Re: Bug In Python Script May Have Affected Hundreds Of Studies

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:14:23 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:09:14 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

> However, a lot of academics are not necessarily experts in programming
> and other tools that they require in order to analyze data.

Some worthwhile reader comments on this sort of thing in that Register
article. One point made was that, if the quality of your scientific
results depend so crucially on the quality of this code, then the
code is very much a part of your science and has to be treated as such.
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