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Stimulating Creativity in Human-Machine Teams
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (1711+ words) The question of how best to use artificial intelligence (AI) resources in the military, including for writing, is an important one. By Luke M. Herrington Introducing HWIT: Using Prompt Engineering to Stimulate Creativity in Human-Machine#_msocom_1 Teams The question of how best…...
R Programming tips to process IGRA2 Radiosonde data
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) In the last two posts (here and here) I showed how to read, plot, and map IGRA2 data. In this post I will discuss how to efficiently process large R data frames and lists to compute useful variables. One of the…...
R Programming tips to read and plot IGRA2 Radiosonde data
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1094+ words) If you simply want to use the code described here to write your own programs, I recommend using grok.com as a programming aid, it is very helpful. R is such a rich language, programming in it is difficult without…...
R Programming – Improvements in the Language
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (782+ words) The function fwrite was written by Otto Seiskari and Matt Dowle and first released in 2016. It became fully parallel by 2020; it is 10-100 times faster than the alternative write functions. For reading comma delimited files (CSV files) the companion fread function…...
CFACT comments on using AI to understand big bodies of research
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (1395+ words) The focus of their RFI is on using AI models to do research. But we pointed out that they can also be used to understand what is going on in research across the huge number of publications that are often…...
The Curious Case of the Missing Data
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (682+ words) In 1850, may I remind you, Dickens was writing David Copperfield, California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state and vast areas of the earth were still unexplored. 1900 brought the Boxer Rebellion (China), the Boer War (South Africa) and the…...
The Emergence of Emergence
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (495+ words) Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach "I'm going camping, and I'm taking a tent, a sleeping bag, a hatchet, and ___" "Based on your camping list'tent, sleeping bag, hatchet'the next logical and essential item to bring would be a flashlight. A flashlight…...
(Grid) Inertia explained
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (25+ words) Layman's guide to system inertia from Kathryn Porter Layman's guide to system inertia from Kathryn Porter Discover more from Watts Up With That?...