Jake Nichol, PhD
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Jake Nichol, PhD
@complemental.bsky.social
CompSci PhD in causal discovery for Earth science via UNM. Postdoc at a national lab researching causal discovery, sciML, and trustworthy ML

🌶️Born and raised in New Mexico
🎶Trying to make a dollar out of what makes sense

[Machine] Learn to Save Earth 🌎🌏🌍
This post is sociopathic and deranged behavior
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’d have liked some discussion on their privacy and security because that’s what keeps me from entertaining anything other than Apple’s.
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There’s a culture of despair on the left. Not for no reason of course, but a shame.
October 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
How it works in NM is simply a matter of committing available funds to it. The state has the money from oil and gas tax revenue and has chosen to put it towards this.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Me_irl
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I want to clarify that my example here is actually what I think is one of the best use cases of LLMs (as a sort of search and parsing tool).

The problem is handing everyone the keys to a very confident-sounding implementation of that. It takes subject matter experts to verify the results.
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I meant no criticism. You admitted some ignorance of AI, and I wanted to provide information. These systems aren’t inherently trustworthy, and there’s currently no method to evaluate “trust.” Use them for verifiable information only. They can’t verifiably determine if an image is real or fake.
August 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ChatGPT cannot confirm whether a photo is AI or not. No computational method can right now.
August 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s both because it’s something he’s been doing for decades. It was taught to him by his mentor Roy Cohn medium.com/bouncin-and-...
No Matter What Happens, You Claim Victory and Never Admit Defeat
The genesis of the downfall of American democracy
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August 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Your interpretation is more believable if the preceding sentences didn’t exist. It makes more sense to interpret this generously and advocate for clearer writing.
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s your Starbucks order ticket
August 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Our paper aims to provide an ML-based view of mid-latitude S2S predictability that could help open new scientific pathways and increase our ability to handle weather-related risks.

Check it out here! doi.org/10.1175/AIES...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yeah I was right — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History.... Of course it was Fourier too
History of climate change science - Wikipedia
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August 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If I recall correctly, it was first hypothesized in the 19th century when scientists were considering the impacts of industrialization.
August 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It’s entirely possible to do that much soon, it will just depend on social pressures. The technology is nearly there.
August 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Downton Abbey is conspicuously missing from these replies.
August 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM