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Nature 589, 344-348 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00075-2

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 22 January 2021: An earlier version of this feature erroneously stated that Paul Ginsparg migrated an early version of the arXiv preprint sharing system to the Internet.

  • Update 19 February 2021: This article has been updated with data from a survey that asked readers to weigh in on the codes selected in the Feature (see ‘Top choices for science code’ and ‘Overlooked software’).

  • Correction 08 April 2021: An earlier version of this story erred in describing the IPython Notebook development team and the size of the first version that was released.

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