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Originally posted by minestrone View Post
We, the undersigned software engineers, call for any papers based on this codebase to be immediately retracted
The authors, including the prof, maintain that the code is intended to be stochastic in that only the results of many runs using different seeds should be used. But if an individual run with the same seed cannot be replicated (due to internal randomness, presumably using other randomisation techniques such as sampling the microsecond system clock) then how can they distinguish model randomness from random code artifacts or outright bugs? Seems a simple but crucial distinction.Last edited by OwlHoot; 10 May 2020, 17:40.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View Postand which produces wildly different results even when fed the same random number seedComment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
I’d like to see the unit/integration tests of that. I’m guessing there are none.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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For loop at line 61...
covid-sim/Bitmap.cpp at master . mrc-ide/covid-sim . GitHub
I'm kind of in the "coding standards don't improve code" camp. You can get a bad programmer to follow all the received wisdom on brackets, loop depth, testability but it wont make better code than a good programmer not following them.
But this code is truly fooking terrible. I mean horrific. Storing population data in a bitmap with colour for state...
/* red for infected */
/* blue for treated */
/* green for recovered */
/* grey for just people */
What is the colour for infected and untreated?
There needs to be a push to discredit this crap.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostFor loop at line 61...
covid-sim/Bitmap.cpp at master . mrc-ide/covid-sim . GitHub
I'm kind of in the "coding standards don't improve code" camp. You can get a bad programmer to follow all the received wisdom on brackets, loop depth, testability but it wont make better code than a good programmer not following them.
But this code is truly fooking terrible. I mean horrific. Storing population data in a bitmap with colour for state...
/* red for infected */
/* blue for treated */
/* green for recovered */
/* grey for just people */
What is the colour for infected and untreated?
There needs to be a push to discredit this crap.
HTHI am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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