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To me, this is one of the reasons why it's good for people to do independent re-implementations. Academia doesn't value these highly enough.

Recomputation and reproduction are both valuable

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I agree completely. From my experience, because of things like the nasty omitted details mentioned in the parent comment, techniques are rarely reimplemented unless they claim pretty substantial improvements.

I think having a starting point of reproduceability would lead to more reimplementations.

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