Ib Green led the development of 3D visualisation tools like for example Uber’s deck.gl and is now working at Foursquare, after having started Unfolded, which Foursquare acquired. During this conversation we touch on how browser based visualisations are changing

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(00:00) - Intro

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(01:43) - Ib describes himself

(02:33) - How lb got to where he is today

(07:47) - Uber's need for visualization tools

(15:11) - Why do companies build open source tools?

(17:46) - Open source to open governance

(23:41) - Starting a company

(26:31) - How Unfolded generates revenue

(28:28) - Nerding out on browser based visualization tech

(35:11) - Client side rendering challenges

(39:27) - Competing against the smartphone

(41:38) - Looking ahead

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Bruno Sanchez is the Executive Director of the Clay Foundation, which just released their v1 of a “Foundational Model of Earth”. We talk about what that means, building open source & non profits and can’t help but draw parallels to the not-so-open anymore OpenAI. Previously Bruno was the Program Director of the Microsoft Planetary Computer

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(00:00) - Intro

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(03:39) - What is a Foundational Model?

(08:45) - Foundational Task

(11:00) - Embeddings, and why they matter

(13:49) - Comparing to compression algorithms

(16:57) - What do embeddings enable?

(19:50) - Finding the Relationship between data

(24:16) - Implementation of monitoring all the data - I believe this is where you're going with the question

(25:44) - Implementation details

(27:52) - Validating a foundational model

(33:49) - Earth is a "limited problem"

(42:47) - Funding as a non-profit

(47:53) - Raising enough philanthropic funding

(53:02) - A Litmus test for open projects

(56:26) - Future predictions

(58:01) - Transparency/privacy

(01:00:53) - Commercial data

(01:03:36) - Openstreetmap

(01:05:49) - Updating foundational models

(01:12:17) - Clay model v2?

(01:13:43) - Dataset to embedding size comparison

(01:14:41) - Model v2 - continued

(01:16:45) - Difference working at a non-profit vs a corp

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Dr Fred Calef III has the unofficial title of "Keeper of Maps" at NASA JPL, he's the Lead Mapping Specialist for most of JPL's Mars Rover missions, most recently that being Perseverance & Curiosity. But to land -and navigate- a rover, one needs maps, and Fred makes them.

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(00:00) - Introduction

(00:48) - Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap

(02:23) - How would you describe yourself?

(03:18) - Keeper of the Maps

(05:04) - What it takes to map Mars

(10:21) - Deciding where to put (0,0)

(12:33) - Current accuracy of Mars mapping

(14:01) - 150m / pixel: How do you find anything?

(18:14) - Rover cameras on the ground

(22:39) - Creating detailed maps for the Rover's automation

(26:07) - How would we be navigating on Mars if we send people there?

(31:20) - Comparing to the early days of car navigation

(34:15) - Using a compass on Mars

(36:13) - Mapping tools

(48:54) - Has every image of Mars been seen by at least 1 person?

(53:37) - Mars doesn't change that much

(56:45) - More strange difference between Mars & Earth

(01:00:53) - Mapping other celestial bodies

(01:05:04) - Missions or mapping projects that Fred is looking forward to

(01:06:10) - Book/podcast recommendation

(01:10:06) - One last question: Mars time

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