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Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code? by bumby on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:49AM (#29936838)
What are your thoughts on including pseudocode within the paper directly? It seems to clear up some of the ambiguities while adding brevity since it doesn't provide the somewhat frivolous details of implementation. I think it also limits some of the potential stylistic critiques.
Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code? by UncleOxidant on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:28PM (#29937304)
It's not a bad idea to include pseudocode, but my pet peeve is that there's really no standard for pseudocode. I tend to write pseudocode that looks like python. I did that in an internal paper for a group I worked in a few years back and the manager of the group made me change it to look more like C (complete with for loops as: for(i=0; i<x; i++) which made no sense to me).
Re:Ask HN: Should I publish my research code? by bumby on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:01PM (#29937763)
Oh, haha, then disregard my intuition that it would help avoid stylistic critiques :-)