updated: 2025-06-10
Episode #16: Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
I was a guest on Jed Sundwall's literature podcast, Techs on Text. We covered a lot of ground in our discussion of two texts (Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and Marcel Duchamp and the Refusal of Work by Maurizio Lazzarato), touching on the philosophy of work, hegemonic effects of patriarchy, inadequacy of language, and reality's surprising amount of detail.
Pangeo is a Database
In this talk, I argue that the Pangeo software collective is not merely an ecosystem for big data geoscience, but a new database system.
Fundamentals of Earth Engine import & export of satellite data
In this talk, I debuted Xee, an Xarray extension for
Google Earth Engine. I also discussed my other open source data
engineering projects, like weather-tools.
Apache Beam on Dask- Portable, Scalable, Scientific Python
In this introduction to Apache Beam, I discussed ongoing efforts to support Dask. I spoke about how both portability and scalability in data engineering are essential to help address the climate crisis.
Music from chaos: Audiofying the Lorenz Attractor
My lightning talk was accepted at my first PyCon! I presented a side project to synthesize electronic music with Python.