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🌳 AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
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AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry and Germany's Kiel University has introduced a new AI method for isolating and reconstructing forest trees that they call TreeStructor.

Pinterest: Hunderte Entlassungen sollen Ressourcen für KI freisetzen
Pinterest plant, bis zu fünfzehn Prozent der Belegschaft zu entlassen. Das soll mehr Ressourcen für die Entwicklung von KI-Funktionen und -Produkten freisetzen.

Atlas Obscura reports $18.3M in revenue in 2025 and a $2.6M profit, the first annual profit in its 16-year history, in the first year under CEO Louise Story (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/atlas-obscura-first-annual-profit/

Atlas Obscura Turns First Annual Profit in 16-Year History
The travel publisher, in its first year under CEO Louise Story, has trimmed and optimized its way into the black.

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty https://vegconomist.com/society/charity-campaigns/cambridge-massachusetts-becomes-first-city-in-state-to-endorse-plant-based-treat…

Cambridge, Massachusetts Becomes First City in State to Endorse Plant Based Treaty - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Cambridge City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the Plant Based Treaty, becoming the first city in Massachusetts and the sixth in the United States to

Mit dem heutigen #mdRzA — übrigens bei laut Wetterbericht "anhaltendem Schneeregen", aber da war leider nur "anhaltender Regen" — habe ich 700km beim #Frostpendeln erreicht. Deutlich mehr als meine letztjährige Frostpendeln-Gesamtstrecke von knapp 550km insgesamt. Vielleicht schaffe…

For The First Time, Again
Thinking about the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge, I reflect on books I wish I could read for the first time again—Jurassic Park, Red Storm Rising, and Parker’s mysteries—and how those stories first hooked me on reading.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/for-the-f

For The First Time, Again – Bob Mueller
Reflecting on books I wish I could read for the first time again, from Crichton to Clancy, and how they shaped my love of reading.

#073 Don't forget to play https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/073-dont-forget-to-play

#073 Don't forget to play
Payment methods / Cobbles on a bicycle

The First Radio View of a Type Ibn Supernova in SN 2023fyq - understanding the Mass-loss History in the Last Decade before the Explosion: #Supernova Reveal Star’s Final Years: https://as.virginia.edu/news/first-radio-signals-rare-supernova-reveal-stars-final-years

For the end of the day, I want to share this photo with you. It's a location that I wanted to visit since ... long -- until I finally went there a couple of times.
The first time, I wasn't able to really see the potantial of the location until I went there again, with more patience. Just walking around, not trying to stress myself, changing lenses a couple of times, ...
Ah well, and of course the conditions were great for such a photo.

Android: Neue Sideloading-Regeln sollen bei Gerätewechsel weiter erfüllt bleiben
Die einmalige 24-Stunden-Frist beim Android-Sideloading sorgt für viel Frust. Bei einem Gerätewechsel will Google es etwas leichter machen.