24 Data Science & AI Articles from July 2023

The future space economy could encompass activities that currently aren’t being pursued at scale, such as in-orbit manufacturing, power generation, & space mining, as well as scalable human spaceflight 

Will the future be filled with “networks of autonomous drones, deployed around the globe, helping humans keep conflict in check … or maybe the skies will darken with attack swarms”

A basic explanation of geospatial data & geospatial technology—how they are used and their limitations

Our hesitation, perceived or otherwise, to move forward with military applications of artificial intelligence will be punished

Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of AI Weapons 

The AI-powered, totally autonomous future of war Is here

Experts imagine what artificial intelligence could mean for the future of satellites, space entrepreneurship, and government defense systems 

How much coding is needed in a data science career?

10 Specific Predictions about AI

A look at what sets Meta’s Llama 2 apart from its predecessor & other large language models—here’s the technical details & implications for data scientists

US sharpens military space race plan as Space Force is challenged to compete with China  

A review of major data science and AI developments during the first half of 2023

What’s missing from ChatGPT and other LLMs?

How does Bayesian inference work when estimating noisy interactions?

A US Army project called "Real-Time Threat Forecasting" hopes to create AI that can forecast enemy actions just minutes before the enemy actually does it—and continuously update that forecast as adversaries change their tactics

OpenAI rolls out a ChatGPT Plus feature called the Code Interpreter that can write and execute python code, and can work with file uploads

A primer on large language models

The latest trends in artificial intelligence and deep learning from the metaverse to quantum computing

“I don't think generative AI will displace predictive analytics"

Understanding the difference between advanced and predictive analytics

The advantages of Causal AI over traditional machine learning

Most of the large language models developed in China are nearly 2 years behind the US—a gap that would be a challenge to close even if American firms had to adjust to regulation

A Chinese satellite manufacturer and constellation operator says it has successfully demonstrated space-to-ground high-speed laser communications— transmitting data 10x faster thanks to lasers

The engineering applications of machine learning and predictive analytics

25 Data Science Articles from Dec 2022

A Pandas DataFrame cheatsheet for exploratory analysis & data manipulation 

Five ways that data roles will change in 2023 related to Chief Data Officers

AI & machine learning are “top of mind for the Army, especially as it pertains to protecting its assets in space”

10 weird things about SpaceX's more than 3,000 Starlink satellites (and that number keeps growing)

Initial specific steps toward launching a machine learning project 

Adobe has just released a remarkable and free AI-powered enhanced speech tool

The four biggest trends they expect to shape the AI landscape in 2023

Synthetic data applications, limitations & vulnerabilities

A guide to the roles and responsibilities on a data migration team

A tech journalist goes back to high school to find out what OpenAI’s Chatbot can pass AP Lit

The current limitations of AI’s military impact & where tech could one day spark “revolutionary changes” 

How Bayesian network structure learning can incorporate missing data 

The NGA has plans to develop an overarching cloud-based enterprise management system capable of automating its data collection and dissemination and ultimately replacing the overall Foundation GEOINT storage and management process 

A new paper on “Localization and classification of space objects using EfficientDet detector for space situational awareness”

Potential uses of ChatGPT for data scientists

McKinsey on the state of AI since the research firm began tracking it five years ago

A new collaborative effort is designed to “support interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide”

Different kinds of geospatial specialists are needed in different situations

China outpaces efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to harness power of publicly available data 

The Space Dev Agency’s first major satellite launch has been delayed again

A look under the hood: How does ChatGPT work internally? 

An AI method from MIT and IBM research “improves the training and inference performance of deep learning models on large graphs”

Some basics about the new AI called ChatGPT 

Why Neural Network explainability is important, how to do it, & the tools for it

“The FCC approved part of SpaceX’s application for the second generation of the Starlink constellation, which will allow SpaceX to deploy up to 7,500 satellites”

20 Data Science Articles from Nov 2022

3 approaches to track and reduce space debris

Big tech has a “blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models.” Meta’s Galactica is another example

A key advancement toward commercial quantum computing applications

Creating and deleting a SQL database on Azure Cloud

A dataset to train AI systems that can generate code

The NRO has released its formal request for proposals from commercial operators who can provide the spy satellite agency with hyperspectral imagery

Tracking the typical lifecycle of AI innovations in the aerospace and defense industry

Scientists call for better space weather alerts to prevent commercial space disasters

Data preparation is key to expanding military benefits of AI

The difficult search for dangerous space Junk that could potentially trigger devastating chain reactions 

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to double spending on contracts to monitor global economic activity from space

“Our adversaries are coming after us in cyberspace” says a U.S. Space Force Col.

5 ways to use predictive insights to get the most from your data

Where is the satellite intelligence industry heading next?

15 of the little-known uses of artificial intelligence

Geopolitical threats in the space environment—debating a potential new cold war

AI creators have problems explaining how it works and determining why it has the outputs it has

Top C++ based data science and machine learning libraries

A moderately large atomic detonation could knock out satellites in low Earth orbit

7 Steps to Mastering Machine Learning with Python in 2022

29 Data Science Articles from Oct 2022

“The Pentagon needs an intelligent decision support system to assist with analyzing all the data available without causing information overload for the analyst while detecting nuances and subtleties an analyst may not observe.” Read more.

Russia's anti-satellite threat tests laws of war in space

The Space Force & US Space Command could see action if Russia follows through on threats to target commercial satellites assisting Ukraine’s defense of its homeland. Read more.

SpaceX Amazon & FCC discuss satellite spectrum rulemaking

Senior Russian foreign ministry warns that the commercial satellites used by the US & its allies could become "legitimate" targets for retaliatory action by Russia. Read more.

Understanding graph neural networks & how they “apply the predictive power of deep learning to rich data structures that depict objects and their relationships as points connected by lines in a graph.” Read more.

How linear regression is used in machine learning

Linguists believed that learning language is impossible without a built-in grammar template. New AI models prove otherwise. Read more.

The value of imaginary numbers in quantum ideas to describe the hidden shape of the universe. Read more.

NSA cybersecurity director's 6 takeaways from the war in Ukraine 

Artificial intelligence explainability according to MIT: “the ability to manage AI initiatives in ways that ensure models are value-generating, compliant, representative, and reliable” Read more.

Military research groups are buying advanced US software products & selling them on, boosting China’s hypersonic missile program—despite export controls designed to prevent resales to foreign entities. Read more.

FCC tightens rules on space junk: the five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if companies will abide by it. Read more.

Surprise discovery of radio signals could help track space junk and limit global security risks

The future of military satellite communications starts now

Ukraine Lessons for Naval Intelligence's Next War

Russia launches three satellite deployment missions in one week

An update on the space race matching smartphones with low-orbit satellites

Radiation from outer space could affect the computers on satellites

The charge required to corrupt data is getting smaller all the time, meaning it is actually getting easier for cosmic rays to have this effect. Read more

3 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your Python Code

“Sweeping change is coming to the U.S. Army’s fleet of fixed-wing intelligence-gathering aircraft over the next several years.” Read more.

10 Data Science Cheat Sheets

The war in Ukraine has underlined the growing importance of space to armies on the ground

“For serious software development, the no-code/low-code approach doesn’t work when you need to develop mission critical software. It is even more far-fetched, then, to have only citizen data scientists running your AI/ML.” Read more.  

What will happen to the space debris in orbit?

10 things journalists should know About AI

The NRO is “redefining how it works with the US Space Force and the US Space Command” to “expand the NRO’s space-based intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance” as it faces a “more complex near-peer adversary environment.” Read more.

How to create satellite imagery datasets and how to apply a classification model to them based on convolutional neural networks. Read more.  

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