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This is true. Though I realized I wasn't specific enough in what I meant. I was more thinking about the limited available time to students and that rewriting co
by privong 9y ago
This is true. Though I realized I wasn't specific enough in what I meant. I was more thinking about the limited available time to students and that rewriting code might mean the students do less science and so are less able to obtain a good postdoctoral position (or whatever position typically follows a PhD in the particular field).
- quantum_magpie 9y agoTrue, but the students that re-implement these codebases also might have a much greater understanding of the underlying techniques, theory, and the interaction between them; compared to others who produce more results, but use these codebases as black boxes. I think both pathways lead to equally good academic careers, they just branch out into separate paths.