Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Seismic Explore Last Leaf on the Tree

 

LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters

TechCrunch: “LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for users. Hiring Assistant is a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, from ingesting scrappy notes and thoughts to turn into longer job descriptions to sourcing candidates and engaging with them. 




LinkedIn is describing Hiring Assistant as a milestone in its AI trajectory: It is, per the Microsoft-owned company, its first “AI agent” and one that happens to be targeting one of LinkedIn’s most lucrative categories of users — recruiters. LinkedIn said the AI assistant is now live with a “select group” of customers (large enterprises such as AMD, Canva, Siemens and Zurich Insurance among them). It’s slated to be rolling out more widely in the coming months. 

The platform was always an early adopter of AI in its back end — (somewhat creepily) folding AI techniques into its algorithms to produce surprisingly accurate connection recommendations to users, for example.”


Seismic Explorer - The Concord Consortium: “From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above

You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in volcanic eruptions. You can also draw a cross section and it will show how deep the quakes occurred along that line.”

  • About: Seismic Explorer Geologists collect earthquake data every day. What are the patterns of earthquake magnitude, depth, location, and frequency? What are the patterns of earthquakes along plate boundaries?
  • Click the play button to see the earthquakes. You can drag the starting time to start playing earthquakes from a later date.Use the Magnitude slider to choose the earthquake size shown on the map. Click the Show plate boundaries button to see the outlines of tectonic plates.
  • Make a cross-section to see a three-dimensional view of the earthquakes in a region. Click on the Draw a cross-section line then draw a line on the map. When you are done, click Open 3D view, and see the depths of the earthquakes in that cross-section. What does the pattern of earthquakes in a region tell you about the motion of tectonic plates?
  • Seismic Explorer is based on Seismic Eruption, a program created by Alan L. Jones at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
  • Seismic Explorer uses earthquake data (magnitude, depth, location, time) from the United States Geological Survey. Earthquake time is reported in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
    Volcanic Eruption data comes from the Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report  and Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.9.1. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Data Downloaded 10/30/2024. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013