• Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69

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Ben Strong: We have Foundation Models of Earth, now What? Earth Index - MBM#69

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  • Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been working on Earth Index, an application built on top of Earth embeddings from foundation models. This conversation is the "so what" of Earth foundational model

    Sponsor: OpenCage

    Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API
    Geomob

    About
    • LinkedIn
    Shownotes

    Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.

    • Ben’s blogpost on NDA sequencing for the Earth
    • Earth Genome
    • Earth Index
    • Book & Podcast recommendation
      • Demo Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Affiliate Link)
      • Risky Business
    Timestamps

    (00:00) - Intro
    (00:46) - Sponsor: OpenCage
    (02:12) - Ben introduces himself
    (03:28) - "DNA sequencing" for Earth
    (13:37) - Not building another Foundation Model
    (18:06) - Earth embeddings: So what?
    (21:49) - What does locally finetuned mean?
    (25:48) - Invite only for now: Why?
    (29:31) - Journalistic applications
    (31:59) - Yet another tool for finding images?
    (35:09) - Deciding what to work on
    (38:35) - Designing for simplicity
    (44:14) - So, why hasn't Google made this?
    (51:18) - Funding
    (59:54) - Book & podcast Recommendations

    • Support the podcast on Patreon
    • My video on an introduction to satellite images
    • Website
    • My Twitter
    • Podcast Twitter
    • Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter
    • Edited by Peter Xiong
    • Find more of his work
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あらすじ・解説

Ben Strong is the Science & Machine Learning Lead at Earth Genome, an NGO working on the intersection of data, science & digital design. Most recently they've been working on Earth Index, an application built on top of Earth embeddings from foundation models. This conversation is the "so what" of Earth foundational model

Sponsor: OpenCage

Use OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API
Geomob

About
  • LinkedIn
Shownotes

Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.

  • Ben’s blogpost on NDA sequencing for the Earth
  • Earth Genome
  • Earth Index
  • Book & Podcast recommendation
    • Demo Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Affiliate Link)
    • Risky Business
Timestamps

(00:00) - Intro
(00:46) - Sponsor: OpenCage
(02:12) - Ben introduces himself
(03:28) - "DNA sequencing" for Earth
(13:37) - Not building another Foundation Model
(18:06) - Earth embeddings: So what?
(21:49) - What does locally finetuned mean?
(25:48) - Invite only for now: Why?
(29:31) - Journalistic applications
(31:59) - Yet another tool for finding images?
(35:09) - Deciding what to work on
(38:35) - Designing for simplicity
(44:14) - So, why hasn't Google made this?
(51:18) - Funding
(59:54) - Book & podcast Recommendations

  • Support the podcast on Patreon
  • My video on an introduction to satellite images
  • Website
  • My Twitter
  • Podcast Twitter
  • Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter
  • Edited by Peter Xiong
  • Find more of his work

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