Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences
Like some of the other ML/AI posts that made it to the top page today, this research too does not give any clear way to reproduce the results. I looked through the pre-print page as well as the full manuscript itself.Without reproducibility and transparency in the code and data, the impact of this research is ultimately limited. No one else can recreate, iterate, and refine the results, nor can anyone rigorously evaluate the methodology used (besides giving a guess after reading a manuscript).The year is 2019, many are finally realizing it's time to back up your results with code, data, and some kind of specification of the computing environment you're using. Science is about sharing your work for others in the research community to build upon. Leave the manuscript for the pretty formality.