Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil...
by searine on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:42PM
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>If not by unit tests, code review or formal logic, then what?
Cross referencing independent experiments and external datasets.
Science doesn't work like software. The code can be perfect and still not give results that reflect reality. The code can be logical and not reflect reality. Most scientists I know go in with the expectation that "the code is wrong" and its results must be validated by at least one other source.
Cross referencing independent experiments and external datasets.
Science doesn't work like software. The code can be perfect and still not give results that reflect reality. The code can be logical and not reflect reality. Most scientists I know go in with the expectation that "the code is wrong" and its results must be validated by at least one other source.