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From: finnca1@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: Re: "You cant go home again"
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 00:52:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 00:52:42 1984
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It seems to me (a phrase that is always a copout for the ill-informed;
nonetheless, I proceed) that the real payoff in expert systems for weather
forecasting would be to capture the knowledge of those pre-computer experts who,
with limited data and even fewer dollars, managed to develop their
pattern-recognition facilities to the point that they could FEEL what was
happening and forecast accordingly.

I was privileged to take some meteorology courses from such an oldster many
years ago, and it was, alas,  my short-sightedness about the computer revolution
in meteorology that prevented me from capturing some of his expertise, to
buzz a word or two.

Surely not ALL of these veterans have retired yet...what a service to science
someone would perform if only this experise could be captured before it dies 
off.

	...ucbvax!lbl-csam!ra!daven    or
	whatever is on the header THIS time.