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Largest Supercomputers to Simulate Life on Earth, Including Economies and Whole Societies
Science Daily ^ | 5/28/2010 | ScienceDaily

Posted on 06/06/2010 9:41:03 AM PDT by Dallas59

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Supercomputers are already being used to explore complex social and economic problems that science can understand in no other way.

Yes, there is their resound success modeling "global warming" to point to. If "scientists" do not "understand" the social and economic problems who is going to write the simulation code? Garbage in equals garbage out!

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GtG

21 posted on 06/06/2010 11:27:37 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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Garbage in....liberal policies out.


22 posted on 06/06/2010 12:55:36 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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The hockey stick program of economics so socialism always works?
23 posted on 06/06/2010 12:57:59 PM PDT by bmwcyle (NJ Governor Chris Christie for President)
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If anyone could actually get any sort of real-world economic model to work at all, they’d keep the results secret and become filthy rich. (At least, that’s what I would do!)

In point of fact, any working model of the economy would result in significant behavioral changes by investors trying to take advantage of the results in order to improve their own results. This in turn subsequently renders the model incorrect. This is a classic example of the “observer effect”, in which the act of observing something (a functioning model that mirrors reality, for example) alters that which is observed. (On a lighter note, it would be great fun to gain enough credibility that one could knowingly fake model results and be prepared in advance to take advantage of the expected resulting behavioral changes in order to become filthy rich. Oops, there I go again, trying to get filthy rich from a model.)


24 posted on 06/06/2010 1:17:14 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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...trying to get filthy rich from a model...

You got it bac'ards, mate; first get filthy rich, then get the model...


25 posted on 06/06/2010 4:19:50 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Palin/Undecided 2012...make that Palin/Whoever She Picks...)
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I’d love to see these simulations incorporate bible prophecies into the mix.


26 posted on 06/07/2010 12:07:43 AM PDT by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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all you need to do is string together enough xboxes or ps3’s and you have your own makeshift super computer to do the task as you wish.


27 posted on 06/08/2010 3:55:17 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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