Working at Quartz and being given the independence and creative space to report on Hong Kong at a time of historic upheaval will always be the privilege of a lifetime.
Interesting sales pitch from this furniture shop in Hong Kong; "Tariff War - Big Sale 🇺🇸🇨🇳"
Weeks before the official start of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, signs are emerging that the coming months will be blistering in North America, Europe & Asia, threatening to tax grids & wilt crops. With @weathersullivan.bsky.social and @joewertz.bsky.social.
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For decades, public agencies have run global weather models that require supercomputers to crunch complex equations to spit out predictions. Now, AI is opening space for smaller, commercial players to provide super granular & specialist forecasts: 🎁🔗
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"An unsexy department with a compelling story:" how Hong Kong's drainage authorities (and the private sector) are charting the future of flood-fighting: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nevertheless, weather predictions are imperfect and every forecast contains an element of uncertainty.
In that vein, meteorologists like to quote the 20th century statistician George Box: “All models are wrong but some are useful.”
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The next frontier of forecasting will go beyond traditional weather data as forecasters, aided by new AI techniques, turn to non-weather inputs to help predict emerging weather risks and volatile climate patterns.
With @joewertz.bsky.social; 🎁🔗:
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“Weather isn’t extremely abstract, but the way we present the data is, and we can fix that,” said Knoweather Chief Executive Jonathan Chui. “We’ve been stuck with 2D graphics for too long.”
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US scientists are looking to the private sector & abroad for jobs as NOAA cuts headcount.
China is well positioned to take advantage: it aims to recruit 100 top experts from around the world by 2035 to tackle “key, core technical chokepoints” in the weather domain
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It’s not easy being an elite athlete anywhere. But Hong Kong presents a unique set of challenges: an unforgiving climate, high cost of living, limited sporting facilities and a culture that generally prizes boardrooms over locker rooms.
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Intense storms in recent years has pushed the government and businesses to upgrade their responses to rain and flooding, and those efforts are working.
Hedge funds are paying top dollar for weather and climate experts, while China aims to attract foreign talent to advance its meteorological capabilities.
In this week’s Hong Kong Edition, we look at the city’s plan to develop its sports industry, interview an investment banker who’s also a successful race car driver, unveil the results of our birthday ...
Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...
