Hacker News with Generative AI: Reproducibility

TinyZero: Reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero in countdown and multiplication tasks (github.com/Jiayi-Pan)
TinyZero is a reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero in countdown and multiplication tasks. We built upon veRL.

AI, Machine Learning, Software, Reproducibility, Research

209 points by fzliu 4 days ago | 27 comments

Zig Reproduced Without Binaries (jakstys.lt)
I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries.

Programming Languages, Software, Zig, Reproducibility

95 points by todsacerdoti 77 days ago | 6 comments

Statistical challenges and misreadings of literature create unreplicable science [pdf] (stat.columbia.edu)

Science, Statistics, Reproducibility, Research, Literature

67 points by luu 85 days ago | 52 comments

NixOS is not reproducible (linderud.dev)
Okay, sorry for the clickbait.

Operating Systems, Reproducibility, NixOS

112 points by udev4096 95 days ago | 162 comments

Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments (marimo.io)
One of marimo’s goals is to make notebooks reproducible, down to the packages used in them. To that end, it’s now possible to create marimo notebooks that have their package requirements serialized into them as a top-level comment.

Python, Reproducibility, Jupyter Notebooks, Tools, Software

37 points by mscolnick 134 days ago | 14 comments

PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for install reproducibility (python.org)

Python, Dependency Management, Software, Reproducibility

12 points by rbanffy 180 days ago | 1 comments

Pixi – rust-based package manager for reproducible scientific workflows (prefix.dev)

Rust, Package Managers, Scientific Computing, Reproducibility

24 points by droelf 183 days ago | 5 comments

Reproducibility in Disguise (fzakaria.com)

Reproducibility, Science, Research, Data Analysis

54 points by setheron 210 days ago | 24 comments

Lessons from the trenches on reproducible evaluation of language models (arxiv.org)