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Walter L. Newton2/15/2010 7:26:04 pm PST

re: #583 windsagio

there it is:

I think the point that Obdi was making is that the data is inline with what it should be, and with other data sets, and thus presumably correct.

Since the original point was to show that programming errors was leading to incorrect data, this would seem to refute that point.

I will say it one more time, In 2006 Harris was tasked with creating CRU TS version 3.0. He tried to use the programs that were used to create version of CRU TS 1.0 onward and he found that the programs spit out bad data.

That would mean that the programs, spitting out data that was use to create CRU TS 1.0 onward, before 2006, were faulty.

That’s what Ian is complaining about, the sad state of the existing databases.


“OH FUCK THIS. It’s Sunday evening, I’ve worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I’m hitting yet another problem that’s based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it’s just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they’re found.”

As he said “hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniformed data integrity.”

As a programmer myself, that simple statement is scary.