This is one of those books that I read in the 80s that helped me change career directions to be a programmer in Silicon Valley and eventually get a PhD and teach programming at the university level.

Cool map though!

Context is needed... at least some explanation or bridge examples, like... why and what do I need to navigate this particular web landing page.

Website feels like an author exercise in ocaml for js web plugin.

The GPS location is used by the model to narrow search results.

Q1: To my knowledge for the merlin app, no. Just local storage to your phone as a WAV file.

Q2: If you've started down the path of using Merlin, there is a companion app from the Cornell group called ebird. It used GPS to list birding Hotspot near your location. You can keep track of what you've seen. If you want to get extra verification on your sightings you can upload pictures and audio files at a later time on the ebird website. Real live humans, volunteer birding experts, will verify your sightings. I've gotten to meet some very knowledgeable birders through this process. All of this data goes into scientific research. On the ebird website the have specific protocols on what make for a good observation. It is my understanding that submitted and vetted photos and audio files will make it into the NN models used by the Merlin app.

Happy birding to everyone!

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[2] https://winworldpc.com/product/quicksilver/1x

Having spent decades writing C and sometimes teaching C at the university level, to really understand the "why" of things in C you have to spend some time,separately, writing / studying some assembly language. In many universities teaching assembly language has fallen out of favor.

I agree with just about everything in the blog post, except, the underlying Michael Jordan baseball analogy example. Does the analogy hold if we swap Michael Jordan for let's say... Bo Jackson? He really was very good at a number of sports before his hip injury.