No, this post isn’t Star Trek related. It’s about SCIENCE! I realize that the real world makes a lot of things difficult for those who collect data. Consider this, then, a gripe list of things I may or may not expect to get fixed. Moving on, I work on computer models to better understand physical [...]
…everything breaks down. Last week involved a lot of things that involved a lot of brainpower on my part. I had to do a tricky interpolation of a dataset, get a multi-directory, F77/F90 source dependency generator working, re-factor a bunch of F77 I/O into some F90 that I can then wrench around to do as [...]
I work professionally as a programmer at an atmospheric science department at a major university. One of the biggest things about atmospheric research is our reliance on computers for everything. While we’re nowhere near the limit of what we can do with observational data (and indeed in many areas, observational data is woefully short), there [...]
One of my more favored software development blogs is Beautiful Code. The concept is that code that is properly elegant is going to be readable, functional, and most of all, working correctly. There’s a lot of focusing on unit testing, proper OO design techniques, and how to squeeze an elegant solution out of the nastiest [...]