Hornbill Dispatch #17 | 300 Fires, One Rare Quail, and a Lot of New Faces
On listening to forests, fighting fires, and growing a team.
Hornbill Dispatch by Farmers for Forests
Stories from the frontlines of climate action- where farmers, forests, and technology shape a more resilient future.
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Hornbill Dispatch #16: When Trees Started Talking Back to Us
Part 5 of 5: On foundation models, communal grammar, and finally launching TreeLens
Hornbill Dispatch #15: When Technology Meets Reality (Plus: We're Releasing 7,000+ Trees Worth of Truth)
How a "bogus" accusation taught us that measuring carbon and actually sequestering it are two very different problems, and why we're open-sourcing ground truth behind our honest AI.
Hornbill Dispatch #14 | Teaching AI to Be Honest About What It Doesn't Know (Plus: We're Open-Sourcing Everything)
Part 3 of 5: How a mathematician taught our forest AI to admit uncertainty and the day we decided to open-source everything to democratize ecosystem restoration
Hornbill Dispatch #13 | From DeepForest to Detectron2 - Getting a clear view of the trees and the forest
Part 2 of 5: How we taught AI to see trees, pipes, and everything in between
Hornbill Dispatch #12 | The Muddy Reality of Counting Carbon
Part 1 of 5: We're open-sourcing our AI tree monitoring research and tech-stack, and launching a platform for everyone to try it. Part 1 is the story of how a rainy, muddy day sparked that journey.
Hornbill Dispatch #11 | Death by a thousand cuts
On missed newsletters, scaling forests, and remembering why we started.
Hornbill Dispatch #10 | Elephants, Forests, and the Future We’re Growing [Archive]
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Hornbill Dispatch #9 | The Forest and the Future [Archive]
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Hornbill Dispatch #8 | Notes from a Young Forest [Archive]
This newsletter was originally sent in July 2022 to our monthly mailing list of close supporters.