Going to suck the next time the dems put a hurricane over North Carolina
NWS Layoffs Happening Now
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Just pay the 25% tariff to Canada to have Frankie do the weather for the USA. Of course if we annex Canada we wouldn't have to...
How can we get this applied to Congress?!?
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
I’ve seen 4 or 5. My house got grazed by one in the Chicago burbs last February. FEBRUARY…in Chicago. Insurance paid over $100K on the damage. I can’t imagine what will happen when the sirens don’t go off or go off too late,
The question is whether or not we should believe DOGE made a well informed decision that says everything we do well now could be maintained at said quality minus 1800 staff.
I've been given little to no reason to believe this is the case.
Furthermore... their defacto theory of decision making is 'move fast and break stuff' . . . which is a really bad idea in some sectors of work.
hawkeyetraveler
HB Heisman
Given their track record and the limited time they have had to review NWS…I think we already know the answer.
In 4 years when a Democrat can hire them back how good do you think AI will be at modeling weather?
Thank goodness for the ECMWF (AKA, "the European Model")!
We are becoming one of those countries that has to use other countries weather forecasting technology.
We are becoming one of those countries that has to use other countries weather forecasting technology.
Then I hope the EU tariffs it to the Trump donors of AccuWeather
Fwiw, I was about 3 miles from the tornado that ripped off a corner of Omaha last year. It was clear as day where I was.
Pretty much McLovin all day in the FAFO thread.
Pain for you and me. Not Elon though, more contracts for him.
There’s nothing dumber than a 3rd-4th generation Floridan. Figuring that out quickly. Same with Okies and Texans.
I rarely bet against tech.
AI would know every recorded weather pattern in recorded history with every single input in recorded history.
When it comes to AI I don’t think weather is Everest.
Damn right, they fired over 6,000 + vets, and just got started and every veterans associations is raising hell. You don't kick them in the balls, and then say i love every vet.
At least I didn't double post like you LOL. It shows when you want to disregard warnings like Tornado or Hurricanes, or wearing a seatbelt, or not getting vaccines, you are taking a risk. You can play russian roulette. I would rather not. And for Musk to increase my risk seems far from right way to do this. I am not overwhelmed by fear, anger or anxiety. I am rationally discussing this topic. That you can't have a rational discussion seems to be the issue here.
Meh... I don't need someone to tell me it's raining outside. Relative to everything else that's going on this is a nothing burger.
Right on, when i got out of the service the job market was down and many vets were taking civil service exams and finding jobs. I was offered a job at Warner Robbins in GA, turned it down, after taking the exam, as i had a UNION machinist job waiting.
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You need economic activity in order to employ people to service our sewer/sanitary systems? And if we don't have professionals forecasting hurricanes/other natural disasters, economic activity is going to be negatively impacted on a much larger scale.
Honestly, the humans are just regurgitating what the models are saying. AI would probably do it better.
F.uck you, too. 🖕🏻
BTW, what exactly were the “critical roles” of the people who got sacked? Coffee boy? Janitor?
I don't think the historical inputs are there but I'll be happy to be wrong.........my guess is that we'll get the businessman sale of I got you an 85% solution for 10% of the costs, so it's a success
I think you missed the point. The way it is supposed to work is the private sector creates govt revenue. Gov spend can create short term adjustments but not long term. If private sector sector doesn’t create jobs the we are nothing
Sort of like a joke. 10 bosses and supervisors are standing around watching Joe digging a hole. The accounting boss reading a financial report says…. Well it looks like we are going to have to lay off Joe
Correct as to the latter point, not to mention the microclimates in certain areas aren't handled well by models or inputs. This is where trained meteorologists blend the art and the science (many mountainous areas for example).
It is, and it might anyway. Simple math, you can't spend more than you make forever, and if your debt payments can't cover the interest from the loans, you're screwed unless a creditor will refinance the debt...
Europe’s AI is 20% better than conventional methods.
No lt surprising. AI is made for data analysis. Which is all weather is. Unless you think uncle Ed’s arthritis acting up is the secret sauce.
No lt surprising. AI is made for data analysis. Which is all weather is. Unless you think uncle Ed’s arthritis acting up is the secret sauce.
I didn't miss the point at all. Of course in a literal sense if we have zero economic activity and zero dollars in circulation we can't hire people to do government jobs (or anything really) in that extreme example. The other side of that extreme scenario is the government receives revenue through taxing things like real property, and with that revenue it hires people to hold jobs like the sewer/sanitary workers and then you have a self-sustaining system.
And I’m guessing that has nothing to do with diverse weather events, right?
The Euro model performs well in certain scenarios, not so much in others. Same for the North American models and the others.
Currently, humans look at all these models and try to predict which one will be on target.
Again, I wager that better AI will be better at doing this than the humans, except for hyperlocal forecasts (in that case, the humans know the neighborhoods where forecasted weather conditions are likely to have the greatest impacts).
