{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37","id":181835410,"number":37,"title":"Suggesting a paper to replicate?","user":{"login":"ACompNeuroscientist","id":22714389,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22714389?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist","html_url":"https://github.com/ACompNeuroscientist","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-10-08T16:36:10Z","updated_at":"2016-10-08T16:50:29Z","closed_at":null,"body":"There are two highly cited computational papers from the same author which I have been unable to reproduce, despite great effort.  However, there are two problems:\r\n\r\n1) My attempts to reproduce them were in Matlab and I am less skilled with Python.  As a new faculty member, it would be impossible to find the time to learn Python enough to attempt a replication in Python.\r\n\r\n2) As an untenured faculty member in the same field, I am hesitant to attach my name to a replication attempt if the results are deemed not reproducible.\r\n\r\nThis gives rise to two questions:\r\n1) Can I suggest papers for replication, so that someone with better Python skills can try it out?\r\n\r\n2) Can papers that fail to reproduce a result be submitted anonymously?\r\n\r\nTo be clear, I am completely open to the possibility that the results in those papers are reproducible and the mistake is mine.  This is another reason I would be eager to suggest the paper for someone else to try.\r\n\r\nI would be happy to donate to the ReScience project (if donations are accepted) or perform some needed service at ReScience in return for someone attempting a replication of the papers."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/comments/252435294","html_url":"https://github.com/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37#issuecomment-252435294","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ReScience/ReScience/issues/37","id":252435294,"user":{"login":"ACompNeuroscientist","id":22714389,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22714389?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist","html_url":"https://github.com/ACompNeuroscientist","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ACompNeuroscientist/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-10-08T16:50:29Z","updated_at":"2016-10-08T16:50:29Z","body":"I suppose I might as well post one of the papers:\r\n\r\n\"Emergence of Complex Computational Structures From Chaotic Neural Networks Through Reward-Modulated Hebbian Learning\"\r\n\r\nhttp://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/3/677.short\r\n\r\nI implemented the model and it correctly produced the target outputs, but the weights did not converge.\r\n\r\nFor the other paper, I will more thoroughly verify my implementation of the model before posting it."}}
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