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Bill Morris, Bringer of Entropy, Full-Stack Dilettante
@Mapbox. Formerly vtcraghead of yore. He/him.
Homepagehttps://billmorris.io

I think that the reason I muster anything other than cynical contempt - nay, that I muster actual enthusiasm - for the Humane AI Pin is that I'm so sick of the phone as the attenuator between my brain and the digital world. It's the reason why the UX paradigm in the movie "Her" was so compelling, and the reason why smart glasses at least raise my eyebrow with interest.

*The UX bar to clear - ever-larger glass slabs in my pocket - is so low already.*

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930669/humane-ai-pin-trust-light-camera #humane #ux

Humane’s AI Pin is powered by GPT-4 and has a “Trust Ring”

Humane’s AI wearable is set to launch on November 9th, but thanks to a Time Magazine feature we have new information about its AI capabilities and features.

The Verge

Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web.

Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

(I know this isn't strictly true - I once had a grand time testing a subcanopy lidar instrument in Australia)

What kind of research specialty would I need to be able to get posted to the Îles Crozet for a season? https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Crozet_Islands

This is the problem with remote sensing. The *remote* part really undermines the need for fieldwork. #mapping #research #antarctic

Crozet Islands – Travel guide at Wikivoyage

@spara put together a great toolkit for deploying your own #llm, including some great examples of prompt engineering with geographic data in mind: https://github.com/spara/foss4gna-2023-prompt-engineering

The key is that it takes some work. Successful prompt engineering is the result of a reinforced *conversation*, not a single question thrown into a metal box. #mapping

GitHub - spara/foss4gna-2023-prompt-engineering: Prompt engineering examples for FOSS4GNA 2023

Prompt engineering examples for FOSS4GNA 2023 . Contribute to spara/foss4gna-2023-prompt-engineering development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Introducing lonboard: the fastest way to visualize large geospatial vector data from Python.

Here's 3 million points rendered with a unique color and radius per point, in two seconds.

https://developmentseed.org/blog/2023-10-23-lonboard
https://ds.io/lonboard

Launching Lonboard — Development Seed

Fast, Interactive Geospatial Data Visualization from Python.

@spara It's also a great example of how *even if you do everything right*, an #llm is still sometimes going to just make s*** up:

Going to hold onto this and submit it for a 2050 museum exhibit on the brief pre-internet digital age.

#nintendo #80s #history #gaming #nes

Downloading some of the new #ArcticDEM data for enhancing our abrupt thaw mapping models... couldn't help but to stop and take a 👀 at few rivers.
#screenshot
Really great reference from @developmentseed, covering the raster formats of the present and future. I'll be coming back to this *a lot*. https://guide.cloudnativegeo.org/ #mapping #satellite #raster
Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide