I created an interactive map of genetic similarity between populations, based on the Moriopoulos Collection 2025 ( https://genarchivist.net/showthread.php?tid=1449 ). Each data point is a 25-dimensional representation (Global25), and I use Euclidean distance. There is already https://genetic-distance.com/ , where you can look at the closest populations as a table. The vis should come with many caveats. One is that it is based on the data (and their quality) that is there, which does not cover all populations. Second, the localization of groups is done via LLMs (Claude), and one of the limitat…

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As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and wrong.

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The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

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If you take a lot, the next person has to pay more than you did. I priced the Moon Landing - Armstrong site, higher than the rest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575539 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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i love globes and maps often looking at a map gives you a better feeling for things this is a globe that can display data example data sets include active volcanos, UNESCO world heritage sites, IKEAs worldwide, … but what makes this interesting is that it also implements WebMCP which lets an agent (e.g. ChatGPT desktop app) directly drive the globe it exposes a handful of tools to add/load a dataset, do SQL queries and visualize the results using the globe querying are powered by DuckDB (via webassembly) globe is globe.gl ( https://globe.gl ) more on WebMCP (OpenAI calls it 'site tools'): h…

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The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa.

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The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

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