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Rewriting from scratch doesn't help run more experiments, it slows things down.
by luke-stanley 13y ago
Rewriting from scratch doesn't help run more experiments, it slows things down.
- mikeash 13y agoThe point is not to run more of them, but to run them better. What good does it do to run identical software ten times? These computer-thingies are pretty deterministic. You're basically guaranteed to get the same result each time, but you have no idea if the result is because of the technique being presented, a quirk of the implementation, or just a bug.
- luke-stanley 13y agoOf course, access to source allows running better experiments! Writing the same algorithms from scratch is a clear waste of time! Please stop defending silliness.