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If your system is complicated enough (which can be the case for complex machine learning or NLP algorithms), an 8 pages paper (common limit for many conferences
by ogrisel 16y ago
If your system is complicated enough (which can be the case for complex machine learning or NLP algorithms), an 8 pages paper (common limit for many conferences) cannot describe all the implementation details but those implementation details might be very important to be able to reproduce the results.
Hence code should be both published, well documented and readable.
- Avshalom 16y agoFair enough. When I think of scientific uses of python I think astronomy, atmospheric physics, finite element analysis and linear systems using existing techniques... Existing techniques in general really. Fields where the interest is the data and the implications of the data. Fields like ML and NLP where the algorithm/technique is the thing of interest then yeah sure the code is important.
- ogrisel 16y agoI agree publishing datasets is very very important too. Often more important than code.