The Computer Programme (7): Let's Pretend (Computer Modelling & Simulations)

Episode #7 of this series about computers produced by the BBC. Casted in February 22, 1982.

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

That accident investigator guy (12:54), that was superman for sure in his Clark Kent guise. 😃😃

[@matthewsimon115]

Curious choice of background music for Mac's piece about chess - Windmills of Your Mind.

[@shreevathsacs]

the intro music is awesome

[@SamHodkin23]

Better than that, it's Computer World by Kraftwerk.

[@mcskillby]

Skulls are not difficult to get.

[@barriewilson3052]

You wouldn't be able to out someone as a liar on to days programmes.

[@Odessia-ij5ys]

The modern program Is called pro crash

[@kurt44mg42]

@ 18:17 onwards - The extremely valid point made by Ian McNaught-Davis all those years ago regarding the obvious limitations of computer modelling seems to have been entirely lost on today's politically correct BBC insofar as they are now one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of phoney "climate change science" that is largely based on computer models attempting to forecast future global temperature changes - which we now know come nowhere near close to corresponding with the (real world) observable data (facts) going back over the last 20 years or so.

[@salty-as-heck9915]

@kie That's not an argument.... That's just simply a way to say "I'm too ignorant or lazy, or fragile, to have an actual conversation with someone I disagree with."

[@salty-as-heck9915]

@kie OK moron. See, it doesn't take much to play that game. And it's just that... a game. You are not learning anything and you are nowhere as clever as you think you are.

The models are getting better and better. Studies having been started in the late 60s, we've come a long way since in understanding climate change...and there's still a long way to go. That's what sciences are about !

[@actualbennett2245]

@ LOL! Computer models are computer models. Things like climate are far too complicated and beyond our ken to understand that way. And yet we are to believe the science is 'settled' and we have 'consensus'. And as for Neil Ferguson's computer models!! Well, I rest my case.

@@actualbennett2245 we've come a long way in the last decades. As I said before, models are getting better and better, and our understanding of climate science is progressing by the day.