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comment by thundara
thundara  ·  4691 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
Easy counter, the implementation shouldn't matter. By having multiple people write different programs to perform the same process you avoid perpetuating trivial mistakes that distort the results.

I'm personally for publishing the source because I'm favorable to FOSS, but having an independent implementation verify calculations is just as important as having an independent lab verify experiments.