[lunactic]

I really love this approach. I am currently trying to do something similar for academics as part of my PhD project.

We have to understand that programming an algorithm actually is not always "easy". Imagine a new method presented in an academic paper that you would actually like to use. Re-Coding the whole thing that it works exactly the way presented sometimes is not possible (as not all implementation details are explained in the paper).

But imaging having a place (like Algorithmia) where researchers can upload there implementation (without giving access to their source code) and for others to access this algorithm with a very easy to use API would be a huge step forward in academics.

[minthd]

Why aren't academics just hosting in the cloud ?

[chatman]

Here's an initiative by Jimmy Lin to standardize implementations of IR used in Academia. Reproducibility of results is now made possible: https://github.com/lintool/IR-Reproducibility

[lunactic]

many different reasons:

- no time

- no incentives (publish and perish)

- no knowledge

- usage of very different programming languages

- no platform to do this

[zorked]

Why aren't they just publishing the source?