biodhokie

Storm is definitely putting on a light show in Bethesda. Lots of CG.

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Looks like a fairly straightforward day. Some training thunderstorms with scattered reports of flooding and wet microbursts. Lots of surface CAPE, but the downdraft CAPE and mid level lapse rates aren't too impressive. 

If I can get a good rumble of thunder or two I will be happy. I've watched for the past week storms avoid downtown Silver Spring as if it were a leper.

DCA: 100

IAD: 101

BWI: 101

RIC: 100

24 minutes ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

Are we ever going to get an area wide dumping?  Jesus Christ.

We did! Getting dumped in pollen.

1 hour ago, Paleocene said:

A rare blue-sky arctic day around here. Local weatherbug reports 27F, with 15mph wind gusts. Snow blowing off the trees and whipping around. Montgomery County ignoring plowing the tertiary residential streets. Deep winter feel, 10/10.  

which really sucks for me. Makes it so I'm literally stuck in my apartment complex. Should I attempt to leave I'll be sliding into Colesville praying I don't get T-boned.

Finally I can go to bed. Silver spring is SN and Georgia Ave/Colesville is caved. 30 min ago there was nothing.

14 minutes ago, biodhokie said:

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/computing/our-facilities/supercomputer-facility

5 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

interesting - basically a F ton of cores for parallel execution.  All the massive LLMs are trained on huge clusters with thousands of GPUs because the core calculations involve gigantic matrices, which GPUs are really efficient at.

Pretty much, depends on how the person submitting to their cluster submits the jobs.

They're using the slurm scheduler (which is what we use as well) which will take a single job and every line of the command file ends up being a subjob. Effectively you can create a parallelized pipeline that results in a single cohesive output.

What has me curious is what their pipelines look like and how they're coded, mainly to see how I could apply it to my own work seeing how they constantly run the same pipeline to output the model results.

3 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

i'd actually be curious what kind of hardware these models run on.  Do they require a lot of GPUs like machine learning models / LLMs?  Or just a ton of CPUs for parallelization?

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/computing/our-facilities/supercomputer-facility

Basically a big Unix environment using a supercomputer. I get to do the same on the daily, some cool equipment.

Derrick Henry is him.

9 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Brandon Stephens is god awful. Amazing the Ravens don't have a better option.

If he's the starter week 1 next year, my heads going to explode.

15 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

Probably gonna be rain in Georgetown unfortunately 

man thats a deep cut.

1 minute ago, wxmeddler said:

Heavy Snow in Silver Spring. Grill tops yes, roads no.

It opened up really in the last 5 minutes. Driving on East-West 5 minutes ago it wasn't snowing. Get to my apt its ripping fatties.

13 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said:

also oysters are good

Ketchup on steak though. mortal sin.

1 minute ago, 87storms said:

But I do like snow.

Jealous. Been waiting for snow for the past 2 hours. So tantalizingly close on the radar.

1 hour ago, H2O said:

Randy and Mac, yall are doing a shitty job promoting the idea of eating oysters

who knew this statement would cause a moab to get dropped into the thread.

2 minutes ago, 87storms said:

Oysters are awful (the seafood version of scotch).  Mussels are where it's at.

1 minute ago, 87storms said:

I literally gag when trying to eat oysters.  Eating them is a miserable experience.  I did somehow manage an oyster shot at Mama's on the Half Shell in Canton, though.

x1000.

3 minutes ago, MacChump said:

it's not even rational because raw oysters may be the most disgusting looking food around but those little crabs are next level

Seriously. Looks like ocean ticks. Had an oyster this summer at the insistence of my gf...hard pass to another can't get past the texture and the back of my bio brain yelling to me that oysters are filter feeders.

1 minute ago, WxUSAF said:

Looks like max stripe is between RIC and DC. 

Close to where we want to be 72 hours out if history repeats itself. 25-50 mile jog north as it gets closer to game time.

2 minutes ago, mappy said:

good luck. not sure hiding his posts or multiple people asking him to post here is making any difference. 

im just waiting for the thread to go storm mode and the 5-postings to begin.

4 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

yeah definitely take the metro

If I recall from the 2016 storm, metro has an amount of snow where they run only the underground portions of rail? Don't know we'll get to that number here but I do recall that being a thing.

Just now, TSSN+ said:

Beautiful 

Inject this directly into my veins.

BWI: 4.0"

DCA: 2.4"

IAD: 3.1"

RIC: 0.0"

Tiebreaker (SBY): 0.2"

What is this bright yellow thing in the sky? It hurts when I try to look at it.

I'm done with the heat, I'm tired of waking up at 0530 to run in a swamp. Give me 50s and wet over 72 and humid so I can train for the marine corps marathon in peace.

Pretty much everyone Moco and points south and east are going to at least get some respite from the heat tonight. Just take the rain. A nice light show is a bonus. As much as I love severe, I really don't want to deal with a power outage with this heat.