Misha comments on Error detection bias in research - Less Wrong
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Fluid dynamics seems to be a much more serious field than the one I was doing an REU in. None of the standard papers I read even considered supplying code. Fortunately I have found a different field of study.
Also, you have persuaded me to include code in my senior thesis. Which I admit I've also debugged in a manner similar to the one mentioned in the article... I kept fixing bugs until my polynomials stopped taking up a whole page of Mathematica output and started fitting onto one line. Usually a good sign.