Re:DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
by averagewall on Saturday June 03, 2017 @09:17AM
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This is depressing and typical of academic research that apparently has immediate useful application. They apparently just did it to publish a paper and will abandon it now. Nobody else is going to have the motivation to recreate their work into a usable piece of software. It's just one more unfinished project on the massive heap of unrealized and forgotten academic work.
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Re:DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
by TezlaKoil on Saturday June 03, 2017 @10:20AM
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Alas, spending time on writing production-ready software is career suicide in academia. Conferences and journals value novelty, and are not interested in incremental improvements.
If you're really lucky (EvoSuite [1] / Google), BigCompany will take interest in your project and give you some money. The expectation is that you'll hire students to improve your software, and then these students will go on to work for BigCompany.
Re:DeepFix: Fixing Common C Language Errors by Deep Learning
by munin on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:30AM
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It isn't clear that this has immediately useful applications, so probably nothing lost. Automatic fix projects are scary in industry. What if you had a co-worker that had 80% of their contributions rejected during code review? That coworker would be DeepFix.