tndl

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by tndl 9mo ago
These models actually outperform traditional methods on many fronts, including accuracy a lot of the time. They are technically generative AI models, but they're definitely not LLMs.
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by tndl 9mo ago
Really exciting to see NOAA finally make some progress on this front, but the AIGFS suite likely won't outperform ECMWF's AIFS suite any time soon. The underlying architecture between AIFS and GraphCast/AIGFS is pretty simila
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by tndl 9mo ago
That seems to be the case from what I've heard.
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Ancient Olympians wouldn't qualify for today's Games(elysian.press)
3 points by tndl 1y ago|1 comments
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Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons(axios.com)
53 points by tndl 1y ago|67 comments
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by tndl 1y ago
Things are changing quickly in this area. Several projects/companies working on AI data assimilation (an alternative route to creating analysis data like ERA5)[0]. Also a lot of companies working on the data collection side, replacing&
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We Should Own the Economy(elysian.press)
27 points by tndl 1y ago|48 comments
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How to be a "good" rich person(elysian.press)
2 points by tndl 2y ago|1 comments
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We Should Own the Economy(elysian.press)
6 points by tndl 2y ago|1 comments
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by tndl 2y ago
Very interesting, I'd love to hear more about it! In short, yes, we plan to do descents near urban areas if there's a route where we can go down to a safe height and stay away from any airspace. What cities are you looking at righ
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by tndl 2y ago
Send us an email! team@sorcerer.earth
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by tndl 2y ago
One of the first ideas we explored was putting an electrolyzer on the balloon to replenish hydrogen over time. Unfortunately right now, for balloons our size and power budget it's just not feasible. And actually, we can get a pretty lo
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by tndl 2y ago
We're actually just going to have kids launch our balloons, it's no problem: A person who is 6 years of age or younger who intentionally releases, organizes the release of, or intentionally causes to be released balloons a
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by tndl 2y ago
I don’t know much about WAPS at all, but generally speaking, we’re only interested in doing weather sensing. As of now, we’re not planning to license the vehicle at all. And generally speaking our platform doesn’t work for payloads that are
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by tndl 2y ago
This might be the coolest use case I’ve heard suggested. We’re not quite at the level where all of this is user friendly enough, but let’s catch up in 9-12 months
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by tndl 2y ago
Not yet, but keep an eye on https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
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by tndl 2y ago
Reach out if you think we could help at all :)
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by tndl 2y ago
What's the project? Maybe we can help! > Can I ask how you handled the regulatory aspect of launching from urban areas in SF? I can imagine the FAA would have given you some trouble? We actually fall under a weather balloon exemptio
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by tndl 2y ago
That's the goal. We're all from Florida, so the possibility of reducing the damage caused by hurricanes was a big reason we started the company in the first place. Our balloons are actually cheap and steerable enough that we plan
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by tndl 2y ago
> Factors like these mean in prior decades the total damage costs may have been more similar to today's than they appear but a lot of the damage data we gather and report now wasn't counted or gathered then This is definitely p
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by tndl 2y ago
What we're doing wouldn't be possible without the work the Loon team did (and published)
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by tndl 2y ago
This is super interesting, I'd never come across ARGO before. Data assimilation is a similar problem for our data, and there currently exist systems for assimilating weather balloon observations into gridded reanalysis data ( https:&#x
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by tndl 2y ago
a little bit of each right now, depending on what the customer wants
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by tndl 2y ago
1. Wind speed/direction, air pressure, temperature, humidity, and solar irradiance. We are considering doing atmospheric composition as well, there are a couple of partners that are interested in GHGs, VOCs, water vapor, etc. We have t
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by tndl 2y ago
We're not hiring right now, but definitely check back in a few months. As for advice, there's almost always a place for talented engineers. https://www.climatetechlist.com/ and https://jobs.climatebase.
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by tndl 2y ago
XD
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by tndl 2y ago
Very cool! Are you working on some kind of airborne solar platform?
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by tndl 2y ago
Yeah, it's a shocking number, and it's just for the US. The global estimates for severe weather are even higher [0], and in places with less infrastructure, the costs are usually more heavily weighted toward human life lost. Obvio
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by tndl 2y ago
For sure, we'd love to do some launches with some local folks. We've done launches with a few different companies in SF at their offices too, send me an email and we can figure something out: austin@sorcerer.earth
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by tndl 2y ago
We do all comms via satellite, including the current GPS location, no comms over VHF. I'm curious how you're tracking down a traditional radiosonde though, do you actively chase while it's in the air and then use visual refer

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