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Al Merose

86 trust researcher @al.merose.com · 3,810 followers
Differential database administrator. Machine learning for climate & weather. Ex-Google Research, Founding Member of Technical Staff @OpenAthena.ai. He/him.
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Sneak peek: I implemented a 3 layer MLP that predicts the fashion MNIST dataset using SQL (with my own autograd impl inside the database). Apparently einsum notation is better expressed as a JOIN. github.com/xqlsystems/x...

xarray-sql/benchmarks/nn.py at claude/xarray-sql-mnist-demo · xqlsystems/xarray-sql github.com
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  • The benchmark trains a 784→196→32→10 MLP on Fashion-MNIST with forward pass, backpropagation, and SGD all expressed as SQL queries.
  • A SKIP_ZERO_PIXELS flag drops background pixels via a WHERE clause and delivers roughly a 1.8x speedup on Fashion-MNIST.
  • Hyperparameters are demo-scale: 500 training samples, 200 test samples, learning rate 0.5, 60 steps, chunk size 250.
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All of our code is open source, and contributions are welcome: github.com/m2lines/Samu... We're working on fitting our model training into a (free-tier) colab notebook, so anyone can help advance climate science: github.com/m2lines/Samu...

GitHub - m2lines/Samudra github.com
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I'd like to announce that at @openathena.ai, @jder.bsky.social and I helped @m2lines.bsky.social release Samudra 2. We scaled this neural ocean emulator to train on 16x the size of data in bytes on the same hardware budget. We can now skillfully predict 8 years of the ocean on…

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Rust is ideal for agentic programming because large compile times give you an opportunity to think and reflect

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I’m happy to be working on open source science and language models because the biggest safety risks of AI, imo, stem from concentrations of power — in corporations, governments, and their intersection.

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People think AI is the solution to: “this statement is false” when actually, AI is the solution to “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

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