{"id":4327,"date":"2022-07-17T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2022-07-17T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T23:18:08","slug":"rogue-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/rogue-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rogue waves\u2014enigmatic giants of the sea\u2014were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/pocket-image-cache.com\/\/filters:format(jpg):extract_focal()\/https%3A%2F%2Fpocket-syndicated-images.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5f6de4e0452d2.jpg\" alt=\"Rogue waves long lived only as sailor lore. Hard evidence of their existence has come only in the past few decades. Credit: Andreas Rocha for Quanta Magazine.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mariners have known for centuries what researchers have documented only in recent decades: The ocean is a far more dangerous place than common sense would suggest. Data-driven researchers long struggled to square sailors\u2019 tales of monstrous \u201crogue\u201d waves with the expectation that wave heights vary like human heights \u2014 clustering around an average with a few outliers dotting the thin tails of a bell curve. Sure, you might get a wave twice as tall as its neighbors in theory, but you\u2019d have to watch the seas for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a sailor read this for sure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/read\/3121587471\">https:\/\/getpocket.com\/read\/3121587471<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue waves\u2014enigmatic giants of the sea\u2014were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict them all. Mariners have known for centuries what researchers have documented only in recent decades: The ocean is a far more dangerous place than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}