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Docs and resources from planning my PhD application onward
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Working Ideas #3

Open nniiicc opened 10 months ago

nniiicc commented 10 months ago

Keep open so that we can thread discussion about different ideas...

nniiicc commented 10 months ago

Peft and Dependency Churn

In the context of studying versions of a package we discussed the idea between versions what might change (besides code) are people and dependencies. Empirical software engineering has typically treated the stability of package dependencies as a proxy measurement for the hardening of a code base...We are interested in how this hardening happens in research software... In exploring this might think about, for example. a study that looks at Bits and Bytes config - peft