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		watwut on March 11, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975) You do not need to reimplement software to test it.

graemep on March 12, 2025 [–]

In general that is true.

In the specific case where you are experimentally verifying reproducibility you do need to.

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