Dear EAGE we have to talk!

Dear EAGE, you’re my professional society. We have history! Already during my Bachelor’s, I published an extended abstract with you. But you’ve changed. We need to talk about this. Please don’t mistake me for having illusions. As you know, I run this website and some others, I know the costs of doing business online. I’ve […]

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 […]

Going Meta, Geovizualizations and the PyTorch Dev Con – Friday Faves

In this week’s Friday Faves we have some very cool animations for geoscience outreach, some meta reinforcement learning and this year’s PyTorch Dev Con. Amazing Geoscience Outreach Animations These geoscience acquisition animations are everything the small comics never where. Alexandre Normandeau is a research scientist in Canada and obviously has a knack for visualization, visit […]

International Boundaries by Jim Witkowski on Unsplash

The Hidden Cost on Mental Health of Living Abroad

It is World Mental Health Day. People are sharing valuable resources and personal stories on Twitter and Instagram. Usually, I miss these days, but it just so happens that I have a story or two when it comes to mental health. When I finished my studies I found a job in the happiest (or so) […]

TF2, Physics in GCNs and Aftershocks – Friday Faves

In this week’s Friday Faves, we have Tensorflow 2 dropping and a beautiful bonus, next level physics-based ML, and a problem with a Harvard deep learning paper. Tensorflow 2 for Researchers Tensorflow 2.0 dropped this week and it has Eager Execution (read “normal behaviour”) per default and the Keras API per default. If you’re familiar […]

GIS, Fossils and Loads of Data – Friday Faves

This week, we have loads of geoscience-y favourites. Between great Jupyter widgets, augmented reality and a huge new dataset to play with, in the Friday Faves. Geoscience and Python Martin Renou gave a fantastic talk about Jupyter Voila at EuroScipy. He tweeted out their newest developments in iPyLeaflet, which brings GIS capabilities to Jupyter. Once […]

Hide & Seek – Friday Faves

This week was a special week, as the SEG Annual Meeting 2019 in San Antonio was in full progress and the FORCE hackathon in Stavanger with an accompanying Symposium is in full progress. Here are my highlights of the week, that I’d like to share with you. Geoscience I talked to some contacts that visited […]

The Only Moat worthy for a Geologists Lair

Did you ever wonder how to protect your lair once you turn to the dark side? (Listen up Elon) Randal Munroe of xkcd fame collaborated with Minute Physics to solve this problem. How to build a Lava Moat: It’s a collaboration to promote the new book “How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems“. […]