Simulate everything project.

[Adios]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

[Faust]

It won't work, at least in the financial area, you can't accurately simulate the capricious Market moods.
Would love a a proper environment simulator.

[LMNO]

I can't possibly conceive the amount of memory needed to do this.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

OMG IT'S FUCKUP*!



*First Universal Cybernetic- Kinetic-Ultramicro-Programmer. FUCKUP predicts trends by collecting and processing information about current developments in politics, economics, the weather, astrology, astronomy, and technology. - The Illuminatus Trilogy

[Adios]

I can't possibly conceive the amount of memory needed to do this.

If you accept that only a fraction of the "several hundred exabytes of data being produced worldwide every year... would be useful for a world simulation, the bottleneck won't be the processing capacity," says Mr Warden.

"Getting access to the data will be much more of a challenge, as will figuring out something useful to do with it," he adds.


A double fuckton!

[Epimetheus]

You know what this means. Once they think they're predicting the future, Discordia gotta step in.

[Jasper]

This makes me want to build a weather control device just to fuck with them.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

GIGO owns shit like this.

[AFK]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

I'm picturing a bunch of old dudes like that shadow conspiracy group from the X-Files.  All gathering together at some British location, sipping tea, and plotting how to take over the world with aliens. 

[Faust]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

OMG IT'S FUCKUP*!



*First Universal Cybernetic- Kinetic-Ultramicro-Programmer. FUCKUP predicts trends by collecting and processing information about current developments in politics, economics, the weather, astrology, astronomy, and technology. - The Illuminatus Trilogy

to be honest, using the iChing like fuckup did would probably get at least as accurate results as this proposed project. And probably be a hell of a lot cheaper.

[Adios]

An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.

Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator (LES), the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place on the planet, encapsulating the human actions that shape societies and the environmental forces that define the physical world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12012082

Somehow this makes me squirm uncomfortably.

I'm picturing a bunch of old dudes like that shadow conspiracy group from the X-Files.  All gathering together at some British location, sipping tea, and plotting how to take over the world with aliens. 

Well, as long as they use aliens. 

[Richter]

I can't possibly conceive the amount of memory needed to do this.

For a totaly inclusive and accurate model it would be beyond impractical.  Everything would have to be tracked from at least the molecular level to even approach accuracy, tracking molecule on Earth, knowing exactly where each was at the same instant as a starting point.  (Which could be really fun to observe the changes that arose between simualtion and reality due to atomic / subatomic forces over time, and how fast they accumulate to affect the model's accuracy.)

That having been said, this is likely to need to take signifigant shortcuts just to get going.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

GIGO owns shit like this.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I can't possibly conceive the amount of memory needed to do this.

For a totaly inclusive and accurate model it would be beyond impractical.  Everything would have to be tracked from at least the molecular level to even approach accuracy, tracking molecule on Earth, knowing exactly where each was at the same instant as a starting point.  (Which could be really fun to observe the changes that arose between simualtion and reality due to atomic / subatomic forces over time, and how fast they accumulate to affect the model's accuracy.)

That having been said, this is likely to need to take signifigant shortcuts just to get going.

This is where that holographic universe theory would come in handy... they would only need to process the relatively smaller chunks of inclusive data and extrapolate. However, since that model may be entirely bullshit, I'm not sure what they think they're doing.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can't possibly conceive the amount of memory needed to do this.

For a totaly inclusive and accurate model it would be beyond impractical.  Everything would have to be tracked from at least the molecular level to even approach accuracy, tracking molecule on Earth, knowing exactly where each was at the same instant as a starting point.  (Which could be really fun to observe the changes that arose between simualtion and reality due to atomic / subatomic forces over time, and how fast they accumulate to affect the model's accuracy.)

That having been said, this is likely to need to take signifigant shortcuts just to get going.

This is where that holographic universe theory would come in handy... they would only need to process the relatively smaller chunks of inclusive data and extrapolate. However, since that model may be entirely bullshit, I'm not sure what they think they're doing.

They've probably found a way to market error.