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Geospatial Failures, Problem Selection, Being an Analyst/Scientist is Hard

08 Nov 2025

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(00:00) Experimental failures. Krishna won't let Chris forget about his failed SimCLR experiments.(04:30) Geographic generalization discussion. Husky vs Malamute vs Wellpad.(11:32) Chris fails to map coconut palm because it's hard. Read the paper carefully.(15:30) Krishna maps oil slicks, but it's hard.(20:30) Cognitive debt, problem selection and failure modes in geospatial. (31:00) The sales cycle, promises, inflated expectations. Limitations in geospatial.(34:00) Problem selection in journalism. Are we running out of ideas?(37:00) Turning a failure into a success. Cover crop mapping is hard. (45:00) Turning failure into a success: predicting sugarcane yield is hard.(49:00) Is building tooling easier than solving modeling problems?(53:00) Vertical seems better than horizontal. Solutions are multi-modal.

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