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Dear all,
We cordially invite you to the *NFDI4Earth Academy Coffee lecture -
"Scale Usually Wins: compute, data, and the bitter lesson for Earth &
industry"* (/Artemii Novoselov, Stripe/) *today*.
We’ll unpack the evidence behind scaling laws - Kaplan et al. (loss vs
params/tokens/compute) and Chinchilla (data-optimal scaling) - then test
the thesis in Earth-system modeling and geoscience. We’ll compare
academic incentives (benchmarks, novelty) to production constraints
(latency/$, throughput, drift, governance), and show where small,
specialized models still win. Case studies will include Earth
foundation/forecast models such as GraphCast, and AlphaEarth. We’ll
close with a pragmatic budgeting recipe: choose your token-to-parameter
target, plan for quantization/distillation, and align eval to mission
metrics.
*Key Details*:
Date: November 04, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Venue: Online via Zoom
The lecture is open to all. To join the lecture, *please register* here
<https://gfz-de.zoom.us/meeting/register/TiMa7w9KQYSiVGyCzKzvZA#/registrat...;.
Grab a coffee, tea, and join us virtually to expand your knowledge; also
in our upcoming lectures
<https://www.nfdi4earth.de/?view=article&id=366&catid=9>;.
We are looking forward to your participation.
Best regards,
Jonas Kuppler
NFDI4Earth Academy Coordination
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