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  • The plagiarism machine is so good at this
  • Validating the numerical correctness across edge cases on 250k lines must have taken twice as long as the actual porting itself.
  • Yes, I think that's what the paper is saying. The validation is the hard part, but the part that provides the value, because it's what makes the result actually useful.
  • Oh man I have to try this on all the legacy Fortran nuclear reactor simulator codes originally written in the 1960s
  • *necular
  • I thought that's what "legacy weather simulation code" was!