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Our latest experiments with Semi-Automatic Local Content (Salco) show we are now able to cut the cloth or data at scale. This summer we published dozens of versions of a story about tree planting, all ...

Tree planting is very strenuous and seriously tough. Tree planters can walk on average 16-17km and sometimes plant around 1,600 trees a day per day. Workers can expend the caloric equivalent of a ...