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> It's the right thing to do for open and reproducible research.

Everybody here talks about how publishing code helps (or even makes possible) reproducibility, but this is not true, on the contrary, it hinders it. Reproducing the results does not mean running the same code as the author and plotting the same figures as in the paper. This is trivial and good for nothing. Reproduction is other researchers independently reimplementing the code using only the published theory, and getting the same results. If the author publishes the code, no one will bother with this, and this is bad for science.

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