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.

Grab a coffee, tea, and join us virtually to expand your knowledge; also in our upcoming lectures.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Best regards,

Jonas Kuppler
NFDI4Earth Academy Coordination