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Marker placement in motion capture is often intentionally bilaterally asymmetric because it makes automatic labeling of markers easier (with respect to side/orientation of the subj…

This is a common misconception, but you are actually talking about "replicability" which is "writing and then running new software based on the description of a computational model…

> The software was "reproducible" in that the same starting conditions produced the same output, but that didn't mean the _science_ was reproducible, as every study used the same s…

In Idaho, where they also have 65+ mph highways with traffic light intersections, they have the "stop light ahead" signs, but instead of having long yellow lights, there are lights…

> Code review during the peer review process Unfortunately, this would make the already laborious process of peer review even longer and require more work. Given the reality of aca…

> programmers on staff That is generally referred to as "research software engineers/groups" and are unfortunately currently fairly rare in academia, but are becoming more common. …

My perception is that CS is the only field which has generally normalized and accepted pre-prints in lieu of formally peer-reviewed articles. I can say that in my field (Health Sci…

> This article is aimed at religious people. I didn't get that at all. I think the author was trying to explain that the concept of the Sabbath (ie take a day of rest) has importan…

> constant, gnawing sense that you might not be doing things good enough While that is a very common feeling, Christianity at it's core, is supposed to be an admission of inadequac…

> From a lawmaking perspective, it can be construed as "we looked at the issue, and found low-level employees to be worthy of protection, but nobody else." I think a political pers…

While Jupyter is not technically an IDE, I've found it a more than adequate replacement for the MATLAB environment. When I used MATLAB, I didn't often need to use the debugger, so …