has been cited more than 800 times, and its predictions inform hurricane forecasts today, Curcic says. Yet its code, written in the programming language MATLAB, was never placed online. And it was so poorly documented that Curcic had to work through it line by line to understand how it worked.
And she encourages students to view errors as part of science rather than personal failings. “Labs that have a culture of ‘people who are smart and careful don’t make mistakes’, are setting themselves up for being a lab that doesn’t admit their mistakes,” she says.
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