Diagram Monkey

Part VII of my alliterative and rambling notes on a possibly minor anomaly.

Occasionally, a paper comes along that stares very hard at “global average temperature”, notes that “average” admits a variety of interpretations, and then wanders off on a little adventure exploring other possibilities.

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’

It’s too hot to do anything at the moment other than lie on the sofa with a fan pointed at my face and think.

The joule is the unit of energy.

It’s not often one gets a paper on uncertainty in estimates of ocean heat content written by a clarinettist whose wikipedia page has a section on their extra curricular activities that goes – as they say – hard.

Each month, you put a little aside in a savings account.

Someone on Bluesky was asking people for their favourite $20 words.

A new paper has appeared on arXiv: Generative deep learning improves reconstruction of global historical climate records.

I read 35 books in 2025 out of my 24 book “reading goal”.

In a narrow sense, LLMs are superhuman.