Re: [asa] NASA - Climate Simulation Computer Becomes More Powerful

From: Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net>
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 10:26:55 EDT

"idiot savant" perhaps?

Moorad wrote:

Long ago, Bernie Alder, who did very pioneering work in computer simulations of hard disks and spheres, referred to computers as fast idiots. I have yet to hear a more accurate description than that.

Moorad

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