vole VS 3d-reorganization-prostate-canc

I've posted a huge amount of academic code (I've linked to a small number at the end). I think you should, but it won't help advance your career immediately. However, I still think it's better for science.

What is useful is if you can produce code people can build on and do their own cool stuff with -- then they will cite you. However, getting something to a state where it is tested for all reasonable inputs, has some basic docs, etc. is a hard untaking.

https://github.com/minion/minion (C++ constraint solver)

https://github.com/stacs-cp/demystify (Python puzzle solver)

https://github.com/peal/vole (Rust group theory solver)

You're right, it is substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing. Being open about your work does make the attack surface much larger and more likely to be nitpicked, criticized, have an error found, etc.

But it is more honest. Whatever you think about the effort required to do this, there's value in honesty.

Here is an example of my own scientific work:

- paper [0]

- preprint [1]

- GitHub [2]

It certainly wasn't easy to get all of this done. But doing this can also be a guide for others. They get to see exactly what you've done so that they don't waste months on the exact implementation. They can see where maybe you've made some mistakes to avoid them. They can see so much of the implicit knowledge that is left out of your paper and learn from it. Your code isn't going to be perfect, but what paper is, either?

Everyone will be a critic, anyway, so make it easy to pick up criticism of the stuff you feel the least confident in and do better next time. You won't get better if no one sees your code.

[0]: https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/81/23/5833

[1]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.05.425333v2

[2]: https://github.com/LupienLab/3d-reorganization-prostate-canc...