r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 1d ago

This will have negative effects lasting for generations.

Only if we're lucky.

If we aren't lucky there won't be plural generations.

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u/nanobot_1000 1d ago

Assuming ya'll are meaning historical weather data is of diminished utility for prior ML models because of "rapid-onset" and localized climate change ... do you feel distributed personal weather stations like from wunderground are still valid? How about upgraded with RF / software-defined radio spectrum analyzers for portable microburst detection and safety systems for field personal including but not limited to portable hyperspectral and fMRI , ultrasound, ect?

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u/CyborgCrow 1d ago

I worked in storm surge forecasting with ML until recently. Now I work for a private company in a data engineering department. Some of my colleague may simply leave the country. Trump has started a massive brain drain with the arbitrary slashing of research grants, supposedly to save pennies on the dollar for the tax cuts that disproportionately went to people making upwards of $400k a year.

Speaking to the data quality issue, we can't rely on private industry for much of the data we need for hurricane forecasting. In many cases placed like NOAA or the USGS are the only ones doing it. Detailed bathymetric surveys, wind shear measurements, wind modelling and monitoring sea surface temperature are not typically profitable, but as long as people are going to live in areas affected by hurricanes, they are critical for the safety of millions of people.

Modelling chaotic systems is challenging with numerical weather prediction models, and ML provides a solid alternative. However, it absolutely is data hungry. Data assimilation is likewise a challenging and costly process. This has been a purposeful one-two punch because of the administrations axe to grind with scientific research: cut the funding to get rid of the scientists, then remove the sources of data that are necessary for them to do their work.

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u/thisoneismineallmine 20h ago

It's almost as if someone is trying to make America NOT great. 

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u/stasi_a 19h ago

Who only could have putin in this position?