An attempt at a hard problem
Note: I'd strongly recommend reading this earlier post first, at least the story within, as it is the prequel to the story in this post. * * * After its earlier horrible performance in front of the Investech board, financiers lost confidence in the predictions of Oracle Oracle ('O2'), and the company soon went into liquidation. As it was a large part of the problem, the O2 network itself ended up being sold quite cheaply to the state's energy grid management company FullPower ('FP'). FP already had access to present and historic data for the state's infrastructure and weather, so the plan was to use O2 to improve power planning and distribution. Things started well - seasonal and regional trends were learned, and O2 even predicted the increase in cooling usage after fishery oversupply led to more goods with high refrigeration needs. To assist in interpretation, O2's language module was improved, in an attempt to explain new predictions in mo...