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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 2d

I love art

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 2d

Man, all the best stuff comes from 20% projects

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github.localhost

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 2d

Looks like Google is cooking up a “framework soup.”

github.com/google/torchax

GitHub - google/torchax

Contribute to google/torchax development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 2d

Six weeks ago, my mom broke her foot on a hike during our family reunion. Two days ago, my dad also broke his foot when we were out walking together on a trip. Man, I’m bad luck!

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 3d

Thank you!

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 3d

It’s my 33rd Birthday!🎂

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 3d

Totally. It’s like saying, “here are the Hodgkin-Huxley equations — see, we perfectly understand the brain.”

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 3d

No, because that promotes them to human first before dehumanizing them, they aren’t even remotely in that category.

Good discussion on the topic here: overcast.fm/+ABHI4VaWKtM

The Truth Behind The Rise of ‘Robot Racism’ — Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

SUPPORT ME ON PATREONBuy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 People on TikTok, YouTube and X are recreating 1950s style racism towards robot...

overcast.fm

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 5d

If you see this, post a picture from your device without explaining it.

Close up: black pen on white paper, the face if a woman over and over spilling into each other.

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 5d

Literal used car salesmen

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 5d

The YC-backed startup has raised a $4.5 million seed round as it looks to win over more businesses by replacing cumbersome phone trees with AI-powered software.

Flai is the latest startup bringing AI to car dealerships | TechCrunch

The YC-backed startup has raised a $4.5 million seed round as it looks to win over more businesses by replacing cumbersome phone trees with AI-powered software.

techcrunch.com

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 6d

These are good reasons, but if you were to reconsider:
- this is my favorite explanation: stopa.io/post/269
- GIT is the proof of the inevitability of the halting problem, which is still quite practical, eg: github.com/cubed-dev/cu...
- GIT shows the real limits of AI, which is relevant as ever

What Gödel Discovered

stopa.io

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 6d

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
- Alex Merose

quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/01/c...

Quote Origin: The Secret to Creativity Is Knowing How to Hide Your Sources – Quote Investigator®

quoteinvestigator.com

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 6d

Will you have a chapter on Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem by any chance? That would be amazing!

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 7d

Tact requires empathy, apparently

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 11d

@mcognetta.bsky.social I’m reading your post (mcognetta.github.io/posts/leetco...), this is hilarious and brilliant!

Finding a Random Seed That Solves a LeetCode Problem

mcognetta.github.io

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 11d

*loss functions

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 11d

I love papers like these that answer a cross cutting concern when modeling in a domain. These optimizers are interesting and I hope to incorporate these methods into my work.

arxiv.org/html/2509.17...

FastNet: Improving the physical consistency of machine-learning weather prediction models through loss function design

arxiv.org

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 11d

I used to work on this team, they’re doing amazing work in ML and weather!

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18d

Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍

deepmind.google.com/science/weat...

A dark-themed weather tracking map from Google Weather Lab: Cyclones (Preview) showing hurricane/cyclone models in the Atlantic Ocean as of Friday, September 19, 2025, at 08:00. The map includes ensemble forecast tracks and storm markers extending from the mid-Atlantic toward Western Europe. Multiple colorful lines (green, orange, blue, purple, yellow) represent different storm model ensembles and possible tracks, with clusters of paths pointing toward Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal. The cyclone originated east of the Caribbean, with its projected paths fanning northeastward across the Atlantic. Colored circles mark storm intensity along the tracks, numbered (e.g., 1, 2, 6) corresponding to categories. A second storm is visible off the Pacific coast of Mexico with clustered ensemble markers. The left panel lists model options (Observed, Our experimental model, WeatherNext Gen, WeatherNext Graph, ECMWF ENS, ECMWF HRES), a legend for storm markers, tracks, ensemble tracks, cones, and wind speed colors. At the bottom, sliders indicate initialization time (Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 08:00) and lead time (+6 days, Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 02:00). The background map highlights North America, the Atlantic Ocean, Western Europe, and parts of Africa.

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 12d

Really cool preprint just came out on how ECMWF’s new weather model trained from direct observations only recreates a physically consistent understanding of the Earth

ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2508.18...

Learning from nature: insights into GraphDOP’s representations of the Earth System

Through a series of experiments, we provide evidence that the GraphDOP model - trained solely on meteorological observations, using no prior knowledge - develops internal representations of the Earth ...

ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 14d

What else better complements a smash burger?

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 14d

Further, I’ve always wanted to make 3D fractal art a la arxiv.org/html/2402.06...

The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal

arxiv.org

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 15d

tree-diffusion.github.io

This works for generating image programs. What if it could be used to generate audio (music) programs? Say, for strudel.cc, for example.

tree-diffusion.github.io

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 15d

I just finished the paper. What an excellent read! Data Science is a commons built on frictionless reproducibility. We have hit the repro singularity, and we’re far from AGI. Scaling focus is the AI hegemony privatizing the commons for their gain. The future of data science is shared, better ideas.

Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 18d

I’m having a great time digesting “Data Science at the Singularity” and thinking about data products

arxiv.org/abs/2310.00865

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 15d

How much compute do you have access to? May I suggest a few interesting modeling projects?

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Al Merose (he/him) @al.merose.com · 15d

Reminds me of this classic: joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/f...

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