Fakhar Khalid

I feel that #Geospatial Data Industry has been a bit stagnant in terms of true #innovation. There is a lot of exciting work continue to happen in this space. I had a go at exploring how Vector Embeddings will revolutionise the Geospatial Data Industry. link.medium.com/nWE43Teo2Ob

@geo_will This is beautiful. The only time I tried skiing, I broke my ribs 😅😅 Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, team. If you can, you should go skiing.

@mouthofmorrison 😅🔥

I have enjoyed the few times I have been invited to give guest lectures at Ivy League universities simply because it’s fun to start a presentation with, “I was nowhere near qualified enough to be a student here , so I have had to settle for being your teacher.”

@robmarkcole Hope all is well. ...and yes, we are very lucky to have the NHS.

Been a very stressful 36 hours, but my partner made it through. The NHS isn’t perfect, but grateful to live in a country where you can arrive at A&E, receive surgery and walk out later, all free at the point of contact 🙏🇬🇧

@helenmakesmaps A very good blog 🙏 In a training sess, many moons ago, we discussed exactly the same issue. I am a big fan of humility, so the title of this book by @stefaniesw was very challenging to accept. It still is. But it has some great tips. F*ck Being Humble amzn.eu/d/fFruFh9

Imposter syndrome is something I've struggled with for a long time — and in the geospatial world, I don't think I'm alone. In my new post, I share my personal experiences with imposter syndrome and why I think it's so prevalent in the geo field 👉 shorturl.at/bKF1S

@geo_will 😅😅😅😅😅

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@geo_will At first I thought it was a GNSS antenna 🤪

Back to heavy

@mouthofmorrison @anu_bonth Easy!

@anu_bonth Idk it’s becoming a pain to quantify lol

We will cross 20TB of open data this month

I have always been a huge fan of Umbra as a leading EO organisation. This is nothing but dominating thought leadership, in the world where data hoarding is a disease. Well done @umbraspace and @mouthofmorrison take a bow 🙇‍♂️

@mouthofmorrison Just a hunch aka gut feeling, but we are on the cusp of exploiting the TRUE potential of EO data; something more than base layers. EO data will & has already started to fuel the analytics of the most powerful systems. How Bloomberg data powered the fintech revolution. Bring it on

Due to the incredible growth of the industry, most people working in the satellite imagery industry today weren’t around in 2012 when GeoEye and DigitalGlobe merged completing the near-total consolidation of the industry. We at the beginning of a new boom-bust cycle.

Why are square matrices particularly interesting? Square matrices represent linear maps from a space to itself, which allows for meaningful comparisons between inputs and outputs since they belong to the same space. For instance, if 𝑓:ℝ⁴→ℝ⁴ it makes sense to ask when 𝑓(a) is parallel to a, since 𝑓(a) and a lie in the same space. However, asking when 𝑔(a) is parallel to a for 𝑔:ℝ⁴→ℝ³ doesn't make any sense, since 𝑔(a) and a are different types of objects. Another example is the determinant. In square matrices, determinants measure how a linear map alters (either expanding or shrinking) a unit of volume. For instance, the determinant of the transformation (x,y,z)↦(-2x,2y,2z) is -8, indicating an 8-fold increase in volume but with a reversed orientation. If we try to go from 3D to 2D (2x3 matrix) and use the same idea: how much area does a given volume ends up producing? we run into problems: - When transitioning from 3D to 2D, the "stretching factor" is not consistent. Take the projection map (𝑥,𝑦,𝑧)↦(𝑥,𝑦), as an example and consider the effects when elongating a volume vertically. - Transitioning from 2D to 3D invariably results in no volume since the starting dimension is inherently insufficient. Thus, regardless of the transformation, our "stretching factor" invariably remains 0. Simply put, when dealing with non-square matrices, the concept of the "determinant" can be either poorly defined or trivially zero due to oversimplified reasoning.

Back on the saddle, pedaling 160km for @Shelter again, with less training this year but your support is overwhelming! Close to my target in 24hrs. Please donate as much from £1 to a million. I'll power my ride & provides shelter. 2 weeks to go! 🚴🏠🙏 justgiving.com/page/sheikh-fa…

@bd_alexander Abomination. Nobody uses an HP monitor anymore! Craziness!

@amirhusain_tx Or perhaps they were not getting any reception 😅

Downtown demise?

@KAnderson_RS Congratulations Karen. This is awesome. The impact and influence that you bring to the industry is invaluable, both academia and industry. Really proud to call you a friend. 💚

I kept this quiet for a while, not keen on blowing my own trumpet really. Anyway, here it is... I'm now a full professor in remote sensing. It feels important to say this to make visible that this is possible for women in my field.

@amirhusain_tx I captured some ants the other day, on camera. Pretty cool.

All insects lack is unified cross-theatre command and control. If they ever develop a capability, boy, oh boy...

@amirhusain_tx When I zoom in, they are definitely owls, from afar they look like bakray (goats) to me 😅

Do you see a circle of owls gathered around a campfire?

@amirhusain_tx Coffee is my poison (4-5 double espresso), then it's green tea (3 odd). I then consume around 1.5L of water in the evening. More water than hot beverages and plenty of visits to the loo 😅. My coffee is 36g each shot, around 200ml per glass of tea. What have you made me do 🫣

What is your hot beverage:cold beverage ratio? How many hot and cold drinks a day?

1/Several leaders share their hopes for AI in 2023, including finding key missing pieces that will enable algorithms to reason, building a personal data timeline, improving AI processes, discovering new principles for explainability, and using generative AI for active learning.

@amirhusain_tx 2024 🤞

@FakharKhalid Quite likely!

Imagine one year into the future. One key thing has changed about your life that has transformed everything for the better. What has changed?