Researcher studying clouds, weather, and wildfires with machine learning and physics
new york city
Joined March 2013
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Trying to work out a case for why Anthropic shouldn't go public. Even as a user with no special insight into their ops, there appears to be a path to transformational science with agentic tools and even potentially an "AGI"-equivalent technology.
The following still appears to hold true:
A constitutive property of intelligence is the ability of a multi-agent system to create a new Millenium Prize problem they themselves cannot solve.
There's much to like in this report whitehouse.gov/science/, however I'd like to highlight a major cognitive bias that could hamstring the AI economy. For instance, while the excerpt below from Chapter IV correctly identifies that scaling up inventions is a critical step in 1/4
decades are any evidence, it's the weakening of local governments and tax bases and excessive centralization of federal-level planning that contributed to off-shoring and all other ills that the report laments. The solution, then, is to reverse that process by co-locating 3/4
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My essay on Wes Anderson, one of our most vital and most misunderstood filmmakers, up now at @the_point_mag.
thepointmag.com/criticism/th…
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1/ For nearly 350 years, science has communicated itself through one object: the paper. A linear narrative, frozen as a PDF, written for a human reader. We've come to treat that format as the medium of science itself.
It doesn't have to be. It's a historical artifact. 🧵
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The potential for catastrophic effects from the AI boom demands robust deliberation and real democratic governance.
Localized initiatives like data center moratoria won't get us there. jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-data-…
We are actively reviewing applications for a Performance Engineer role at Aeolus expensive-legume-bf0.notion.…
I'll be at NeurIPS later in the week, so DM me if you're interested in chatting more about the role or our approach to modern differentiable modeling more broadly!
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Clearing out my old office and finding transparencies from my talks from 25 years ago...
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🚀 I am hiring a Founding Engineer for Inkboard Inc. 🚀👀
I’m confident there is no other role on the market like this - and for the right person, I believe this could be a career defining opportunity.
General Requirements:
- Good vibes. 😁
- You're a prolific generalist engineer who hates being confined to just code.
- You’re rarely blocked: you learn new skills on the fly to get the job done.
- Have worked/Are looking to work on atoms and bits rather than just the latter.
- Our customers (and we) love nerdy/quirky/joyful things - if you do as well please mention it when you reach out.
- (Bonus) You’ve built products people love.
More info in the linked tweet below!
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Recently published!
Simulating the air quality impact of prescribed fires using graph neural network-based PM2.5 forecasts
👉 bit.ly/3CFlejg
By Kyleen Liao, @JBuch7, @karadlamb and @PierreGentine
#airquality #wildfires #forecasting
Usually a good read, Ben Recht absolutely wrote a sophomore-level philosophy analysis of the Higgs discovery, and I’m glad Kyle (who was on the CMS team) corrected the record here!
My first draft of a reaction to @beenwrekt's blog post on the Higgs discovery. TL;DR, yes it did.
theoryandpractice.org/2024/1…
I've thought of this as one of the stronger consistency tests for AI NWP models -- glad there's a detailed study out now!
Can #AI-based weather forecasting models (trained on present-day data) provide skillful forecasts also in different colder and warmer states of the climate system?
Our new preprint @arxiv explores this question:
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.…
Here is what we found so far (🧵1/6)