Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil...
by tgvaughan on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:04PM
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I write M-H samplers for a living. While I agree that being able to rerun a chain using the same seed as before is crucial for debugging, and while I'm very strongly in favour of publishing the code used for a production analysis, I'm generally opposed to publishing the corresponding RNG seeds. If you need the seeds to reproduce my results, then the results aren't worth the PDF they're printed on. [edit: typo]
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