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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by jnxx on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:31PM (#24262264)
And it seems that the people from Imperial College have done that with their epidemiological simulation. What critics claim is that their code produces non-deterministic results when given deterministic input and random seeds, i.e. that their code is seriously broken. Which would be a serious issue if true.
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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by jnxx on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:34AM (#24269268)
To be more specific, the critics claim the code would yield completely different results.
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