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[jimmyvalmer]

> The source of truth is the paper.

Yes, although truth of the flimsiest kind. A lowly but wise code monkey once said "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

[rovr138 → jimmyvalmer]

Here's some code. Data is proprietary. There's no paper explaining the data, prep, steps to gather, caveats, assumptions, etc.

What now?

[jimmyvalmer → rovr138]

No need for the reductionist strawman. Some experiments cannot be reproduced for proprietary data. Those that can should be.