Dr. (fro)Dre
@frodre.bsky.social
Climate, ML, and skeets, apparently
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Dr. (fro)Dre
@frodre.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Welcome to the sky account. 👋🏼 I'm Andre. I work on ML for climate modeling at AI2 in Seattle. PhD at UW. Dad of a young kid and a dog. Anime and gaming in my small amount of free time. I miss thunderstorms
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
👀👀 (get those apps in! Come work with us!!)
We're looking for 2026 summer interns to tackle exciting aspects of AI climate model development (generalization across climates, impacts modeling capabilities like fire and water resources) and to be a part of our dynamic team! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninst...
Research Internship, Climate Modeling
Seattle, WA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
👀👀 (get those apps in! Come work with us!!)
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New paper out. In which we helped the folks at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) show that their climate emulator does a good (though not perfect) job at reproducing E3SMs' response to different SST boundary conditions.
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Applying the ACE2 Emulator to SST Green's Functions for the E3SMv3 Global Atmosphere Model
The Ai2 Climate Emulator broadly captures the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiative response to local sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies ACE and EAMv3's global TOA radiation sensitivity to all S...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New paper out. In which we helped the folks at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) show that their climate emulator does a good (though not perfect) job at reproducing E3SMs' response to different SST boundary conditions.
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TESLA: We rallied at the courthouse in Oakland CA where Tesla will finally be held accountable for a decade of dishonestly advertising their “self driving” cars. We made 53 headstones representing the 53 fatal Autopilot/FSD crashes… so far… but not one more life should be lost for Elon Musk’s profit
July 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
TESLA: We rallied at the courthouse in Oakland CA where Tesla will finally be held accountable for a decade of dishonestly advertising their “self driving” cars. We made 53 headstones representing the 53 fatal Autopilot/FSD crashes… so far… but not one more life should be lost for Elon Musk’s profit
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Have questions? We’re an open book!
We’re excited to host an AMA to answer your Qs about OLMo, our family of open language models.
🗓️ When: May 8, 8-10 am PT
🌐 Where: r/huggingface
🧠 Why: Gain insights from our expert researchers
Chat soon!
We’re excited to host an AMA to answer your Qs about OLMo, our family of open language models.
🗓️ When: May 8, 8-10 am PT
🌐 Where: r/huggingface
🧠 Why: Gain insights from our expert researchers
Chat soon!
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Have questions? We’re an open book!
We’re excited to host an AMA to answer your Qs about OLMo, our family of open language models.
🗓️ When: May 8, 8-10 am PT
🌐 Where: r/huggingface
🧠 Why: Gain insights from our expert researchers
Chat soon!
We’re excited to host an AMA to answer your Qs about OLMo, our family of open language models.
🗓️ When: May 8, 8-10 am PT
🌐 Where: r/huggingface
🧠 Why: Gain insights from our expert researchers
Chat soon!
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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
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We have three new papers out leveraging #AI climate emulators to estimate the radiative response to sea surface temperatures. Bottom line: Yes! We are learning new science with these tools.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10893 doi.org/10.1029/2024... eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10893 doi.org/10.1029/2024... eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Reanalysis-based Global Radiative Response to Sea Surface Temperature Patterns: Evaluating the Ai2 Climate Emulator
The sensitivity of the radiative flux at the top of the atmosphere to surface temperature perturbations cannot be directly observed. The relationship between sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosph...
arxiv.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We have three new papers out leveraging #AI climate emulators to estimate the radiative response to sea surface temperatures. Bottom line: Yes! We are learning new science with these tools.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10893 doi.org/10.1029/2024... eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10893 doi.org/10.1029/2024... eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
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Republican members of Congress aren’t assessing right or wrong, they’re assessing if the propaganda machine is holding up as the consequences start to appear. They may act in self-preservation if they start to believe that their media ecosystem won’t protect them.
I'm serious. Folks often say they have R reps so there's no point in calling them. THIS is a message that will make them scared. This is absolute normie stuff that affects Rs and Ds alike. They need to get thousands of calls about this. reps.fyi
February 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Republican members of Congress aren’t assessing right or wrong, they’re assessing if the propaganda machine is holding up as the consequences start to appear. They may act in self-preservation if they start to believe that their media ecosystem won’t protect them.
USA dumpster fire is all encompassing, but this morning I had my toddler running around singing "I got 5 on it" 😬😅
February 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
USA dumpster fire is all encompassing, but this morning I had my toddler running around singing "I got 5 on it" 😬😅
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Are you headed to #AMS25 next week? We're hosting the @pangeo.io happy hour and would love to have you join us! lu.ma/ddtba5f5
Pangeo Community Happy Hour at AMS 2025 · Luma
We're hosting a small gathering for the Pangeo Community at AMS 2025. Join us for drinks and light appetizers, and catch up with our community of data and…
lu.ma
January 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Are you headed to #AMS25 next week? We're hosting the @pangeo.io happy hour and would love to have you join us! lu.ma/ddtba5f5
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The new ACE2 climate emulator from Oliver Watt-Meyer et al has very compelling results, with results that look comparable to NeuralGCM. Congrats to the AI2 team!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.112...
arxiv.org/abs/2411.112...
ACE2: Accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses
Existing machine learning models of weather variability are not formulated to enable assessment of their response to varying external boundary conditions such as sea surface temperature and greenhouse...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The new ACE2 climate emulator from Oliver Watt-Meyer et al has very compelling results, with results that look comparable to NeuralGCM. Congrats to the AI2 team!
arxiv.org/abs/2411.112...
arxiv.org/abs/2411.112...
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Radar velocity shows winds continuing to increase. Peak winds will likely be in the next few hours for most places.
November 20, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Radar velocity shows winds continuing to increase. Peak winds will likely be in the next few hours for most places.
The daycare hauler / commuter rolled over 2k miles this week.
November 19, 2024 at 11:22 PM
The daycare hauler / commuter rolled over 2k miles this week.
We've been expanding the toddler music time lately away from the Blippi/Bluey stranglehold.
Tonight was A Perfect Circle. Boy oh boy is it a treat to remember just how otherworldly Maynard's creative endeavors were in the early 2000s.
Tonight was A Perfect Circle. Boy oh boy is it a treat to remember just how otherworldly Maynard's creative endeavors were in the early 2000s.
November 18, 2024 at 5:48 AM
We've been expanding the toddler music time lately away from the Blippi/Bluey stranglehold.
Tonight was A Perfect Circle. Boy oh boy is it a treat to remember just how otherworldly Maynard's creative endeavors were in the early 2000s.
Tonight was A Perfect Circle. Boy oh boy is it a treat to remember just how otherworldly Maynard's creative endeavors were in the early 2000s.
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This skeet inspired me to write down some thoughts I've had about creating and optimizing software:
"The opposite of DRY isn't WET, it's YAGNI."
alxmrs.com/yagni
"The opposite of DRY isn't WET, it's YAGNI."
alxmrs.com/yagni
November 17, 2024 at 1:26 PM
This skeet inspired me to write down some thoughts I've had about creating and optimizing software:
"The opposite of DRY isn't WET, it's YAGNI."
alxmrs.com/yagni
"The opposite of DRY isn't WET, it's YAGNI."
alxmrs.com/yagni
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I made a starter pack for those working in or adjacent to Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling! Apologies if I forgot anyone, and feel free to suggest people to add :)
go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe
go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe
November 16, 2024 at 5:17 AM
I made a starter pack for those working in or adjacent to Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling! Apologies if I forgot anyone, and feel free to suggest people to add :)
go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe
go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe
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The Musk/Ramaswamy “department” will probably be an advisory committee. These have very little power but are subject to burdensome paperwork and transparency requirements which can trigger lawsuits and grind work to a halt. An example from Trump’s first term: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump Voter Fraud Commission Halts Data Collection Amid Torrent of Lawsuits and Complaints
On Monday, Donald Trump’s election integrity commission paused its collection of voter data in response to the latest in a series of lawsuits and...
slate.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
The Musk/Ramaswamy “department” will probably be an advisory committee. These have very little power but are subject to burdensome paperwork and transparency requirements which can trigger lawsuits and grind work to a halt. An example from Trump’s first term: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Glad to see this place coming alive!
November 12, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Glad to see this place coming alive!
Stuck in the in between world for a few days now. 40 and foggy in WI. Feels like we never left the PNW
December 23, 2023 at 11:26 PM
Stuck in the in between world for a few days now. 40 and foggy in WI. Feels like we never left the PNW
Happy Thanksgiving! Imma do my best to channel this all day
November 23, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Imma do my best to channel this all day
Giving the André 3000 Saturday morning meditative flute journey a go
November 18, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Giving the André 3000 Saturday morning meditative flute journey a go
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The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
November 18, 2023 at 2:32 PM
The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
Just discovered the John Deere marketing propaganda for kids segment of YouTube
October 28, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Just discovered the John Deere marketing propaganda for kids segment of YouTube