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Re:Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess by jimmyvalmer on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:50AM (#26225131)
> The source of truth is the paper.

Yes, although truth of the flimsiest kind. A lowly but wise code monkey once said "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

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Re:Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess by rovr138 on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:16AM (#26225451)
Here's some code. Data is proprietary. There's no paper explaining the data, prep, steps to gather, caveats, assumptions, etc.

What now?

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Re:Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess by jimmyvalmer on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:23AM (#26225529)
No need for the reductionist strawman. Some experiments cannot be reproduced for proprietary data. Those that can should be.
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