Re: Forecasting note to Roger
Posted by EQF on June 14, 2007 at 03:07:44:

Hi again Roger,

As I said, we can gradually discuss this. It is in my opinion quite important.

You would not need to become an expert Perl programmer. What I mainly need is someone who can help with determining how to download and use the Perl programming modules that let you do things such as create charts. I have worked with computers for many years. But I am not a programmer by profession. And I have found that it can be difficult to discuss these types of details with professional Perl programmers. For example, they were horrified when I mentioned to them that I use “GoTo” statements in my computer programs.

Remember that several years ago we worked on developing a probability type computer program that was then made available to researchers in China by one of my contacts at an important disaster mitigation conference held in that country. Also, according to a news report that I saw a while ago, China forecasters are now developing a somewhat automated program that might produce the type of data displayed on one of my Web pages.

http://home.netcom.com/~edgrsprj/124.html

In my opinion, a number of leading earthquake researchers including perhaps ones in China’s State Seismological Bureau (SSB) are following my lead on this. And so, some assistance from you might be helpful to a lot of people.

If you can learn some simple Perl programming steps that I can help you with, enough to generate charts, then I would probably be willing to give you a copy of my latest program and my database files. You could then create some amazing chart generation routines, something which should actually be a lot of fun. When the program is running it looks like something you might find in a science fiction program where a computer expert (geek) sits down at a keyboard, punches in some commands, and the good guys are suddenly able to crack this or that villain’s secret computer code.

It can presently generate all kinds of datasets based on earthquake latitude, longitude, time, magnitude, level of destruction, and on and on. But the data are in a tabular form. And it is too difficult to visualize what table data mean. Real time charts would much easier to understand.

The main program presently contains more than 3500 lines of code. And it would be both impractical and impossible to translate it into TrueBasic. In theory we could use TrueBasic .exe chart generation programs that you created. But that would require a lot of additional time. I would have to explain what needs to be done. And we would constantly need to make revisions. Using Perl from the start would be easier.

Follow Ups:
     ● Re: Forecasting note to Roger - Roger Hunter  06:58:49 - 6/14/2007  (72011)  (1)
        ● EQF; a speed comparison - Roger Hunter  13:01:00 - 6/14/2007  (72012)  (1)
           ● Re: EQF; a speed comparison - EQF  18:13:35 - 6/15/2007  (72016)  (1)
              ● Re: EQF; a speed comparison - Roger Hunter  19:21:16 - 6/15/2007  (72017)  (1)
                 ● Re: EQF; a speed comparison - EQF  08:27:47 - 6/16/2007  (72022)  (0)