Welcome to science! Everything is so complicated that either you devote your life to your scientific specialty and the necessary math or you devote your life to understanding code. Few can squeeze two lives out of one, so something must give.
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There is so much great high quality open source software out there. Yet, AFAIK, very little open source science projects. Surely plenty of engineers would be willing to put time into a climate change model? Where's the gap? Why isn't this a thing yet?
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The incentives are out of whack. Open source in science means voluntarily increasing the attack surface against your publications. Noble ideas about how science functions wilt. Its not a dispassionate hunt for the truth: it is, primarily, a status-seeking enterprise.
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we actually need probably >>100x the computational resources and 10x the programming resources code-complexity on this, when we are looking to models to predict, in detail, the specific trajectories and outcomes we have to mitigate, vs just sending out "warning flares"