Mastodawn

🎩 Oh joy, another insipid attempt from #Google to coat their latest buzzword-babbling #AI in a veneer of importance, now with 200 million #parameters of pure 🤯! As if we needed another bloated "foundation model" to mispredict our futures with the precision of a Magic 8-Ball. 🙄
https://github.com/google-research/timesfm #foundation #model #buzzwordbingo #Magic8Ball #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - google-research/timesfm: TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting. - google-research/timesfm

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Hacker News Mar 21

Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters

https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

#HackerNews #Tinybox #Offline #AI #Device #Parameters #AI #Technology #Innovation

tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Mar 5

Predictability Of Earth’s Greenness [incl. spatial]
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.02.038 <-- shared paper
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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-global-greening-earth-green-shifting.html <-- shared technical article
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https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2024/2/7/24057308/earth-global-greening-climate-change-carbon <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0220-7 <-- shared (2019) paper
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#Earth #greenness #deeplearning #AI #usecase #productivity #vegetation #foliage #greening #forecasting #geomorphometry #vegetationindex #NDVI #GIS #spatial #mapping #earthobservation #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #satellite #global #landuse #landcover #management #biomass #agriculture #crops #environment #ecosystems #forestcover #sustainability #foodsecurity #soilmoisture #treecover #temperature #parameters #forest #forested #landmanagement #agronomic #irrigation #fertilisation #croprotation #pestcontrol #attentionmodel #metrics

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jan 22

Evaluating The Functional Realism Of Deep Learning Rainfall-Runoff Models Using Catchment Hydrology Principles
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040076 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #surfacewater #pluvial #fluvial #rainfall #snow #snowmelt #runoff #precipitation #model #blackbox #robustness #functionalrealism #screening #parameters #accuracy #hydrologic #principles #trustworthy #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatial #mapping #GIS #spatiotemporal #USA #CONUS #AI #ExplainableAI #celerity #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #LSTM #deeplearning #evapotranspiration #waterresources #extremeweather #flood #flooding #risk #hazard #monitoring #prediction #catchments #streamflow #geomorphometry #network #flow #calibration

Giuseppe Michieli Dec 18

The #epidemiology of #pathogens with #pandemic potential: A review of key #parameters and clustering analysis, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-epidemiology-of-pathogens-with.html

The #epidemiology of #pathogens with #pandemic potential: A review of key #parameters and clustering analysis

N-gated Hacker News Nov 10

📜 An article on #OAuth #Parameters so #dry it could double as a desert 🏜️ #survival #guide. Who knew listing endless acronyms could make time travel possible, as readers are transported to the future—a future of utter #boredom. 🔮 Enjoy the riveting journey through #RFCs, guaranteed to cure insomnia! 💤
https://www.iana.org/assignments/oauth-parameters/oauth-parameters.xhtml#parameters #humor #HackerNews #ngated