Re: simple question

[Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com>]

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 <drsollyp () drsolly com> 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
> >
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