When humans confronted with movies and trains driving towards camera it took some time but eventually they learned the train will not demolish the cinema.
Later they learned the voice they hear is not from a present person.
Now they learn a string of words does not represent consciousness.
These will just drown in their own data, the real task is consolidating and pruning learned information. So, basically they need to 'sleep' from time to time. However, it's hard to sort out irrelevant information without a filter. Our brains have learned over Milenial to filter because survival in an environment gives purpose.
Current models do not care whether they survive or not. They lack grounded relevance.
Zero is a serverless weather globe rendering ECMWF forecast data directly in your browser using WebGPU.
Zero backend. Zero servers. Zero cost.
As climate extremes become more frequent, understanding forecast hazards becomes survival literacy. Zero makes professional ECMWF IFS data accessible without commercial infrastructure — forkable, self-hostable, resilient. Inspired by Cameron Beccario's earth.nullschool.net, which pioneered browser atmospheric visualization.
Happy to discuss implementation details.
Technical highlights:
- No backend - runs entirely client-side
- Native O1280 grid (6.6M points) sampled directly in fragment shaders - no regridding to textures
- HTTP Range requests fetch ~500KB slices from 4-8MB forecast files on S3
- Works offline after first load (Service Worker caching)
- Animated LOD transitions for graticule grid - line density adapts to zoom level
GPU pipeline:
- Binary search in WGSL for irregular Gaussian grid lookup (precomputed LUTs for latitude positions and ring offsets)
- Marching squares compute shader for isobar contours
- Streamline tracing with Rodrigues rotation for wind flow animation
- Fibonacci sphere for uniform seed point distribution (8K-32K wind lines)
- Globe rendered via fullscreen triangle (ray-sphere intersection in fragment shader)
- Sub-3ms frame times on M1
What didn't work:
- Regridding to textures first - too slow for 6.6M points, quality loss from interpolation
- Geometry-based globe mesh - vertex count explosion at high detail
- CPU-side contour generation - latency killed interactivity
Storage: Caches weather data locally for offline use. Can grow to several GB with extended exploration. Use the "nuke" option in settings to clear everything.
Data hosted by Open-Meteo via the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program — bandwidth is free for everyone.
I learned the hard way, when Claude has 2 conflicting information in Claude.md it tends to ignore both. So, precise language is key, don't use terms like 'object', which may have different meanings in different fields.
Looking at properly aligned buildings I realized school never prepared me into thinking city planner might have been a bronze age job. How come we call mobile phones progress?
I hope, we never find out how chimps discuss the last paragraph:
... Sometimes, at least in humans, social interactions can also increase our irrationality instead. But chimps don’t seem to have this problem. Engelmann’s team is currently running a study focused on whether the choices chimps make are influenced by the choices of their fellow chimps. “The chimps only followed the other chimp’s decision when the other chimp had better evidence,” Engelmann says. “In this sense, chimps seem to be more rational than humans.”