by Amy Howard | Jul 3, 2025 | How To, Learn, Paradigm
I have a list of species living in Ponte Vedra which I downloaded from GBIF. While browsing it in Excel, I noticed some duplicates. Why is that? I certainly don’t want duplicate pages here in WordPress. I needed to find and get rid of the extras. Upon closer...
by Amy Howard | Jun 27, 2025 | Paradigm
I needed a featured image for my article, Interpreting species with iNaturalist. To begin, I cropped a screenshot of the categories on my Nature page. I opened Gimp to start my usual crafting of the picture that says it all. Then I thought A.I. might do it better and...
by Amy Howard | Jun 20, 2025 | Paradigm
I’m a big fan of A.I. I don’t want to be. I don’t mean to be. It might in fact be the antichrist. That’s why I put periods in the name, so it doesn’t get a human name like Al, short for Al Roker, and lure us into adoration. I trust the...
by Amy Howard | Jun 20, 2025 | How To, Learn, Paradigm
When I got my species list from GBIF, they came with their biological classifications of Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, and Genus. None of those told me whether a Coragyps atratus was a plant, animal, or amoeba. I searched and read about 10 web pages about...
by Amy Howard | Jun 19, 2025 | How To, Learn, Paradigm
When I downloaded my list of plants and animals from GBIF, they came in with scientific names and no pictures. I couldn’t tell you what most of those species were, even if you told me their common name. I have to learn them all. I want to display temporary...
