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Daniel Klotz

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Professional Stumbler. Shenanigans with Earth Science & Machine Learning Visiting researcher at google & assistant prof at it:u (at)

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So we’re betting on everything now?
YouTube video by Good Work So we’re betting on everything now?

youtu.be/mOptJl8Xkx0?...

15.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The image is from a Maxis software catalog from 1994. The one below is one of the software toys it mentions at the beginning.

14.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Could be my motto :)

14.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions Even superforecasters are guessing that they’ll soon be obsolete.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

12.02.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PC mag 1985

08.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SpΓ€tzle, Strudel & Neural hydrology: My research visit to Linz - digitalwaters.fi Iiro SeppΓ€, University of Turku. iielse@utu.fi At the end of November, I spent two weeks with the Machine learning in Earth Sciences group at Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT-U) in Linz...

In case anyone is thinking about visiting me as a guest researcher, here is a nice blogplost on how it is: digitalwaters.fi/spatzle-stru...

04.02.2026 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I do not have a remarkable :)

02.02.2026 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Discovering Hidden Gems in Model Repositories Public repositories host millions of fine-tuned models, yet community usage remains disproportionately concentrated on a small number of foundation checkpoints. We investigate whether this concentrati...

Interesting: arxiv.org/abs/2601.22157

31.01.2026 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026 - The Comics Journal The creator of Dilbert has died, Scott Adams, June 8, 1957 - January 13, 2026

www.tcj.com/i-have-no-mo...

29.01.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Four Predictions for How AI Will Change Forecasts - National Hydropower Association AI is shifting from language models to massive earth system models, unlocking faster, more flexible, and probabilistic weather and water forecasts better suited to real-world hydro operations. By comb...

www.hydro.org/powerhouse/a...

25.01.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.

theconversation.com/the-world-is...

24.01.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I very much liked the article. I tend to not think about hardware (too much) and it is always nice to see how people like Tim are able to link the hardware and software world. Here: I am not sure about some of the details, but I have a similar intuition about the broad strokes.

18.01.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Why AGI Will Not Happen β€” Tim Dettmers If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skep...

timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...

18.01.2026 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

this is important.
very important

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/pu...

14.01.2026 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow. deepseek does super cool stuff...

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Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there. Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip β€” under rules never designed for retail gamblers.

www.citationneeded.news/prediction-m...

09.01.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tessellations, Escher-style Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your own.

tiled.art/en/home/

09.01.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We introduce epiplexity, a new measure of information that provides a foundation for how to select, generate, or transform data for learning systems. We have been working on this for almost 2 years, and I cannot contain my excitement! arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220 1/7

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The nonconsensual deepfake porn site formerly called Twitter has some staggering numbers.

07.01.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Liquid Intelligence Winner of the 2015 James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book and the 2015 IACP Jane Grigson Award.<br /><br /> A revolutionary approach to making better-looking, better-tasting drinks., Liquid Intellig...

Tdl that a book about cocktails had the name of a project title I thought about 5 years before me: wwnorton.com/books/liquid...

04.01.2026 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Auto-Gladwell, or Can fractals be used to predict human history? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2010/04/29/a...

04.01.2026 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
More on that claim that scientific citations are worth $100,000 each | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/09/21/m...

04.01.2026 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is underpaid. By a lot! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

More critical commentary on Albert-Laszlo Barabasi: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/09/21/a...

04.01.2026 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The network nonsense of Albert-LΓ‘szlΓ³ BarabΓ‘si | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555...

03.01.2026 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A bit leas hyperbolic and closer to the action (but both are great and informative reads): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

03.01.2026 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Prediction Markets Are Gambling and Gambling Is Bad Prediction markets are gambling. They should be regulated as gambling, which means, in my view, they should be mostly illegal. The argument that

bergmayer.net/prediction-m...

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