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Re:Google's AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good by strls on Saturday December 07, 2024 @05:33PM (#42353375)
You can solve to arbitrary precision but you can't measure and specify initial conditions to arbitrary precision, making the solution wrong outside of a small time interval.
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Re:Google's AI weather prediction model is pretty darn good by JumpCrisscross on Saturday December 07, 2024 @05:34PM (#42353383)
> can solve to arbitrary precision but you can't measure and specify initial conditions to arbitrary precision

Even with perfect knowledge of initial conditions, numerical noise limits the forecast interval.

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