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Germany enlists machine learning to boost renewables revolution
- shoyer 10y agoThis article in Nature, which the Popular Mechanics article appears to be based on, is much more informative: http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine-learning-to-boost-renewables-revolution-1.20251 http://www.nature.com/news/germany-enlists-machine-learning-... It's a little misleading to say they're using AI. Most of this work (and all the specific examples listed on the project webpage) is more appropriately called statistics.
- sctb 10y agoThanks, we updated the link from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a21826/germany-machine-learning-power-grid http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a2..., which does point to this.
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- amit_m 10y agoNowadays there's no clear difference between statistics and machine learning. But the latter gets you more grant money. :-/
- artifaxx 10y agoMachine learning is setting it up to find the correlations for you these days :p It is annoying when people choose things due to a more exciting name/buzzword rather than actual merit...
- visarga 10y ago> no clear difference between statistics and machine learning Yes, there is. When your model has thousands/millions of parameters, or when your model has many more parameters than the number of examples in your training set, it's called Machine Learning.
- NumberCruncher 10y agoTechnically you call overfitting AI...
- Houshalter 10y agoThat's not true. Linear and logistic regression are like the first things you learn in a machine learning class. Many popular ML models do not have millions of parameters, including decision trees and shallow neural networks.
- aphextron 10y agoPopular Mechanics has become nothing but vapid clickbait nonsense these days. Thanks for the source.
- th0br0 10y agoThat name yields some rather unfortunate Google image results.
- asavinov 10y agoRenewable energy supply strongly depends on weather forecast so essentially one needs a good algorithm for weather forecast. Yet, forecasting energy supply is much easier if all generators are integrated into one power grid because it is necessary to predict average supply for a (large) reagion.
- sevenless 10y agoGreat. Can we start doing this for the economy, already?
- Jtsummers 10y agoThis does happen, but in the US (and most(?) countries) we don't have command economies. Consequently, this sort of model-based approach to economics (logistics) is done by businesses. The big, successful ones are very good at it. Walmart knows how much of what good to send to what region on what day. They've been collecting and correlating data for decades now. Where it's done by the government it's applied at the level of bonds and currency production and such. More abstract levels than directing purchase or production of specific items (generally, more direct intervention does still happen of course, but usually masked).
- Udo 10y agoGermany doesn't have a command economy either, it's a combination of government incentives, private enterprise, and (semi-)public utilities all going in this direction.
- pjc50 10y agoHas been tried with previous generations of decisionmaking technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
- alexhawdon 10y agoAnyone not familiar with this, do go to the link and check out the Control Room. Beautifully retro-futuristic, looks like a '70s sci-fi film set, but they were actually using the thing.
- ap22213 10y agoWhy is this news? We've been doing the same thing at deregulated US RTOs for at least 6 years.
- untilHellbanned 10y agoThere's no such thing as new news.
- SixSigma 10y agoAI is the new Nanotechnology
- DasIch 10y ago> Since wind and PV-power forecasts do not follow exact theoretical error distributions, the probabilistic power forecasts will be based on quantile regression coupled to artificial intelligence or data-mining methods. Additionally, methods such as kernel density estimation, ensemble dressing, or Bayesian model averaging, which have proved useful in meteorological applications, will be evaluated in this subproject. Source: http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/subproject2.html http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/subproject2.html AI is only mentioned as a possibility in the context of one subproject of three subprojects. Based on titles alone they've made only a single publication[1] involving AI and they've been publishing for a few years already. Saying that AI is used here may be technically correct but seems like a massive overstatement. [1]: http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/publications.html http://www.projekt-eweline.de/en/publications.html
- dirtyaura 10y agoA tangential question related to carbon-free energy production: Are there companies that do software for nuclear power plant construction? Like modern project management software for nuclear power plants? It seems that a few bigger nuclear projects in Europe (namely in Finland and France) are in trouble mainly due to project management reasons.
- king_phil 10y agoSiemens. They are building the plants, too.