Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by cozzyd on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:25PM (#26071087)

and depending on which MATLAB version they run it in, it might have completely different results if they haven't tested carefully...

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by willis936 on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:45PM (#26072846)

This is not my experience. Could you share an example?

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by cozzyd on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:01PM (#26072971)

well, this script, for example, gave me all sorts of fits trying to run on the then-new version of MATLAB I tried it on: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEJS_v1_0.html

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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by willis936 on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:14PM (#26073080)

Ah okay. I thought you meant numerical changes, which would be reason to not trust a language.

Mathworks has broken some legacy support in the past, but they have slowed down on that practice. They used to threaten that dll loading would go away “in a future version of MATLAB” but have since backpedaled on that. My biggest issue is writing code that leverages cool new features (especially timetables) but some people I work with never update their IDE.

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