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Damn Dirty Data

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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 [...]

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C is for “Working”, apparently

Friday, February 13, 2009

Looking through my collection of papers, I noticed something today: nearly everything I do at work starts with “C”
Carbon-nitrogen Cycle modeling
Crop growth modeling
Climate generation
Coding
Climate modeling
… the only outlier is the letter B for Biofuels.

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Just when you think it’s safe to venture into the office…

Saturday, February 7, 2009

…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 [...]

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Academented Programming

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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 [...]

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Beautiful Fortran

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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 [...]

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