This little quote got into my eye, so I just had to look who did he quote:
May 8, 2020 - I have Reviewed Ferguson’s Code – It’s a Joke
I have been asked by a source in Britain to review the Ferguson model code for my opinion. Just so everyone has some idea, the original program used by Ferguson was “a single 15,000 line file that had been worked on for a decade” and by no means is this remotely sophisticated.
I presume he quoted it from here, I couldn't find an older piece with that text:
Notice link from the article leads to twitter, which has slightly different text. This is a giveaway that MA used this article as a source for that quote.
Author of that review claims he "worked at Google between 2006 and 2014", Armstrong was in jail back then. So that anonymous author is probably not MA.
So why do I point this out?
Well, because Martin Armstrong implies that it's his own review of the code in his blog.
It is not, he brings nothing new to the table.
Compare the reviews yourself, this is insane. It's seemingly the same review (except Armstrong's being shorter):
The documentation says:
The model is stochastic. Multiple runs with different seeds should be undertaken to see average behaviour.
The documentation even states:
“The model is stochastic. Multiple runs with different seeds should be undertaken to see average behaviour.”
“Stochastic” is just a scientific-sounding word for “random”. That’s not a problem if the randomness is intentional pseudo-randomness, i.e. the randomness is derived from a starting “seed” which is iterated to produce the random numbers.
“Stochastic” is simply defined as “randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.”
What it’s doing is best described as “SimCity without the graphics”.
Effectively, you start the program with what is called a “seed” number which is then used to produce a random number. Most children’s games begin this way. In fact, this is a version of what you would be similar to the game SimCity where you create a city starting from scratch and it simulates what might happen based upon the beginning presumption.
The Imperial code doesn’t seem to have working regression tests.
In programming, you run what is known as a regression-test
etc.
Wow, he didn't even try to hide it. He basically just shuffled the terminology and analogies.
EDIT:
I noticed Icke posted earlier today:
https://www.davidicke.com/article/569920/code-review-fergusons-model (Coincidentally, Icke is in Britain)
So possibly that is where Armstrong's "sources" (i.e. his agents who search for hot-topics they can leech off) first saw it.