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ciphergoth comments on Evaluating weather forecast accuracy: an interview with Eric Floehr - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Johnicholas 20 April 2011 05:51PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 20 April 2011 09:59:33PM *  13 points [-]

Wow. How many things are there out there like this, where you just vaguely assume that someone's already doing it - that weather companies are all data-crazy and keep every last byte and analyse it seven ways to Sunday and sell it in every way they can - and it turns out no-one was doing any such thing until this guy thought he'd write a Python script?

Comment author: David_Gerard 21 April 2011 06:56:42PM *  -1 points [-]

There's a reason I have two weather apps on my (shiny new) BlackBerry.

But yes - there are endless startup opportunities for the next Nate Silver.