All the recent LLM advances would make for very interesting and very fun NPC interactions in a MMORPG today too. Even small player community servers could be viable long term because of the ability to seed complex interactions with NPCs into on-going story lines.

I'm very interested to see how the ML modeling revolution changes this. The ability to perform global forecasts on a single GPU should make it cost competitive for more companies. I know several companies are already deriving their own weights for the forecasting component so that they can sell them. Google appears to be working on the next piece of the puzzle too with using ML for the data assimilation step, or skipping that altogether and using observations to go directly to forecasts.

NOAA has already made some contracts with Spire [1] and Saildrone [2]. I am sure there are more but these are the ones most familiar to me.

Your weather data broker startup sounds very interesting!

[1]: https://spire.com/press-release/spire-global-awarded-nationa... [2]: https://research.noaa.gov/2022/08/03/noaa-and-saildrone-team...

[1] https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-...

My guess is that potential customers who know how to use this data with their flood model also know how to derive this data from the sources. You may need to compute inundation maps for X year return periods in order to reach customers who need this information but don't know how to use flood models.

Really nice website and backend though! It's so fast even given the volume of data. Very impressive

[1] http://www.nwseo.org/Four%20Winds/11_12_28_Sobien_Lubchenco_...

Looks like its part of the public dataset program so you can probably just ask for the bucket name and get full free access to everything.

On the NOAA side, there tend not to be loginwalls so that hasn't been much of a concern.

I work with one of the partners on this project, so if you have specific datasets or use case ideas feel free to drop me an email at zflamig uchicago.edu.

Now you have to wonder why John Hopkins isn't party to it...

As for your patent infringement problem, hire a lawyer.

You can do this pretty trivially with HAM gear, although some may require small modifications to allow transmitting on the necessary frequencies. You can also often buy the equipment on ebay ready to go.

Check out the Genomic Data Commons as well to see partial results from these efforts. There's a nice article about it too at http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2017/Canc...