Once the workflow had been confirmed, progress generally did not stay slow for long.
Jia Xiu and Mia were making rapid progress now.
Using the Soul Magic Plane's two methods of deduction as a foundation, they repeatedly sampled data, plugged it into calculations, searched for verification, then used the verification results to correct the calculation process in reverse before sampling more data----
Looking at this process, their prediction of storms was not a method derived from first principles through complete, rigorous proof.
Instead, it was an empirical formula summarized from observed phenomena.
That was hardly unusual in engineering. Engineering fluid mechanics alone had piles of this stuff.
At its core, it was: "No idea whether this thing is actually right, but it works in practice, and no counterexample has been found so far, so let's use it for now."
It did not sound particularly scientific.
That was the difference between engineering and pure science. The problem was sitting right there; even if they could not fully understand it through research, they still had to find some way to muddle through and solve it first.
As for what to do when they found a counterexample, they would patch and revise it when the time came.
That was how methods were perfected, bit by bit.
The only drawback was that when a counterexample appeared in an engineering application and required a patch, it was generally a life-or-death problem. Progress came through accident after accident.
After more than a dozen rounds of repeated verification, little remained the same between Mia's newly established mathematical model and the Soul Magic Plane's original version.
It was practically a reconstruction. Less than thirty percent had been retained, while the precision had also been greatly improved. Both the locked coordinates and the time of occurrence were accurate to