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The major problem in scientific fields is not this, but the amount of incompetence and the race-to-the-bottom environment which enables it. Grant organizations
by pas 3y ago
The major problem in scientific fields is not this, but the amount of incompetence and the race-to-the-bottom environment which enables it. Grant organizations don't demand rigor and efficiency, they demand shiny papers. And that's what we get. With god awful code and very questionable scientific value.
- jampekka 3y agoThere are such issues, but I don't think they are a very direct cause of the two language problem. And even these issues are part of the greater problem of late stage capitalism that in general produces god awful stuff with questionable value. E.g. vast majority of industry code is such.