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Uh, why would "profession coders" be able to check the work? Given "floating point is weird" articles appear here regularly, and the comments show widespread mi

Uh, why would "profession coders" be able to check the work? Given "floating point is weird" articles appear here regularly, and the comments show widespread misconceptions about how they work, I'm not sure adding random software engineers to the process would help in some way. Also, most research funding is tied to specific projects, and the amounts tend to be quite small.

mike_hearn 3y ago
The buggy model I reviewed had, amongst other problems, floating point non-determinisms. The average software dev is going to be better at this stuff than someone who only learned enough to make some numbers appear on screen, and are those numbers right? Well, hard to say, probably doesn't really matter.