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The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

The UN endorsed the Equal Earth map projection over the 500-year-old Mercator projection to more accurately depict the true sizes of continents.

The United Nations passed a resolution, backed by the African Union, promoting the Equal Earth projection over the 1569 Mercator map, with 164 countries voting in favor and one opposing. Equal Earth preserves accurate relative continental areas, unlike Mercator, which inflates regions far from the Equator, while avoiding the extreme shape distortion of Gall-Peters. The resolution calls correcting cartographic distortions 'an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation.'

Hacker News · securitySep 9, 16:33 UTC · 6d agoOther HN 32↑ · 28 comments

🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing

Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar discusses Neural Operators and FourCastNet for physics modeling, arguing inductive biases beat pure token scaling.

Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor at Caltech and co-founder of Accelerated Understanding, describes Fourier Neural Operators that learn in frequency and spherical-harmonic domains to model weather, fusion, and fluid or heat flow. Her team built FourCastNet 3, a global weather model competitive with physics-based simulations that runs on consumer-grade GPUs. She also introduced TorchLean, a framework for writing PyTorch-style networks inside the Lean proof assistant for formal verification, and was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board. She argues physical domains resist scaling due to tiny datasets and context lengths in the hundreds of billions, so progress comes from built-in structure and physical priors.

Latent SpaceAug 26, 15:15 UTC · 20d agoAI research1

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