A good reminder that the technologies that are most transformative in society often times start out appearing deeply complex with a poor UX for the average individual.
> Crucially, GraphCast and traditional approaches go hand-in-hand: we trained GraphCast on four decades of weather reanalysis data, from the ECMWF’s ERA5 dataset.
As someone who isn't a developer, readingthis was eye opening. It's interesting just how unbundled the state of running a software company is. And this is only your selection of the tools and options, not imagining the entire landscape.
As a longtime kiter and sailor, the durability of the kite and line system seems to be the biggest weakness. Constant uv exposure and stress to these systems would make the economical calculations interesting. I don't know of a current setup that could see sustained continuous use for 1 year without significant material replacements or maintenance...
Yeah, I mean how does this material actually perform on a roof? Is there a measurable difference in the marginal gain of 95% to 99.6% when analyzing inside temperature of a house or energy reduction as a result?
There seems to be many factors when looking at the actual cause and effect especially when cost is introduced.
I've surfed both. It's fleeting but amazing experience. The remoteness and structure of the coastline makes access the most fun (difficult part). AK gets trickier because its less long period swell and more localized systems, often times resulting in lots of wind and short swell windows.
The holy grail is undiscovered long point breaks.
Would love to give an LLM a dataset of satellite images and tell it to discover more waves containing similar attributes.
