🌱 Forest drama, data dilemmas & youth-led restoration 🌍

Can trust grow back like trees?

📰 #GroundTruth #Reforestation #EUDR #YouthPower 🌳

https://groundtruth.app/maple-regrowth-cropland-confusion-restoration-youth/

Can confirm https://isithotrightnow.com/places/brisbane #GroundTruth

Meanwhile in Ireland, bus stop signs (where they exist) show random numbers to confuse travelers. Neither 376 nor NG03 go anywhere near this bus stop, neither even come through the town. On the other hand, route 600 and 717 do stop here. How are we supposed to map #GroundTruth ? #OpenStreetMap #PublicTransport

☕Psssst! #BSidesLV CFP un-deadline is now 5/9. If data science or ML is your jam (with tea and bread, of course!), then #GroundTruth wants your talk on stats, visualization, or attacking ML. (Spoons optional. Tea required!) 🥄

👉https://pretalx.com/security-bsides-las-vegas-2025/cfp

"This paper advances the critical analysis of machine learning by placing it in direct relation with actuarial science as a way to further draw out their shared epistemic politics. The social studies of machine learning—along with work focused on other broad forms of algorithmic assessment, prediction, and scoring—tends to emphasize features of these systems that are decidedly actuarial in nature, and even deeply actuarial in origin. Yet, those technologies are almost never framed as actuarial and then fleshed out in that context or with that connection. Through discussions of the production of ground truth and politics of risk governance, I zero in on the bedrock relations of power-value-knowledge that are fundamental to, and constructed by, these technosciences and their regimes of authority and veracity in society. Analyzing both machine learning and actuarial science in the same frame gives us a unique vantage for understanding and grounding these technologies of governance. I conclude this theoretical analysis by arguing that contrary to their careful public performances of mechanical objectivity these technosciences are postmodern in their practices and politics."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439251331138

#DataScience #STS #Insurance #Postmodernism #ML #MachineLearning #Risk #RiskGovernance #GroundTruth #Epistemology

The March Hare is all ears for your data tales. Go wild and submit your #CFP ideas for our #GroundTruth track. https://bsideslv.org/cfp

📷: Foto by Helen Karam for Holophonix, taken at Opera Comique, Paris
#ArtInProcess #CreativeLabor #MusicTheatre #SoundDesign #NoShortcuts #GenerativeAI #Holophonix #RaphaëlPichon #ClausGuth #groundtruth (9/9)

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These images usually emerge at the beginning and the end of a collaboration. The process in between remains mostly invisible. (1/9)

Cleared a bunch of notes from #OpenStreetMap. Did some ground truthing on my bike yesterday and then did the updates today. My helmet cam was being uncooperative and I lost some footage but I was still able to get what I needed.

Still lots of open notes but I put something of a dent in them.

#victoriaBC #groundTruth #bikeTooter

The Groundtruth project has documented the costs of Trump's cuts in detail.

From Arkansas to the Amazon, Pennsylvania to Pakistan, they are staggering. This is hurting a wide swath of people across the nation and the world.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/69072891d2694f278d9cf168dfc1a006

#Trump
#GroundTruth

Why do I feel this intensity each time? I can’t decipher it. And maybe that in itself is already the answer. #OperaComique #Paris #TheaterMagic #Art #Creativity #Performance #GroundTruth #WhyArtMatters #Mystery #AIvsArt (4/4)

#groundtruth ??? In times when AI models simulate art at lightning speed and political decision-makers refuse to acknowledge facts, the question of fundamental truth in artistic creation seems more topical than ever. (1/4)

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Sometimes the truth only hits us when it’s been absent for a while. I vividly remember the feeling after the premiere of “When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other” (Martin Crimp) at Schauspiel Köln, where I provided the musical design. (1/5)

In a world where AI can generate sound with a single click, truly human, moving music needs our fragile honesty. That’s the #groundtruth I’m exploring, measure by measure.

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As an inventor working at the intersection of music, new technologies, and especially AI, I often wonder what “actual truth” in artistic work really is.

Stay tuned for more #groundtruth insights! I’ll be sharing how technology and humanity intersect to shape authentic musical experiences. Follow along for behind-the-scenes stories from the studio to the stage. #MusicTech #HumanConnection #InnovationInMusic (5/5)

I’m starting a #groundtruth series to explore how music’s “absolute truth” emerges from the synergy between performer, audience, instrument & environment. Yesterday, I recorded drummer Mathias Lachenmayr playing Josef Anton Riedl’s “Für Trommeln.” (2/5)

What does “ground truth” mean in music and new tech? It’s the reality created when musicians & listeners share the same space. No matter how advanced our tools or AI become, the heart of music remains that human connection. #groundtruth (1/5)

New dataset from BL colleague Alex Hailey: Ground truth transcriptions of 18th &19th century English language documents relating to botany from the India Office Records; related datacard and blog posts https://doi.org/10.23636/gfva-yn20 #Transkribus #dataset #GroundTruth #transcription

@FeralRobots

In #machinelearning, #GroundTruth is a term of #art.