{
  "id": 430316,
  "title": "Google Press Release related to Contrails",
  "url": "/competitions/google-research-identify-contrails-reduce-global-warming/discussion/430316",
  "author_name": "datasaurus",
  "post_date": "2023-08-09T09:16:08.759000",
  "votes": 14,
  "comment_count": 4,
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  "content": "<p>A press release from yesterday: <a href=\"https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\">https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/</a></p>\n<p>Would love to see how much the performance can be improved with the solutions from this competition!</p>",
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      "id": 2381582,
      "postDate": "2023-08-09T09:16:08.760Z",
      "content": "<p>A press release from yesterday: <a href=\"https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/\" target=\"_blank\">https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/</a></p>\n<p>Would love to see how much the performance can be improved with the solutions from this competition!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "A press release from yesterday: https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/\n\nWould love to see how much the performance can be improved with the solutions from this competition!",
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      "id": 2381943,
      "postDate": "2023-08-09T13:13:39.860Z",
      "content": "<p>We also released this pre-print yesterday, which might be of interest to contest participants: <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707</a>. It proposes the next step of what you can do once you can detect the contrails at scale using models like those that are being trained for this competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "We also released this pre-print yesterday, which might be of interest to contest participants: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707. It proposes the next step of what you can do once you can detect the contrails at scale using models like those that are being trained for this competition.",
      "votes": 8,
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          "postDate": "2023-08-09T21:46:08.603Z",
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      "postDate": "2023-08-09T12:52:08.717Z",
      "content": "<p>from the website</p>\n<p>Reducing the warming impact of contrails</p>\n<p>A group of pilots at American flew 70 test flights over six months while using Google’s AI-based predictions, cross-referenced with Breakthrough Energy’s open-source contrail models, to avoid altitudes that are likely to create contrails. After these test flights, we analyzed satellite imagery and found that the pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54%. This is the first proof point that commercial flights can verifiably avoid contrails and thereby reduce their climate impact.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F71e258c78d32db08239acc262637bda4%2FSelection_999(2859).png?generation=1691585525337181&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>i am interested what is the google model (i.e. Google’s AI-based predictions in the mention) ?<br>\nThe results looks pretty good</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "from the website\n\nReducing the warming impact of contrails\n\nA group of pilots at American flew 70 test flights over six months while using Google’s AI-based predictions, cross-referenced with Breakthrough Energy’s open-source contrail models, to avoid altitudes that are likely to create contrails. After these test flights, we analyzed satellite imagery and found that the pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54%. This is the first proof point that commercial flights can verifiably avoid contrails and thereby reduce their climate impact.\n\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F71e258c78d32db08239acc262637bda4%2FSelection_999(2859).png?generation=1691585525337181&alt=media)\n\n\ni am interested what is the google model (i.e. Google’s AI-based predictions in the mention) ?\nThe results looks pretty good",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
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          "id": 2381945,
          "postDate": "2023-08-09T13:16:06.563Z",
          "content": "<p>i wonder if there is going to be a part2 of the competition.</p>\n<p>in the YouTube video of the google blog website, it says they are making <strong>contrail forecasting.</strong><br>\nif the airplane were to fly are certain attitude, will it create a contrail?<br>\nThis is different from the current kaggle competition.</p>\n<p>on a side note: i wonder if true color images are easier to detect?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F5bc8a2eeb95e027211fbe9b308fe37cf%2FSelection_999(2861).png?generation=1691586814990484&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F58bf2249bfb2b6f9451e5ed30ec3fb1c%2FSelection_999(2860).png?generation=1691586710335962&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"> if the </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "i wonder if there is going to be a part2 of the competition.\n\nin the YouTube video of the google blog website, it says they are making **contrail forecasting.**\nif the airplane were to fly are certain attitude, will it create a contrail?\nThis is different from the current kaggle competition.\n\n\n\non a side note: i wonder if true color images are easier to detect?\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F5bc8a2eeb95e027211fbe9b308fe37cf%2FSelection_999(2861).png?generation=1691586814990484&alt=media)\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F58bf2249bfb2b6f9451e5ed30ec3fb1c%2FSelection_999(2860).png?generation=1691586710335962&alt=media) if the ",
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      "id": 2381943,
      "author_name": "Aaron Sarna",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-09T13:13:39.860000",
      "content": "<p>We also released this pre-print yesterday, which might be of interest to contest participants: <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707</a>. It proposes the next step of what you can do once you can detect the contrails at scale using models like those that are being trained for this competition.</p>",
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      "id": 2381919,
      "author_name": "hengck23",
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      "post_date": "2023-08-09T12:52:08.717000",
      "content": "<p>from the website</p>\n<p>Reducing the warming impact of contrails</p>\n<p>A group of pilots at American flew 70 test flights over six months while using Google’s AI-based predictions, cross-referenced with Breakthrough Energy’s open-source contrail models, to avoid altitudes that are likely to create contrails. After these test flights, we analyzed satellite imagery and found that the pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54%. This is the first proof point that commercial flights can verifiably avoid contrails and thereby reduce their climate impact.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F71e258c78d32db08239acc262637bda4%2FSelection_999(2859).png?generation=1691585525337181&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>i am interested what is the google model (i.e. Google’s AI-based predictions in the mention) ?<br>\nThe results looks pretty good</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2381945,
          "author_name": "hengck23",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-08-09T13:16:06.563000",
          "content": "<p>i wonder if there is going to be a part2 of the competition.</p>\n<p>in the YouTube video of the google blog website, it says they are making <strong>contrail forecasting.</strong><br>\nif the airplane were to fly are certain attitude, will it create a contrail?<br>\nThis is different from the current kaggle competition.</p>\n<p>on a side note: i wonder if true color images are easier to detect?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F5bc8a2eeb95e027211fbe9b308fe37cf%2FSelection_999(2861).png?generation=1691586814990484&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F58bf2249bfb2b6f9451e5ed30ec3fb1c%2FSelection_999(2860).png?generation=1691586710335962&amp;alt=media\" alt=\"\"> if the </p>",
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    "2381582": "A press release from yesterday: https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-climate-change/\n\nWould love to see how much the performance can be improved with the solutions from this competition!",
    "2381943": "We also released this pre-print yesterday, which might be of interest to contest participants: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02707. It proposes the next step of what you can do once you can detect the contrails at scale using models like those that are being trained for this competition.",
    "2381919": "from the website\n\nReducing the warming impact of contrails\n\nA group of pilots at American flew 70 test flights over six months while using Google’s AI-based predictions, cross-referenced with Breakthrough Energy’s open-source contrail models, to avoid altitudes that are likely to create contrails. After these test flights, we analyzed satellite imagery and found that the pilots were able to reduce contrails by 54%. This is the first proof point that commercial flights can verifiably avoid contrails and thereby reduce their climate impact.\n\n\n![](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/o/inbox%2F113660%2F71e258c78d32db08239acc262637bda4%2FSelection_999(2859).png?generation=1691585525337181&alt=media)\n\n\ni am interested what is the google model (i.e. Google’s AI-based predictions in the mention) ?\nThe results looks pretty good"
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