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Live experiment / Surf forecasting

Which board do I bring?

What if you could query Surfline in natural language, customized for your own breaks and surfboards? Now you can! Well, now I can anyway… Give it a try based on my quiver of funky twin fins and alternative shapes. The experience uses TypeSafe’s new Jev model to make hundreds of classifications in seconds.

Swell + tide: Open-Meteo, NOAA
Judgment: Jev, a model that answers
in typed probabilities

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Surfing as
Jev is judging every session.

One request per session, about 150 of them, a couple of seconds in all. The result is cached for everyone else.

Best bets

Every session

Five days. Scroll sideways for later days.

Sizes are code estimates of face height, calibrated by eye against Surfline. A dashed board tag means Jev is less than 60% sure of the board. The number in each session's top corner is its fun rating out of 10: wave count, ride enjoyment and struggle, judged together. ? means Jev's pick and the coach's guide disagree. ! means it may be too big for you. Click any session for the details.