Adventures

  • Retrospection techniques at work

    Reflecting on past experiences and outcomes is not just beneficial for personal development but crucial for continuous improvement in any business environment. This practice equips individuals, teams and organizations with the ability to learn from both successes and failures, thereby significantly enhancing decision-making processes, fostering a culture of innovation, and ultimately improving overall performance and

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  • Ecological vs. engineered greening: balancing nature and innovation

    Among the most ambitious greening projects around the world is the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI). While supporting the ambition of reaching net zero, SGI is focused on combating climate change, improving quality of life, and protecting the environment for future generations, the SGI was launched in 2021 by the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister…

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  • More data required to understand the impact of alien plants in an arid environment

    Thanks to national and regional greening initiatives, the landscaping and greening sector in KSA is flowering, leading to a much needed capacity development associated with plant production, plant material import, propagation and transport. This may lead to the propagation of and sales of non-native invasive plants such as Prosopis juliflora.

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  • Carbon credits, markets, and registries

    Financial trading linked to environmental goals… to the rescue of Planet Earth! What are carbon credits and markets? Selling and buying carbon credits form the essence of trading systems in carbon markets. The traders are people or companies. The traded goods are carbon credits and greenhouse gas emissions. Pretty simple till here.

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  • Geopandas, living In the realm of Libraries

    The basics of the work with programming languages involve getting your hands dirty with libraries. This implies entering a completely different world, where the Dewey Decimal system does not play a significant role. To clarify what libraries are, we need some definitions first of key terms. Then, off to the discovery of libraries for geospatial…

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  • Project management and leadership challenges

    Working in diverse, distributed teams can be challenging and tricky to manage. Here a some common points that may impact productivity, and motivation. Common knowledge To collaborate efficiently, alignment on context, tasks, and responsibilities is essential. However, in a multi-cultural, distributed team with different communication codes, common ground may be tricky to establish. One directional

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  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide*

    *Seebens et al (2017) TL;DR Background  Biourbanism is on the horizon, and urban centres compete globally for livability scores, anticipating climate change and its impact on residents. National and regional initiatives are sprouting to support sustainable development, environmental awareness and protection (Middle East Green Initiative, Saudi Greening Initiative, and similar.) One of the more ambitious projects is

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  • Translating, spoken and programming languages

    My first rough contact with python was on a translation mission. I was meant to convert a javascript code written in Google Earth Engine to python. To my -limited- knowledge, I had one of 2 choices. Either using the Earth Engine API in Python or translate the code entirely to Python. https://www.reply.com/en/artificial-intelligence/code-to-code

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  • Do you have a digital twin?

    Imagine you have a parallel reflection of yourself, with all your physical details and traits, sitting on a server somewhere and undergoing all sorts of tests to see what look will fit you best if you want to, for instance, do a makeover. Creepy, no?  This may not be the case for you now, but

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  • Trust in the real world and metaverse

    We all have an intuitive understanding of trust and also exercise this more or less consciously in everyday life. But how does this work in a metaverse, or in a social media context? Do we establish trust in the same way? Is it also as fragile as the real-world equivalent? Does it differ at all?

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