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OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date. OpenStreetMap’s community is diverse, passionate, …
Follow up to Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations See also The Atlantic [unpaywalled] – And tech companies might not be the winners. “Every second of every day, people across the world type tens of thousands of queries into Google, adding up to trillions of searches a year. Google and a few …
Climate Change Indicators: Zachary Labe – “I’m a Climate Scientist (Atmospheric) at NOAA GFDL | PhD | trying to visualize the signal from a lot of noise. Broadly, I am interested in a signal-to-noise problem. The signal is climate change. The noise is weather. My research intends to disentangle the two components to improve our …
“Who is ahead in the race for the White House? Discover the FT’s latest news, analysis and polling data from the 2024 US election. Sign up to our US Election Countdown newsletter, your essential guide to the twists and turns of the election.”
Via LLRX – The race against time to reinvent lawyers – Jordan Furlong is a leading analyst of the global legal market and forecaster of its future development. In this insightful article he contends that our legal education and licensing systems produce one kind of lawyer. The legal market of the near future will need another kind. …
“Public Work is a search engine [users may search and then download images] for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.” What’s Public Domain?
Via LLRX – Slide Show Formatting Basics – Legal tech expert and frequent speaker Jerry Lawson affirms that the best substantive presentation material looks even better if packaged well. Formatting slide shows is an art. Compliance with some basic slide show formatting principles won’t make you Monet, but will put you on the road to …
“CancerDB is a public domain blog assembling searchable key datasets on cancer for dependable models. The focus is on cancer, cancer preventions and treatments, but the database also includes datasets on closely connected things–from cancer types to organizations and more. CancerDB is for two groups of people: Cancer researchers. CancerDB is organized big data to …
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems – “Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the …
Everyday Life in Real Time – “Our site is a “real-time” visualization of the relative scale of different life events and natural phenomena (details on what real-time means below). You can select from various categories, time periods, and some unique units of measure that we created in the dropdowns to modify the counter lists. Each …
MIT Technology Review [unpaywalled]: “Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set. Now they have a new way …
Pluralistic: “A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute offers a look into the bizarre situation unfolding in workplaces where bosses have been conned into buying AI and now face the challenge of getting it to work as advertised:” Research by The Upwork Research Institute reveals that 71% of full-time employees are burned out …
