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Doing it yourself is certainly very important to be sure you get at least some understanding of what's going on, and often you are doing things nobody else know
by SiempreViernes 6y ago
Doing it yourself is certainly very important to be sure you get at least some understanding of what's going on, and often you are doing things nobody else knows how to do anyway.
But it sure would have been nice to have some professional support programmer around for advice on design and help out with the gnarlier bits.
- Ma8ee 6y agoProgramming was actually what I did best. I had been programming since I was eleven and also took some computer science courses at the university. In addition, the kind of programming that most physicists do isn’t really helped by the skill many so called engineers have. It’s not about organising large multitude of systems and their interaction (which is usually the hard parts today) as much as knowing things about efficient numerical packages and making sure that the computer’s finite precision don’t overwhelm your statistical uncertainties. And of course, to understand the model, with its limitations, of the system we are trying to simulate and efficient algorithms for that.