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ApostleMatthew | 7 years ago

In my field (computational biophysics), it's pretty common practice to post published code on a git repository. Code used to produce published results absolutely should be accessible.

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yiyus|7 years ago

> Code used to produce published results absolutely should be accessible.

Although I agree with this sentiment, I think that if this was a requirement we would not get much more code but much less papers.

umanwizard|7 years ago

I'm not in academia so maybe I'm being flippant, but what is even the point of a paper whose results can't be reproduced? Are you really advancing knowledge in any meaningful sense if someone can't repeat what you did?