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The Sky Has Become a Distributed Sensor: How Edge ML on $200 Raspberry Pi Nodes Tells You Exactly When the Eta Aquariids Peak

Tonight's Eta Aquariid peak is being measured in real time by the Global Meteor Network — a fleet of more than 1,000 amateur Raspberry Pi cameras running random forest, CNN, and LSTM classifiers nightly. The science press calls it citizen astronomy. Infrastructure people should call it a reference architecture.

26 min readMichael Eakins
Edge AICitizen ScienceDistributed Systems+5

How AI Will Replace Insurance Claims Adjusters: Agentic Adjudication and the $300B Industry Reckoning 2026-2030

331,000 U.S. insurance claims adjusters sit at the top of the AI substitution list. Allianz Project Nemo cuts processing time by 80%. Goldman Sachs flags claims clerks as the highest-substitution-risk occupation. A deep-dive on agentic adjudication, computer vision in the field, regulatory cliffs, displacement timelines, and what working adjusters can do to stay relevant.

25 min readMichael Eakins
AI AutomationInsuranceClaims Adjusters+5

The Adjuster's Last Field Visit: How AI Vision Models Are Eliminating 290,000 Insurance Claims Adjuster Jobs by 2032

AI vision models from Tractable, CCC Intelligent Solutions, Hi Marley, and Snapsheet now process auto and residential property damage claims at human-or-better accuracy, with carriers settling claims in minutes that used to take days. A deep look at how 290,000 US claims adjusters are being systematically displaced from the field.

23Michael Eakins
ai automationworkforce displacementinsurance industry+10