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> comes up with a lot of magic numbers that are there presumably because other alternatives were tried and those happened to work. The process of experimentati
by eirikbakke 2y ago
> comes up with a lot of magic numbers that are there presumably because other alternatives were tried and those happened to work.
The process of experimentation is what makes Computer Science "science"!
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoA central part of experimentation in scientific fields is to document the experiments in a very comprehensive way, including - which other options you also tried, but which failed - write down hypotheses that explain the worse results of the other options - write down hypotheses why the chosen options gives better results - ideally formulate testable predictions that these hypotheses imply - etc. Simply saying "other alternatives were tried and those happened to work" is not science, but tinkering around combined with magical thinking.