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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by acd on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:55PM (#10466913)
Weather is a chaotic system, due to it being chaotic and the lorenz attractor maximum three days of weather can be forecasted.

"While we can typically predict general weather patterns up to 3 days ahead, predictability for detailed local weather such as rainfall or fog formation is much less."

see more here http://research.metoffice.gov.uk/research/nwp/ensemble/conce...

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by jameshart on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:15PM (#10467071)
If you think IBM may be unaware of the nature and consequences of chaos theory, you might want to look into Benoit Mandelbrot's employment history.
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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by sgt101 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:59PM (#10468022)
The thing is, is IBM as a corporate entity unaware of it? I know people who work for IBM who are much smarter than me, and who will always have a high level job as innovators in the IT industry, but they have 0 say in what IBM does, says or wants.
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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by wensing on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:26PM (#10468837)
Unless your forecast is probabilistic.
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