Roots of prediction - The Weather Experiment

There is much to learn about the days when the weather was an impossibly dark swirl, when its causes were mostly imagined, and when modern society took the path toward reasonable, repeatable predictions. But it is not an easy tramp. Its themes are good to keep in mind in our time, as AI wizards promise prediction beyond our dreams. Who can't say that their measurements of demographics and happenings are no less naive than those of sailors, shepherds or millers before the anemometer. Like horse racing chart makers the observers of old struggled to consistently categorize wind. Their terms -- light breeze, gust, torrent -- remind of the Daily Racing Form's -- endeavored, tired, showed courage.

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