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Feels like this might be an invariant in computer science. I once worked on an IBM/360. The majority of the compute was taken up by a single person who did weather simulation.

An IBM/360 has laughably less compute than your phone.



ENIAC ran weather as well. It's a kind of numerical simulation that will always be in need of compute cycles. We'll need more of it as we go deeper into climate change.


"Computational fluid dynamics is hard" seems like a true bona fide CS invariant.


It might still have produced a better weather prediction than my phone, though /s




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