Tom Abbott

Retired from IT and now most interested in sailing, science, journalism, data, Oakland/SFbay, politics, climate change, Hawaii. Live on boat. Bi-coastal MA/CA.

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

I have considered the #collapse of the #GulfStream and the larger system of the #AMOC something that might happen in the next 100 years. But #ElizabethKolbert wrote in her article in the #NewYorker on Oct14, #WhenTheIceMelts about the 27 #tippingpoints, and #feedback loops.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Unbelievably, there is at least a 40% chance of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) collapsing within 25 years. We could be facing impacts similar to the Younger Dryas period - within the lifetimes of most people alive today. #Climate #Mitigation is Urgent.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

"The fact we can't simulate these step-change increases and understand why it's happening is terrifying." -- Prof. Hayley Fowler

"The impact of warming the ocean could lead to new classes of heatwaves we've never seen before." -- Prof. Valerio Lucarini

https://t.co/rgPzGm2A1S

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

Draymond Green Ejected In The First Quarter, To The Tearful Exasperation Of His Team https://t.co/ppoB2W83lm

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

Best theory of why the #Dali lost control and caused the #KeyBridgeCollapse

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Great comments from a former Maersk Chief Engineer.

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Crystal clear, crucially important. About democracy, not just Trump.

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

AI is the first tool in history that can:
1) create new things by itself,
2) make decisions by itself.

It cannot be compared to any previous technological revolutions.
Inventions like the printing press and even the atom bomb ultimately empowered humans – because humans always decided how to use them.
AI, on the other hand, is an autonomous agent that can create and decide without us.

How can we go on developing AI without being sure that it will not escape our control? Without knowing that its creations will not harm humanity?

Watch the full @MSNBC interview from last month on https://t.co/9drMGUrRyo

#ai #humanity #technology #artificialintelligence #tech #future

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

@jason61987 Encouraging prediction of an #AR coming soon

[Jason D Farhang @jason61987]

Monday, December 18, 2023, 1:17 PM, PDT: 545 DM Low pressure is starting to develop 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. This is the start of the formation of the secondary low, which will emerge and have a southward trajectory. This low-pressure system will move into Southern California on Thursday and Thursday night. As of right now, intensive rapid development is expected within the next 24-30 hours over the Central Pacific. This system will tap into subtropical moisture south of the Hawaiian Islands in the next 32 hours, bringing copious amounts of rain to the southern California region. There is an increasingly elevated chance of thunderstorms on Thursday. The trajectory and positioning of solution models have the system going close to Point Conception early Thursday afternoon into Thursday night, which will provide the perfect setup for rainfall from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. If the main low pressure gets within about 65 to 130 miles of the Channel Islands, rainfall totals will increase across Ventura County, LA County, Orange County, and San Diego County. Rainfall totals are still expected to be between 0.80 to 2.0 inches. However, if thunderstorms do develop, rainfall totals of 1.8 to 4.0 inches seem justified with this particular system. More updates will continue as the system nears our region. The first system is moving into parts of Southern California this afternoon, which will moisten up the atmosphere and prepare us for the second system. There is no offshore flow at all, which is a good sign for further storm development as the lower levels of the atmosphere moisten up. #cutofflow #ElNino #Californiastorms

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

I read every page 50 years ago. Would be curious to take another look.

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

The legendary publications of the Whole Earth Catalogs — all 20,000 pages — are now available online for free in a hi-res scan almost better than reading the original newsprinted ones. It's a trip. Many thanks to @barrythrew for making this happen. https://t.co/pz6LEtk1vh

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

The legendary publications of the Whole Earth Catalogs — all 20,000 pages — are now available online for free in a hi-res scan almost better than reading the original newsprinted ones. It's a trip. Many thanks to @barrythrew for making this happen. https://t.co/pz6LEtk1vh

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

Musk does not seem to understand that links to external media are an essential aspect of why i use Twitter, as an index to news

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

Journalism professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen “was skeptical about Musk’s claim that the change [removing headlines] was driven by aesthetic considerations. She said…the new format cld be part of a broader attempt…to undermine news organizations’ reach…” https://t.co/bjMrUkD0Z0

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

Sounds like he was a #sailor

[Forbes @Forbes]

“One piece of advice from my father that stands out is, ‘always position yourself with the wind at your back’,’” says Chris Tsai, son of legendary investor Jerry Tsai. https://t.co/muNo4qd9A8

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

Good read on #LLMs and potential applications. Now I want to learn about #neurosymbolic models.

[David Anderson @bricksilk]

GCHQ’s Chief Data Scientist has written a piece on the applications of large language models for the intelligence community. https://t.co/3549vHCmP7

[Donald R. Koelper @Donald_from_HI]

@zombalia UPDATE: The Lahaina banyan tree suffered serious injury yet amazingly, it is still there. But everything else around it was destroyed. It's now been confirmed that six lives were also lost in the Lahaina fire. �

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

That's a big hunk of ice

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

On the island of Newfoundland, Canada, people saw a colossal iceberg approaching the mainland.

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

I watched seasons 1 & 2 of #100-Foot-Wave documentary about the evolution of big wave surfing at #Nazare.
https://t.co/uynullxTWv

[TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @TankerTrackers]

This is in the town of Nazaré, Portugal; home of Europe’s tallest waves, reaching 30 meters in height. This is on account of the 5,000 meter deep and 230 km long canyon, which as a result, aggressively displaces the incoming water upwards. A spectacle worth visiting. #BucketList

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

In Texas, a beach has become the unfortunate site where maybe thousands of lifeless fish were found washed ashore. This phenomenon can be attributed to rising sea temperatures, causing reduced oxygen levels, ultimately resulting in mass suffocation similar to this one. Sad, sad.

[Tomer Burg @burgwx]

Ben Moore shows a climatology of atmospheric rivers (ARs), focusing on a composite of AR clustering affecting the U.S. West Coast, as was the case in Dec 2022-Jan 2023 with exceptionally heavy precipitation: #WAF32

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Supercells with #tornado potential in eastern MA! Flash flood warnings in southern NH. Watching the cell SW of Worcester @accuweather

[Tom Abbott @Tom_Abbott]

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