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This goes along with earlier notables associated with the study of the Ferguson model.
Martin Armstrong isn't only a trader and economic forecaster but he's brilliant coder as per his Economic Confidence Model. He was asked to review the Ferguson model here is his report.
I have Reviewed Ferguson’s Code – It’s a Joke
May 8, 2020
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 seriously doubt that Imperial College will want to go public with the code because it is that bad. To put this is some perspective, just the core to conduct basic analysis in Socrates is about 150,000 lines of code. It is so complicated, it takes a tremendous amount of concentration to try to see the paths it has available to it for basic analysis…..
The only REASONABLE conclusion I can reach is that this has been deliberately used to justify bogus forecasts intent for political activism, or I must accept that these academics are totally incapable of even creating a theoretical model no less coding it as a programmer. There seems to have been no independent review of Ferguson’s work which is unimaginable!
A 15,000 line program is nothing. I will be glad to write a model like think in two weeks and will only charge $1 millio instead of $79 million. If you really want one to work globally, no problem. It will take a bit more time and the price will be at a discount – only $50 million on sale – refunds not accepts as is the deal with Imperial College.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/i-have-reviewed-fergusons-code/