b'Branch newsASEG newsVictoria vendors out there, but it will only be aNew Year. Dont forget to renew your matter of time until these opportunitiesmembership for 2022. Onwards and There are 30 cows in a field and 28accelerate through rapid adoption. Ourupwards!chickens. How many didnt? conventional wisdoms in assessing, appraising and interpreting most of thisSolution: 28 chickens could be read as If you answered 10, congratulations twenty ate chickens. Think youre smarter you are quite the thinker. Raise yourdata simply doesnt cut the mustard. Its ok to ask for help. Whether we like it orthan an 8 year old now?hand if you are still wondering how the sentence even makes any sense. Yup,not, there is a data-supernova coming,Thong Huynh this one stumped me, too. My eight yearassuming isnt already here! vicpresident@aseg.org.auold daughter came home from schoolThe Victoria Branch miraculously the other day and lobbed this pre-teenorganised one final technical meetingWestern Australiavernacular at me. I had to write it downnight for 2021 on November 25, and it on paper. I read it, re-read it then saw red.was an in-person meeting! Ian Nielson,Hi fellow geos, once again from Perth. How could this be possible? Pow! It hitchief geologist of First AU, tried toWA ASEG has been pretty active and me like a wrecking ball (solution below).convince us that there might be anotherwill continue to be active right through For all my education, social interactionFosterville lurking in Eastern Victoriathe rest of the year. Our October Tech and life experiences, I was thoroughlywith his talk titled The Land that Timenight was well-attended - at the Shoe bamboozled. Forgot: The Victorian Eastern Goldfields.Bar in Yagan Square in the Perth CBD. In any case, this confusing riddleAny bookies on here willing to giveBarry Bourne, Principal Consultant and inexplicably led me to contemplateme 10:1 odds against? And finally, theFounder of Terra Resources presented a little more about the AI (ArtificialVictoria Branch would like to announcean interesting talk on the Petrophysics Intelligence) revolution that is uponone final event for the calendar year.of the Paterson Orogen and implications us, the so-called Fourth IndustrialASEG Victoria, together with PESA andfor exploration in that very prolific Revolution. Could AI have helped solvedSPE societies, have agreed to host a joint(and Nifty) area. Barry received a well-this riddle? Could it have predicted aChristmas luncheon in mid-December.deserved bottle of wine from ASEG for reasonable outcome? Maybe. Maybe not.A final date, venue and guest speakerhis efforts. Just before the talk it was my Maybe if the right (correct?) question waswill be announced in due course, buthonour to present Katherine McKenna asked to begin with. Maybe if an eightit should be a cracker! Please keep anwith the ASEG 50th Anniversary Special year old was allowed to train the AI witheye out for notifications (I have one lastAward for her many contributions and rabbit to pull out of the hat regardingcareer achievements. Thanks, Kath!enough riddles - or maybe, in that case, itthis luncheon) The October Tech Night was the last would just answer with another riddleSo, this is happening, and it is happeningBefore the year is out, the Victoria BranchTech Night of the year. On 24 November, fast. AI, ML (Machine Learning), DL (Deepcommittee would like to say thank you tothe WA ASEG hosted an all-day face-to-Learning), IoT (Internet of Things) andall members for their support, patronage,face minerals case-study symposium other technologies are impacting everyand observance after enduring another(MAG21) in Kings Park (Perth, of course). facet of almost every industry today. Youwretched COVID plagued year. I wish youA tonne of work was required to organise name it - from healthcare to education,all a superb Christmas and a wonderfulthis, so kudos to our MAG21 team. banking and financial services, to retail and e-commerce, gaming and entertainment, the automotive industry and of course, the geosciencesthe list goes on. The resources industry has a terribly effective habit of acquiring all manners of data it can think of, and at breakneck speed. If were not collecting data, were reprocessing it, re-imaging it, re-creating it, re-shaping it or simply reducing it fit for purpose. Then theres data that has been acquired some time ago, perhaps even decades ago - historical data. Data that was previously recorded, that became awkward, too difficult or simply dismissed and not followed up due to a plunging gold price. While this data isnt necessarily lost (or is it?), it has certainly been overlooked, neglected, perhaps even forgotten. Big data is exploding, and historic big data is problematic such that its been quietly swept under the rug. I notice there has been a reasonably slow up-take for AI services in our industry, probably because of the low number of specialistBarry Bourne presenting to the WA Branch.9 PREVIEW DECEMBER 2021'