How climate change affects hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones

Mark PoyntingClimate reporter NOAA via Getty A satellite image of Hurricane Melissa moving over the Caribbean Sea Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, created “extremely dangerous and life-threatening” conditions in Jamaica, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and…

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Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best

I’ve been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to imitate the data I give it. A little while ago I revisited a dataset from 2018, over 7100 user-submitted Halloween costumes (3173 with…

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Finding return on AI investments across industries

The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like “bubble” to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers.  In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on…

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