Stephen Fay

@dcxStep

reduce entropy

Toronto, Ontario

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Joined August 2014

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Stephen Fay
@dcxStep
Aug 12
Recast launched! So happy to be part of it! It’s deeply motivating to be building something that helps get more water where it’s needed I’ve been working primarily on the Texas and New Mexico operations software, and I also get to do physics and stretch my brain. New Mexico’s
Recast Systems
@recast
Aug 12
In the past 6 months we’ve produced a cheaper, more efficient seeding material, trained a hyper-resolution AI weather model, and operated 100+ cloud seeding flights for the governments of Texas and New Mexico. Recast Systems is coming out of stealth. Here’s some of the research
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Stephen Fay
@dcxStep
Aug 20
Simple thought experiment for green Sahara. 6k years ago the Sahara desert was lush and full of life, receiving abundant rain. This is because northern summer aligned with perihelion (cycles due to earth's precession). This made Saharan Africa *hotter* in the summer, creating
Stephen Fay
@dcxStep
Aug 20
What happens to earth's albedo (reflected sunlight energy / incident ray erg) if we paint all the roads pure white? The world has ~20M km paved roads of width ~6–7 m ⁶🤷‍♂️⁷. So 130,000 km2 total surface area. Earth's surface is 510M km2, so 0.0003 (0.03%) of the planet. If we
Stephen Fay
@dcxStep
Aug 20
my ai agent was slow and unreliable in testing UX stuff so i told it to write *me* a human-in-loop test script. Never thought i'd see the day when my brain and hardware (eyeballs) would run a program designed by linear algebra
Stephen Fay
@dcxStep
Aug 18
Bugs are distributed exponentially with height. One e-fold is roughly 100 meters, so like 2/3 bugs dwell below 100 meters from ground at all times. Thought you ought to know