DeepMind open sourced its cyclone model. this is its 4-day Milton forecast: track, wind speeds, probability maps. forecasters get an extra day of warning, roughly a decade of progress
David Liang
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Software Engineer | AI, tech career and marketing | Always Building!
- someone built a leaderboard for the slowest possible x86 instructions. current champion: a single fxrstor64 that takes 62 seconds to run. it's called the Assembly Hall of Shame
- SDSS mapped half a million supermassive black holes across the sky. they called the project Mapping Monsters. do you think astronomers name things by asking what would sound good on a metal album?
- a physicist rigged his hamster wheel to auto-upload runs to Strava. question: does the hamster know it is training for something, or is it just a very fit hamster?
- Block open sourced Buzz, where AI agents are channel members. Bumble hands off to Fizz, Fizz to Honey, hearts all around. agents are part of the room, not haunted cron jobs
