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Plenty of good physics got done before modern devops came to be, too! Maybe the pace of advancement was slower when the best practice was to publish a cryptogra
by jbay808 6y ago
Plenty of good physics got done before modern devops came to be, too! Maybe the pace of advancement was slower when the best practice was to publish a cryptographic hash of your discoveries in the form of a poetic latin anagram rather than just straight-up saying it, but it's not like Hooke's law is considered unreproducible today because you can't deterministically re-instantiate his experimental setup with a centuries-old piece of brass and get the same result to n significant figures.
- mnl 6y agoAnd physicists have been writing code for a while simply because the number of software engineers with a working knowledge of physics (as in ready for research), have been trained in numerical analysis (as in being able to read applied mathematics) and then are willing to help you with your paper for peanuts is about zero. I don't understand why it is so hard to see that you need either a pretty big collaboration where somebody else has isolated the specifications so you don't need to know anything about the problem your code solves really, or becoming a physics graduate student yourself for this line of work.