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And, as an academic myself, we should force people to save and publish their matlab scripts.

That is not to much to ask, but the academic system is full of perverse incentives. Doing good, robust work looses to good looking, quick and dirty all the time.

We need funding bodies to require publication of all these details, and we need to structurally combat publish or perish. Hire people based on their three best results, not on h-factor or other statistical meassures.




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