Tim Fernholtz

So it's an ongoing conversation between all sort of elements of the weather system.

So it's an ongoing conversation between all sort of elements of the weather system.

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So I won't say traditionally because actually it's been an expanding field for the last few decades.

So I won't say traditionally because actually it's been an expanding field for the last few decades.

But in contemporary times, we basically have a government-run system that collects data from all kinds of sensors all over the world, weather balloons, buoys.

But in contemporary times, we basically have a government-run system that collects data from all kinds of sensors all over the world, weather balloons, buoys.

Every commercial plane in the United States coming down is sharing its measurements with us.

Every commercial plane in the United States coming down is sharing its measurements with us.

the National Weather Service and the National Weather Service has a huge supercomputer and it plugs all of that information into it and it goes through these scientific models that meteorologists have spent generations building and spits out a forecast and it's a very complex and expensive process and it's been refined and refined and now we have pretty good weather forecasts out say 10 days.

the National Weather Service and the National Weather Service has a huge supercomputer and it plugs all of that information into it and it goes through these scientific models that meteorologists have spent generations building and spits out a forecast and it's a very complex and expensive process and it's been refined and refined and now we have pretty good weather forecasts out say 10 days.

So now we have deep learning software models where we can feed data from the weather agencies into them and ask them to do forecasts.

So now we have deep learning software models where we can feed data from the weather agencies into them and ask them to do forecasts.

And it turns out they're actually able to predict the weather better than the traditional way we have done it.

And it turns out they're actually able to predict the weather better than the traditional way we have done it.

And then in particular, these models are very good at doing things like tracking hurricanes, tracking cold fronts that are trickier for the traditional models to do.

And then in particular, these models are very good at doing things like tracking hurricanes, tracking cold fronts that are trickier for the traditional models to do.