Tech News 1: Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics

[bob_turner]

When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or "rogue waves" that could destroy coastal structures), computational modeling faces an almost insurmountable challenge: Statistically speaking, these events are so rare that there's just not enough data on them to use predictive models to accurately forecast when they'll happen next.

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