From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 00:39:59 +0200 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net; news.eternal-september.org Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 22:40:01 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e3caf8dbcf5d7e3f01af1411fe020168"; logging-data="19888"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/k/PQs7L4jzkUFyHAv4i8UoshQBTrMWM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AwaTnxoaFiTNG/bL6cSdjKySXtA= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58667 Date: 2020-05-13T00:39:59+02:00 List-Id: On 5/13/20 12:20 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote: > > I agree that it would be troubling. If you could find that statement, it would > interest me. In https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ it says, "the code produces critically different results, even for identical starting seeds and parameters." Initially it was claimed that this was only true for multiple cores, but later that was retracted: "But Edinburgh came back and reported that – even in single-threaded mode – they still see the problem." -- Jeff Carter "I did not rob a bank. If I'd robbed a bank, everything would be great. I tried to rob a bank, is what happened, and they got me." Take the Money and Run 139