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- What makes software engineering for climate models different? (2010) http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/03/what-makes-software-engineering-for-climate-models-different/ 8 comments
- If we can’t make mistakes, we can’t do science. Science is a process that compensates for the human failings of the people who engage in it... The results of this process are more trustworthy than any other way of producing knowledge, precisely because the process is robust in the face of error. http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1615 6 comments science
- These people don’t like the message, and so set out to attack the messengers with a smear campaign based on hounding individual scientists for years and years until they snap, and then spreading stories in the media about what happens when the scientists tell them to piss off. http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1593 20 comments science
- The emergent properties of crowds http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=768 3 comments philosophy