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==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

• <1-> Computations are complex $ \rightarrow $ long running times.
• <2-> Datasets are large $ \rightarrow $ long running times.
• <3-> Humans have limited attention span.
• <4-> Long running times, limited attention span $ \rightarrow $ researcher lost track of context.

==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

<1-> Errors.

#* <2-> Software #* <3-> Input parameters #* <4-> Data #* <5-> Environmental (hardware, 3rd party bugs)

<6-> When errors are detected and fixed. Things need to re-run.

<7-> Errors $ \rightarrow $ computations have to be run multiple times.

<8-> Last result is not always the best and correct

==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

• Loss of context
• Repeated multiple runs
• Need to keep intermediate results

==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

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==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

• Interactive systems ** <2-> R ** <3-> Mathematica ** <4-> Matlab ** <5-> IPythonNotebook
• <6-> Powerful, but where do you keep intermediate results

==== Causes of non-reproducibility ====

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