Sorry, I'll stop now... but imagine when you can bridge to Sandy
Mocilan's other faint contacts that might bear "Hammond"
centimorgans that I've lost.?
Hell, for all we know now, Sandy Mocilan may have a faint
autosomal match to a Turner, or a Braginton.
I bet it doesn't take that long for it to be figured out how to
make those sort of connections 'in silico'.
It's funny, in my day job one of things I am paid to worry about
it all the exabytes of DNA sequences of plants, animals, microbes,
etc... that have no geographic origin ascribed to them.? I was
just talking last week with a data scientist about the idea that
you could probably, quite soon, unleash an AI on a massive
biodiversity sequence database and have it figure out how to more
or less reliably tell you where each sequence came from.?
In a similar way...
EH
On 6/30/22 20:01, Edward Hammond wrote:
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There's my best Hammond example of a nice machine learning
match.?
I would never have been able to link Sandy Mocilan to myself on
the basis of a tiny genetic match (10cm) with anything less than
her (him?) having a well-developed genealogy.?
I haven't run down Sandy's line myself, but it looks
plausible.?
In effect a probable 7th generation link made possible by AI.
Maybe not revolutionary yet, but I suspect we're at the early
stages.
EH
On 6/30/22 19:25, Edward Hammond
wrote:
On a slightly different note, have you noticed how AI /
machine learning seems to be producing some pretty interesting
results at ancestry.com?? I'm not crazy about yet another pay
site, but I've been amazed by its ability to (seemingly ... I
haven't fully proofed very many) accurately match rather
distant autosomal hits.? The sort of people that you scroll by
in the autosomal results at FTDNA and think "that one just
isn't worth pursuing".
EH
On 6/30/22 19:11, Edward Hammond
wrote:
Completely agree that there's not much new to discuss.? My
intent was to simply have a point of contact should anything
interesting arise.? Since you were frequently the emcee, I
thought you might have the best list and judgment as to who
to place here.? If you simply pass along the list of names
and e-mail addresses you think are appropriate, I can send
an invitation to join to those people.? If you think its not
worth that effort, fair enough, it's certainly true that we
haven't had any news of note for some time.
I've turned into a very low power - milliwatts - high
frequency radio nut in the absence of anything genetic to
do!? That and journeyman forester, trying (often in vain) to
contain the unbelievably aggressive invasive species trying
to consume the little shred of forest I own.
Edward
On 6/30/22 18:29, Nigel B via
groups.io wrote:
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Hi Edward - all good here. ?Apologies for not sorting our
S16264 distribution list. ?I have been busy with other
interests / activities. ?It is now several years since I
had any new Y-DNA matches and I confess I have lost much
of my motivation for keeping the group going. ?Still I
agree we should not let links lapse as we might all learn
more from future matches. ?Will try harder! ?
Nigel
?Hi Nigel -
Hope your summer is going well.? We're still all by
our lonesome in this group.
Edward
