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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by pu_pe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:43AM (#50453334)
I think we are about to see a whole new age of "citizen scientists", enabled by AI. This particular example was solved fast with a lot of compute, but it seems that this approach would have been possible with less equipment too.

The bottleneck will be data. Every possible signal out of publicly available datasets will be squeezed fast.

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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by Oarch on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:48AM (#50453378)
I think especially the renegade science YouTubers who are purely hacking away for fun and content.
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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by dyauspitr on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:06AM (#50454323)
> The bottleneck will be data. Every possible signal out of publicly available datasets will be squeezed fast.

Exactly. The only blocker to us pulling this off ourselves is access to the LIDAR data.

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