section it's down to bad writing. That's my position.
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@o_guest Well, here is an e.g. I can just about comprehend this, but many wld struggle.I can't see how it could be explained more clearly?pic.twitter.com/0yJLekQVdQ
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I can understand mostly but I couldn't rewrite to make it clearer without hours of (unpaid) work. But I think it can be. I mean I
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have had some swathes of my writing in the past about the complex internals of models rewriten by coauthors. It's possible. Less
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is often more. The reader deserves and needs better.
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notwithstanding, I completely agree with you that it's very hard to parse for non experts in exactly those methods.
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agreed methods could be better written, but if the code is open (and well documented), then surely there's no problem?
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it's a huge problem to expect people to have to run your code to understand /trust your analysis in my opinion
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they don't have to run your code, just read it...
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reading code that's worrying. The coder can write more clearly than the author?
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also if I'm gonna parse some poorly written Matlab I'd rather run it 
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