House SS&T Dems just issued a report re NASA and the FY2026 budget: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval." Calls on Isaacman to "defend" NASA and not do the same w/FY2027 request.
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
Real question: how can the number 2 be made reality while competing with "no functional regulations and optional access to political power" strategy of the US for investors? Is it realistic to imagine a deepening of the investment without undoing the social states of Europe?
Looking at colleagues around me: a lot of grant writing. Like, a lot. And in between, fun science!
Shout out to the good people at the Scientific Viz lab who's brilliant work is shining during Artemis II svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
For what it's worth I haven't heard anyone saying 'manned' at the agency. As you pointed out the change was made long ago and seems to have stuck. Little victories.
I'll note here that the cuts to science are again huge (NOAA, NASA, EPA...) and draped in culture war language. The plan seems clear: every year calls for cuts, force agencies to work on the WH request by withholding money of the _actual_ voted budget.
Congress effectively ignored.
Fifteen+ years of working with or adjacent to the tech dudes and this is true now as it was when I started. They gained in power and did some more damage but that was always there...
It's always more, more, more with you people!
Alright fine, I'll do it, I have to destroy scientific research funding anyway so I'll bundle it all up
Thanks for posting those papers, as always I enjoy the science you post!
And yes, cleaning up the lingo around ML in the field will remain an ongoing subject to keep the seller of miracles away while recognizing that a field awash with data is well positioned for data-driven techniques!
Please accept my apologies, my aim was not at all trying to undermine you, though it's totally coming out that way and I am sorry about that.
I was really just musing about what I've seen around ML/weather and I am not deep in the field like you just peripheral from an HPC/coding side
I'll delete.
A vision encoder, with a temporal reinforcement net. A good combo, well applied.
Also very much applied a decade ago on VFX for denoising, among other uses. So an "old" technique, smartly applied here.
Not a shred of LLM.
The bad people won and science will suffer from it...
Missing board in an office showing poor previous work made by previous owners
1865 farm house here. I _feel_ your pain.
The New York Times: is AI sentient? In a new study it patched a drywall on a Saturday while complaining about the owner previous sloppy job, signifying true human consciousness
Congrats, this looks spectacular.
I've even made my own version of the iconic Joy Division-style daily anomaly plot thats updated with 2026 data (to-date): dashboard.theclimate...
Technically, if you want it to french-rouler the bon temps, it will involve a massive trashbin on fire and potentially a guillotine, but let's not get bogged down into details.
Be part of the solution if you ever want it to manifest, words to live by.
I hope the winds turn in your favor again soon.
Great results from a great group I had the privilege of working alongside.
I think those results can further be strengthened when the original model code can be fully differentiated routinely which we are well on our way to do (JAX, our tech at NASA etc)
In absolutely unrelated news, @annpettifor.bsky.social's "The Global Casino" book is out tomorrow.
I am done with my interesting times now, I am good with a solid decade of boredom, thank you very much.
Je vis aux US. C'est une bonne hypothèse mais probablement plus pour les Miller et autres Vougth de son administration. Pour lui, il est malheureusement beaucoup plus probable que ce soit la peur de sa mort imminente qui le pousse à des actions "glorieuses". C'est un être de pur égo avant tout
Been driving a 2017 Bolt in the US. Best car I ever had and we live in the rural cold parts where the battery takes a nasty hit in winter.
Of course, they discontinued it...
"This paper is so good that I have decided to join the author in his research as he has clearly outshined any other endeavor in our domain"
Allow me to ask: is it the logical conclusion of the cultural mantra: "public good or common good doesn't exist, the individual reign supreme and any wealth or power acquired is inherently moral, because the individual success is always good regardless of the means used"
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
I was in a call today with Europeans colleague. The very first topic before we could even get into the agenda: what's going on with NCAR?
They’re not even pretending that it’s for any kind of legitimate reason. Instead, they’re trying to dismantle NCAR to suppress knowledge.
The Age of Morons is in full swing. The damage to the scientific community will be unmeasurable. I cannot count how many pieces of software we use that originated or are maintained at NCAR. Taking this burden on would literally stop dozens of teams like mine from continuing research.
Decades if not centuries of knowledge about to be erased... Many of those NCAR researchers will leave public research _forever_.
And how to blame them, they'll make 3x the money in any private sector needing their fluid dynamics know-how without being insulted every other week.
The Age of Morons.
