Kurt Schwehr

Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

YouTube video by Johnny Harris What’s really happening in the ocean’s “dark zones”

AIS and observing fishing on the oceans. youtu.be/2tuS1LLOcsI?...

@globalfishingwatch.org

YouTube video by Kurt Schwehr An AI Co Scientist -Notebook LLM video

A NotebookLLM generated summary video:

"An AI Co-Scientist"

youtu.be/0yRe2rWsCR8

YouTube video by Kurt Schwehr An AI Co Scientist -Notebook LLM video

A NotebookLLM generated summary video:

"An AI Co-Scientist"

youtu.be/0yRe2rWsCR8

Someone I know got scammed to the tune of many thousands of dollars by one of the many ploys going around. The government, tech companies, and financial companies need to step up far far more to protect people. And I have little faith that the current US government can do anything anymore 🤬🤬🤬

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments. To address this, we present an AI system that creates expert...

Just added to my reading list: "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software"

arxiv.org/abs/2509.06503

The top of my parking ticket that I got this morning.

How is your day going? This was parking at my mom's house where they apparently added a no parking at certain times sign recently.

www.githubstatus.com says everything is all good / green, but trying to start a codespace. As I was grabbing the screenshot, the status page popped this up: www.githubstatus.com/incidents/4j... "Experiencing connection issues across Actions, Codespaces, and possibly other services". Oh what fun. :(

I just removed support for Python 3.9 in the Earth Engine python client. The change should be out in 2 weeks in 1.6.16 (assuming we don't bump the minor version and have 1.7.0).

github.com/google/earth...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Santa Cruz, CA afternoon view on a drizzly gray day

Fixed and life moves on

Unable to update a feedstock of a python based package · Issue #2635 · conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io Conda-forge documentation I could not solve my problem using the conda-forge documentation. Installed packages Feedstock merge troubles Environment info Feedstock merge troubles Issue I'm sure this...

Where exactly can I find help on this stuff? I'm trying here, but I'm sure that's the wrong place to ask:

github.com/conda-forge/...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.12/site-packages/conda_libmamba_solver/solver.py", line 362, in _solve_attempt new_conflicts = self._maybe_raise_for_problems(outcome, index, out_state, old_conflicts) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.12/site-packages/conda_libmamba_solver/solver.py", line 759, in _maybe_raise_for_problems self._maybe_raise_for_conda_build( File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.12/site-packages/conda_libmamba_solver/solver.py", line 849, in _maybe_raise_for_conda_build raise exc conda_libmamba_solver.conda_build_exceptions.ExplainedDependencyNeedsBuildingError: Unsatisfiable dependencies for platform linux-64: {MatchSpec("python==3.14.0rc1=h4dad89b_2_cp314t"), MatchSpec("_python_rc")} Encountered problems while solving: - nothing provides _python_rc needed by python-3.14.0rc1-h4dad89b_2_cp314t Could not solve for environment specs The following packages are incompatible ├─ earthengine-api >=1.6.13 * is installable and it requires │ └─ python >=3.10 * with the potential options │ ├─ python [3.10.0|3.10.1|...|3.13.9], which can be installed; │ ├─ python 3.14.0 would require │ │ └─ python_abi =3.14 *_cp314, which requires │ │ └─ python =3.14 *_cp314, which can be installed; │ ├─ python 3.14.0 would require │ │ └─ python_abi =3.14 *_cp314t, which requires │ │ └─ python =3.14 *_cp314t, which can be installed; │ └─ python [3.14.0rc1|3.14.0rc2|3.14.0rc3] would require │ └─ _python_rc =* *, which does not exist (perhaps a missing channel); └─ python =3.9,>=3.9 * is not installable because it conflicts with any installable versions previously reported. ##[error]Bash exited with code '1'. Finishing: Run docker build

Anyone hitting this error with conda forge feedstock?

"python =3.9,>=3.9 * is not installable because it conflicts with any installable versions previously reported"

There are also a lot of complaints about python 3.14 in the logs.

Using AI and automation to migrate between instruction sets | Google Cloud Blog Google used hard work, automation, and AI to migrate more than 30,000 applications to Arm from x86, advancing the goal of architecture neutrality.

I got all the things I'm responsible for to work on ARM long ago without AI, so I don't know much about this blog post...

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Sunset over Santa Cruz, CA this evening.

Went searching bass guitars recently and yesterday searched on bass guitar tuners (the mic on my phone is just not good down around 41Hz). Now my view of the Internet is littered with digital guitar and other instrument add-ons. I don't have a clue what most of them do.

A strange balloon sculpture that is about 10 feet tall

I don't understand...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

I miss when one of my friends co-owned x dot com. Twitter **was** amazing. I still haven't really found engagement on bsky, but what / why do I care?

This from LWN.net is pretty funny. An AI person for 20 years who has never seen AI slop. What rock is this person living under?

They first have to get good and drunk to make sure they don't do too many straight lines. (Apologies to all those who actually do incredibly awesome paint jobs. I don't mean you.)

Sadly, the gitorious repo for the paper is long gone and I don't seem to have a copy of the reference file, so the references are a lot lacking. Sorry.

I finally got around to making a Zenodo entry for my paper with Eric S Raymond (ESR) entitled "Toils of AIS: A Case Study in Application Protocol Design And Analysis." It only took me 14 years to get around to getting a DOI for it 🤣

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

www.python.org/downloads/re...

Python 3.14 is out. Now I have to wait as the tree of dependencies get their releases out for 3.14 before I can enable it for my packages. It's always something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Tuning a base guitar when you don't know what you are doing is pretty intuitive with the Fender app

Railroad ties for our backyard improvement project. These will become stairs for our step hill that drops off behind our house.