Field Notes¶

Slow-published essays on AI, agriculture, open science, and a year's worth of weather.

Posts¶

A Data Center on Route 66¶

July 1, 2026

A former Cadillac showroom on the Mother Road, the supercomputers in its old service bays, and where I want to take CARC as its new director.

GPT-101, Revisited¶

January 14, 2025

A year after my first run at teaching large language models to research scientists, what changed — and what stayed the same.

A Year (plus a couple of months) in Review¶

October 14, 2024

Twelve months across CyVerse, ESIIL, OFO, and the people who made the work possible.

Separating the wheat from the chaff: identifying the benefits of artificial intelligence in agriculture¶

April 17, 2023

Notes from the field on agentic systems, plant phenotyping, and a quiet revolution in farms.

Meet your new personal assistant, Artificial Intelligence¶

April 10, 2023

On embedding a research-grade chat into a faculty homepage, and what it has to learn first.

Miscellaneous notes¶

Older posts and assorted writing.