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I agree, but at least having implementations in the wild should bring more attention to an idea and scrutiny of that code than none?
by randomtask 16y ago
I agree, but at least having implementations in the wild should bring more attention to an idea and scrutiny of that code than none?
- jonhendry 16y agoIf the same results are obtained using different code (or subjects/animals/chemical batches) does it matter as long as the code is doing the same things? I get the impression that software types are inclined to put way too much significance on the source code. I'm not surprised the author of the linked item in Nature is a software engineer. I wonder, did scientists in the 1930s publish their scratchpads full of calculations?
- nervechannel 16y agoThere is a massive difference between a scratchpad of calculations, and a simulation involving thousands or millions of data points.