mdsumner
@mdsumner.bsky.social
maxing the pixels to glow
penguin shit from space, R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research
hypertidy.org
penguin shit from space, R, Python, GDAL, virtual Zarr, coordinate systems, southern ocean research
hypertidy.org
The challenge with LLMs is getting them to focus properly on what they're good at
They publish the thesis and you're still in chapter 1, it's the overall orchestration that really matters
And, they aren't great at source control meshing with yours (tell me I'm wrong)
They publish the thesis and you're still in chapter 1, it's the overall orchestration that really matters
And, they aren't great at source control meshing with yours (tell me I'm wrong)
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The challenge with LLMs is getting them to focus properly on what they're good at
They publish the thesis and you're still in chapter 1, it's the overall orchestration that really matters
And, they aren't great at source control meshing with yours (tell me I'm wrong)
They publish the thesis and you're still in chapter 1, it's the overall orchestration that really matters
And, they aren't great at source control meshing with yours (tell me I'm wrong)
So now that the robot is good at code can we get it to actually use the language when we're typing
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
So now that the robot is good at code can we get it to actually use the language when we're typing
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How the heck wasn’t I following you!?!? Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How the heck wasn’t I following you!?!? Sheesh.
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It's an absolute dud. "The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it." Both Thomas and Harriss need to say no for it to fall through. I am not feeling confident. #politas
Economic case for Hobart stadium just doesn't add up, experts say
An expert planning panel has defended their scathing assessment of Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium while speaking to the politicians who will ultimately decide the project's fate.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's an absolute dud. "The stadium benefits a subsection of the community, but the whole community pays for it." Both Thomas and Harriss need to say no for it to fall through. I am not feeling confident. #politas
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Yeah, this is where I am these days too.
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, this is where I am these days too.
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
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I monitor our Claude Code usage and when I see a devs usage spike I interview them to see what cool stuff they’ve figured out how to do. Every single one has figured out meta-prompting: having the model help them write a thorough prompt first. That unleashes a lot of cool usage.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I monitor our Claude Code usage and when I see a devs usage spike I interview them to see what cool stuff they’ve figured out how to do. Every single one has figured out meta-prompting: having the model help them write a thorough prompt first. That unleashes a lot of cool usage.
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If dystopia is the new norm, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asks, does it have to be so dumb?
www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...
It's all just so stupid, isn't it? - Amy Remeikis
You may be feeling overwhelmed by the flurry of crises – and that's by design, writes Amy Remeikis
www.deepcutnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If dystopia is the new norm, @amyremeikis.bsky.social asks, does it have to be so dumb?
www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/its-all-ju...
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@tomheap.bsky.social is a broadcaster, journalist, and author who is the current co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth. He previously hosted Countryfile on BBC, and the Climate Show on Sky News. He’s the author of two books: 39 Ways to Save the Planet and Land Smart.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@tomheap.bsky.social is a broadcaster, journalist, and author who is the current co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth. He previously hosted Countryfile on BBC, and the Climate Show on Sky News. He’s the author of two books: 39 Ways to Save the Planet and Land Smart.
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@nikibrazzola.bsky.social works at the interface between science and policy. Her work has focused on aviation decarbonization, carbon dioxide removal, and carbon certificates.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@nikibrazzola.bsky.social works at the interface between science and policy. Her work has focused on aviation decarbonization, carbon dioxide removal, and carbon certificates.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#rstats Dev Diary {lofifonts}
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#rstats Dev Diary {lofifonts}
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
Look closely - The segments are polygons, so I can permute all the vertices with some random noise to create a DIY/paint-swatch effect
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#rstats Dev Diary - {lofifonts}
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#rstats Dev Diary - {lofifonts}
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
... and because the segments within each letter all polygons, you can transform the coordinates to create text effects
Claude ai chat history is starting to replace my use of gists
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Claude ai chat history is starting to replace my use of gists
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“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”
Hear more from Richard Denniss - pre-order 'A Time for Bravery' (code SAVE5 for $5 off) australiainstitute.org.au/store/a-time...
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Jing Chi, Oysterhead, Fugazi, Meshuggah, Carcass, 3rd Secret, Fishbone, Medeski Martin and Wood,The Bird and the Bee
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Jing Chi, Oysterhead, Fugazi, Meshuggah, Carcass, 3rd Secret, Fishbone, Medeski Martin and Wood,The Bird and the Bee
🎶
🎶
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Clint Massie sexually assaulted children within his church for twenty years.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Clint Massie sexually assaulted children within his church for twenty years.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
Many begged not to go back.
The church leaders knew and did nothing to protect the kids.
They held meetings & told the girls to forgive and forget. That talking about it would make it “their sin”.
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Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Boiling AUSTRALIA
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
November heat arrived:
46.7C today at Birdsville (not a random place,but a well known heat champion) is a new seasonal max. in the Southern Hemisphere.
Next days the heat can even get worse,specially at night and some November records might fall.
Stay tuned !
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Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
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@corymccartan.com and I have been playing with @paleolimbot.bsky.social's #rstats `libgeos` package. It's pretty awesome.
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Open Source Geometry Engine (GEOS) C API
Provides the Open Source Geometry Engine (GEOS) as a
C API that can be used to write high-performance C and C++
geometry operations using R as an interface. Headers are provided
to make linking ...
paleolimbot.github.io
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@corymccartan.com and I have been playing with @paleolimbot.bsky.social's #rstats `libgeos` package. It's pretty awesome.
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
Handles the hard parts so that you can connect Rcpp to GEOS with a few lines of code. Got some existing, optimized `geos` code to ~3x faster!
paleolimbot.github.io/libgeos/
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“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Beyond belief': PM tells states to spend less on hospitals
Health ministers are furious with a letter from the prime minister demanding they rein in spending if they want a public hospital funding deal honoured.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“If we don’t have enough money to fund our hospital systems, I don’t want to hear another word about #AUKUS, fossil fuel subsidies, or what great financial managers your government is”
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
via cmsibley @albomp.bsky.social #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...