alt Hacker NewsIs it that easy?
Machine Learning papers, for example, used to have a terrible reputation for being inconsistent and impossible to replicate.
That didn't make them (all) fraudulent, because that requires intent to deceive.
Is it that easy?
Machine Learning papers, for example, used to have a terrible reputation for being inconsistent and impossible to replicate.
That didn't make them (all) fraudulent, because that requires intent to deceive.
What do you think it is about machine learning that makes it hard to replicate? I'm an outsider to academic research, but it seems like computer based science would be uniquely easy - publish the code, publish the data, and let other people run it. Unless it's a matter of scale, or access to specific hardware.