Like Airbnb, but for algorithms?

Re:Like Airbnb, but for algorithms? by minthd on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @05:52AM (#10046954)

Why aren't academics just hosting in the cloud ?

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Re:Like Airbnb, but for algorithms? by chatman on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @07:44AM (#10047188)

Here's an initiative by Jimmy Lin to standardize implementations of IR used in Academia. Reproducibility of results is now made possible: https://github.com/lintool/IR-Reproducibility

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Re:Like Airbnb, but for algorithms? by lunactic on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @06:02AM (#10046972)

many different reasons:

- no time

- no incentives (publish and perish)

- no knowledge

- usage of very different programming languages

- no platform to do this

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Re:Like Airbnb, but for algorithms? by zorked on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @05:55AM (#10046963)

Why aren't they just publishing the source?

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