Earth Science

I placed 1300th on Kaggle and it’s amazing!

I placed 1360 in a deep learning competition and here's why that is a win in my book. I spend… Read More

2018-08-29

SEG-Y sucks! Or does it?

Many a times I have been cursing, when I got a new seismic file. Be it a 2D line, 3D… Read More

2018-07-17

Geophysical Assumptions

If you assume you make an ASS of yoU and ME. That may be true in personal connections, but assumptions… Read More

2018-06-06

Making Full-Waveform Inversion Uncool again

You know what's hype? Full-waveform inversion. If you're in geophysics specifically involved in some sort of inversion, you want to… Read More

2018-01-29

Did Quantum Physics solve Seismic Inverse theory? – A SEG Honorary Lecture

Short answer: kind of yes. Keep reading anyways. I passed by the poster of announcements and read "Full-wavefield ..." and… Read More

2018-01-22

What’s with the noise?

We often only look at reflection data in a stack. But, along the way a lot of "noise" has been… Read More

2017-12-18

Dipping your Toes – Machine Learning for Geoscientists

My fellow students know this and I hope recruiters will never read this: I was never good at math in… Read More

2017-08-03

Geoscience and Machine Learning – EAGE 2017 Workshop

Is it data science? Machine learning? Big Data? Deep learning? Fancy math? Or just chalked up statistics with enough data?… Read More

2017-06-13

Getting started with the SEG Machine Learning contest

The Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) started a contest to predict facies from wireline logs via machine learning. Get your… Read More

2016-12-23

Fractures and Statistics – Friday Faves

Finally another week in 4D! Sorry for the radio silence, but nothing noteworthy has come to my attention for the… Read More

2016-10-03