Turing Editorial Team

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Rogue Waves, the sudden walls of water that once sounded like sailor folklore until instruments proved they were real. How can a calm-looking sea suddenly produce a wave big enough to kill?The famous Draupner wave of 1995 was a measured monster that forced scientists to admit that the ocean could generate freak waves far more often than old models had allowed.
But what makes the sea so hard to predict? Why do waves sometimes steal energy from their neighbors? Why can a neat train of waves suddenly fall apart? And why do tiny disturbances in the mathematics of water sometimes grow into towering danger?Can nonlinear physics explain these killers? Are rogue waves born from deep instability, or are they simply the result of many ordinary waves arriving at the wrong place at the wrong time?Now, artificial intelligence (AI) is joining the hunt.
By learning from centuries of buoy data, machines may be able to spot the warning signs before a monster wave forms. But if an AI can predict danger without explaining it, is that enough?