Thursday, 20 June 2019

ENTRY 2. Strengths: My computer Strength and Weakness.

 Computer models can allow for quickly testing many different kinds of scenarios and conditions without needing to test all those possibilities in the real world. In fact there are some things that are infeasible to test in the real world.Weather modeling is a great example. We can’t really control the weather to any large extent, and attempts to do so would be expensive and likely unethical. Instead computer models are built up by studying historic data, and then refined as new data comes in, and as the model is used to make predictions that are then later verified.Weaknesses: Computer models are only as good as the data used to create them. And even if you end up with a really good computer model, it’s arguable that it would eliminate the need for practical testing. They can reduce the need, significantly even, but for computer models of events or systems that don’t have regular sources of data to verify against, you still need to expend resources on real life experiments to verify your model.Additionally really complex models may be restricted to only being able to run on super computing clusters, which may have limited availability. One also presumably needs people who know how to maintain and update the models as well.

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