Can AI read an animal’s footsteps?
A small experiment in reading waveform and spectrogram images with a vision-capable language model.
From the observations
Field notes
Some useful observations never become a paper. I am keeping them here: what I tried, what I noticed, and what still needs a closer look.
Four research notesObservations · Methods · Open questions
Following a pipeline alarm back to its source
An alarm gives us a place to start. Finding its physical cause takes another kind of work.
What are we comparing when we compare sensing cables?
Notes from Chengdu on coupling, source repeatability, and comparing measurements on the same basis.
Watching traffic through ground vibrations
What a few roadside seismometers taught us about passing vehicles and moving sources in Hainan.