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by ujuj 2439 days ago
I just finished an internship at a research lab and was completely dazzled by the lack of control on the code people write.

The reasoning is that since it's research code that is used to get results only and not be used in a product, doing tests is not useful. I disagree completely: being sure that your implementation of your model or equations is exactly doing what is should is very important to evaluate your model, and yield correct results.