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by dandermotj 3117 days ago
This is definitely a scientific paper. Pretty much no scientific paper comes with source code and the majority of scientific papers are not reproducible without an entire university department of resources anyway.
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...and this attitude causes quite a bit of them to not be reproducible even when people try with the same resources.
> Pretty much no scientific paper comes with source code

Are we blindly accepting this as science now ?

Yes? Sorry you've been out of the loop so long but science doesn't cater to your idealistic ideas of what it ought to be.
My main thing about source code and scientific papers is that it would just be so easy to release the source code along with the paper. Even if people don't reproduce work source code would often help to understand it as often I'm a little unclear on implementation details, which source code would be able to greatly clarify.