Failure
Well, it looks like I lose.
We just got back from Fanime con. It was fun and worth an entry of its own which will probably never be written. But I came home to some terrible news.
Apparently my PhD thesis advisor used my code to run a similar case to a very imporant one in my thesis and got different results. Meaning that some undocumented nontrivial change was made to the code after my original results and before I archived the final version he's using now. And no, we have no fancy versioning system, and I did a rather spotty job of archiving earlier versions on my own. I've given him all the information and files I have on this problem in a futile attempt to resolve, but I'm pretty sure it's hopeless. My thesis is irreproducible and therefore wrong.
The only thing I can do now is start drinking heavily.
We just got back from Fanime con. It was fun and worth an entry of its own which will probably never be written. But I came home to some terrible news.
Apparently my PhD thesis advisor used my code to run a similar case to a very imporant one in my thesis and got different results. Meaning that some undocumented nontrivial change was made to the code after my original results and before I archived the final version he's using now. And no, we have no fancy versioning system, and I did a rather spotty job of archiving earlier versions on my own. I've given him all the information and files I have on this problem in a futile attempt to resolve, but I'm pretty sure it's hopeless. My thesis is irreproducible and therefore wrong.
The only thing I can do now is start drinking heavily.