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Field notes on AI systems, computational geoscience, climate modeling, and open-source tools for extracting knowledge from digital and physical earth data.

I am Masood Sultan, a computational geoscientist and AI engineer based in Berlin. This blog connects the systems I build with the research questions behind them: spatial data, climate adaptation, LLM workflows, and open-source intelligence.

Computational Geoscience

Earth systems, GIS, modeling, and research tooling.

AI Systems

LLMs, edge AI, machine learning, and automation architecture.

Open Intelligence

Real-time dashboards, mapping, and public-data workflows.

AI & Geoscience5 min read

The God-View for Everyone: 5 Surprising Ways OmniWatch is Disrupting Global Intelligence

In a world where high-level intelligence is locked behind six-figure enterprise contracts, OmniWatch shatters the gatekeeper model. A 48-source intelligence fusion platform that provides a God-View of the planet to anyone with a laptop and a sense of mission.

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Masood Sultan
#osint#threat-intelligence#typescript#ai
AI & Geoscience2 min read

AI Weather Models Are Coming for Traditional Forecasting

Google's GraphCast, Huawei's Pangu-Weather, and NVIDIA's FourCastNet are challenging decades of numerical weather prediction. Here's why the shift matters for geoscience.

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Masood Sultan
#ai#weather#machine-learning#geoscience
Hardware & AI3 min read

The Ultimate Edge AI Rig: Why the Poco X8 Pro Max Defines 2026

The newly released Poco X8 Pro Max is more than a mid-range flagship. With its Dimensity 9500s chip, 12GB LPDDR5X RAM, and monstrous 8,500mAh Silicon-Carbon battery, it's the perfect isolated environment for running 1-bit LLM models natively.

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Masood Sultan
#hardware#smartphones#ai#edge-computing
Tutorials2 min read

Python Libraries Every Geoscientist Should Know in 2026

From PyGMT to TorchGeo, the Python geoscience ecosystem has exploded. Here are the essential tools for modern computational earth science.

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Masood Sultan
#python#geoscience#pygmt#machine-learning