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I have not looked myself, but ... people who reviewed the leaked MS source code remarked that it was unexpectedly clean with almost no profanity or inside joke
by beagle3 6y ago
I have not looked myself, but ...
people who reviewed the leaked MS source code remarked that it was unexpectedly clean with almost no profanity or inside jokes. I think this was mostly true for leaks from software companies.
Modeling code from academia, whether it has to do with weather prediction or covid prediction, however, appears to be (to put it lightly) subpar -- the covid 19 model that prompted the original lockdown was apparently using uninitialized variables and was non-deterministic. (And ... independently, was also completely wrong because of wrong assumptions - e.g., on 1-apr-2020 it predicted 95,000 dead in Sweden by 1-july-2020 if super strict lockdown is not enforced. The death toll on 1-july-2020 was 4,800)
- gautamcgoel 6y agoCan you please link to the code you're describing?
- asveikau 6y agoMicrosoft actually runs a program (policheck) that scans source for controversial comments. It automatically files bugs against the introduction of such comments. https://www.google.com/search?q=policheck+microsoft https://www.google.com/search?q=policheck+microsoft
- swiley 6y agoYou're comparing code written by software engineers to code written by scientists. There's a very well known "gap" in the quality of code produced by those two professions.