turingfan

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by turingfan 13y ago
It "violated" a trademark which was applied for long after the twitter account had been successful. If that suspension is ok anybody can get any (non trademarked) account name killed just by applying for a trademark.
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by turingfan 13y ago
The upsetting thing about this is that it makes twitter out to be anti-women. What other interpretation is there? That is, possibly somebody is unfairly targeting @girlgeeks and lying to twitter to get it suspended. But if so, twitter sho
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by turingfan 13y ago
I completely agree. A recomputation of an experiment is not ensuring reproducibility of the scientific result. It's ensuring reproducibility of the individual experiment. The analogy I have given is with cold fusion. If we could repro
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by turingfan 13y ago
Yes CDE looks very good though I haven't investigated in depth. The main limitation I think is that you need to have a recentish linux kernel installed. But if somebody distributes a CDE package then it will probably be easy to run
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by turingfan 13y ago
Thanks. I've had enough problems getting my own code working a few months later, never mind anyone else's, which is partly where this comes from. But the overall motivation is the same: how can we judge scientific work if we can
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by turingfan 13y ago
I've thought about this quite a lot because people often ask me. My main comment is that for one algorithm to be judged against another, the more different environments it is tested in the better, and we can get a deeper understanding
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by turingfan 13y ago
This is not being cheeky at all. A very fair point. In general terms one reason I am keen on recomputation is because I can see how bad we have been about things in the past, and I want us to do better. To answer your concrete question: Tai
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by turingfan 13y ago
For the sample chess problem experiment, we do also provide a tarfile or zip of the experiment directory, which is just a few MB. So if that works in your environment, you're good to go. If not there's the 400MB to fall back on
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by turingfan 13y ago
In gaming world it seems like it's always hard to emulate the last generation, and quite easy to do ones before that. (E.g. Xbox not emulating their predecessors.) It's not my area of expertise but I expect to see something simil
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by turingfan 13y ago
I do agree ... I'd love "recomputation" and variants to catch on. I also agree completely about distinguishing between recomputation and a proper reproduction. It's not what I emphasise in the manifesto but it is true t
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by turingfan 13y ago
Yes that is good point. There is one advantage to recomputability. Which is that - at least in the first instance - all that matters is being able to recompute the specific experiment for a paper. So testing as in "it works on other
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by turingfan 13y ago
Hi, this is Ian Gent, author of the Recomputation Manifesto. Many thanks for all the comments. If anybody wants to get in touch to work in any way on recomputation, please do! You can find me very easily on google. Special thanks to @lifeb