"In the respective words of four experienced modellers, the code is “deeply riddled” with bugs, “a fairly arbitrary Heath Robinson machine”, has “huge blocks of code – bad practice” and is “quite possibly the worst production code I have ever seen”."https://twitter.com/DavidDavisMP/status/1259421989648904197 …
Getting seriously different results for different seeds isn't even a sign of anything being wrong. In the real world, too, epidemic spread depends a lot on random events. It only took one person to infect the Diamond Princess; that easily might not have happened.
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Are you actually sane? Accidental randomness is a bug, not a feature. Why have a pseudo random seed if the result is non-deterministic anyway? I thank God every day that I work with people with higher standards than that.
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The proper way to do this is to do a lot of runs and report the average and standard deviation. (Which they tell you to do, but really the code should do it itself.) But with the transmissibility data being garbage, the output has to be garbage anyway.
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