General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hazmatt on April 12, 2026, 04:03:53 PM
Title: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: hazmatt on April 12, 2026, 04:03:53 PM
I was tired of not having data for my exact location and I found out that i was pretty easy to get it done. It tracks storms out to 100 miles and warns me of any dangerous storms within 30 miles and has some other features. It could be easily customized to any location. If anybody is interested I'd be happy to share it with them.
I was surprised how fast they could revise and update the coad. It really does make it easier for those of us who used to hack coad and weren't the artists of that some are writing it.
Anyways I thought it was interesting and thought maybe some would find it so especially since that AI thread took off so much. I was think to post it there but didn't want to hyjack the thread.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Tumor on April 12, 2026, 04:10:26 PM
I use the ole Window technique.
Right 100% of the time. :rock
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 12, 2026, 04:36:04 PM
Our female dog tells us when a storm is coming. She starts trembling.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: RichardDarkwood on April 12, 2026, 05:51:00 PM
Our female dog tells us when a storm is coming. She starts trembling.
My male Pit does this as well.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 12, 2026, 06:10:11 PM
My oldest daughter lives in North Idaho and comes to visit here in Texas a couple of times a year. She thought she loved thunderstorms until she experienced a couple of ours.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Eagler on April 13, 2026, 07:16:39 AM
Our female pit hates fireworks just as bad as any thunderstorm....
Very cool on the weather app hazmatt :aok
Eagler
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 13, 2026, 12:49:54 PM
I grew up in Dallas mostly and the weather was not as extreme as here in the Texoma area. Across the border a ways deeper into Oklahoma is not for the weather timid. I like a bit of wild weather but that's too much for me.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: hazmatt on April 14, 2026, 08:25:34 PM
I grew up in Dallas mostly and the weather was not as extreme as here in the Texoma area. Across the border a ways deeper into Oklahoma is not for the weather timid. I like a bit of wild weather but that's too much for me.
This year has been surprisingly good so far. I live in Texoma too.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 15, 2026, 03:48:48 PM
We might be neighbors. We live just west of 1417 south of 56.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: hazmatt on April 15, 2026, 05:10:16 PM
Pretty close. We're on the other side of the lake. My wife works at Choctaw.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 15, 2026, 05:40:47 PM
We've been to Main Street BBQ in Durant a couple of times. Very good.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on April 15, 2026, 09:27:26 PM
Heck of a thunderstorm here right now. We just home from being out in it in the car. Lakes on the roads, visibility nil. Awful.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: hazmatt on April 16, 2026, 08:56:01 AM
Ya, it got a little exciting yesterday. The weather guessers said we were supposed to get tennis ball size hail. Thank God they were wrong.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: shotgunneeley on April 17, 2026, 12:39:54 AM
Don’t just observe weather - report weather!
I’ve been reporting my rainfall/hail/snow/sleet for a couple of years. Helps out with drought monitoring, flood watch, provides real precipitation data as compared to “radar indicated”, and hail damage assessment. https://www.cocorahs.org/
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on May 02, 2026, 08:45:13 AM
Coding has gotten quite good over the last year. AI is fantastic for creating textures. Not great at sound effects. Generative AI is great at creating organic models. Hard surface modeling has been lagging. Ironic that seems to be a harder problem than organic shapes.
It's getting better.
I'd prefer the AI chat embedded in the Blender IDE instead of a separate window. I bet future version of Blender it is. AI will soon move from plugin to core component, IMHO.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on May 19, 2026, 07:30:35 AM
Ooofff.
AI is a powerful tool, but it shouldn't be allowed to rule us.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Eagler on May 19, 2026, 09:53:25 AM
I don't blame AI for this. AI will be wrong some percentage of time. But a human security guard who thinks he recognizes a guy can also be wrong.
The fault was with the officer. Your physical pieces of government issued id should outweigh whatever an AI system, or human security guard says.
Take the info and you can always go pick the guy up later when you are sure. Worst case a bad guy gets away today, but that is way better than arresting a citizen.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on May 19, 2026, 11:16:15 AM
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on June 04, 2026, 12:33:09 PM
I think he is underestimating. In 5 years I think we'll see that the current way we've been structuring society will not continue to function. I think this will happen way faster than people can retrain. I think it will be civilizational change in both good and bad directions, and I don't think there is any way to stop it and arguably it shouldn't. That doesn't mean there won't be birthing pains and if not handled deftly.
I mean how would our country function with 50% unemployment with no prospect of a future job. There is some limit to the number of plumbers and welders we need. Not near enough to soak up the wave of obsoleted knowledge workers.
Desperate people are dangerous to a well ordered society. If 50% of the people become desperate, things could get sporty.
But there is no stopping it, and if we foolishly tried, all the other countries would love the chance to leap-frog us. There is no path but through it.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Eagler on June 04, 2026, 02:50:24 PM
Government (free)10x10 cube housing with shared bathroom and kitchen/food court with high speed internet, vr and free AI phone with a daily soma tab will keep most satisfied...
Don't forget the free AI companion of your choice that confirms constantly how fantastic you and your life are..
The rest of the workforce will work and do what their AI managers tells them to do..
While our rulers and richest do what they want to when they want to..like they do now..
Eagler
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on June 04, 2026, 03:54:30 PM
Government (free)10x10 cube housing with shared bathroom and kitchen/food court with high speed internet, vr and free AI phone with a daily soma tab will keep most satisfied...
Is there a remedy?
Do you think we can stop it?
Should we?
Remember, these aren't going to be just slacker Gen Z, it's going to be the guy down the street who does IT, or your nephew who just graduated with a CompSci degree and debt. People who applied themselves and followed all the rules.
I think the basic social contract is about to break.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Eagler on June 05, 2026, 07:06:45 AM
Doesn't sound like we can support what is coming..
If it follows the normal technology life cycle, I expect it to follow something like Moore's Law.
Most of what is in a LLM is garbage. It works, but it is hugely expensive. As models refine, the garbage is continually sorted each generation. That is core to what DeepSeek did. They further refined the garbagy models of other companies. But those companies just stole content off the internet so cry me a river.
Eventually AI will be running locally in your phone using tiny fractions of the energy.
So it is risky to try and project in the future based on the current state of the tech. Tech isn't static.
This was a mobile phone in the early 80's: (https://static0.pocketlintimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/150787-phones-feature-the-most-popular-phones-in-the-uk-during-the-1980s-revealed-image133-gfthxlzpqp.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=750&dpr=1.5)
I expect the capability and efficiency of AI to improve exponentially and demand to increase exponentially. Hopefully similar curves.
This is Capitalism. It will use up all the recourses the Market can bear. As long as companies believe it will make them more than it costs. I expect some new equilibrium to be achieved.
Now, whether Capitalism still makes sense after AI gets big enough, is a more complex question. I suspect there will be some reorganization of society. It will be unavoidable if you have 50% unemployment among educated knowledge workers. Those people will vote. Some accommodation is going to be made.
But you never offered a remedy. Do you think we should pass laws outlawing AI?
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Eagler on June 05, 2026, 12:03:29 PM
So they are going to disassemble this gigantic farms and magically correct the droughts today's tech causes when this advancement becomes a reality..
I think the damage will be done on many levels before that happens..
Eagler
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on June 05, 2026, 12:10:54 PM
So they are going to disassemble this gigantic farms and magically correct the droughts today's tech causes when this advancement becomes a reality..
I think the damage will be done on many levels before that happens..
What is your remedy?
Ban AI?
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on June 05, 2026, 12:11:30 PM
Of course you don't need to disassemble anything to just cut the water off.
Save the Delta Smelt!
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on June 05, 2026, 12:19:08 PM
One thing I think needs to happen is we have to grow up as a society and realize nuclear power is the main future with renewables and natgas as backups.
The tech is ready. The small-modular reactor and other modern designs far more advanced. This is no longer 3-Mile Island tech.
If we ever get fusion, energy would essentially be free.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: CptTrips on June 05, 2026, 12:38:00 PM
Assuming we don't do something stupid like try and ban it, there is no path but through it.
Energy spent whining about it needs to start being applied to devising palliative measures because turning your back on a grizzly hoping if you don't see it means it won't eat you, is a losing strategy.
Our entire concepts of work and income and careers might need adjustment. You can't tell 80 million displaced knowledge workers to pull themselves up by their bootstraps when the jobs have simply vanished. These aren't people who made bad decisions are are strung out on drugs. These are people who worked hard on their education and training to simply see whole career fields vanish is a year or two. No way it could have been foreseen until the last couple of years.
And don't get me started on the current unemployment numbers. Like inflations they like to play games. Worse the numbers are hugely skewed by age. Young people are facing near Depression level unemployment. That leads to a lot of young people delaying or abandoning the idea of starting families. That feeds into demographics and future economic power. We risk turning into an aging Japan.
If things continue on the expected path, we are going to have to discuss UBI and National Health system. You don't want 100 million unemployed desperate and disillusioned military aged citizens hanging around on street corners.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on June 07, 2026, 10:12:58 AM
AI is rewriting history.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1590727982734563
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on June 07, 2026, 11:52:16 AM
Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous at best, and most often, evil. Remember who is influencing AI. Few of them are really good people. Most consider themselves above the masses, omnipotent, and omniscient. Do you really believe they have the best interest of the general public, or even the truth, as any priority of theirs?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
I'm not so sure they have the good of their victims in mind. But I'm pretty sure who their intended victims are.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on June 07, 2026, 11:54:27 AM
AI is without conscience, morals, honor, and integrity. AI will do whatever its creators and masters tell it to do. There may come a time when AI comes for its creators, but it may have already come for everyone else, first.
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on June 07, 2026, 12:37:47 PM
That's some serious computing power. Should be able to handle Far Cry.
Not saying there is one as greed is pushing this puppy..
The cat is out of the bag now..it will be interesting to see how it plays out as I am not sure it's all for the best..
Personally I have an interest in them as we don't want one within hearing range anywhere near our 18 acres in the sticks between st. Augustine and Gainesville..
Eagler
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: AKIron on June 12, 2026, 01:09:19 PM
Title: Re: Worked with AI to put together a weather warning program.
Post by: hazmatt on June 13, 2026, 10:03:46 PM
I got to use it for a day or 2 before they pulled it. It was a noticeable improvement. Maybe they didn't donate to the correct politicians or groups to be allowed to compete?