19 Hamming, Learning to Learn: Simulation II, 9 May 1995
Channel: Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
Date: 28/02/2018

We now take up the question of the reliability of a simulation. I can do no better than quote from the Summer Computer Simulation Conference of 1975, "Computer based simulation is now in wide spread use to analyze system models and evaluate theoretical solutions to observed problems. Since important decisions must relay on simulation, it is essential that its validity be tested, and that its advocates be able to describe the level of authentic representation which they achieved."

00:00 Introduction
01:30 Start the answer the question before you start doing any simulation otherwise all the work will be wasted
05:07 It is not that our simulation is necessary; how relevant is the simulation to reality
10:56 Simulations on Ecology
12:03 Underlying laws
15:47 Space flight simulation combining data
17:05 Sciences where by your own actions you can change the results it’s rather difficult
21:11 Checking up on accuracy
23:31 Getting the problem into the machine correctly
27:03 You are responsible for the decisions you make: is it relevant
30:20 Analog computers
33:58 You and simulation
39:17 End

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