Secret?

How is EnviroAI getting so powerful … so fast? No secret … Picasso, Emerson, Twain, T.S. Eliot …

I was asked yesterday how EnviroAI is getting so powerful so fast. How have we already done so much with so little initial resources?

What’s the secret?

Here it is … with specific EnviroAI examples below:

• “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”—Picasso
• “Originality is undetected plagiarism.”—William Ralph Inge
• “All my best thoughts were stolen from the ancients.”—Emerson
• “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”—T.S. Eliot
• “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite—that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” —Mark Twain
• “We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”—John of Salisbury
• “It’s often a shock to the thinking person when they find that their revolutionary new idea is not new at all. Most likely, someone in a robe thought of it thousands of years ago.” —Anonymous
• “It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.”—Havelock Ellis

One of my favorite songs is Paul Simon’s “American Tune”. Simon clearly “stole” the tune from Bach’s St. Mathew Passion … and Bach “stole” it from the hymn “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”.

EnviroAI borrows as much data and tools as we can from others. We build on what other companies and agencies are already building. That way we keep growing and seeing further as others keep growing. And we automate this borrowing as much as possible so the system automatically expands and automatically becomes more intelligent.

Examples of who’s data and capabilities we are borrowing from and bringing together: Microsoft’s Planetary Computer, Google’s Earth Engine, NASA’s Earth Data, EPA’s Enviromental Dataset Gateway, IBM’s Environmental Intelligence Suite …

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----“We will soon be able to simulate how nature really works—the probabilistic nature of reality that underlies classically observed systems.”

• Jed Anderson, CEO, EnviroAI

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  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Secret?},
  year   = {2021},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/secret},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
}

Anderson, J. (2021). Secret?. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/secret

Anderson, Jed. "Secret?." Jed Anderson, August 28, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/secret.