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I would not mind being out of work for a while.  My 'part time' job almost steals my time like I work full time.  It is not unusual to get six days in a row with five hour shifts being the longest. 

You talk about your post-retirement job as though you aren't thrilled with it. So why did you give up your real one to go for a shittier deal?

After Paul Allen died, his heirs did not have the same enthusiasm for Computer History and restoration of the old computers that Kdog was uniquely qualified to do.  They eliminated the position at the Museum.  Finding a cool job that was fun after it, not so EZ.

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I thought k-Dog was an EE? That seems like far more innate capability than being a history buff or messing with old PCs.

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I thought k-Dog was an EE? That seems like far more innate capability than being a history buff or messing with old PCs.

He is an EE.  One of the few around who still knows enough about older computers to be able to get them working again.  One of the ones he restored was an original Cray supercomputer as I recall from my tour of the museum.  They also had old IBM mainframes with the tape drives and an Apple IIe desktop with the floppy disk drives.  Old CRT displays, etc.  Just finding the parts to make them function was a challenge, then the old languages they run on aren't used anymore either.  Fun job for a tinkerer like Kdog.

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I thought k-Dog was an EE? That seems like far more innate capability than being a history buff or messing with old PCs.

He is an EE.  One of the few around who still knows enough about older computers to be able to get them working again.  One of the ones he restored was an original Cray supercomputer as I recall from my tour of the museum.  They also had old IBM mainframes with the tape drives and an Apple IIe desktop with the floppy disk drives.  Old CRT displays, etc.  Just finding the parts to make them function was a challenge, then the old languages they run on aren't used anymore either.  Fun job for a tinkerer like Kdog.

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It gave me the background to reverse engineer DYNAMO into JavaScript.  Dynamo ran the Limits to growth Model on an IBM mainframe. 

Work is proceeding well.  There will be a website where graphs can be generated at the touch of a button from model equations.  The original program was 10,000 lines of IBM assembly code.  600 man hours of labor.  I hope my effort will not require the same investment.  But beyond the code I also have to become an expert dynamic modeler.  So when all is said and done, I'll have a chunk of time invested no matter how I cut the cheese.

Duplicating the standard run is the first goal.  A user will be able to press a button to copy the standard run equations to a clipboard and then they paste the equations into a file.

Then buttons in the dynamo simulator load and run the file to produce the graphs.

I won't be making the procedure any simpler.  Making users create the equation file could mean they will get an idea of what is going on.  Which is why I'll endure this pain.

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I won't be making the procedure any simpler.  Making users create the equation file could mean they will get an idea of what is going on.  Which is why I'll endure this pain.

I think you should add some parameters like be able to break down "resources" into some categories, substitute energy sources and break down Pollution to categories like CO₂ emissions, groundwater contamination, microplastics etc.  Try to add detail to make it more realistic, and be able to incorporate new data like the falling fertility rate.

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Yes, but the first milestone will be getting it to run.

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Yes, but the first milestone will be getting it to run.

You have my full confidence!  Don't forget to make an App to run on your Android phone!  Sell on Google Play for $1 and we can do top quality high production value vids complete with custom CGI special effects and hire a REALLY HOT spokesmodel!  I suggest Anya Taylor-Joy from the Furiosa Mad Max movie. 

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Instead of getting a job, why not start your own bizness?  Sounds like you have equipment for a good metal shop.  How about turning out replacement parts for old engines and farm equipment?  You could set up a website and do custom work making assemblies for hard to find out of stock old items.  Or maybe make wind generators with that new design I put up a while back?  Maybe you could license the patent and do it legally, or bootleg to other doomers on the QT?

https://26011849.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/26011849/Aeromine%20Website/downloads/Aeromine%20cut%20sheet%20231004.pdf

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But beyond the code I also have to become an expert dynamic modeler.

If you have the code, was it annotated or obvious as to which equations handle the non-linear relationships between the various parts and pieces? Fossil use increases, knock on pollution effects occur, recycling kicks in to mitigate pollution, etc etc.

Anything obvious?

As far as what expert dynamic modelers do nowadays, if you find their explicit estimates of uncertainty on at least the input resource volumes, then they would have certainly be ahead of their time. And any annotation there would be a fantastic find.