{"id":8091,"date":"2019-01-17T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2019-01-18T08:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:15:58","slug":"googles-using-ai-to-help-predict-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/googles-using-ai-to-help-predict-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s using AI to help predict floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the mix of high &amp; low tech in this use of&nbsp;AI for social good:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mz0ikfuE_z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team of engineers from Google&#8217;s Crisis Response team is using machine learning to develop a more accurate and reliable flood forecasting system for countries that need it most.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how AI and other technology is being used to help provide people with more accurate crisis alerts. http:\/\/g.co\/earlywarning<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NewImage-16.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"306\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Tangentially related if at all, but what the heck: How great are these <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/01\/historic-topographic-maps-pushed-into-3d\">3D renderings of vintage topographical maps<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/NewImage-17.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"692\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Mz0ikfuE_z0\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the mix of high &amp; low tech in this use of&nbsp;AI for social good: A team of engineers from Google&#8217;s Crisis Response team is using machine learning to develop a more accurate and reliable flood forecasting system for countries that need it most. Learn more about how AI and other technology is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8099,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}