Dr. Kyri Baker
@kyrib
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Assoc. Prof @CUEngineering. Formerly @NREL. Energy, grids, optimization, metal, fitness, cats, video games. @CMU_ECE Alum. Views are mine and not my employers'.
Boulder, CO
Joined April 2009
LMPs can be modeled as DC circuit voltages. In new work with @gjharsha , we show that price behavior can be interpreted and modeled using DC circuits, meaning you don't have to understand Lagrangian duality to understand LMPs - you just have to remember high school physics. š§µ
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there was an april fool's joke on a sparkling water machine where I hit "Pour" and it wasn't working. I looked and it said "APRIL FOOLS!" on the screen Even worse is that I'm compiling a LaTeX document in Overleaf and \date{\today} is showing April 2. These pranks i swear to god
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This makes me soooo happy
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Very interested lately in the power and energy situation of the Norwegian seed vault (Svalbard Global Seed Vault). It seems that it is primarily powered by electricity coming from the town of Longyearbyen, which used to house the worldās northernmost coal plant. There are
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On Monday Iāll be starting at Google DeepMind as a Visiting Researcher for my sabbatical (Jan-Dec 2025). Looking forward to contributing to solving challenging problems in the AI+Optimization for power systems space!
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When Google's "Attention is All You Need" paper came out, I was busy proving bounds.
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Lots of wrong answers in the replies. As the former King of SMS, itās simple: Itās to warm the number. You cannot send bulk texts containing a URL until your number has earned credibility with phone carriers. To earn credibility, it needs to have replies from other numbers.
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Kyri Georgia and Bridgetās first Christmas together ā¤ļø Decided to arrange the stockings in order of age with the exception of Bridget and Georgia which we switched
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There is an indescribable peace in the silence during a page turn when youāre reading to a child
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Brownie points for whoever correctly identifies what this image is
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It happened again this morning, and itās sadly becoming a joke at this point. I walked into Starbucks, and the shelf that just a couple of days ago was full of holiday merchandise for the new season was completely empty. Again. When I asked the barista, they confirmed it:
Starbucks this morning, Upper East Side, New York City. Guy walks in, calmly clears the place of merchandise, and walks out.
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To be obnoxious Iām now only describing the power ratings of common household appliances in terms of horsepower rather than Watts (1 HP = 746 Watts) My frozen burrito requires 2 minutes when used with a 1.48 HP microwave
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Is it more common for an IOU to own street lighting, or for a municipality to?
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