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Re:What's Great about Julia? by mattpallissard on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:27PM (#33915826)
I used to work at an HPC research institute. While I agree with your sentiment most statistical software has bugs that effect results.

The panda's bug tracker stressed me out on a daily basis. I've also found bugs that effected results due to missing instructions between processor architectures, erasure coding in wire protocols for storage systems, and even a kernel bug.

But by far the most common was by the author of the model themselves.

Software has bugs, no exceptions.

Re:What's Great about Julia? by leephillips on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:38PM (#33916295)
Except TeX.
Re:What's Great about Julia? by eesmith on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:35AM (#33919827)
FWIW, what might be the last bug in TeX was reported 22 October 2020. https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf