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For a long time academics would only publish formulas and results as part of their papers - omitting source code and arguing that ‘the formulas are the only thi
by jarym 6y ago
For a long time academics would only publish formulas and results as part of their papers - omitting source code and arguing that ‘the formulas are the only thing that matter’.
Perhaps the real reason is the code typically smells of Swiss cheese.
From now on I vow to trust NO academic results of computer models unless source code is published along with instructions on how to reproduce outputs (or at least similar output!)