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Storm's coming!
\"Did you know that flowers, insects, and birds can help predict the weather? Near her lighthouse home, Sophie reads the signs and sounds a warning: 'Storm's coming!'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Conversational recommendation: A grand AI challenge
Animated avatars, which look and talk like humans, are iconic visions of the future of AI‐powered systems. Through many sci‐fi movies, we are acquainted with the idea of speaking to such virtual personalities as if they were humans. Today, we talk more and more to machines like Apple's Siri, for example, to ask them for the weather forecast. However, when asked for recommendations, for example, for a restaurant to go to, the limitations of such devices quickly become obvious. They do not engage in a conversation to find out what we might prefer, they often do not provide explanations for what they recommend, and they may have difficulties remembering what was said 1 min earlier. Conversational recommender systems (CRS) promise to address these limitations. In this paper, we review existing approaches to building such systems, which developments we observe today, which challenges are still open and why the development of conversational recommenders represents one of the next grand challenges of AI.
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Freddy the Frogcaster and the huge hurricane
\"Freddy the Frogcaster is tracking the weather at Frog News Network when he realizes a huge hurricane is coming! Can the town of Lilypad prepare for the storm in time? Can Freddy report the weather on TV and make sure his family and friends are safe?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Earth Watch
With Earth observation programs from NASA, other space agencies, and governmental agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and even the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (see Resources), we are constantly monitoring our home environment, alert for environmental changes and also weather and climate changes on a local and global scale. Under the umbrella of the NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) there are numerous missions with a focus on observing our planet and providing data useful in many applications including tracking changes in the environment and helping to predict weather patterns that may lead to severe weather events. Data is collected from Earth's orbit using satellites operated by space agencies from several countries, the International Space Station (ISS), airborne observatories, flyovers using balloons, and even drones. The overall net effect, the study noted, was that from large-scale deforestation changes in local weather patterns, and over time the loss of vegetation could cause changes in climate (see Resources).
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Modes of Extrapolation: The Formulas of Hard SF
Like other popular artforms, science fiction is \"formulaic,\" but its formulas, ranging from myth to mathematics, cannot be determined simply by era, setting, type of plot, or conventional values. As a form of fantasy, SF uses exaggeration, inversion, and extension as points of relevance to readers focused on the here and now. Unlike other fantasy, SF relies on science for content and rhetoric, best exemplified today in the subgenre of \"hard SF.\" More so than other SF, hard SF is undergirded by the scientific principles of empiricism, determinism, and relativism, with their pragmatic applications of prediction and control. Exaggeration and inversion still have their place as rhetorical ploys, along with satire and allegory, but hard SF is based more on extension. Of the three subdivisions of extension, hard SF relies more on extrapolation than it does on speculation or transformation. Hard SF writers use extrapolation mainly for world-building and forecasting, following variant methodologies. Both rely on the same hard sciences, but forecasting relies more on soft and pseudo-scientific bases. In the creation of characters and forecasts of their behavior, extrapolation has significance on conventional literary levels as well.
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Out-of-the-box thoughts fuel supercomputer virtuoso
It's one of the provocative, some would say outlandish, ideas to flow from the formidable mind of [Philip Emeagwali], supercomputer virtuoso, Internet prophet, civil-war survivor and African hero. Superlatives abound in Emeagwali's lengthy resume. In 1989, he programmed more than 65,000 processors to perform the world's fastest computation: 3.1 billion calculations per second. The feat smashed the previous record and proved that a network of small computers could outperform more powerful, expensive supercomputers. Born in Nigeria, young Philip was recognized early as a math prodigy. His father drilled him to solve 100 problems an hour to help pass school entrance exams. But at the age of 12, civil war forced him to drop out and he was conscripted into the Biafran army. He earned a high-school diploma through self-teaching and won a math scholarship to the United States.
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