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		anonymouskimmer on Nov 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strategies for making reproducible research the no... Many scientists reading an article will seek to extend the work in the article, not duplicate it. If the extension fails then they may spend the effort to replicate the original results. Even reproduction doesn't solve the problem of theoretical errors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36230450

swayvil on Nov 25, 2023 [–]

Reproduction strikes me as the first significant step in extending and debugging. But that's just me.

anonymouskimmer on Nov 25, 2023 | [–]

Engineering and Science go hand in hand, but one is one and the other is the other.

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