Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil...
by konjin on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:04PM
(#24267222)
You can run the script multiple times and get a statistical representation of what the results should be. That's the point of science.
This reminds me of being in gradschool and the comp-sci people complaining that we don't get bit-wise equal floats when we solve DEs.
Having to re-implement a library from scratch for a project is much more valuable than running the same code in two places. The same way that getting the same results from two different machines is a lot more significant than getting the same result from two cloned machines.
In short: code does not need to be reproducible because scientists know how to average.
This reminds me of being in gradschool and the comp-sci people complaining that we don't get bit-wise equal floats when we solve DEs.
Having to re-implement a library from scratch for a project is much more valuable than running the same code in two places. The same way that getting the same results from two different machines is a lot more significant than getting the same result from two cloned machines.
In short: code does not need to be reproducible because scientists know how to average.