Documentation considered harmful (again)

Some months ago I read Samuel Albanie’s post Documentation Considered (Increasingly) Harmful. In it, Albanie argues that documentation quickly goes “stale” and doesn’t reflect the real state of a codebase, especially when it’s being frequently updated. Stale documentation is a real problem, but in my experience agents are simply not good enough yet at poking […]

A taxonomy of bad science

I have been reading the excellent Ben Recht on scientific waste. He writes: No one likes to admit it, but we need bad science to do good science. This is beautiful rhetoric, but not all kinds of bad science are created equal. Does Recht mean… I think there is a line where bad science starts […]