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Any reference for that incident, i havent heard of it and am curious.

• Mountain_Skies 4y ago
  Good post on the subject. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146245
• Nursie 4y ago
  Here's the open letter criticising our entire profession for producing something as terrible as C++ and allowing scientists to get into trouble with it - http://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/05/18/an-open-letter-to-software-engineers-criticizing-neil-ferguson-s-epidemics-simulation-code/ http://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/05/18/an-open-letter-to-s... There are links back to other parts of the story in the text there. Effectively, they built a model that predicted some real worst-case stuff, and used that as the basis for advice they sent out to try and affect government policy in a bunch of places. When the code was finally released and examined, it was in a bad state - 15k lines in one source file, race conditions, single name globals reused all over the place. The results were trash. Then the blame started to fly.
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