Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery.

https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/

@davidho Sooooo cool. Thanks for sharing this. Wasn’t sure it could handle my long name, but it did beautifully.
@davidho Why yes, I *do* want to know about that site!

@davidho

Nice. Being the juvenile I am, I can report that it will not do swear words. 🤬

@KanaMauna @davidho not with that attitude. ;)
@KanaMauna @davidho Well, if you have the advantage of speaking foreign languages, this problem can bypassed.
@KanaMauna
Just needs a little juvenile experience in creativity.
@davidho
I guess it's at Burning Man

@davidho

Finally! An appropriate use for "AI"!

@Mikal @davidho

A limited use case that doesn't have "endless potential". This is where AI shines brilliantly.

@wolfkin @davidho
Also "fun"! And, so far, no deeply encoded racism.
@Mikal @wolfkin @davidho I don't think this is AI, or certainly doesn't require it. There are lots of repeated uses of the same image, so I think this is just a script using a library of preselected images. Thinking back many years, this is something I could code in Javascript.
Still plenty of fun though 👍
@DrPlanktonguy @Mikal @davidho I think the AI use would be in scanning the images for letters not in putting the letters together.
@wolfkin @Mikal @davidho there is disagreement, but most don't consider trained image classification to be AI (unless they want to plump up promoting their methods as AI). It is just an analytical method used commonly in scientific research. Maybe we need a grouping of "non-evil" AI?

@DrPlanktonguy @wolfkin @Mikal @davidho For anyone who believes that there is no good use of generative AI, I wonder if they are made of proteins

https://alphafold.com/

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

@dragonsidedd @DrPlanktonguy @wolfkin @davidho

I think this technology is awesome for some things. Just not most of the things it's being shoved into at the moment.

@Mikal @davidho

What makes you think there is AI?

It's a database of images that look like letters, and then a script just picks from these at random.

@davidho that’s cool. 😎

@davidho

Oh I know a government site collecting my name when I see it /s

@davidho

Yes!

"Type in your name to see it spelled out in Landsat imagery of Earth!"

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html

Your Name in Landsat 🛰️

@davidho My life is better because of you...

Also... Yay, water!!!!!

@davidho So cool! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing @davidho !

Spelling your name with Landsat is cool!

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html

Your Name in Landsat 🛰️

@davidho thanks for doing mine already! 🥰

@davidho
Not sure I’m surprised or should’ve seen that coming.

@mvsde

@davidho I mean I had to test it with some swearing, but it seems to recognise most swearwords. To which I say

@davidho Way cool!

Landsat imagery of my name FANUA from NASA affiliated website.

@davidho

And I know exactly where the "O" is coming from. I've been on the shores of that lake!

@davidho
This is lovely! Thank you for sharing
@davidho And now a site for Chinese, please. =:-)
@davidho They suffer from the very common "censorship by regex"-problem tho.

@davidho
Nice tool. Thanks :)

I tried something else... but…

@davidho

Good Morning…glad to see our National Park takes a prominent place in the alphabet.

@davidho this is fantastic, your name in particular comes out great.
@davidho love this, thank you 🙏
@davidho
Cool. Thx!
Fun to keep hitting Enter
@davidho Cool! That‘ll be my new account header! 🤩
@davidho @wsslmn I can conclude that we live on a beautiful planet - for the time being.
@davidho THIS IS THE INTERNET I HAVE BEEN MISSING

@davidho does suffer from the Scunthorpe Problem though

(For context, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)

Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia

@ayo I kept refreshing my name to get multiple ones!
@davidho I can easily imagine this one as an actual #soviet #propaganda poster:

@davidho awesome. I finally feel like maybe the planet doesn't hate me after all.

Nope, it does.