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> if you look at chemistry or medicine, there researches have good practices for managing the lab and respect them.

Their studies / experiments last years.

In CS/ML/Applied Math you sometimes have to write an experiment with a deadline next week. Excuse me if when I'm trying to scramble for a deadline at 3am I don't have my mind toward TDD or I'm not neatly packaging everything in a docker.

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Hey, I feel you - and I understand the pressure - i have been in that situation. The point is that this:

> you sometimes have to write an experiment with a deadline next week.

shouldn't happen. And yes, at the moment is like this - sometime you will have to hack. But if the all community start to push for proper practices, instead of just saying "is as it is" - there will be less papers, with more quality.

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