John R. Lawson

Haha. Trapezium singular!

The Falklands War involved many deaths over imperialism and sheep/penguins. Europe won’t roll over. Take your “two dogsled” comments and fuck yourself. Greenland has more history and culture along a random side road in Nuuk than half of the States.

OH REALLY? ...YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER, WAIT FIVE MINUTES! WELL ACTUALLY... EVERY TIME THIS IS SAID, WE SEED ANOTHER HURRICANE OUT OF SPITE. ? MEMBER OF PUBLIC WEATHERMAN A TALE OF METEOROLOGICAL MISCHIEF!

I can’t draw comics, so I used words as my brushes (and as words), and Google Gemini Nano Banana as my ghost artist. Still uncomfortable attributing an image that obviously apes other styles.

I am SHOCKED that a FIFA Peace Prize recipient would bomb another country on Christmas. Absolutely stunned.

Nice, cool!!

US carries out strikes on Nigeria targeting Islamic State militants, Trump says President claims strikes targeted militants in country’s north-west, accusing group of attacking Christian communities

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Didn’t have a casual Christmas bombing of Nigeria on my 2025 card

Putin threatening Belgium is fucking tragic man, get a life and go back to shit claims of rivers in Moldova

Benjamin Netanyahu blames Anthony Albanese for Bondi beach terror attack, as world leaders express horror Israeli prime minister claims the Australian government ‘let the disease’ of antisemitism spread ‘and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today’

You subhuman fuck. If anyone carries any proportion of blood on their hands…

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If you use Perplexity, watch out for their increasingly scammy behaviour including their refusal to refund a mistake I literally have receipts for. “Big AI” will get its comeuppance soon and academia will pick up the pieces by optimising for truth, not greed.

Regarding obs: what about atypical archive of obs such as the vertically pointing MST radar near Aberystwyth?

Regarding reanalyses: they’re fantastic for setting baselines when evaluating forecasts. Also case studies of old events with as close to “like for like” as possible.

Did you know… I used to be a meteorologist 😅

Addison Rae’s 2025 album is full of clever decisions incl. from the two MxM producers. These trio of women should forge long-term collab!

“In The Rain” only has two bass drums per two bars (standard 4/4). Parallel 4ths and various modes. Shifting entire orchestration down a semitone in Diet Pepsi…

Yeah! It’s a function of practical tests’ trustworthiness. I can’t vibe-code a prediction model and pray it doesn’t have a snowfall bias. But then our new website is entirely supervised “coding with natural language” allowing high school students to be trained, contribute, learn. Mantra: caution! 😥

Worst aspect is making LLM tools look like web browsers, or my insurance company’s chatbot. Prompt/content engineering is increasingly becoming my job, and it’s creative, unpredictable (!), jaw-dropping (sublime & ridiculous!) — if academia is fumbling in the dark, we’ve mainstreamed an experiment!

Watching GitHub CoPilot CLI agent try to commit on my behalf & repeatedly forget to “git add” first. It’s silly/inefficient but impact is relatively low. But writ large, if one deploys an AI-driven systems lacking a suitable penalty, “if it breaks, it breaks” creates amplifying, unforeseen ripples…

The genius of Left Behind by Slipknot is how atonal yet dissonantly melodic it is at times

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

So we aren’t using the same word then. Inference is the act of proposing the next symbol based on current state(s). LMs in general don’t understand what you mean on Google Translate either. It can still be correct. That’s inference too.

I’ve got some Teesside dialect I can give you son, ha’way then you daft melt

Cited two of those papers recently after deliberately writing with a LLM sceptic on LLMs, haha, and he was right there with his Bullshit papers.

Nope, my first big use of LLMs was fixing a six year math problem I couldn’t work out. It’s Shannon at the core: information transfer. I don’t care what it sounds like and neither does info entropy quantification.

Truth is a pattern, a sequence, that can be true by accident. I don’t think truth must be intentional. Maybe that’s way off into philosophy at this point

We definitely have different definitions of inference…

(I did a first round and it hit me I haven’t seen an email about R2. Oh no…)

I’ve got that horrible feeling a spam filter has blocked emails from AMetSoc for a while now, not for first time, and I’m going to be mortified if a paper review has gone through the cracks.

Stochastic sampling of anthropologic states unfortunately led us to discovering an efficient way to democratise interpretations of truth (“all stupidity counts one”) via popularity contests, and throw the idea of fact-curation to the wind. Truthiness now defined by aesthetic, rhetoric, advertising.

Blows my mind. The waste of money, energy; the staggeringly consistent incompetence… If you’re going to cosplay a LLM that’s actually just Microsoft Graph + Grammarly’s stunt double, maybe don’t shoehorn it into every piece of IP you own. Dreadful, and damaging abuse of the term “AI”.

Lovely plot, nice work.

Given higher than usual confidence of rapid intensification (RI) from analyses of an exceptionally favorable environment & with the aid of newer hurricane models (HAFS) & Google DeepMind, NHC was able to skillfully predict Melissa's RI days in advance.

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