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Antarctica’s Ice Shelves May Be at Growing Risk of Collapse

• nerdponx 6y ago
  Interesting and unexpected place to see neural networks pop up: The researchers, led by Ching-Yao Lai of Columbia University, trained a neural network—a kind of machine learning algorithm—to recognize fractures in Antarctic ice shelves on satellite images. They used this information to determine where these kinds of cracks were most likely to form and which ice shelves might be at risk of crumbling if enough meltwater flowed across them.