Comment by kristopolous
Comment by kristopolous 10 months ago
This really, really looks like a nullschool clone (https://earth.nullschool.net/). Is it not?
Comment by kristopolous 10 months ago
This really, really looks like a nullschool clone (https://earth.nullschool.net/). Is it not?
so what exactly are you launching that I can see here?
I’m confused by this thread. The posters have mentioned that they are building their own foundation model for climate/weather prediction and are using a well known open source tool in the field for viz. Where’s the ambiguity here?
I suggest you read the post. Reading is typically how information is transmitted.
EDIT: the post I am responding to was altered to sound much less confrontational. It was originally:
> So what exactly are you “launching” and why does it require venture capital?
Alright, what they presented, in the current state, is just a clone of a 10 year old project with a 2.5 month old weather forecast and some AI story attached to it.
> We visualize these using [cambecc/earth] (https://github.com/cambecc/earth), one of our favorite open source weather visualization tools
From the post.
I don’t think I understand what your issue is with them. They used an open-source project to visualize their data, were open about doing so, and cited the creator of the project.
What more did you want from them? (Genuine question.)
something within the interface that more clearly illustrates their product differentiation.
nullschool is obscure enough to the general audience that when I saw it there was an immediate red flag.
If only specialized scientists can see the difference between the sites, it's a presentation problem.
The interface in question is the second link in the post. To get to the interface without any of the other relevant context, you would have to:
- skip reading the post (which explains all of this)
- skip the first link in the post (which explains all of this)
- go straight to the second link in the post, to the interface
- skip the "about" link in the interface (which explains all of this)
FWIW: I read this post contemporaneous with your first comments, and saw exactly the content that's there now.
It is just open source version [1] of that, I assume. It's a visualization, but data is their own. earth.nullschool is visualization of NOAA's GFS model.
Yep, they cite it on their "about" page (select about from the menu): https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/about.html
I didn't know it was open source. I thought it was a ripoff.
Hi, it totally is. That's one of our favorite weather visualization projects. We're using Cameron Beccario's open source version of nullschool for our forecasts. We cited him above in the blurb and also on our about page (https://hurricanes2024.silurian.ai/about.html)