A digest of posts from FPL members and collaborators.

FPL Members

Harisankar Binod

We are Problem Solvers

A reminder that we are problem solvers, and that the human mind is still the strangest thing we know of.

Friends

Anil Madhavapeddy

Improving local weather forecasts using Tessera embeddings

Pedro Sousa has put his first preprint paper online, on the topic of improving weather prediction using satellite foundation models! "Earth observation embeddings are effective sub-grid descriptors for probabilistic weather downscaling" (also on arXiv) was joint work…

.plan-26-32: Finally a use for serverless and found the Forester for the trees

Two paper updates this week! The first is that our GETMobile article on micro-NPUs got published in the ACM SIGMOBILE magazine. This is a shorter, more digestible magazine version of the paper from last year. Great work by Josh Millar! Then Ryan Gibb gave an excellent SRG…

Updating to the OxCaml 5.2.0-minus39 opam packaging

This website is written using the OxCaml language extensions from Jane Street, so I can experiment with zero allocation frameworks written in OCaml. Since David Allsopp released oxcaml-minus39 a few weeks ago, I’ve updated to that. This first required figuring out the packaging…

GetMOBILE article on benchmarking micro-NPUs now out

Josh Millar lead an article just out in GETMOBILE on our work from last year on benchmarking micro-NPUs to help make sense of the growing number of dedicated, ultra-low-power ‘neural network accelerators’. There are lots of hidden embedded NPUs in modern low-cost chips, ranging…

.plan-26-31: Sorting out Tessera and Evidence TAP infrastructure

I had a bunch of infrastructure work I had to get done this week, and so I went headsdown hacking to sort out both TESSERA and the Evidence TAP this week!

I spent it moving a petabyte of TESSERA embeddings onto Source Cooperative, taking a detour to investigate Icechunk before…