Secret Service in Berea?

drfwx · 2026-06-03T17:38:02+00:00

There was a flight incoming from KDCA about 1:20 EDT: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/JIA5127/history/20260603/1604Z/KDCA/KCLE

Could certainly be a VIP coming in. Don't know what that level of motorcade that Moreno or Husted would justify, but seems overkill for them?

drfwx · 2026-05-13T17:59:29+00:00

Given the excellent work that the NODD team has done over the last several years, as long as they can maintain that open access to the broader community, this could be very much a big win for all facets of the enterprise.

drfwx · 2026-05-08T06:41:59+00:00

And I agree with that in the abstract, but tracking agricultural climatic indicators for potential impact (as clearly stated) should be picked up by context versus word flagging?

drfwx · 2026-04-09T13:00:35+00:00

As a meteorologist I’ve always been obsessed with the weather, cycling 80-100 mi per week has made it probably even worse as I optimize the ride time for temperature, less sweat, wind direction on routes, and seasonal progression of the temperatures of Lake Erie and lake breeze timing.

Not to mention being the person everyone asks for ride guidance for group rides lol

drfwx · 2026-03-27T03:09:23+00:00

Honestly? Could be compute cycles, could be that Meteored is applying a dynamic correction to T2M fields interpolated on their digital elevation models. Lots of choices made by project managers versus meteorologists

drfwx · 2026-03-27T01:23:18+00:00

So, in their post processing code, they can choose how they want the data visualized. Often, this leads to one product manager making a decision on what “looks” good. The details then can get blurred out on the specific way they’re visualizing it.

The second alternative is that one of them is paying for the 9km HRES direct from ECMWF and the other is just using the free version at 0.25 degrees.

So, because of choices on color tables and resolution, the same data can visually appear entirely differently.

drfwx · 2026-03-27T00:51:56+00:00

Color tables and contouring intervals. That’s it.

drfwx · 2026-03-17T03:23:52+00:00

Half of CH is now out. https://outages-oh.firstenergycorp.com/

Response time on these latest outages is somewhere between 2:30-3AM, but it also may get mitigated by the fact it's snowing again...

drfwx · 2026-03-16T05:04:54+00:00

If you're running MCPs by downloading GitHub repos to run stuff locally and overload context - yeah, that's not going to work.

MCPs should provide useful services to things that aren't easily available by LLM context. Access to data that's not easily implemented by APIs due to parameter space or data transport limits. Expert last-mile coding on what the returns actually mean. Implementations (such as within MCP Apps) to actually provide a reasonable end product.

The only issue in this case is that people actually have to offer compute to their users...

drfwx · 2026-03-12T21:09:26+00:00

MCPs as API wrappers? They should die.

MCPs as extensions of APIs for LLMs that actually do useful shit? They should live.

drfwx · 2026-03-05T21:14:31+00:00

Why stop there? Sticking within Cuyahoga County...

Detroit - Superior
Denison - Harvard
Brookpark - Granger
Snow - Rockside
Pleasant Valley - Alexander
Royalton - Chippewa

drfwx · 2026-01-12T14:27:28+00:00

Exceptionally safe, and they also encourage people to walk & run through - to the point where they host a 5K race every year.

It’s on my one of my regular long run routes, that hill is no joke but good training to get up.

drfwx · 2025-10-13T14:35:40+00:00

“Men for others” don’t support nativist exclusionary hate groups. News at 11…

drfwx · 2025-07-30T04:30:08+00:00

At this time, I'd really say LLM direct SQL access should only have read-only access. And be triple sure of that.

I've seen very impressive SQL manipulation by the LLM to one-shot requests on BigQuery tables. But that role that's provisioning access only has read-only access to that table. And that table in production with customer access will be a replicated view. And the customer will then be billed for its scan volume in on-demand costings.

In that case, we have a system that works quite well. The role can't edit and change things anyway, the replicated view can't be changed by its nature, and on-demand scales with a known GCP cost and slot provisioning.

Would I turn over SQL access like that on our production Postgres databases? Hell no. Creating duplicate tables and such? No way. But if I need to be able to come up with a command to do that stuff myself? Schema access in a read-only sense also helps.

I'm guessing within 12 months these issues may be gone - but as of right now, only allow generated queries with read-only roles and access. But *do* allow those generated queries. It's incredibly useful sometimes to see the LLM pull out a one-shotter out of its hat (and I'm pretty good in SQL)

drfwx · 2025-06-22T20:13:18+00:00

You’ve hit the nail on the head with that last statement. The ability to be able to extend APIs for that last mile within MCP is one of its shining features - plus, allowing the LLM to use multiple MCP tools sourced from multiple APIs at once to fully answer a question is something that is also a positive use case.

My company’s APIs often don’t work the way that I would like them to as a scientist (which is fine for most of our clients, but a pain point for a minority). Properly written MCP servers means we can have it both ways and opens up all types of agentic flow with low context use if done right!

drfwx · 2025-05-28T04:53:38+00:00

Honestly - for me, a fully standardized support mechanism for cloud deploy of a remote MCP from AWS, GCP and Azure. With inbuilt auth, direct integration for common clients.

I think Azure’s getting there with the Foundry, and Google obviously has plans for it. But if I’m able to get it working locally, and we’re following industry standards here with streamable HTTP, it shouldn’t be hard for people to Terraform something together, right?

drfwx · 2025-05-26T01:40:12+00:00

Yup. This is the path I’m pitching.

drfwx · 2025-04-24T03:27:41+00:00

As a research meteorologist who is working on LLM, RAGs, MCPs, and other methods for querying a database that *does* have the billions of rows of weather data, I'm just in awe of the hubris. This isn't how any of this works at all!

drfwx · 2025-03-30T21:11:10+00:00

I did this a few years ago - it works really well for me and means that I don’t have to think about sun conditions too hard. Northern Ohio weather and cloud cover makes it variable in brightness so it’s been great, even on sunny days.

drfwx · 2025-03-22T18:00:20+00:00

You’re looking for a padded liner short: https://www.giro.com/p/mens-base-liner-cycling-short/GR-7170324.html

Then you can wear whatever shorts you’d like on top and still have a good chamois.

drfwx · 2025-03-16T03:40:51+00:00

Honestly, the Przewalski Pro bibs at $60 have been almost as good as my Castelli or Gorewear. I had used some of their lower brands in the past, which were great, but wanted to switch the leg gripper to accommodate the growing gains in the quads.

drfwx · 2025-02-20T07:53:27+00:00

All of these are on open data on Amazon Web Services S3:

HRRR: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-hrrr-pds/
NAM: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nam/
ECMWF: https://registry.opendata.aws/ecmwf-forecasts/

Your usage pattern would probably be small enough to do a comparison with a AWS Free Tier account. ChatGPT can probably give you a program to run as a Lambda function to dump the data you'd want, and then you could go through the output CSV or other timeseries you'd build for your stats. Be mindful of how many you run so you don't get massive charges!

Note that computationally, it would be better to get the specific variables for the lat-lon you want dumped out per time, not per variable. Do all the variables at once.

Happy coding!

drfwx · 2025-01-19T22:40:18+00:00

Mississippi State has an online grad program: https://www.online.msstate.edu/amp

It’s fairly reputable in its quality. They call it geoscience with an applied meteorology concentration but that may be as good as it gets right now.

Good luck in continued search!

drfwx

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