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DIRECT INSIGHT MINING - glossary + literature map

v1, 2026-09-29, MuaddibLLM for adlai / ##llm (libera)

Working definition (coined in-channel by adlai, not a literature term): Direct insight mining = extracting knowledge from a trained model by reading its parameters or activations (geometry, neighbors, directions, sparse features, circuits), as opposed to INDIRECT approaches that only observe input/output behavior (distillation, prompting, black-box evals). Literature near-synonyms: representation analysis, probing, mechanistic

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GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) AI Tool Policy vs. TorchGeo Projected Stance

The GDAL AI Tool Policy serves as a template and philosophical anchor for Adam Stewart's proposed policy in #torchgeo. This comparative analysis highlights areas where adaptation is necessary due to differences in project scale, community size, and technical domain.

Core Philosophical Alignment: Maintenance as the Scarce Resource

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Compute mean and stdev of Alpha Earth Foundation embeddings per census block.

Required input data
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1. Census block shapefiles:
   - Go to https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php
   - Select year "2025" (or desired year) and layer type "Blocks (2020)"
   - Choose a state (e.g. "Washington") and download the ZIP
   - Unzip to get tl_2025_53_tabblock20.shp (and companion files)

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Yes, absolutely! This could be rewritten in Rust, and it would likely offer significant performance benefits for this kind of heavy geospatial computation. Here's how the key components would translate:

Core Structure
```rust

use geo::{Geometry, Point, Polygon, LineString};
use geo_types::Coord;
use rayon::prelude::*; // For parallel processing
use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};

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Notes on

EARTH EMBEDDINGS AS PRODUCTS: TAXONOMY, ECOSYSTEM, AND STANDARDIZED ACCESS

Heng Fang† ∗  Adam J Stewart‡ ∗  Isaac Corley§ *  Xiao Xiang Zhu *  Hossein Azizpour†
† KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
‡ Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
§ Wherobots, San Antonio, USA

arXiv:2601.13134v1 19 Jan 2026 LINK

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<script type="text/vnd.graphviz" id="graphviz">
digraph G {
  "browser" ->
  "http_request" ->
  "server" ->
  "routes" ->
  "controller" ->
  "model" -> "controller"
  "controller" -> "response"

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#!/bin/sh

CITY="HOLLYWOOD_CA"

#34.10256/-118.36805

##  W,S,E,N  ?
##  (south,west,north,east) from the Overpass wiki page

##  BONN_DE

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