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We're really good at that.

In a spiritual kinda way, I feel like hurricanes are acting proportional to how our pattern has been the last few years...downsloping, nw flow, ots...not all the time, but that seems like the base state, even more so than usual. We're due for a nor'easter pattern.

lol, literally taking a class rn on deep learning and neural nets (one more paper left on GANs). There’s a lot of free code out there to use. MNIST has been my dataset of choice…aka the “hello world” of neural networks. It’s fascinating stuff, but very computationally expensive. I have no idea what AIFS uses, but I imagine it’s not trivial.

Still kinda learning about AI, but after creating a few neural nets and slogging through understanding activation functions, gradient descent, loss functions, etc, it makes sense why these models (whatever architecture they’re using) could perform well on handling all the dimensions and chaos involved. It’s pure math and stats under the hood. The challenge will be dealing with the black box nature of deep learning algorithms, though I know explainable AI is becoming a thing. Computational cost is another topic as well.

Looks like some prime biking and hiking weather coming up. Every now and then I hit up Weverton for a quick hike.

Yuck.

The important thing is that it’s cloudy rn.

lol. The fact that I was able to bike in this says a lot, though it was actually kind of a pleasant light rain.

Need as much rain from this event as possible because that’s one helluva block setting up afterwards. Those tropical systems have no chance here with that monster moving in. Looks like an extended period of nice weather coming up.

Guess I’m gonna get another round too…it wants to rain here today.

Looks like Moco might get its downpour soon.

Downpour just in time for 5pm.

We might do medians better than mean.

I’d sacrifice 20 degrees for prolonged sunlight at this point.

I’m jealous…looks like a cloudy day start to finish here.

Well, I guess this is good weather to get work done. Interesting to see DeepMind mentioned in the LWX disco. Neural nets and GenAI are legit…those computing resources, though.

0.5”+ totals from that round here.

Basically a torrential downpour. No T&L yet

I can’t see the Catoctin’s right now.

Incoming

Still incredibly cloudy in Frederick. Oh well, now I feel nudged to do more work.

Looks like it’s cloudier west of 95 on satellite. I’m assuming it thins out as milder air moves in.

lol, I enjoy the seasons, but the older I get the less enthused I am about stratus clouds.

The Atlantic cloud factory has shown slight weaknesses the last few minutes in Baker Park. Otherwise, it’s been cranking in ways only the mid-Atlantic can.

Today’s weather makes me not eager for winter.