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 had to learn them all. I wanted to display temporary...
by Amy Howard | Jun 19, 2025 | How To, Paradigm
When I downloaded my species list from GBIF, I received a gobbledygook list of scientific names. I might have been able to spot one familiar name, carreta carreta. The rest was Greek. Or Latin. Or Biologican. Enter iNaturalist, the Facebook of the nature world. Each...
by Amy Howard | Jun 9, 2025 | Learn, Paradigm
When I built the Nature section of Paperless Ponte Vedra, I looked to GBIF for a list of reported nature sightings. As of this writing, the GBIF aggregator had logged 3,117,737,422 individual reports of nature sightings around the globe. Is that billions? Thankfully,...
