One-Point-Five
It's not an option and we have little time left...
Of Feedback & Wobbles
Many years ago I came up with an analogy for poorly damped feedback loops. The feedback loop that prompted this frankly tart analogy was indeed a horror. Anyone who remembers shame-faced their first attempts at clutch control resulting in the good old kangaroo launch across the lights only to stall in the middle of the crossroads will have some idea of the kind of data transfer lag involved in said system. The analogy I made was that of a large blancmange. Untouched, a model of stasis and eminently stable and predictable; but prod the bugger and the resultant chaotic behaviour needs a very complex physical model and some very decent computing horsepower to predict its outputs, if at all. The system in question was a large and complex audio-visual display at what eventually became 'The Electric Mountain' in Llanberis. We were ultimately contracted to maintain the thing having been witness to and peripherally involved in its installation. Certainly not involved in its des
The problem for COP OUT & those who even bother to attend(!!) is that the "targets" that they set are WOEFUL and in the bloody future. They take NO notice of small Pacific Islanders who have NOTHING to do with the cause of this mess! Will they even notice when Bangla-bloody-desh goes under???
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks that this bunch of self-serving professional mouth-wash spouting twats will "deliver" lives in cloud cukoo-land! They can't even get the priorities right for the pandemic that's killing people NOW.
NOBODY picks up Johnson for his contradictory crap!
Plus there's got to be "inertia" in a system as vast as Gaia which means that unless we take steps to roll-back the melting of our glaciers NOW they'll keep melting. The modelers remind me of the saying: "They know the cost of everything but NOT the value" which is applicable IN SPADES to our Establishment.