Madalsa
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology. I study and teach carbon-constrained energy systems. via Stanford, IIT Bombay. Views mine, many interests.
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- New mission -- let's take our marginal paper ideas and make them blog posts instead thanks to AI!
- If you use claude code, check out the /insights command Some cool stuff there.
- Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
- Dude is such a natural and charismatic communicator. Something occurs that would make someone else stumble or lose focus and he just rolls it into his speech almost like it was prepared. That takes not just talent but instinct.
- It's true that Mamdani is a skilled improviser but that's counterintuitively a result of his superior preparation — spending time and energy to hone your speaking style, memorize talking points etc frees up cognitive load to notice and react to what's around you instead of thinking about what to say
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- Join us online tomorrow on Thursday February 5 at 9:30AM ET for a webinar on Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security with @erinsikorsky.bsky.social, Dr. Kyungmee Kim, and me. Register here: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2026/01/27/c...
- Western cities are coughing up big money for groundwater purification, pipelines, recycling and other water supply projects, knowing if they don't pay now, the costs will only get worse later: www.circleofblue.org/2026/supply/... via @waltonbrett.bsky.social
- and they ran a bjorn lomborg oped today we are in hell
- I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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- Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
- Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.
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- One thing that infuriates me about the scientists chumming it up with Epstein is that the money in question is piddling Nowak, the largest recipient of Epstein money, got just $6M for research over many years so, pals with a sex offender for the equivalent of like 2-3 decent NIH grants
- I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
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- wow, this event looks interesting! www.civitasinstitute.org/events/power...
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- This study by people from Anthropic itself should raise huge alarm bells about the use of AI in teaching how to code (and later on in coding itself, but esp. in the learning stage). And remember: this is by the people who make Claude! tl;dr: not that long, read it www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Noodling around the new Epstein releases; as before it’s interesting to see the concentric rings of academics (esp. Physicists, Philosophers, and Cog Sci types), from direct ongoing connection to JE, to grubbing for money/clout, to chattering-class brokerage via eg the Brockman/Matson hype channel.
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