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Intriguing New Approach for Predicting Earthquakes

• ed 5y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20220113014052/https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/predicting-earthquakes-is-not-possible-yet/21807129 https://web.archive.org/web/20220113014052/https://www.econo...
• orforforof 5y ago
  My layman's understanding of earthquakes is that they have a heavy tailed probability distribution which makes predictions fundamentally difficult. Does ML (as in this approach) get around that somehow?
• a1371 5y ago
  In short: machine learning, voila!
  • textcortex 5y ago
    I guess noone is suprised from the hackernews community :)