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I had the displeasure of working with this sort of "scientific" code. My experience is that anything this messy is just wrong. It's not about appearance. It is
by rich_sasha 7y ago
I had the displeasure of working with this sort of "scientific" code. My experience is that anything this messy is just wrong. It's not about appearance. It is so complex, messy, untestable and twisted that it is in the end incapable of giving the correct answer.
The overall conclusion may be correct, who knows, but based on my experience, I do not believe, at all, any numerical predictions of this code.
That does lend itself to retracting the paper.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoIf that is indeed true you should write a paper about it, obviously if simply checking the source code for poor formatting is enough to confidently state it produces incorrect results that would be hugely important.
- rich_sasha 7y agoDid you read the code? It’s not formatting or minor anal things like that. There are 10s of variables defined, functions, all without comment, cryptic names updating other cryptic names, stateful global vars updated promiscuously by everyone... This I take issue with.