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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by mehrdadn on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:08PM (#21236995)
Yes, I realize. I never disagreed with this. What you said is entirely consistent with the point I was making, which was that "100% of published research has bugs" and "researchers, even in computer science, are usually not skilled programmers" are the quite misleading claims to make about research quality.
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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by leereeves on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:54PM (#21238018)
It seems to me that this discussion has been about bugs that affect the research.

You're right that no one should care very much if there are typos in research code, or if it crashes on some input that it never sees, but the criticism here has been more substantial than that.

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