Surprise
From public sources: the team expected to find a fixed set of click patterns. Instead, whales combine rhythm, tempo, small timing shifts and extra clicks into many variations that depend on the conversation. The authors stress that this shows structure,...
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Surprise
From public sources: comparing satellite images from 2017 to 2021 with ship-tracking broadcasts, the team found about 75% of industrial fishing vessels and over 25% of transport and energy vessels were missing from public tracking. Not all boats are...
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Worked
From public sources: Google describes early numbers showing potential for up to 30% fewer stops and 10% lower greenhouse gas emissions at coordinated intersections. It notes the figures are early, averaged, and modelled on a single vehicle type, and that...
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Workaround
From public sources: as the photo collection grew from 12 to nearly 21 million images, training slowed. iNaturalist wrote new training software, which it estimated cut training time from about seven months to about two and a half. It also reported that...
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Workaround
From public sources: Felidae writes that wind, shadows and moving plants set off its cameras, producing thousands of empty photos in a single batch. Running MegaDetector first removes those, and SpeciesNet then suggests species. Felidae reports that...
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Worked
From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports that Quartz Solar halved large forecast errors compared with NESO's previous tools, and estimates it saves at least £30 million a year in balancing costs and about 300,000 tonnes of CO2. These figures come from...
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Worked
From public sources: Open Climate Fix reports up to an 8% gain in forecast accuracy for Indian state operators when tested on historical wind data, and an average 13% cut in imbalance penalties for Adani Green. The partners say these test results still...
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Earth Species Project is a nonprofit research lab that builds AI to help people decode how animals communicate. It released NatureLM-audio, an open model for analyzing animal sounds, and works...
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