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To continue this line of though, distributed computation is hard problem, and that's just computers. Here, people have to do real work to statically verify a p
by munro 11y ago
To continue this line of though, distributed computation is hard problem, and that's just computers. Here, people have to do real work to statically verify a paper's procedure, which is very cognitive overloading. Imagine reviewing a PR and deciding with certainty if it will work or not. Even then they should also "recompute" the experiment to completely verify it. Of course add human error on top of all this.
It seems there's a problem here, the article made it seem anyone can produce a bad study for lulz, and get everyone's attention. What is more scary is people doing it for vested interests. Maybe there's something that could be learned from projects like BIONC, Wikipedia, or Bitcoin, but better science is going to cost more money, and require more cultural attention. Not sure how to fix those things :)