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An algorithm to prevent fires

In California, the fires have already caused the disappearance of over 1 000 people. And the damage is expected to exceed the record of 2017, when 9 000 fires had destroyed 560 000 hectares of forest. With her friend Sanjanah Shah, Aditya Shah, 17, a student at Monta Vista High School, has developed a sensor that it installs on redwoods and informs both on the humidity, the speed and direction of the wind. They intersect then the data gathered to evaluate, thanks to TensorFlow, the tool of automatic learning of Google, which forests are most likely to burn…