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I've worked with particle accelerators, cancer data, and AI and i'd agree that weather prediction is probably the most complex technology we have at the moment.
by micro_cam 10y ago
I've worked with particle accelerators, cancer data, and AI and i'd agree that weather prediction is probably the most complex technology we have at the moment.
Weather is both easy to measure and quite hard to predict and we've studied it for longer then most things. So we have a vast global array of sensors and ensembles of complicated models running constantly on supercomputers.
I hope we get to that level with biology and other fields at some point but we aren't there yet.
- ethbro 10y agoI feel for meteorologists. They absolutely have the rest of the world beat on the discrepancy between modeling complexity and ease of observable result. "Well, they said it would rain and it didn't..." So, from me at least, thanks for all the hard work!
- adolph 10y agoMaybe one of the problems is communication. The app Darksky seems to do a fine job of predicting rain within a short time window because it knows my location. The odds of old school broadcast communication meteorology making a reliable predictions outside of generalities seem slim to none.