Scientists Have Discovered Vast Unidentified Structures Deep Inside the Earth

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" Kim et al. used an unsupervised manifold learning algorithm called “the Sequencer” to automatically detect anomalies in seismic data"

Sorry but I don't buy into this.

Either they found nothing, or it's a fancy way to say database search.

[edit] After watching the video on "Sequencer" I'm still not convinced it's not a made up artefact within 'data science' but I'd like to know more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN-N7l5spmE

This, I guess:

https://github.com/dalya/Sequencer

Doesn't really mention "unsupervised" or "learning" as I'd understand them.

And it seems to be a free online way to analysis data ( http://sequencer.org/ ) which is pretty neat.

It looks like an easy online webpage for scientists, which is actually much more amazing to me because it also sounds true and badly needed in a lot of domains.

Pseudo-code - http://sequencer.org/static/images/image1.png

finally located the terrordrome

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