I once wrote a model of the whole universe, and it ran on some piece of cake. It was actually used later as a torture device, go figure.
(For reference, see http://preview.tinyurl.com/mrkk8s ) On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Drsolly <[email protected]> wrote: > I once wrote a model of the world economy. It ran on an HP3000, and looked > pretty, but was actually complete guesses. > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Peter Evans wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 08:46:24PM -0800, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > > > Until we have a model that would pass muster for simulating the > > > Coefficient of Drag of an automobile (and as far as I can see the CRU > > > climate model doesn't), how can we base any major public policy > > > decisions on it? > > > > I used to work for FLUENT, back when version 4 was all FRONART, > > It was my understanding that the way to determine the Cd of a > > vehicle was(and still is) model testing. > > > > There was also RAMPANT, which was used for transonic and supersonic > > modeling, that was in C. My favourite test for that was the COW at > Mach 1 ^^; > > > > Back then, our biggest box has a hamster stunning 768mb of ram, all > > it could take! (some HP 9000/125??) and modelling the Monju Reactor > Probe > > basically paid for the whole thing ^^; > > > > p > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Imri Goldberg -------------------------------------- http://plnnr.com/ - automatic trip planning http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/ -------------------------------------- -- insert signature here ----
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