"...If you hand that process to a machine you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed."
I hear all the time about the importance of efficiency in so many aspects of our lives. But HUMANS ARE NOT MACHINES. Learning & growth is slow & a GOOD thing!
I'm personally banking (as an old fuck) that being able to write actual code that actually works will be as valuable in a few years as old fucks that still remembered how to write COBOL around Y2K
watching GitHub slip to one-nine of uptime over the last month or so has been an interesting reminder that LLM generated code is like taking out a high interest loan against your future self; there are ways of leveraging that debt into something valuable but most of the time, you default
“A common justification for mass surveillance is “it stops crime." But it's mostly used to crush dissent, target non-mainstream views, and sell ads. Safety is the excuse. Control is the result.”
From @naomibrockwell.bsky.social priv/acc privacc.org
I’ve said it before, but this time more visibly (on National AI Literacy Day nonetheless). For your consideration:
Changes that encourage students, or scientists, to move further away from the data should be violently challenged.
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#AILiteracy
One question I ask myself is what can I do to help ensure folks in our community are not left behind, and pushing them to use AI tools is not what comes to mind; I will help guide people in the direction of new tech, but not at the expense of their personal values.
The change at NOMADS will not impact the NSF Unidata instances of the TDS (for example, thredds.ucar.edu or tds-nexrad.scigw.unidata.ucar.edu), the instance ran by NCAR GDEX, or any the other instances ran by the community, as they are all site specific and independent of each other.
The NOMADS OPeNDAP service was implemented by the GrADS-DODS Server, which is independent from the Hyrax server (from the OPeNDAP group) and the THREDDS Data Server (From NSF Unidata). NOMDADS discontinued use of the GrADS-DODS Server, but NCEI still runs an instance of the TDS.
Not only that, but OU and UW (allegedly) put in their own proposals? I wonder what those look like?
UCS filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the NSF to publicly release all of its communications about its plans to restructure the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “NCAR represents one of the most successful models of federally supported scientific infrastructure in the US.”
what is this garbage. why is this person a professor. how could anyone believe this enough to write an article about it. who approved publishing it in bleeping SCIENCE.
100% agree (with this and your previous points). And no matter what we point to as a reason, we end up with gzip’d bufr in a bucket, and everyone loses because it’s no better than FTP 😭
It’s a partnership for well functioning teams, no doubt, but it’s generally not 50/50.
and I am going to go out a limb and guess that a fair number of managers who do are thwarted by their superiors.
and I am
going to go out a limb and guess that a fair number who do are thwarted by their superiors.
I know it’s not that black-and-white, but if a higher up telll a non-domain, non-end-user experienced expert “move to the cloud”, you get gzip’d bufr in a bucket because hey, it might save on storage costs.
And who is responsible for guiding engineers or letting them go? If managers (or their superiors) dictate a direction (“you need to move to the cloud), they need to correct low bar attempts (weather driven by laziness or insufficient guidelines) or be more specific in what that means.
Not all managers position themselves to be persuaded.
Struggle of netCDF-Java since the early 2000’s (and most recently this week, when I discovered GRIB-2 Section 2 was being encoded as Section 0 for NDFD messages coming across NOAAPORT).
To clarify, that’s not a dig. I’m sure they are being told “to the cloud!” without guidance from management.
Lowest bar met.
Ugh 😭
I need this in my life
I just want precip at this point…I’d like snow, but I’ll take any liquid.
Flip side, the dogs are loving it.
It’s the last day of February and it is nearly 70 F in my backyard. Thanks, I hate everything.
Oh no! I'm so sorry ☹️ If it's netCDF-C related, the latest release (released two days ago) is compatible with HDF5 2.0, but no idea how long it will take to work that into brew.
Ugh. What all did it break?
