Martin H. Trauth, University of Potsdam, Germany
ChatGPT by OpenAI, publicly available as a prototype since November 2022, is an AI-based chatbot. Since then, it has been used by millions of users to answer questions, but also to write entire essays and solve programming problems. Here are a few thoughts on this from me, based on a few simple experiments. Continue reading “ChatGPT in Scientific Writing and Coding”
Now that Twitter has become an unpleasant place due to the takeover by the richest man in the world, the MRES/PRES blog is on Mastodon:
https://fediscience.org/@martinhtrauth
I hope to you see you there, and of course, still here on this blog.
When I was working on the student experiments for the book Signal and Noise in Geosciences (Springer 2021), there was an inexpensive 3D scanner available – right up until that moment when I got the money to actually buy it. The company Hewlett Packard bought the smaller manufacturing company and stopped the production of the cheap scanner. HP was selling much more expensive 3D scanners at that time. Now there is a inexpensive 3D scanner again, the Revopoint MINI, and I just got one. Here are the first results, scanning with the company’s software, then importing, processing and displaying the point cloud with texture with MATLAB. Continue reading “Calculating 3D Point Clouds From 3D Scanning Outputs”
Ed Hawkins, climatologist at U Reading, published a visualization graphics for climate data to display global warming. Here’s a script to display the warming stripes with MATLAB.
This week scientists from the Chew Bahir project will meet in the Virtual Space to discuss the latest results of the 290 m long ICDP cores from S Ethiopia. Continue reading “Seventh Chew Bahir Drilling Project Workshop in the Virtual Space”
This is the Errata File for Python Recipes for Earth Sciences (Springer 2022). The authors apologize for these errors, which were unintentional. The file is constantly updated on this webpage.
Please let me know if you find any mistakes, misunderstandings in the text, or general suggestions for additions and extensions. No book is as good as its next edition!
Continue reading “New Book “Python Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2022)”
Here you find the data and MATLAB code and data of our paper “Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution” published in Nature Geoscience. Continue reading “Data and MATLAB Code of “Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution” (Foerster et al., Nature Geoscience 2021)”