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It is a bit jarring at first to in a tiny social network, but is also refreshing to not chase the dopamine hit of endless scrolling and needless searches.
(I mean I still do as a force of habit but there is nothing)

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Threats of a Replication Crisis in Empirical Computer Science

"While computer science research has increased its use of experimental methods, the scientific community's faith in these methods has been eroded in several areas, leading to a 'replication crisis' in which experimental results cannot be reproduced and published findings are mistrusted. [...]"

m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/

#science #replicationCrisis #reproducibility #openscience #publishing #openaccess

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Thanks for the rec.
I watched the video.
Useful commentary with avenues for discussion.
Tho I am not 100% convinced by Open-source-is-the-magic bullet argument.
Facebook could release its code tomorrow and won't make much of a difference, since their advertising model will still make them money.

@Wetrix
I knew a lot of it even before watching and yet the presentation and the interviews made a big impact on me.
That's what prompted me to revisit

All of you who are building โ€alternatives to goodreadsโ€!

Please keep in mind that
- not all #books are published in english and
- there are translations of books and
- people may read several different language versions of the same book, even at the same time.

Brought to you by a #goodreads user who can't mark two different language versions of a book as being โ€currently readingโ€ simultaneously.


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Hoping to have rich, productive and kind conversations on this platform ๐Ÿ˜Š

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