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> Astonishingly, this approach, done correctly, produces better forecasts than traditional simulations of the physics of our atmosphere. It seems like this is another instance of The Bitter Lesson, no?
Yes, it seems like it. Although I would imagine the features and architecture of the model still take some physics into account. You can't just feed weather data into an LLM, after all.
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I suggest you read the post. Reading is typically how information is transmitted. EDIT: the post I am responding to was altered to sound much less confrontational. It was originally: > So what exactly are you “launching” and why does it require venture capital?
Alright, what they presented, in the current state, is just a clone of a 10 year old project with a 2.5 month old weather forecast and some AI story attached to it.
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Hi, it totally is. That's one of our favorite weather visualization projects. We're using Cameron Beccario's open source version of nullschool for our forecasts. We cited him above in the blurb and also on our about page ( https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/about.html )
so what exactly are you launching that I can see here?
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I suggest you read the post. Reading is typically how information is transmitted. EDIT: the post I am responding to was altered to sound much less confrontational. It was originally: > So what exactly are you “launching” and why does it require venture capital?
Alright, what they presented, in the current state, is just a clone of a 10 year old project with a 2.5 month old weather forecast and some AI story attached to it.
It's the first line man. The visual is just a visual, their product is the data being visualized.
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I suggest you read the post. Reading is typically how information is transmitted. EDIT: the post I am responding to was altered to sound much less confrontational. It was originally: > So what exactly are you “launching” and why does it require venture capital?
Alright, what they presented, in the current state, is just a clone of a 10 year old project with a 2.5 month old weather forecast and some AI story attached to it.
They are launching an AI model which they claim produces higher quality weather data than traditional models relying on physical simulation. And they used this visualization library to make an engaging website.
Constructively, you have gotten to this position by overreacting to a perceived “clone” and failing to be enlightened by the numerous comments and the original post explaining the purpose.
Respectfully, I suggest you take a breath and try to disassociate from whatever emotional reaction you are having about this.
> Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. What else do you hope to simulate, if this becomes successful?
Signed,
A California Resident
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You went to the effort of posting 2 HN comments, tweeting, and taking a screenshot because you are annoyed that this project used an open-source library and were transparent about doing so.
I didn't know it was open source. I thought it was a ripoff.
> Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. What else do you hope to simulate, if this becomes successful?
This really, really looks like a nullschool clone ( https://earth.nullschool.net/ ). Is it not?
What more did you want from them? (Genuine question.)