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Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil... by jbay808 on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:44PM (#24263210)
I guess the best thing would be that it uses a different random seed every time it's run (so that, when re-running the code you'll see similar results which verifies that the result is not sensitive to the seed), but the particular seed that produced the particular results published in a paper is noted.

But still, for code running on different machines, especially for numeric-heavy code that might be running on a particular GPU setup, distributed big data source (where you pull the first available data rather than read in a fixed order), or even on some special supercomputer, it's hard to ask that it be totally reproducible down to the smallest rounding error.

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