#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress
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How to Predict the Sun Spot Cycle?
The way we make sun spots we predict how strong the sun spot cycles can be next years. We use a data set that was compiled by belgian monks, starting in the seventeenth century. And we've actually been using this quite a bit to a forecast a technological progress for climate change. It's an example of just, you know, using data to make predictions.
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