Davide Bassetti

An optician turns the frame, adjusts the focus, and a blurry spot becomes a sharp image. The new algorithm GOAL works much the same way: it rotates the data cloud, compresses redundant dimensions, and brings into focus what truly matters.

In the hall, fifty sages confer, each observing the ocean in their own way. One listens to surface temperature, another to the wind, a third to how heat hides in the depths. Their judgments often contradict each other, but there is an elder who knows which of them to trust more.

Thousands of models simmer in a single cauldron, and the steam rises thick and impenetrable. Each whispers something about the future of El Niño, but in the general din you cannot tell who is right and who is just boiling over.