Al Merose (he/him)
@al.merose.com
Technical staff @OpenAthena.ai, community member @pangeo.io & @m2lines.bsky.social. Weather, Climate, Oceans Research. Programming, Politics, Postmodernism (oPinions are my own).
I’d like to introduce an experiment I’ve been working on for the past couple of years: Xarray-SQL. This library asks, what if SQL worked natively with arrays?
github.com/alxmrs/xarra...
github.com/alxmrs/xarra...
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’d like to introduce an experiment I’ve been working on for the past couple of years: Xarray-SQL. This library asks, what if SQL worked natively with arrays?
github.com/alxmrs/xarra...
github.com/alxmrs/xarra...
I love seeing the release of ARCO Climate datasets: registry.opendata.aws/ogs-arco-oce...
github.com/inogs/arco-o...
github.com/inogs/arco-o...
ARCO-OCEAN - Registry of Open Data on AWS
registry.opendata.aws
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I love seeing the release of ARCO Climate datasets: registry.opendata.aws/ogs-arco-oce...
github.com/inogs/arco-o...
github.com/inogs/arco-o...
Got to implement a novel architecture today! And the loss is even going down!!
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Got to implement a novel architecture today! And the loss is even going down!!
I’m mad because SOMEONE drank all the coffee and there is now none left (it was me).
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I’m mad because SOMEONE drank all the coffee and there is now none left (it was me).
I'm getting the Dask data engineering blues 😢
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm getting the Dask data engineering blues 😢
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If you missed our conversation with Jack Cushman from @harvardlil.bsky.social, you can catch up now. We discussed the Data.gov Archive and the challenge of preventing federal data loss – it's about more than just web pages.
youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...
youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you missed our conversation with Jack Cushman from @harvardlil.bsky.social, you can catch up now. We discussed the Data.gov Archive and the challenge of preventing federal data loss – it's about more than just web pages.
youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...
youtube.com/live/XYMbQru...
This paper debuting at NeurIPS this year has interesting implications. If neural emulators have better fidelity than their training data, then why couldn’t we simulate huge amounts of synthetic physics from neural emulators across a range of forcings to seed an even better model?
Neural Emulator Superiority: When Machine Learning for PDEs Surpasses its Training Data
tum-pbs.github.io
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This paper debuting at NeurIPS this year has interesting implications. If neural emulators have better fidelity than their training data, then why couldn’t we simulate huge amounts of synthetic physics from neural emulators across a range of forcings to seed an even better model?
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Holy crap the substance is scary
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Holy crap the substance is scary
We built something like this at Google Research. This project reimagined a programming model around “particles”, and provided provable guarantees of privacy in an AI mediated OS (“Arcs”).
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We built something like this at Google Research. This project reimagined a programming model around “particles”, and provided provable guarantees of privacy in an AI mediated OS (“Arcs”).
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Coming out of a rabbit hole about imagining Zarr as video container format.
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Coming out of a rabbit hole about imagining Zarr as video container format.
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
✋ building websites
👉 buying domains
👉 buying domains
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
✋ building websites
👉 buying domains
👉 buying domains
Imaginary numbers were an old school way of representing vectors (w/ rotations) — and they’re still used a lot in computer graphics. There’s a unified representation of both kinds of “vector things” called Clifford algebra, which is ideal for physics, especially Schrödinger’s equations.
it is baffling that there are physicists who deny that there are physical values best represented by imaginary numbers
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Imaginary numbers were an old school way of representing vectors (w/ rotations) — and they’re still used a lot in computer graphics. There’s a unified representation of both kinds of “vector things” called Clifford algebra, which is ideal for physics, especially Schrödinger’s equations.
Bugonia was great. Felt like The Menu (high praise).
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Bugonia was great. Felt like The Menu (high praise).
Learning every additional detail of the Mamdani team makes me want to cry 🥲
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Learning every additional detail of the Mamdani team makes me want to cry 🥲
I’m proud of NYC and CA 🥲
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I’m proud of NYC and CA 🥲
This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.
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Prop 50 is about making sure workers and communities keep their voices in Congress. #YesOnProp50
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Prop 50 is about making sure workers and communities keep their voices in Congress. #YesOnProp50
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
![Puns are not the games of a mediocre mind. Duchamp found in them "a source of stimulation both because of their actual sound and because of unexpected meanings attached to the interrelationships of disparate words [...].
Sometimes four or five different levels of meaning come through. If you introduce a familiar word into an alien atmosphere, you have something comparable to distortion . in painting, something surprising and new."42](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lozmph3nfogiyoi23m4qrxus/bafkreigf5ue5nl5vdw43ckxlhgqyv263gc6s7muwlqfxjd73oqa2rmd3ou@jpeg)
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
@ryankmetz.bsky.social I really enjoyed your conversation with Wil on @geospatial.fm
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
Voting in the Geospatial Economy — Geospatial FM
Ryan Kmetz is Research Director at IQSpatial. We are privileged to have his time in this episode. He talked with us about economic conditions faced by geospatial workers in the US. We reflected on the...
overcast.fm
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
@ryankmetz.bsky.social I really enjoyed your conversation with Wil on @geospatial.fm
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
This makes me proud to primary program in Python. What a great community to be a part of.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This makes me proud to primary program in Python. What a great community to be a part of.