Juneteenth 2020

Here at The Way of the Geophysicists, we have written about social justice before. Today marks Juneteenth. The day of slave liberation in the United States, where a lot of our readers come from. After the death of George Floyd and ongoing deaths through police brutality of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, … [I […]

All About Dashboards – Friday Faves

This Friday we’re looking at a machine learning state-of-the-art Dashboard and also a new way to quickly develop dashboards directly in Jupyter! Papers with Code Leading the Way I’ve been a fan of Papers with Code for a while. Now they implemented over 2500 leaderboards on SOTA benchmarks! Algorithmically comparing paper performance, is definitely a […]

Keeping Busy – Friday Faves

It sure is an interesting time. Apologies I kept you waiting with more Friday Faves, but for a bit of time now, unfortunately, my life was not exactly filled with joy. Let’s get back to it today and share some things that cut through the fog. With everyone in lockdown in this global pandemic, maybe […]

Seismic I/O, Open Source, and Deep Double Descent – Friday Faves

This week in our Friday Faves, we have a new Python package for seismic compression and input/output, a conversation on the merits and caveats of open source and the confirmation that more data sometimes hurts machine learning models. Seismic Compression and I/O Equinor anounced the Python version of a compression algorithm for seismic data that […]

Fake AI and ML Tipps – Friday Faves

This week in the Friday Faves, we’re looking at some AI snake oil and a tip for training better models. A bit shorter, as I’m updating my website and my CV after handing in my PhD thesis. AI Snake Oil So if you want to call something that solves a problem somewhat and has an […]

I like oxygen – Explaining #teamtrees

I woke up to my Youtube subscriptions exploding with the hashtag #teamtrees. What is Team Trees? The youtube phenomenon MrBeast recently reached 20 million subscribers, which lead to an idea going viral. People spammed MrBeast to plant 20 million trees to celebrate. So he assembled some friends. Now. During the climate strike, I’ve heard my […]