten as time passes. The following video highlights the chain link of technology that modern society has become dependent on and how one weak link could…
These are a collection of data sources that I wanted to dedicate a post to. The scale is truly global. OpenTopography facilitates efficient access to topography data, tools, and resources to advance our understanding of the Earth’s surface, vegetation, and built environment. https://opentopography.org/ Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic), and managed and operated by the ONC Society, a not-for-profit established in 2007. ONC delivers ocean data from…
In an earlier post I covered a project that tracked position, https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=4728. The data is stored as a CSV file. This format is easier to work with in a spreadsheet but lacks visual map details. This post will cover basic steps on how I import the tracks in Viking and QGIS. The first step is merging data files if they span a given trip. I append the data files sequentially in a spreadsheet. I’ve noticed that some rows contain garbage,…