Member activity : Samir Bhowmik

@ZaneGTCooper Love the Texas project, of chaneling the gas surplus to the grid by mining! just thinking about how t… https://t.co/bMW8THd8B6

@ZaneGTCooper Really interesting! I agree it is definitely a much nuanced topic, considering the wide diversity of… https://t.co/9OlomxNjje

@ZaneGTCooper I am truly intrigued by this. I understand you were looking into this Texas natural gas- waste stream… https://t.co/UP7NvqF0zh

While the idea of Bitcoin mining partnering with renewable energy is a beguiling narrative, it can't greenwash an o… https://t.co/WpSG2YV7lF

”Computational Parasites and Hydropower: a Political Ecology of Bitcoin Mining on the Columbia River” about the une… https://t.co/SK7qG9tQGf

Bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries, approximately 0.28% of total global electricity consumption. By… https://t.co/rNpDQy5rpc

Bitcoin mining will last another century until 2140, imagine 61.76 Terawatts of energy use annually!News has it Bit… https://t.co/aZukX1Egj5

RT @minruc: AI Finland is a man's world. Curious how this is not seen as any kind of issue. https://t.co/LYmOQCLpu2

RT @shannonmattern: "For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland's nuclear waste repository “Safety Case” experts. The…

RT @Nicolas_Sassoon: CORES with @ricksilva is now online, with a wonderful essay by @elisehunchuck & @juspar - Big thanks to Elise & Jussi…

RT @bernardionysius: A tour guide took me around the Black Forest once, where Heidegger had his cabin. Which Heidegger celebrated, among ot…

RT @databaseculture: @Samir_Bhowmik I the think the emergence of this paper has also consequences for #AI art. Some of it is also much to s…

RT @MiskaDellinger: @Samir_Bhowmik @Mikkoli It's like all of AI-research is just people going "actually, correlation DOES equal causation".

@databaseculture I might even believe some correlations if extensive and heterogeneous datasets for #ML study, were… https://t.co/xEJ8uwHOyf

Although, there might be some truth to the Colonial European face projecting ’Trust’ as evidenced in the study, whi… https://t.co/dOqTocXbLx

This deeply-biased #AI paper implies that the Global South/ poor countries are inherently un-trustworthy,and hence… https://t.co/GWdCGWDltH

”The premise that an image can be an authentic representation — that you are a unique individual at all — is not se… https://t.co/ayJQgYM9CO

RT @MedieKultur_: Call for abstracts! Special issue on “Platformed Bodies”, edited by @kristianmj and @MajaNordtug. Deadline November 1st.…

RT @leahstokes: Carbon pricing has dominated climate policy debates for decades. But the solution is ineffective and politically toxic. W…

RT @mel_hogan: “This concealment of industrial reality, behind a phantasmagoria of virtuality, is a sleight of hand typical of Big Tech, wi…

RT @BigDataSoc: Check out this new commentary article “Black boxes, not green: Mythologizing artificial intelligence and omitting the envir…

RT @croopier: oceans of smoke

RT @_w0bb1t_: #NODE20 Second Nature is coming your way · @nodeforum, 2 - 8 Oct 2020 .. Online & #Frankfurt .. W/ @refikanadol @julian0live…

RT @gabrielopereira: How does Computer Vision from Big Tech look at artworks from a museum? What if the glitches in these results were look…

RT @culanth: 🚨⚠️New content alert!⚠️ 🚨 Our new series "Geological Anthropology" suggests that thinking through our planetary predicament r…

RT @JenniferFrazer: My latest opinion piece at Scientific American: Fish fossils buried in the Pacific are, bizarrely, fantastic rare earth…

ICYMI / While information may not be matter nor energy, as Norbert Wiener famously proclaimed, digital manipulation… https://t.co/gABX8G4XAI

I would like to see us develop a ”Predictive Maintenance of the Earth” than just fixing rust on a naval ship... #ml… https://t.co/qzz2jbo7hF

Aerosol Optical Depth(AOD) is a quantitave estimate of aerosols present in the air by measuring the passage/Extinct… https://t.co/65HXLNb99q

The smoky after-effects of the American West Coast fires & #ClimateChange arrives to Finland...we have to now just… https://t.co/5lERiKtOpN