How much progress have you made since last time? What new ideas have you stumbled upon, what old ideas have you abandoned? What new projects have you started? What are you working on?
Once again, feel free to share anything you’ve been working on, old or new, simple or complex, tiny or huge, whether you want to share and discuss it, or simply brag about it - or just about anything you feel like sharing!
The monthly thread is the place for you to engage /c/programming_languages on things that you might not have wanted to put up a post for - progress, ideas, maybe even a slick new chair you built in your garage. Share your projects and thoughts on others’ ideas, and most importantly, have a great and productive month!
I keep developing my interactive climate model in scala. As it’s COP time of year, I try to fix code related to pledges (targets governments promised) and shares (what they should do if more equitable and ambitious). It’s not easy because they didn’t agree any template, so each country has different format, also because sometimes the model works bottom-up (from details to total), sometimes top-down (inverse, to reach climate stabilisation goal), so the sequence of function calls varies, hard to organise the interactions. Generally it’s much harder to make an interactive web tool where any unknown user may adjust hundreds of parameters, than to make fixed output to print in one research paper, unfortunately only the latter gets credit. At least scala makes such complexity manageable.