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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (224069)3/14/2007 12:39:16 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
What I was trying to point out, and what many don't understand, is that excellent aerodynamic codes that are useful for designing a plane, indeed, so accurate that you can build excellent simulators based on them, are not going to be able to provide any degree of accuracy when asked to provide local details at a particular instant in time at some specific point in turbulent flow. No can do. Turns out, you don't need such detail to model flight.

Same is true wrt to the weather. No amount of compute power is going to solve the issue of what exactly the weather will to in some specific spot at some specific time in the future (or for that matter, to use your example how a specific patient will react to a specific drug). However, with pretty good accuracy we might be able to say how weather is going to trend over the next 100 years, or how, on average, patients will react to a drug. They are two very different categories of problem.
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