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I never read papers like this so excuse my ignorance but are sentences like this the norm? "We had to incorporate logic for error handling in our code, given t
by acedTrex 3y ago
I never read papers like this so excuse my ignorance but are sentences like this the norm?
"We had to incorporate logic for error handling in our code, given the high-volume nature
of our API calls"
This just seems like an asinine thing to add to a technical paper. "We had to handle errors..."
- awestroke 3y agoResearchers are typically not great at software engineering
- extasia 3y agoResearch code has different values. If you throw away 90% of the code you used after a week you'd code differently too! The tricky part is that 10% of your code will become the basis of your thesis / postdoc;)
- itronitron 3y agoThat hasn't generally been my experience, unless you qualify researchers as 'university students'.
- mayank 3y agoIt is in industry, but you may be shocked if you read “research code”
- extasia 3y agoThis will probably be something that the reviewers bring up. Arxiv papers haven't been peer reviewed yet!
- hereonout2 3y agoIt seems a little superfluous to me, but the paper itself does a little too? Isn't this akin to publishing a paper on say mongodb vs postgres?
- itronitron 3y agoThat is possibly intended as a useful signal to other researchers that the team has a lot of hard won technical knowledge working with the API which may not necessarily be elaborated upon within the paper.
- nharada 3y agoI don't think this is unreasonable since the target audience is other researchers. When you try and reproduce this paper you won't think "wow there's a lot of API errors I must be doing something wrong".
- haolez 3y agoOpenAI's APIs error out a lot. You get a lot of 502 and other similar errors. This would probably affect someone trying to reproduce the paper. I think that's what they meant.
- dang 3y ago"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html