Tag: supercomputing

• Tribalism in science

  

  Last week, a tweet by Roberto Trotta drew my attention to a recent paper by Simon Portegies Zwart that studied the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by running N-body simulations in different programming languages. The figure that caught my attention was Figure 3, copied below from the version of the paper published in Nature Astronomy.…

  Natalie Hogg

  September 29, 2020

  Academia, PhD

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