You are simply skeptical for different reasons than I have.
As a software professional, I have been explicitly instructed to alter a program solely for the purpose of making the output more palatable for customers and investors, at the expense of real-world accuracy. And I did it, because as much as I dislike dishonesty, I also hate searching for new jobs and thoroughly enjoy sleeping under a roof and not starving.
Did the simulation that you wrote have a check for conservation of professional ethics?
You have a great advantage in that subatomic particles are unable to lie to you. Software developers have a capacity for deception exceeding even that of accountants, and we are sometimes asked to use it in unethical ways. One might think that there are reasonable limits, but we still have electronic voting machines that are mysteriously unauditable, and software trading agents programmed to automatically front-run institutional investors.
While the 97% figure was simply made up to mirror the ancestor post, it is possible that all those programs that are not accidentally wrong are intentionally wrong. In your case, you can rule out ill intent for the software you wrote yourself, but as there are potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at stake for this fusion "discovery", I would not discount it for any simulation that suggests this device will work.
As a software professional, I have been explicitly instructed to alter a program solely for the purpose of making the output more palatable for customers and investors, at the expense of real-world accuracy. And I did it, because as much as I dislike dishonesty, I also hate searching for new jobs and thoroughly enjoy sleeping under a roof and not starving.
Did the simulation that you wrote have a check for conservation of professional ethics?
You have a great advantage in that subatomic particles are unable to lie to you. Software developers have a capacity for deception exceeding even that of accountants, and we are sometimes asked to use it in unethical ways. One might think that there are reasonable limits, but we still have electronic voting machines that are mysteriously unauditable, and software trading agents programmed to automatically front-run institutional investors.
While the 97% figure was simply made up to mirror the ancestor post, it is possible that all those programs that are not accidentally wrong are intentionally wrong. In your case, you can rule out ill intent for the software you wrote yourself, but as there are potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at stake for this fusion "discovery", I would not discount it for any simulation that suggests this device will work.