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  • This is a way to shut down political discourse so it can be managed more centrally. We’re seeing it on YT, as well as FB. The goal is to effectively shut down any kind of “un-managed” discourse from emerging by effectively de-monetizing any kind of political news or information. The online news industry is literally collapsing and there seems to be a ‘collapsing towards corporate news only’ effort being made. Advertisers don’t want their brands next to “problematic” content; but this is a both-sidings of an issue, as if lgbtq+ rights are somehow contemporaneous with right-wing conspiracy bullshit. It goes more broadly to any socially good, motivated effort to educate people about their rights being equivocated with some of the worst aspect of human nature we see being promoted from right-wing sources.

    I think we all as a broader community have to address the question of costs of what it takes to get people to become politically informed versus the reality of bad faith actors, state agent propaganda, and misinformation.













  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhat are your AI use cases?
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    23 days ago

    I’ve done several AI/ ML projects at nation/ state/ landscape scale. I work mostly on issues that can be solved or at least, goals that can be worked towards using computer vision questions, but I also do all kinds of other ml stuff.

    So one example is a project I did for this group: https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/resources/data-maps

    Southwest Florida water management district (aka “Swiftmud”). They had been doing manual updates to a land-cover/ land use map, and wanted something more consistent, automated, and faster. Several thousands of square miles under their management, and they needed annual updates regarding how land was being used/ what cover type or condition it was in. I developed a hybrid approach using random forest, super-pixels, and UNET’s to look for regions of likely change, and then to try and identify the “to” and “from” classes of change. I’m pretty sure my data products and methods are still in use largely as I developed them. I built those out right on the back of UNET’s becoming the backbone of modern image analysis (think early 2016), which is why we still had some RF in there (dating myself).

    Another project I did was for State of California. I developed both the computer vision and statistical approaches for estimating outdoor water use for almost all residential properties in the state. These numbers I think are still in-use today (in-fact I know they are), and haven’t been updated since I developed them. That project was at a 1sq foot pixel resolution and was just about wall-to-wall mapping for the entire state, effectively putting down an estimate for every single scrap of turf grass in the state, and if California was going to allocate water budget for you or not. So if you got a nasty-gram from the water company about irrigation, my bad.

    These days I work on a small team focused on identifying features relevant for wildfire risk. I’m trying to see if I can put together a short video of what I’m working on right now as i post this.

    Example, fresh of the presses for some random house in California: