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Daniel Klotz
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Professional Stumbler. Shenanigans with Earth Science & Machine Learning

Visiting researcher at google & assistant prof at it:u (at)
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How much do LLMs “know” about present-day climate?
We asked 17 models for July 1991–2020 temperatures at 15 000+ land points — and many did surprisingly well!
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08043 🧪
#LLM #Climate
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
August 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Marine heatwaves have devastating effects on marine biodiversity. And they’re on the rise. Impacts have been particularly strong on habitat-forming foundation species like corals, kelp and seagrass. The result? Widespread, cascading impacts on both biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems.
August 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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i played Hydlide 3: The Space Memories a bit more. i have not successfully saved afterward yet, but i made it to level 3 once and got enough experience for it a second time.

the more i play it, the more impressed by the environment work i am. both the sprites and how the screens flow are great.
August 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. “It’s not playable, but you can insert & remove Lego game cartridges and use different lenticular screens to pretend.” Total nostalgia bomb. [kottke.org]
The Lego Game Boy
Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. It’s not playable, but you can insert & remove Lego game cartridges and use different lenticular screens to pretend
kottke.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
weeeeeee
August 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @hyclimm.bsky.social @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social on extreme events of suspended sediment concentrations: landscape and environmental drivers; processes related to events; how to classify events; variability in the context of glacier melt; and the importance of rainfall.
July 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Land Cover Map 2024 is available now!

The latest in the series of @ukceh.bsky.social Land Cover Maps in raster and vector formats across spatial resolutions! This adds another year to our well established time series!

Land Cover Map 2024 is available through @eidcdata.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall.
Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't?
🧵1/5
July 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🎤 @ellis.eu at #AIforGood Global Summit 2025
Don’t miss Bernhard Schölkopf keynote:
🧠 "The future of AI-powered scientific breakthroughs"
🗓️ 8 July |
⏰ 15:35–15:55 CEST
🔗 aiforgood.itu.int/event/the-fu...
July 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Before anyone says anything about whether there were flood warnings in Texas, read this.

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Catastrophic Flooding In Texas - Were There Warnings?
Deadly flooding in the flash flood alley of Texas is raising questions about warnings. Here's a preliminary (but not conslusive) analysis.
www.forbes.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If there isn‘t one, there should be a word for the excessive use of bullet points….
July 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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xLSTM for multivariate time series anomaly detection: arxiv.org/abs/2506.22837

“In our results, xLSTM showcases state-of-the-art accuracy, outperforming 23 popular anomaly detection baselines.”

Again, xLSTM excels in time series analysis.
July 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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EStreams dataset version 1.3 available at: doi.org/https://doi....

Note that the catalogue remains unchanged. Stay updated for future extensions.
EStreams: An Integrated Dataset and Catalogue of Streamflow, Hydro-Climatic Variables and Landscape Descriptors for Europe
Check out the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03706-1 (published at Nature Scientific Data). EStreams is an extensive catalog of openly available stream records, along with a dataset of h...
doi.org
June 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby
www.dlib.org
June 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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TiRex 🦖 time series xLSTM model ranked #1 on all leaderboards.

➡️ Outperforms models by Amazon, Google, Datadog, Salesforce, Alibaba

➡️ industrial applications

➡️ limited data

➡️ embedded AI and edge devices

➡️ Europe is leading

Code: lnkd.in/eHXb-XwZ
Paper: lnkd.in/e8e7xnri

shorturl.at/jcQeq
Introducing TiRex - xLSTM based time series model | NXAI
TiRex model at the top 🦖 We are proud of TiRex - our first time series model based on #xLSTM technology. Key take aways: 🥇 Ranked #1 on official international leaderboards ➡️ Outperforms models ...
www.linkedin.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Recommended read for the weekend: Sepp Hochreiter's book on AI!

Lots of fun anecdotes and easily accessible basics on AI!

www.beneventopublishing.com/ecowing/prod...
May 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
May 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Caravan News🐪🐫

I just published Version 1.6. The main update is that the source data for CAMELS-AUS was upgraded to CAMELS-AUS v2. This means more basins (561 vs 222) and more recent streamflow data (2022 vs 2014).

All relevant links in thread 🧵

(please share/repost)
May 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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We have several open, fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions at my group, now at the University of Tübingen. Please #RT and share with potential candidates!

Generally: AI for scientific discoveries in physics 🔥.
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May 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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xLSTM for the classification of assembly tasks: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18012

"xLSTM model demonstrated better generalization capabilities to new operators. The results clearly show that for this type of classification, the xLSTM model offers a slight edge over Transformers."
May 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM