Page 1 of 1
newLISP tackles global warming
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:25 pm
by itistoday
Nice one cormullion! Top of HN too. :-)
http://unbalanced-parentheses.nfshost.c ... balwarming
Very well written actually. Are you going to eventually post what the intentional mistakes were?
Re: newLISP tackles global warming
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:59 pm
by cormullion
Thanks! Just a bit of topical fun...:/
No, I wasn't intending to publish my mistakes - they weren't very significant, and it was kind of a teaser to get people looking and thinking for themselves... :) I suppose the most obvious one is that, if you look at the source data, you'll see that some days are missing. Eg 14th May 1846. I'd used 'clean' to get rid of the '31st September' type of problems, but it was lucky rather than clever that the same code also eliminated the missing days. But is a missing value important? Should I have inserted a 'harmless' duplicate or another average... ? I just left them out, which is also wrong.
Also, the monthly averages are plotted in slightly the wrong place. How wrong is wrong, though?! :)
What's HN?
Re: newLISP tackles global warming
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:02 pm
by itistoday
cormullion wrote:What's HN?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1167421
Mind if I copy/paste your comments here to there? It looks like most of them didn't read all the way through. :-)
Re: newLISP tackles global warming
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:24 pm
by cormullion
Ack! :) It was supposed to be some 'fun with newlisp', until I added a serious last para... :)
But it's cool that a post about being a critical consumer should be criticized by its consumers. I like that a lot. As long as people have fun reading/critiquing/arguing - that's why writers write.
Feel free to take anything further...!