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Cheap and Noisy Chips Could Improve Climate Predictions

Posted April 17, 2009 9:07 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

As scientists start to fill out the picture of a future globe dramatically changed by catastrophic global warming, the use of climate models is increasingly important when forecasting the risks faced by various regions. Tim Palmer and researchers at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts say that running simulations on cheap computer chips that produce results tainted with random noise could improve those models.

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04/20/2009 8:30 PM

I myself occasionally like to watch the news with a bag of cheap and noisy chips. I find it improves not only the weather forecast, but news and sports as well.

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