{"id":202283,"date":"2024-12-24T04:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/computer-models-are-vital-for-studying-everything-heres-how-ai-could-make-them-even-better"},"modified":"2024-12-24T04:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:28:56","slug":"computer-models-are-vital-for-studying-everything-heres-how-ai-could-make-them-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/computer-models-are-vital-for-studying-everything-heres-how-ai-could-make-them-even-better","title":{"rendered":"Computer models are vital for studying everything. Here\u2019s how AI could make them even better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-models-are-vital-for-studying-everything-heres-how-ai-could-make-them-even-better2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one definition of science: it\u2019s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power.<\/p>\n<p>A model is just an approximation or simplification of how we think the world works. In the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.maths.bris.ac.uk\/~madjl\/course_text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">these models<\/a> could be very simple, as simple in fact as a mathematical formula. But over time, they have evolved and scientists have built increasingly sophisticated simulations of the world as new data has become available.<\/p>\n<p>A computer model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatehubs.usda.gov\/hubs\/northwest\/topic\/basics-global-climate-models\" target=\"_blank\">of the Earth\u2019s climate<\/a> can show us temperatures will rise as we continue to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Models can also predict how infectious disease will spread in a population, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s one definition of science: it\u2019s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is just an approximation or simplification of how we think the world works. In the past, these models could be very simple, as simple in fact as a mathematical formula. But over time, they have evolved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}