imperssonator

9 anni fadiscuss

I'm curious if you're aware of the Materials Genome Initiative. It's a group of materials scientists in the US who are very sympathetic to these problems and want to build out infrastructure for big data analysis of materials. We're based mostly at NIST, where most of the huge datasets are generated or stored.

imperssonator

9 anni fadiscuss

Thank you, seriously, from a very deep place, for taking the time to actually look at the code and write this. You are exactly right about how I went about testing it, at least in the early stages. It was always "test on the hardest edge cases, make sure they don't throw errors, move on to fixing another small piece". I actually found that making the GUI brought out most of the deeper, more bizarre errors and made it loads more stable.

There's a much bigger validation dataset that I used later on that I just haven't uploaded yet. In the latest iteration I have manually traced examples that are used for training and validation, which makes me a lot more confident in the results.

Adding an instructional video / workshop was one of the top things on my to-do list. I agree that that would help any potential users in a huge way. I did video chat with some people who used it, and they ultimately published a paper using it, so that was pretty cool.

In the end, though, this was just a semi-polished byproduct of the actual experimental work I was doing, so like others have pointed out, I didn't have to make the code nice to pass peer review or graduate.

imperssonator

9 anni fadiscuss

Scale of 1-10, how much does the spaghetti code from my PhD make you want to self-harm?

https://gtfiber.github.io

Follow-up: say I have a lot of free time to patch it up, write better documentation, unit tests, etc. What's the first, most value-added thing to do?

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