Predicting 'Chaos' with Machine Learning.

Predicting 'Chaos' with Machine Learning

Using machine learning to fill in the gaps where the ignorance resides.




"Half a century ago, the pioneers of chaos theory discovered that the “butterfly effect” makes long-term prediction impossible. Even the smallest perturbation to a complex system (like the weather, the economy or just about anything else) can touch off a concatenation of events that leads to a dramatically divergent future. Unable to pin down the state of these systems precisely enough to predict how they’ll play out, we live under a veil of uncertainty.
But now the robots are here to help.

In a series of results reported in the journals Physical Review Letters and Chaos, scientists have used machine learning — the same computational technique behind recent successes in artificial intelligence — to predict the future evolution of chaotic systems out to stunningly distant horizons. The approach is being lauded by outside experts as groundbreaking and likely to find wide application."

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Fluid Equations Failing at Last

Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.

"Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one.

"Mathematicians have suspected for years that under specific circumstances, the Euler equations fail. But they’ve been unable to identify an exact scenario in which this failure occurs. Until now.

The equations are an idealized mathematical description of how fluids move. Within the confines of certain assumptions, they model the way ripples propagate on a pond or how molasses oozes out of a jar. They should be able to describe the motion of any fluid under any circumstances — and for more than two centuries, they have."

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The Art of Persuasion Hasn’t Changed in 2,000 Years

The Art of Persuasion Hasn’t Changed in 2,000 Years 

"Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. The ability to persuade, to change hearts and minds, is perhaps the single greatest skill that will give you a competitive edge in the knowledge economy — an age where ideas matter more than ever.

Some economists believe that persuasion is responsible for generating one-quarter or more of America’s total national income. As our economy has evolved from an agrarian to an industrial to a knowledge-based one, successful people in nearly every profession have become those capable of convincing others to take action on their ideas. "
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Direct Air Capture (DAC) will likely fall short of previous expectations

Direct Air Capture (DAC) will likely fall short of previous expectations.

No longer a catch all for carbon sequestration. 

"Climate change is caused by putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. What if, instead, we took it out?

The idea of pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air has been bouncing around climate change policy circles for well over a decade, but it’s only been in the past few years that the technology itself — “direct air capture,” or DAC — has been tested in the real world."

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