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(DIR) Post #AvSZkLlpDb42uu49CK by defuneste@fosstodon.org
2025-06-20T13:16:12Z
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@khinsen I liked that piece, in particular the critics of "just use [conda/docker]". What matters more for Alice and Bob "reproducing our results" or "understand how we are reproducing it" (and why we can't). In the same idea is understanding why we get different numbers important for Alice/Bob or is it more important for the CS fields?I want time to learn GUIX ...
(DIR) Post #AvSZkg9xPaFe9XVhaa by resuna@ohai.social
2025-06-21T15:56:22Z
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@khinsen If you can't identify why you're getting different results on different versions of Debian that means your understanding of your code or the problem is incomplete and you should resolve that before publishing.
(DIR) Post #AvSZkij7rnZU7ByogS by resuna@ohai.social
2025-06-22T14:48:06Z
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@khinsen I think this should be classified with all the rat studies that haven't corrected for what rats are really capable of.This guy actually did a study on what it took to keep rats from using external cues to run mazes and it involved freshly sterilized floors for each run to eliminate odor clues, building the maze on a sand table so vibrations didn't cue them in, and so on.
(DIR) Post #AwDOOMKcFJAavCEEN6 by colby@kosmos.social
2025-07-16T21:00:40Z
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@khinsen re:"Outside of science, approximately nobody cares about reproducibility […] More work is clearly required. But it will only happen if larger parts of the scientific community agree that it is worth doing […] My conclusion is that bit-for-bit reproducibility is something that we can solve once and for all and push into the infrastructure, such that Alice and Bob needn't worry about it any more."If only there were some sort of ubiquitous World Wide Wruntime.
(DIR) Post #AwDOOUQw7gym37FOKm by colby@kosmos.social
2025-07-16T21:03:31Z
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@khinsen it would be great if the people involved who are dispatching advice like "You can use Docker" would stop sleeping on the fact that Web browsers exist.But it is a people problem, through and through <https://hypothes.is/a/RPZFOmKHEfCaRYdQJYRdVQ>.
(DIR) Post #AwKXJm5HKWmT2Pf9hg by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-20T16:30:26Z
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@khinsen @colby That's why "Programmer at Large", a science fiction story on AoOO, speculated that super advanced computers in our interstellar future would often be running x86 emulators running Linux, because that would be the lingua franca, and they would be carrying centuries of legacy code. 😁
(DIR) Post #AwO1hGwULWa3VDYGsC by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-22T05:55:43Z
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@khinsen "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge, which directly inspired PaL, literally had programmer archaeologists on their spaceship. They discover the Unix Epoch in their interstellar spaceship code. 😁@colby
(DIR) Post #AwO1hJNVI3NX3aCsG8 by colby@kosmos.social
2025-07-20T16:35:27Z
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@clacke see @forrestthewoods's <https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/using-zig-to-commit-toolchains-to-vcs/>.
(DIR) Post #AwO1hKd8dPTkwMWsGe by clacke@libranet.de
2025-07-22T05:52:08Z
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@colby I knew that Zig is a better C cross-compiler than any usual C compiler, but I didn't know it supports C++ too. Zig impresses again!And having a toolchain that fits in your repo is very cool.@forrestthewoods
(DIR) Post #AwO1hRfAUGGIkgX5u4 by colby@kosmos.social
2025-07-20T16:25:43Z
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@khinsen there's a scholar in your field who has been trying to convince peers that that attitude is short-sighted. See "Why Computational Reproducibility Matters" <https://doi.org/10.59350/vpfzy-wrr35>.