tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post8566393621803445037..comments2023-10-30T00:47:07.584-07:00Comments on Data Against Demagogues: Amateur Climate Modelling - IntroductionKen Burnsidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18176106060717632571noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post-49083917074385670582009-12-02T14:50:56.759-08:002009-12-02T14:50:56.759-08:00I put "self" down as the project.
Since...I put "self" down as the project.<br /><br />Since the guy who approves the requests reads this blog....Larry E. Rameyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17309633906262817103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post-10159536131896839862009-12-02T07:43:45.560-08:002009-12-02T07:43:45.560-08:00Dante, we put in private research and the URL for ...Dante, we put in private research and the URL for this blog. Got a confirmation back within an hour on Sunday on Thanksgiving weekend. <br /><br />If it's being manually confirmed, there's a grad student there in desperate need of some cookies and leftover turkey.Ken Burnsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176106060717632571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post-47465905263497898192009-12-02T04:57:40.356-08:002009-12-02T04:57:40.356-08:00Hey Ken,
Went to download the CCMS3 source and It...Hey Ken,<br /><br />Went to download the CCMS3 source and It asked for a registration that needs to be confirmed. Just in case they come back with "why the heck do you want it?", what did you put for the institution and project on your registration?Dantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02793224739077843974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post-32756194340745756682009-12-01T15:24:28.595-08:002009-12-01T15:24:28.595-08:00Steve, my guess is that, at best, we've got a ...Steve, my guess is that, at best, we've got a 50-50 chance of making this run. I may be incredibly optimistic. <br /><br />It may be that CCMS is documented for better portability that we expect. (We've already found some support documents that look like someone's run them on an X86 Linux box).<br /><br />However, it's important to tell people up front that this may blow up in our face, and most casual readers would ask "If you think the odds are 80% that it's going to blow up on you, why waste your time?"<br /><br />In some ways, we're doing a very minor bit of observational science/quality assurance testing, and will document the Dumb Things We Did so the next people who try this can go "OK, don't do that."<br /><br />And yeah, I know that scientific code gets written in ways that make production software engineers shudder and reach for strong drink.Ken Burnsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176106060717632571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524310741230786463.post-25441042166858048702009-12-01T14:55:38.174-08:002009-12-01T14:55:38.174-08:00Where do you get the figures 50-60%? I understand ...Where do you get the figures 50-60%? I understand that poor estimation is the biggest cause of project failure in the software world, but this really is making up numbers for the hell of it.<br /><br />Anyway. Take heed of our interviews with some PhD students in atmospheric physics:<br />http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=741<br />And before you scream about why don't they make it portable, think a bit about the trade-offs between portability and utility as a scientific instrument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com