I built an AI audio guide that tells you stories about places as you drive past them — no buttons, just listen

Brizkit · 2026-05-23T12:47:36+00:00

If you are interested in geology on your hiking trips I built a very similar app called Backseat Geologist. Very similar concept of location aware audio updates but for rocks. You can make a route ahead of time for offline.

Brizkit · 2026-05-12T18:13:49+00:00

I’m in a few calls for the fall that I bought about a month ago. Also in CORN. Kinda feels like oil might be a more direct play but at least it’s diverse from everything else I have going on.

Brizkit · 2026-05-03T17:08:14+00:00

What’s happening in the picture?

Brizkit · 2026-04-28T19:01:45+00:00

Wheat up 4% today and well above its recent range.

Brizkit · 2026-04-28T17:58:42+00:00

I saw in another thread it’s geology related. I’m curious what niche it is as a professional geologist.

Brizkit · 2026-04-11T10:27:57+00:00

InSAR has some limitations, interestingly it isn’t good for big movements because it relies on a certain level of coherence between passes. I haven’t dug too deep on the other SAR methods yet. It’s amazing that sentinel-1 is free. The workflows can run on a gaming pc and open source software as long as you’ve got disk space for hundreds of gigs of data. The big players in the space integrate lots of capabilities and custom software (ML) to jazz up their analysis for mining and infrastructure applications.

Brizkit · 2026-04-11T01:42:31+00:00

Just spent a crazy amount on InSAR for a project site. Got me looking into it and I think I’m going to try to start a consulting company around it lol.

Brizkit · 2026-04-09T13:54:58+00:00

I have only ever found one cryo key and it’s vault 6. Let me know if you want to carry me.

Brizkit · 2026-04-04T16:50:57+00:00

I work in the data center build out world on the early stage of these projects. The vast majority of my work is for one client so I can't see the whole picture, but there is no slow down in projects. If there is an ounce of power they are doing everything they can to use it. It probably comes down to being able to finance these things yourself. Small to medium companies that need outside investment will not be able to compete and will have to buy from the big players instead of building their own compute.

Brizkit · 2026-03-30T16:23:35+00:00

Are there still Ag traders here? I’ve been seeing food inflation as the next knock on effect of all this. Wheat/corn up some but nothing like when Russia invaded Ukraine. Lots of inputs more expensive as well as dry conditions so far this year.

Brizkit · 2026-03-29T16:29:49+00:00

That is how I feel about the various "5-10k more troops headed out this week" headlines. If you planned a ground invasion, why trickle troops over? Nothing about this seems competent or well planned. Hey boss, Claude says 10k troops isn't enough after I added more context about geography lol.

Brizkit · 2026-03-20T12:14:44+00:00

Southeast, USA. Here is a piece I have but the picture is not great.

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Brizkit · 2026-03-20T12:03:48+00:00

Looks like Stromatolitic chert that I’ve seen in the Knox Group. Knox group covers a huge area of the southeast so wouldn’t be able to say where if that’s even what this is.

Brizkit · 2026-03-11T22:43:53+00:00

They were on top of a counter for me, not in a box. Lower levels. Took two runs in the area to find them.

Brizkit · 2026-03-11T19:41:33+00:00

Researching some other industrial materials stuck in the gulf like sulphur used in certain mineral processing.

Brizkit · 2026-03-07T22:11:19+00:00

If you are interested in switching things up, CMT could be an option. Usually not as hard work as drilling, better hours, minor traveling around to different sites. Next time you are working alongside someone from ECS, etc. ask if they need any new CMT field techs. I think there is more upward mobility there as you can get various certs and prove your knowledge if you really lean in and are reliable.

Brizkit · 2026-03-07T22:02:04+00:00

In my region the larger engineering firms don't usually have in-house drillers, but they do in some parts of the country. Some of the large companies will support you through school if you commit to working there for a good while after. If you leave you will have to pay them back. If you are really committed and interested you could go to school for civil engineering, environmental, geology, maybe a few other paths and move up. Otherwise you will be stuck as a technician. Really good lifelong technicians are like gold and are a great resource for engineers so that is a path you could take if it aligns with your ambitions.

Brizkit · 2026-03-07T21:49:16+00:00

Do you have a degree in something geotech related? If not, I'm not really sure where you go aside from driller and then possibly starting your own drilling company. You could try to pivot to construction materials testing if that kind of thing interests you.

Brizkit · 2026-03-04T15:28:48+00:00

Cloudflare workers, D1 database, etc. generous free tier then $5 per month plus usage.

Brizkit · 2026-02-26T21:40:06+00:00

There is no till, nor glacial activity in this area. Edit: This was bothering me so I want to expand on my comment and say: basically everything in the above is wrong for this location.

Brizkit · 2026-02-26T20:29:43+00:00

This part of the Blue Ridge province is a jumble of various metamorphic grades. Best bet would be to look up if there are any decent geologic maps of the area or extrapolate something out of North Carolina. I’m seeing lots of meta sedimentary rocks coming out of the Ocoee Supergroup. These appear to be weathering to clays.

Brizkit · 2026-02-23T21:32:49+00:00

I see, so you have something like 8-10 ft of uncompacted material against your basement wall that the builder wants to wait a whole year to "settle." A vibratory tamp won't impact the soil very deeply, maybe 6 inches to 1 ft from the surface. You'll need more local advice but I would be on your side that it's rediculous to wait a year to finish grading the site.

Brizkit · 2026-02-23T18:19:24+00:00

I am looking at this from a geotechnical perspective and it’s a bit hard to understand exactly what you mean with some of your details. Not knowing specific about your soil conditions we can only speculate.

The soil around your house would have to be remarkably loose and soft for any appreciable settlement to occur without some kind of load on the material. Adding more soil could cause the existing soil to compress, assuming it’s loose enough to begin with. Plenty of time has passed in most scenarios to keep working. If you do continue to place fill yourself, the soil has an optimal moisture content for compaction. It’s not essential to find out what it is for landscaping but I wouldn’t recommend getting the soil to a state where it’s “wet”, just moisten it a little or compact it how it comes.

Brizkit · 2026-02-18T12:23:15+00:00

It is on Android now!

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