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The necessity of truly independent reproduction diminishes when the researchers/engineers can supply an implementation that does real work in real situations. A
by sjwright 12y ago
The necessity of truly independent reproduction diminishes when the researchers/engineers can supply an implementation that does real work in real situations. A very high bar of self-evidence, if you will.
True reproduction remains necessary to confirm that the stated underlying science is the cause, and not some other variable that might be legitimate and remarkable but undocumented.
- drewcrawford 12y agoProviding an implementation of a network protocol is hardly doing "real work in real situations". I mean, it ships the packets from here to there but so does every other implementation of every other protocol. The thing that is interesting or novel about this protocol as opposed to the thousands of other proposals is that it's supposed to be faster than the other proposals for a broad range of applications with a broad range of link topologies and across a broad range of software/hardware platforms. Of course, to establish that claim replication is completely critical.
- sjwright 12y ago> Providing an implementation of a network protocol is hardly doing "real work in real situations". In what sense is a functional implementation not able to do real work?