#thermodynamic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thermodynamic, aggregated by home.social.
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WeatherNext – [An] AI Model Achieves Breakthrough In Forecasting Cyclones
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https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ <-- shared technical Google DeepMind blog post
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2 <-- shared paper
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https://deepmind.google/science/weatherlab/ <-- shared data
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https://github.com/google-deepmind/weathernext <-- shared GitHub repository
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H/T @juliet Rothenberg | Product Director of Earth & Resilience AI at Google
[this post should not be considered an endorsement of a particular organisation or their approach]
“[The Google WeatherNext AI team] are showing how the WeatherNext AI model from Google DeepMind and Google Research has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure. On average, the WeatherNext Cyclones model gives forecasters an extra day’s worth of predictive accuracy- delivering an advance equivalent to roughly a decade of historical meteorological progress 🌀
Here is how WeatherNext is transforming cyclone forecasting:
• Gaining an Extra Day of Advanced Warning: WN 3-day forecasts are as good as what prior models were able to provide for 2-day forecasts, giving critical time for emergency response.
• Overcoming Traditional Trade-offs: WN bridges the gap between massive global atmospheric currents (which steer a cyclone's path) and fine-grained thermodynamic processes around its core (which drive its intensity) into a single AI model.
• Unprecedented Ensemble Scale: Using Functional Generative Networks (FGNs), WN now generates 1,000-member ensembles in less than a minute on a TPU to capture rare, consequential tail-risks like sudden rapid intensification – which means forecasters can see a broader range of possible scenarios.
• Real-World Impact: During the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the WN model helped the National Hurricane Center (NHC) make a historic forecast for Hurricane Melissa by predicting rapid intensification and landfall five days in advance.
[The] teams are open sourcing the operationalized models (WeatherNext Cyclones and WeatherNext 2), alongside a compact version (WeatherNext 2-mini) that can run on a single TPU in a free public Colab notebook – all with a goal of empowering local organizations worldwide.
Weather affects everyone. By combining advanced AI with the real-world expertise of human forecasters, we can build a collaborative ecosystem that saves lives and helps communities adapt to a changing climate…”
#Google #DeepMind #GoogleResearch #AI #ensembles #FunctionalGenerativeNetworks #WeatherNext #cyclone #operationalised #model #modeling #forecasting #spatialanalyis #spatiotemporal #track #intensity #windstructure #hurricane #weather #climate #metrology #cyclonetrack #risk #hazard #emergencyresponse #planning #tool #earlywarning #scale #magnitude #path #track #thermodynamic #scenarios #opensource #impacts #tropicalcyclones #WeatherNextCyclones #weathermodel #atmospheric #predictions #mitigation #warning #robust #publicsafety #infrastructure
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Thermodynamic Computers: A New Computing Paradigm That Harnesses Randomness
Repost to help others discover this.
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Climatology And Trends Of Annual Maximum Sub-Daily Precipitation In The Western United States
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2026.100915 <-- shared paper
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#USWest #western #usa #rainfall #climatology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #spatial #mapping #precipitation #risk #hazard #flood #flooding #soil #slopes #debrisflow #saturated #monitoring #climatechange #extremeweather #monsoon #intensity #California #publicsafety #infrastructure #flashflooding #massmovement #landslides #engineeringgeology #hydrogeomorpholgy #mudslide #topography #elevation #geomorphmetry #extremerainfall #seasonal #thermodynamic -
#Supervolcanoes are distinct #thermodynamic entities defined by the explosive ejection of over 1,000 cubic kilometers of bulk deposits (VEI 8) and the subsequent formation of massive #calderas through crustal collapse rather than edifice construction. There's no doom and gloom here, you might just as well relax a bit.
#WhatIs #EarthScience #Volcanology #Geochemistry #Geophysics #sflorg
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The CEO of this company is total Silicon Valley right wing -pilled, but his tech is fucking solid.
This is the right way to do #AI.. Fuck GPU’s, design the hardware for probabilistic computing from scratch.
Result: 10000x less power required.
This opens the way to me running AI some day: On my own device, without a network connection.
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🤯 #Extropic thinks it’s reinventing the wheel with their #thermodynamic #computing, claiming it’s more energy-efficient than GPUs. 🛑 Spoiler alert: their "ultraefficient" #AI is basically tech jargon bingo with a side of probabilistic mumbo-jumbo. 🚀
https://extropic.ai/ #Energy #Efficiency #TechJargon #ProbabilisticMumboJumbo #HackerNews #ngated -
Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware
#HackerNews #Extropic #Thermodynamic #Computing #Hardware #Innovation #Future #Tech #AI
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“The only ‘ #ought’ we can tentatively derive from the vision of reality revealed by the #thermodynamic revolution is this: it is our duty to strike back at the #Universe.” #entropy aeon.co/essays/philo...
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In this blog post by EGU Geodynamics Division, Ranpeng Li from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, explains how coupling #geodynamic models with #thermodynamic principles can contribute towards a holistic understanding of the evolving #mantle convection throughout the Earth’s history.
🔗 Read more here: https://egu.eu/8PUFH9
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Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions
https://physicsworld.com/a/heat-capacity-measurements-reveal-majorana-fermions/
Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet
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Analog computers make a comeback for calculating Neural Networks with huge improvements in power usage and time.
Claims of 5 orders of magnitude improvement in performance 🫨
#ai #thermodynamic #computing
https://www.future-of-computing.com/gavin-crooks-how-normal-computing-solves-linear-algebra-problems-with-thermodynamics/ -
I persist in being very angry they are calling this a #climate crisis. Then people say "The #weather's warm, you power hungry authoritarian!" and the "science sloganeers" then FALSELY sloganize "Climate is Not Weather".
No, it is, you slogan-shouting halfwit.
Where you went wrong was calling it a CLIMATE problem in the first place. It is a #THERMODYNAMIC crisis. Earth is now a net ABSORBER of solar stuff-that-moves-things (energy, capacity to do work).
(to be continued briefly)
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"A thermodynamical model of non-deterministic computation in cortical neural networks"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.03.518978v1#Neuroscience #Neuro #Brain #ComputationalNeuroscience #Computations #ProbabilisticCoding #Thermodynamic #Hamiltonian
