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Al Merose (he/him)
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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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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...
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We’re leaving behind a six-century experiment called “the Author.” What replaces it is risk, collaboration, and a new kind of creative life.
The Tortured Artist Is So Yesterday
41 years ago, Samuel Lipman wrote that an artist’s life is a “constant—and constantly losing—battle” against one’s own limits. That image has lasted because print culture taught us to imagine the artist as a solitary figure whose worth is measured by the perfection of a single, final work. Print fixed texts in place, elevated the individual author, and made loneliness part of the creative job description.
aneeshsathe.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The funny thing about math is… it’s a numbers game
years of studying math and i still understand only ~0% of all math
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I’m telling my wife “good job” for thinking about trying to write today, and she called me too soft.
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I have just discovered that I must separate writing from reading. No supplementary tab shall be opened – reading is for the editing, reflecting, consuming phases. For writing, it ought just be me and the document.
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Yooo, split views in Chrome! Take that, Arc Browser!
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ok, it’s December: time to melt down all your leftover Halloween candy into coco.
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It’s so embarrassing
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Psyched to see a 4D RoPE implementation out there -- would be killer to use for transformers in the weather & climate domain.

www.emergentmind.com/topics/4d-ro...
4D Rotary Position Embeddings
4D RoPE generalizes positional encoding by applying deterministic rotations across multiple axes to robustly model spatial, temporal, and multimodal data.
www.emergentmind.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I’m sad today. I don’t know why.
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
What a cool introduction to hyperdimensional computing! HDC: where dimensionality is a blessing, not a curse.

speakerdeck.com/michielstock...
HDC tutorial
speakerdeck.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Whenever I switch from Torch to JAX, I am temporarily renamed to Alax.
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
TIL that a researcher in Spain wrote a critique of the climate data model with no alternative. This is perfect, because I wrote an alternative to how climate data is queried with no critique.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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github.com/dollspace-ga... Doll made this tool to help three cueing readers learn phonics
GitHub - dollspace-gay/Anchor-Text
Contribute to dollspace-gay/Anchor-Text development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from Monterey
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Python pro tip: don't set default kwargs. It's better set default values in one place and one place only, like a config system. A function failing because you forgot to set an arg is a feature not a bug.

Signed,
- A developer almost done fixing a dataset the night before Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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...
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish this song was known by everyone so that I could reference it more.

youtu.be/KQMjPw6DOJU?...
Bus to Beelzebub
YouTube video by Soul Coughing - Topic
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I love seeing the release of ARCO Climate datasets: registry.opendata.aws/ogs-arco-oce...

github.com/inogs/arco-o...
ARCO-OCEAN - Registry of Open Data on AWS
registry.opendata.aws
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Got to implement a novel architecture today! And the loss is even going down!!
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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 getting the Dask data engineering blues 😢
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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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...
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM