Q&A: Open Climate Fix's Jack Kelly on the 'beautifully simple' transformer model and nowcasting
Published: 6 May 2021, 10:31 By: Image: Open Climate Fix. Earlier in April, non-profit Open Climate Fix announced that it had received a two year grant from Google.org of £500,000. The company was set up to examine the possibility of using the transformer model to more accurately forecast cloud formations, and ultimately levels of solar irradiation. It builds on previous work using transformer models for predicting the shape of proteins and formed part of breakthroughs such as Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold-2. Solar Power Portal caught up with Open Climate Fix co-founder Dr Jack ...