So many to choose from: In his latest post, Mark Litwintschik compares a range of global administrative #boundary datasets, from #OpenStreetMap to #NaturalEarth, assessing geometric #accuracy, data #completeness, and information content. The analysis, powered by #DuckDB...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/12/13-so-many-to-choose-from/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Interesting paper from the always interesting Ethan Mollick. I find personas useful for brainstorming and reviewing, but it's good to know that they rarely have a positive impact on factual accuracy. #AI #Accuracy

Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5879722

🎉🔍 Look out, world! A #groundbreaking, "influential" #study on #glyphosate #safety has finally been retracted after only a quarter of a century. Because, you know, #science is all about being #timely and accurate... eventually. 🔬⏳
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/12/03/influential-study-on-glyphosate-safety-retracted-25-years-after-publication_6748114_114.html #retraction #news #accuracy #HackerNews #ngated

The #robot does not replace #surgeons but enhances their ability to carry out complex operations via very tiny incisions, with greater #accuracy and #precision. Nine in 10 of all keyhole surgeries, such as the removal of certain organs affected by #cancer, will be delivered with robot assistance within the next 10 years https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v8176z7dlo

#Judge's footnote on immigration agents using #AI raises #accuracy & #privacy #concerns
🧐"Judge Sara Ellis wrote footnote in a 223pg opinion, noting tt te practice of us'g #ChatGPT to write use-of-force #reports undermines te agents’ #credibility & “may explain te inaccuracy of these reports”.. judge noted factual discrepancies btw official narrative abt those #law #enforcement responses & what body camera footage showed.. use of AI also raises potential privacy concerns"
https://apnews.com/article/ice-artificial-intelligence-ai-chicago-law-enforcement-3b7aeb65c982842ce0b6b94436fbff30

A new #AItool, created by Dartmouth professor Sean Westwood, can answer #onlinesurvey questions with near-flawless #accuracy, #bypassing #detectionmethods 99.8% of the time. This poses a significant threat to #onlinesurveyresearch, as the AI can manipulate survey results by mimicking #humanresponses and demographics. https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-an-ai-that-completely-breaks-the-online-surveys-scientists-rely-on/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Ok, I can figure out the discrepancies (or at least know when to ask questions), typos, and broken links. I can put 2.5 and 2.5 together and get 5. But if the average user is of the very low intelligence that this material is written for (a SIX MINUTE VIDEO on logging in and menu navigation?!), they're only going to get 4.

I support #accuracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/media/ai-defamation-libel-slander.html #ai #tech

You, @indivisibleteam, wrote: "Even though spineless Senate Democrats caved, the overwhelming majority of House Democrats ..."

You and I often agree, but in this case your claim was misleading, because the overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats are not spineless and they did not cave.
#fairness #accuracy #politics

Amazon's Alexa has just told me to expect 6.15cm of snow.

You have to admire her precision if not her accuracy.

#alexa #accuracy #precision

https://www.fogolf.com/1091547/best-golf-balls-for-accuracy-2025-helping-mid-high-handicappers-find-more-fairways-and-greens/ Best Golf Balls For Accuracy 2025 | Helping Mid-High Handicappers Find More Fairways and Greens #accuracy #BALLS #Fairways #find #Golf #GolfBall #GolfBalls #GolfBallsVideos #GolfBallsVlog #GolfBallsYouTube #GolfEquipment #GolfEquipmentVideos #GolfEquipmentVlog #GolfEquipmentYouTube #GolfSwingBasics #GolfTees #GolfTeesVideos #GolfTeesVlog #GolfTeesYouTube #greens #HANDICAPPERS #helping #midhigh #Top5BeginnerGolfBasics

Many conference sessions aren't accurately described by their program blurb. Here are six ways you can avoid wasting attendee time.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/06/avoid-wasting-attendee-time

#meetings #EventDesign #events #program #accuracy #eventprofs

The Myth And Reality Of ‘Physics-Based’ Models In Geosciences
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https://geoaiunpacked.substack.com/p/the-myth-and-reality-of-physics-based <-- shared technical article
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“Across hydrology, fire, weather, and climate science, models are often described as physics-based—a phrase that evokes rigor, transparency, and trust. Yet, beneath the surface, much of what drives these models are empirical relationships and parameterizations rather than direct solutions of physical laws. These assumptions are necessary to make the equations computable, but they also introduce biases, tuning artifacts, and uncertainties that can propagate through every layer of simulation.
This doesn’t mean physics-based models are flawed or obsolete; rather, it highlights the complexity of modeling natural systems…”
#GeoAI #datadriven #physicsbased #model #modeling #usecase #appliedscience #accuracy #appropriateness #simulation #naturalsystems #hybrid #physicalrealism #hydrology #fire #weather #climate

Can you trust the #accuracy of #science #publications? Some now use #AI in #publishing for #editing or #translation. Thus, skilled #science & #medical #editors & #translators are losing #authors & #publishers as clients, who hope to save #money by not #hiring #humans. https://tinyurl.com/mrxsk36j

@cbcnews

Good grief. Their #AI #chatbot was found to be only *slightly* more accurate than their human agents.

But NEITHER performed well enough that I would want to believe ANYTHING they tell me going forwards. 😱 Citizens shouldn't have to be expected to seek correct answers only from private #CPA professionals, if for no reason that this is well out of reach for many.

Perhaps some deeper training and knowledge benchmarks should be the norm?

Because frankly, I don't care if #CRA answers my call in under 10 seconds if I have better odds on a correct answer from a #Magic8Ball! 🙄😡

#Canada
#taxes
#CanadaRevenueAgency
#CallCentres
#staffing
#information
#accuracy

VAT Confidence Booster! Practical training using scenario analysis. Improve internal documentation and minimize filing errors.

Boost financial team confidence: https://www.easmea.com/services/vat-training-in-uae/

#VATTraining #Accuracy #TeamConfidence #EAS #VATinUAE #dubai #uae #uaebusiness #dubaibusiness

> It is 41 inches (1,000 mm) high, [...]

🤦‍♂️ 🤦

#precision #accuracy #conversion #math #arithmetic #HowDoIMath #metric #imperial #CloseEnough

“Somewhat courageously, given the setting, a fellow student raised her hand and asked: “What you’re describing seems unnecessary. *What about giving us something we actually need?*”

*To which one CEO replied: “Um, we decide what you need.”*

Thirty years later, what seemed radical then is run of the mill now. So too, it will be with #ArtificialIntelligence, which many of us still see as a choice but which will soon be choosing for us. As a matter of fact, it already is.

Is that what we need? Rather than ask a #tech #CEO, let’s ask a dear colleague of mine who last week was simply doing his job as a #GraphicDesigner (something #AI is reportedly coming for) by supplying an illustration for a story about an alleged child murderer whose name had been read out under privilege in parliament.

Shortly after #publication, #Google’s new artificial incompetence mode was serving up a summary naming my colleague as the alleged murderer. Its #DataMiners had swept the #PhotoCredit and the victim’s name and had put two and two together to make 11.3175 recurring.”

#OpEd / #ChrisHarrison / #FactCheck / #truth / #accuracy <https://www.smh.com.au/technology/when-ai-called-my-friend-a-murderer-it-solved-my-daughter-s-career-choice-20251026-p5n5d9.html> paywall) / <https://archive.md/3rX3y>

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The study [4] concludes:

"A concerning proportion of assistant responses fall short on basic criteria like #accuracy and providing adequate context – things which are essential editorial values [...]

These problems are exacerbated by the ways assistants make them hard to spot and hard to check, including the confidence with which assistants answer (giving a false sense of #quality and certainty), sources which do not lead to relevant news content, or a complete lack of any sources at all"

BURGER - A Bottom-Up Regionalization Approach for Global Sub-Daily Intensity-Duration-Frequency Data
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR039773 <-- shared paper
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https://zenodo.org/records/15473689 <-- shared dataset
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"KEY POINTS
• BURGER is the first global IDF data set derived from observations of sub-daily rainfall
• Sub-daily rainfall intensities are computed with the Simplified Metastatistical Extreme Value (SMEV) approach for a range of return periods
• BURGER intensities compare well with expected intensities, indicated by an interquartile range of the percentage bias between −5% and 5%..”
#GIS #spatial #data #mapping #global #exteremeweather #precipitation #rainfall #gauge #intensity #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #BURGER #geostatistics #spatialstatistics # statistics #GSDR #IDF #remotesensing #earthobservation #machinelearning #AI #weather #climate #prediction #usecase #flood #risk #hazard #SMEV #accuracy #metrology