Space Daily: Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecasts. “An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for predicting future solar cycle activity.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/space-daily-century-old-solar-records-refine-future-cycle-forecasts/#historicaldata
A student trained an AI only on 1800-1875 London texts, then asked about 1834. The model described street protests and Lord Palmerston - details the student hadn't encoded, but which turned out historically accurate. The "quarantine strategy" may reveal how models encode information in unexpected ways, raising questions about what else they capture without deliberate training.
#AI #MachineLearning #HistoricalData
https://www.implicator.ai/an-ai-answered-a-question-about-1834-it-was-right/
TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
#HackerNews #TimeCapsuleLLM #LLM #1800s #AI #research #historicaldata
National Bureau of Economic Research: Effects of WIC on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data from the National Archives. “This paper examines the effect of nutrition—delivered during pregnancy via the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)—on infant health. We contribute to the literature by adding new data on WIC rollout from the […]
Groundwater Level Forecasting In Response To Climate Change Scenarios In Southwestern Saskatchewan Using Wavelet Decomposition And Artificial Neural Networks
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2025.101550 <-- shared paper
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#climatechange #machinelearning #artificialneuralnetworks #sustainablegroundwatermanagement #waveletdecomposition #water #hydrology #groundwater #extremeweather #drought #rainfall #precipitation #AI #forecast #waterresources #pumping #extraction #network #historicaldata #model #modeling #ANN #groundwaterlevel #forecasting #recharge #saskatchewan #canada #watermanagement #strategy #aquifer #GWLs #wells #modelresults #results #sustainability #climate
West Virginia University: Knee Regulatory Research Center Releases Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database to Study U.S. Licensure in Unprecedented Depth and Detail. “Today, the Knee Regulatory Research Center—a nonpartisan research center focused on labor, health, and regulatory frontiers—announced the release of the Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database […]
University of Tennessee: Eighty-five Years of Big Tree History Available in One Place for the First Time. “The curious can now also explore the historical documents of the nation’s biggest trees dating back to the 1940s online, in one place, for the first time. The National Champion Tree Program at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has compiled historical records dating […]
University of Hawaii News: Okinawan songs uncover centuries of climate, geological history. “The lyrics of traditional Okinawan songs were found to record past climate and geological history of the Ryukyu Islands (now called Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), according to a new study by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Earth scientist and fellow Ryukyuan music practitioners.”
Met Éireann: Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all. “The Irish Weather Rescue Project aims to digitise 3.5 million historic rainfall observations from 763 stations across Ireland. Members of the public are invited to transcribe the Rainfall Registers Series that dates from 1864 to 1951 which is held in the National Climate Archive, managed by Met Éireann.”
Dave’s PostgreSQL Stuff: Loading The Titanic Passenger Data Into PostgreSQL With DBeaver Part 1. “The Sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 has shocked and entertained for over a century. I will admit to being shocked to find a GitHub Repo with a CSV formatted file with the passenger list. This file is an interesting glimpse into the lives of the folks who sailed on the ill fated ship so long […]
Nature Reviews Biodiversity: Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. “Historical data sources are instrumental in biodiversity research because they provide historical baselines for species and ecosystems, and they reveal information about human–nature relationships and their sustainability (or lack thereof) over long timescales. Yet […]
Phys.org: Reports from 65 years of snow and avalanche research now digitized. “Lib4RI has completed the digitization of more than 700 historical snow and avalanche reports from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. These reports, published between 1938 and 2005, document decades of avalanche observations and snow research by researchers from Switzerland and around the world.”
Purdue University: Forts to files, reimagined: MRCC brings historic weather data into the digital age. “The MRCC recently launched a searchable, downloadable archive of 19th-century weather records. Pulled from more than 450 U.S. observation stations, including over 350 that have undergone quality control through NOAA Climate Data Base Modernization (CDMP) funding, the project digitized […]
Competitive Enterprise Institute: The CAT’s nine lives could be up. “The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a funding proposal for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) largest regulatory program to date. Known as the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), this system would have created the largest database in federal government history, capable of tracking every stock trade […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/competitive-enterprise-institute-the-cats-nine-lives-could-be-up/
Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized with volunteer help. “The 78 years of data on 1,300 Michigan lakes are now fully digitized and available to researchers and the public at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue data repository. Resurrected from file cabinet drawers, the data is now being used to drive new research.”
🕰️ 🗺️ The Time Machine Unit from our school uses cultural heritage and artificial intelligence to make the historical data of cities such as Venice and Lausanne accessible to the public.
#CulturalHeritage #TimeMachineUnit #HistoricalData
Read more: https://go.epfl.ch/ayw-en
University of St. Andrews: Lizard Shampoo and Spheres of death – new work sheds light on Dark Age medicine. “In collaboration with the Universities of Utrecht, Oslo, Binghamton and Fordham, researchers have more than doubled the known number of manuscripts with medical texts in them from the first millennium. They have revealed that, in what was supposed to be a dark age for medical […]
TechCrunch: Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth. “Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth. Until now, you’ve only been able to access historical Street View imagery on Google Maps. “
University of Maine: Database detailing 187 years of hazing deaths now available . “At least 333 young people have lost their lives to hazing in the United States since 1838, with 122 recorded just since 2000, according to data in a new database co-developed by the University of Maine, HazingInfo.org, the University of Washington and an award-winning journalist. For the first time, hazing […]
Ars Technica: Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder. “It’s easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It was the noblewoman’s hired assassins armed with daggers in the streets of Cheapside near St. Paul’s Cathedral. And that’s just […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/08/ars-technica-cambridge-mapping-project-solves-a-medieval-murder/
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