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It’s important to make a distinction between the definition of “open source AI” canonized by the OSI that doesn’t require open training data, and models where all of the training data used is also made available.

Separately, the tools most people think about when they hear “AI”, generalized generative AI models, only exist as capitalist surplus, and we shouldn’t be defending them. Hyper focused AI tools such as the Te Hiku Media project to create speech recognition tools for the te reo Māori language are unequivocally good, and we should be making a lot more projects like this.

mineral aerosols.

here is a recent paper trying to figure out the composition from ice core samples for a given age range and location

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37061058/

You’re correct! It is Cherenkov Radiation; specifically from the muon (or electron or tau) that is a result of the neutrino interacting with the nucleus of an atom because Cherenkov Radiation happens with charged particles.

There is a dust layer in the ice at the South Pole about 2km under the surface that interferes with about 5000 photomultiplier tubes spread out over a cubic kilometer in the ice that are watching for light created from high energy muons moving faster than the speed of light in the ice that were in turn the result of the very rare chance of a high energy neutrino interacting with the nucleus of a single atom in the ice.