5 ms·
> identified a problem with the script Shitty academia code strikes again. It's sort of unfortunate that most of academic fields have turned to domain-specific
by sannee 8y ago
> identified a problem with the script
Shitty academia code strikes again. It's sort of unfortunate that most of academic fields have turned to domain-specific software engineering, which graduates are woefully unprepared to do properly.
- timwaagh 8y agothe real problem is this code never got peer reviewed.
- tokai 8y agoThe peer reviewers are properly not good scripters as well.
- SubiculumCode 8y agoIn this case it was not a coding error so much as the undocumented code. The code expected that the binary coding of sex would switch when training classifiers on males and females separately. My colleague left it the same, and so results were switched from what they should be.