Description

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Steven Pousty about GIS, open source theology, and AI!

• Compiling reliable gazetteers with BS 7666 from episode 261
• The European Patroleum Survey Group
• what3words
• Google Plus Codes
• Cardinal direction
• 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems
• OpenStreetMap
• Overture Maps Foundation
• Prithvi WxC: NASA and IBM’s AI Foundation Model for Weather and Climate
• Universal basic income
• OSI getting “Open Source AI” really wrong
• Shōgun
• Epistemic closure
• Tobler's first law of geography
• Hoop Dreams
• Synthetic data
• IBM InstructLab
• Deep learning fine-tuning
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

We Give Thanks

• Steven Pousty for being our special guest star!

Special Guest: Steven Pousty.