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).
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Al Merose (he/him)
@al.merose.com
· Nov 25
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...
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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oh? you harassed another queer person off the microblogging site? do you feel good? has the revolution been achieved? are we closer to communism, comrade?
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 AM
oh? you harassed another queer person off the microblogging site? do you feel good? has the revolution been achieved? are we closer to communism, comrade?
Nothing like taxiing in an airplane at SFO while receiving a tornado warning weather alert for south SF.
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Nothing like taxiing in an airplane at SFO while receiving a tornado warning weather alert for south SF.
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This is super cool
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wisp.place
January 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
This is super cool
Christ, it really is a neomedieval era, isn’t it?
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Christ, it really is a neomedieval era, isn’t it?
Why does it feel like a Tuesday night?
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Why does it feel like a Tuesday night?
Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
I have a rough draft of a post about this here: alex.merose.com/no
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 AM
I have a rough draft of a post about this here: alex.merose.com/no
This year, I’m doing my annual goal setting and ideating in a veterinary hospital. My little cat Twiggy seems to have eaten a dozen hair ties. What an omen for 2026.
alex.merose.com/goals/
alex.merose.com/goals/
Goal Setting
alex.merose.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM
This year, I’m doing my annual goal setting and ideating in a veterinary hospital. My little cat Twiggy seems to have eaten a dozen hair ties. What an omen for 2026.
alex.merose.com/goals/
alex.merose.com/goals/
My 2026 resolution is to say “no” more.
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
My 2026 resolution is to say “no” more.
Nothing said “goodbye 2025” like the winery next door catching fire last night
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Nothing said “goodbye 2025” like the winery next door catching fire last night
For NYE, I recommend “Al’s Sparkling Americano”:
- 1 pt Campari
- 2 pts Vermouth
- combine and stir with ice
- fill halfway with tonic water
- top off with a double shot of espresso
Tonight, I’m going with this nice Spanish vermouth, it’s nice and floral. Cheers 🥂
- 1 pt Campari
- 2 pts Vermouth
- combine and stir with ice
- fill halfway with tonic water
- top off with a double shot of espresso
Tonight, I’m going with this nice Spanish vermouth, it’s nice and floral. Cheers 🥂
January 1, 2026 at 2:16 AM
For NYE, I recommend “Al’s Sparkling Americano”:
- 1 pt Campari
- 2 pts Vermouth
- combine and stir with ice
- fill halfway with tonic water
- top off with a double shot of espresso
Tonight, I’m going with this nice Spanish vermouth, it’s nice and floral. Cheers 🥂
- 1 pt Campari
- 2 pts Vermouth
- combine and stir with ice
- fill halfway with tonic water
- top off with a double shot of espresso
Tonight, I’m going with this nice Spanish vermouth, it’s nice and floral. Cheers 🥂
I called it: arxiv.org/html/2512.22...
December 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I called it: arxiv.org/html/2512.22...
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google: we have invented agi but have hidden it in such an obscure website no one will ever find it
anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times
openai: we added slot machines
anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times
openai: we added slot machines
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
google: we have invented agi but have hidden it in such an obscure website no one will ever find it
anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times
openai: we added slot machines
anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times
openai: we added slot machines
Really fun to read the redbook (redbook.io) to see a db legend politely talk shit about DHH ten years ago.
redbook.io
December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Really fun to read the redbook (redbook.io) to see a db legend politely talk shit about DHH ten years ago.
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Likewise, I propose we call Type I errors “yeah, no” and Type II errors are “no, yeah”
It’s pithy yeah for sure but not descriptive, I can never remember which lesson was the “bitter” one?
December 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Likewise, I propose we call Type I errors “yeah, no” and Type II errors are “no, yeah”
The Cython type annotations interface is 🤌
December 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Cython type annotations interface is 🤌
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It’s remarkable how shamelessly Bari Weiss is turning CBS News into state media.
by Viktor Orban
by Viktor Orban
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It’s remarkable how shamelessly Bari Weiss is turning CBS News into state media.
by Viktor Orban
by Viktor Orban
My greatest reminder to be patient with my parents is that I’m slowly turning into them.
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My greatest reminder to be patient with my parents is that I’m slowly turning into them.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
The joining of state and corporate power
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The joining of state and corporate power