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Posted on 29 November 2010

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New post 'Changing software a nightmare for tracking scientific data'

Posted by s.hettrick on 29 November 2010 - 2:25pm

Error_0.pngFollowing the recent Nature article "Computational science: ... Error - why scientific programming does not compute" spawned by the Climategate affair, there's another interesting article titled "Changing software, hardware a nightmare for tracking scientific data" from the Nobel Intent blog on Ars Technica. Again, it is the pace of technological advance, so important for making new discoveries, which is also causing us to have to question if we can reproduce our past results.

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