Oh that's why I get my weather from yr.no. Nice table, hour by hour for next few days and ranges for the later ones. I also mostly visit from the desktop website so this is what it looks like to me:
(I've even learned a few words in Norwegian from it since I've never bothered to switch it to English)
The one in the screenshot, I'm assuming, loops through preset ranges with 4-5 PM being a special one because that's around where people start going home from work, and just gives you a string based on the weather conditions. So morning till 4, 4-5, then 5 and onwards.
Now if you actually wanted to do it with an LLM (not that you should, it's pretty wasteful if you consider that it's pretty much a prompt per every person looking at the weather, maybe you can cache for an hour per location, but there are millions of locations), you'd give it the dataset for the entire day and, being an LLM, it'll at least make the text flow much better than it is on the screenshot. An on-device tiny LLM as an opt-in feature would perhaps make sense here, but as you go smaller, the quality goes down too, so again not much point IMO.
I can say that it is as you say. I don't know this app, but ours takes the values of the forecasts which are defined in timespans. The backend loops over that and matches it to texts to construct a blurb like that.
It could simply be that the meteorologist defined a seperate period as more intense or is associated with a weather warning. And the simple automation of this app doesn't check for continuity.
To be fair, I am unsure if ours does this as well. I don't work directly on the app. I am an infrastructure guy. I do know it is checked by a human meteorologist before updating or publishing.
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 22d
Who the fuck put an LLM in my goddamn weather app?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 22d
Idk, this is the kind of thing an LLM would actually be good at. I think this is much simpler automation at work.
Prok@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22d
Not sure why you're being down voted... Pretty sure you're right...
lmuel@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 22d
But it’s like… a couple of numbers vs more text. I reckon looking at the numbers is a lot quicker lol
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 22d
Oh that's why I get my weather from yr.no. Nice table, hour by hour for next few days and ranges for the later ones. I also mostly visit from the desktop website so this is what it looks like to me:
(I've even learned a few words in Norwegian from it since I've never bothered to switch it to English)
The one in the screenshot, I'm assuming, loops through preset ranges with 4-5 PM being a special one because that's around where people start going home from work, and just gives you a string based on the weather conditions. So morning till 4, 4-5, then 5 and onwards.
Now if you actually wanted to do it with an LLM (not that you should, it's pretty wasteful if you consider that it's pretty much a prompt per every person looking at the weather, maybe you can cache for an hour per location, but there are millions of locations), you'd give it the dataset for the entire day and, being an LLM, it'll at least make the text flow much better than it is on the screenshot. An on-device tiny LLM as an opt-in feature would perhaps make sense here, but as you go smaller, the quality goes down too, so again not much point IMO.
Scribbd@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 22d
I can say that it is as you say. I don't know this app, but ours takes the values of the forecasts which are defined in timespans. The backend loops over that and matches it to texts to construct a blurb like that.
It could simply be that the meteorologist defined a seperate period as more intense or is associated with a weather warning. And the simple automation of this app doesn't check for continuity.
To be fair, I am unsure if ours does this as well. I don't work directly on the app. I am an infrastructure guy. I do know it is checked by a human meteorologist before updating or publishing.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 21d
Showers and thunderstorms!
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 24 pts · 22d
What are these fake ass temperatures- ohh right
Prok@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 22d
It's actually just about boiling outside
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 22d
Then what?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 22d
More showers and more thunderstorms.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
But will it rain after that?
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 6 pts · 22d
There is no after, there is only r a i n
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Yeah, but...what after that?
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 22d
rainWhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Again??
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 22d
I got a similar forecast and thought I was having a stroke reading it.
Prok@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 22d
And then you thought you were having a stroke!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 22d
And then they put on some porn and DID have a stroke.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 21d
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 22d
No rain, just showers.
Your weather app is being snarky about your hygiene.
jlow@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 22d
Slop at work?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 21d
Trying to raise the word count on the essay
urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe · 2 pts · 21d
ratel@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 22d
This really reminded me of the fish and ricecakes clip.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 22d
Yeah. I love today weather as my go-to, but its weather reporting is this retardation every time it's going to rain all day.
fraksken@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 22d
Where do you live? Hope it doesn't rain?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 22d
arotrios@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 22d
You rat bastard...
Prok@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
I'd say I didn't notice, but you wouldn't believe me anyway...
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
They said the thing omg