Too bad about the paywall...
FORTRAN? Isn’t that from the 1970s? Used to program it using punch cards, like ballots with chads in them. Maybe there is an updated version but I haven’t heard that word FORTRAN in years.
This is a story of agenda-ists who used the work of snake oil salesman (and there are a lot in the computer modeling world) to push a worldwide economic shutdown to protect their global power.
This fake news does leave one opening though: if enough citizens demand that public policy can cite NO model that doesn't disclose all the raw data, cannot be replicated, and is not confirmed by an entity under the jurisdiction of the public policy owners.
For computer modelling to work you have to constantly adjust it as you learn real results.
The boss of a top software firm asks why the Government failed to get a second opinion from a computer scientist
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There’s a good part of the problem right there. People still hiding from the reality that the gov is very much involved in producing and perpetuating the frauds.
I’m more interested in the algorithm than the language that it is written in.
“Imperial’s model appears to be based on a programming language called Fortran, which was old news 20 years ago and, guess what, was the code used for Mariner 1. This outdated language contains inherent problems with its grammar and the way it assigns values, which can give way to multiple design flaws and numerical inaccuracies. One file alone in the Imperial model contained 15,000 lines of code.”
Fortran got our ICBMs to hit within 50 meters of their targets in the Pacific, not to mention the accuracy of Mariner 1, so I wouldn’t, necessarily, denigrate it.
Neil Ferguson has now made multiple wildly inflated disease models.
Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
Professor Neil Ferguson, from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College, said ... the future number of deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) due to exposure to BSE in beef was likely to lie between 50 and 50,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/09/research.highereducation
And now the Wu-Flu.
This was done deliberately to ALL involved the end justified the means these bastards don’t give a damn about anyone, ALWAYS remember what Schumer said when Trump tweeted about the intel community, that Trump would regret the day because intel have ways of getting you you never dreamed possible!! These bastards have a DEEP HATRED of Trump and if WE get in the way SO BE IT!!!
He did it in FORTAN? FORTRAN was old when I was in High School. I graduated in the 90’s.
Had to remain conversant in it, as some old PLC and DCS programs have it, but I haven’t seen any “new” programs in fortan since... well since the one I wrote in Basics of Programming for Chemical Engineers.
That was 1995 .
FORTRAN is the basis of most numerical electromagnetic design. Most of your antenna designs and some of the semiconductors were researched using it, and when the algorithms are ported to other platforms and languages the results are the same.
Only a few places do real modeling based on probability and conjecture. Many use one type of system because they have investments in a code base. Many also use FORTRAN because experienced, seasoned, professionals know it best. It also has a lot of things coded that worked in other problems.
Blaming FORTRAN is like saying the house was made of pine and not oak, and thats why it burned down.
If the model is terrible the language implementing it doesn’t matter.
This is a poor article.