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You asked... Mike answered! Check out our first Ask Mike! video, and keep those rewilding questions coming to [email protected] or leave your question in the comments. #rewilding #forests #askmeanything

Coming soon! 'A fascinating and insightful read' - Nils Bouillard 📖 Learn more and preorder your copy at https://loom.ly/7hS2EBc #thermalimaging #surveytechniques #wildliferesearch #ecologicalsurvey #wildlifetechnology

From Herding to Engineering! 🐑🐶 Sheepdogs showcase incredible problem-solving skills. Watch this fascinating video by @earthdixe for proof. 🛠️💡 #EngineeringFeats #ProblemSolvers #CanineInstincts 🐾

LLM safety alignment can be easily compromised by finetuning with only a few adversarially designed training examples. Why? Are all open-source LLMs equally vulnerable to finetuning? How fast does the model start to break during finetuning? 🤔  👉 paper: https://lnkd.in/e9UPJcQ4 1. We discover a new phenomenon observed universally in the model parameter space of popular open-source LLMs, termed as "safety basin": randomly perturbing model weight maintains the safety level of the original aligned model in its local neighborhood. 🆕 2. Visualizing the safety landscape of the aligned model enables us to understand, for the first time, how finetuning compromises safety by dragging the model away from the safety basin. 📈 3. LLM safety landscape also highlights the system prompt’s critical role in protecting a model, and that such protection transfers to its perturbed variants within the safety basin. 😎 4. When evaluating the safety landscape using jailbreaking queries, we find that these queries are highly sensitive to perturbations in model weights. 😈 #MachineLearning #LLM #LLMSafety #LLMSecurity #AdversarialAttack

Over the course of the wildE project, we'll be working with policy makers, local communities and companies to produce new insights, methods and tools for climate-smart rewilding. Across the next five posts, we'll share each of the steps in this journey, starting with stage one: rewilding baselines. 1️⃣ Rewilding baselines involves laying the foundations for wildE by identifying rewilding opportunities and factors that make rewilding attempts more likely to be successful. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3RjhMzc

Some Sunday good news for you! Episode 4 of Global Rewilding News is out now. New and improved!

I had the great fortune of joining the brand new #Readwilding book club, hosted by Oscar Hartman Davies & Jack Durant over at Youngwilders and working in co-operation with the European Young Rewilders. 🦌 🏙 Our first read? #Feral by George Monbiot. A classic, but somewhat controversial book - even in #Rewilding circles. George Monbiot explores traditional rewilding topics such as missing keystone species, particularly in a British context, and the downsides of traditional conservation measures in areas such as the Scottish Highlands and Welsh Uplands. Where the book stands in contrast to many other works, is the emphasis on 'Ecological Boredom' - the idea that people long for wild landscapes with big animals. George Monbiot spends a great deal of time discussing the idea of rewilding the 'self'. 📖 Our discussion touched on a great variety of topics, to give a few examples: ⌛ The book, written in 2013, certainly shows its age and stands apart from more 'orthodox' rewilding positions on some issues. Monbiot does not, for example, advocate for the use of extensive cattle and horse grazing (as are commonly used in many projects like Knepp Wildland). There's less emphasis on 'biodiversity' as a concept, because the book predates the prominance of the biodiversity crisis as a front-and-centre issue. 😴 There's also the perception that the ideas of 'rewilding the self' and 'ecological boredom' speak to a very niche segment of the population and that Monbiot is projecting his own worldview onto the wider public. This is perhaps no more evident than in his numerous anecdotes of his own exploits in spearing flounders, scavenging deer, and spending time with the Masai - things that ordinary people simply have no interest in doing. Overall the consensus seemed to be that Feral was a key book in pushing rewilding to the forefront, especially in Britain, but that it is perhaps not the best representation of the movement more broadly. Interest in joining future book discussions? If you are under 30 and interested/involved with Rewilding, you can sign up at the European Young Rewilders in the link below and follow along for future #Readwilding sessions along with a plethora of other rewilding activities, discussions and workshops. https://lnkd.in/eEDPxb56

A picture is worth an entire week (month?) of basic Trigonometry fundamentals. Sharing a cute post from Fermat's Library via Tejas Rakshe, PhD Manish K. Gupta Alexander Groeger Nawal Kishor Mishra Shyamalendu Roy Math1089 Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana Vaishali Kolhatkar VINISHA UMASHANKAR Hasini LakshmiNarayanan Safal Das Biswas #math #maths #mathematics #numbers #stem #teaching #teachingandlearning #trigonometry #circle #circles

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Thinking about incorporating ETFE construction into your upcoming zoo project? Done right, it can elevate animal well-being and visitor experience. But beware: without expertise, it can turn your oasis into a steam cooker. Learn from WDM's insights on when and where to use this unique material.