Posts from 2018-05
Scientific software is different from lab equipment
My most recent paper submission (preprint available) is about improving the verifiability of computer-aided research, and contains many references to the related subject of reproducibility. A reviewer asked the same question about all these references: isn't this the same as for experiments done with lab equipment? Is software worse? I think the answers are of general interest, so here they are.
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