How to Feed the AIs
12 March 2024 | 9:09 pm

As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand growth for the first time in decades, and almost entirely from data centers. These data centers are running the internet, serving videos, hosting blogs …

How many scrolls await discovery?
22 February 2024 | 7:30 am

How much ancient text might we recover from the library in the Villa of Papyri in Herculaneum? How much was there to begin with? We know it was a huge luxurious villa filled with exquisite art works. Before the printing press, books were one of the highest value items one could own, especially on a per-volume or per-weight basis. We know that the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus lived and worked in the villa, probably to confer further prestige on the site. If you were a rich Roman keen to flaunt your taste and patronage of the arts, your library must be …

Global terrain map of Mars at 7 m resolution
16 February 2024 | 12:15 am

I recently completed an AI-driven interpolation of the 463 m resolution global MOLA altimetry dataset, using photoclinometry and the extraordinary 5 m resolution CTX collage by the Murray Lab at Caltech, down to a 7.2 m resolution global altimetry dataset. An example zoom over Jezero Crater with CTX imagery for reference is given below. Starting with a field of view 1000 km wide and resolution of 1 km/pixel, and zooming in 2x every image. The process of generating this data is recorded in this X thread. Some technical details are in this paper and this earlier blog. Credit to Balazs Zalanyi for improving the algorithm, …


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