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What scientific research values the most is references and being able to read them.

What tech values the least is the ability to access two years old blogposts

My concern is that pull requests are mutable, and the thread and code can be edited, deleted by the author or repo owner, or even disappeared entirely if the author gets banned by GitHub (like github.com/volth, whose account got shadowbanned since it changed from a real person to a bot account used by archive.is to scrape GitHub).

The author himself has stated upthread that this is not novel.

Papers are hardly outdated. But sure, having a reference implementation to go with it is good.