Code for Thought
122 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to Code for Thought, the community podcast for research software engineers and researchers who code. Languages: English, German
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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Property Based Testing - Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso
April 24, 2024 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBProperty based testing can help you make your tests more effective and your code more robust. Together with my guests Duncan McGregor and Nicholas del Grosso we talk about what property based testing is and in particular go into one widely used implementation for Python - the Hypothesis library. Here are a few links: https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-testing/ from David MacIver (creator of hypothesis) about the benefits of property based testing https://hypothesis...
[EN] The making of a diveRSE community - Jeremy Cohen, Michael McLeod
April 22, 2024 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIn this episode I talk about two different aspects of diversity in tech and in research software engineering in particular. First we hear from Jeremy Cohen, who has been running the DiveRSE seminar series since 2022 and is the co-author on a paper on the subject (link below). Then I talk to Michael McLeod, who is telling us about the role LGBTQ+ people play in tech. Links https://diverse-rse.github.io the DiveRSE seminar series https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01712 the paper Understanding Equ...
[EN] Make computing GREENER - Loïc Lannelongue
April 15, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBHow can we make computing environmentally more sustainable. Meet Loïc Lannelongue, who - together with Michael Inouye - created the Green Algorithms project. Amongst other things, it allows us to estimate the carbon footprint of our algorithms and computing jobs. The project has been awarded the HDR UK Susannah Boddie Award for Impact of the Year in March 2024. Links: https://www.green-algorithms.org the home page of Green Algorithms where you also find the link to their estimation tool...
[EN] Lecturers without Borders - Eugenia Covernton
April 08, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBLecturers without Borders wants to bring scientists and school students together. It is an exciting project and for this episode I talked to Eugenia Covernton, who's leading the non-profit organisation. So, if you are a travelling researcher or RSE, or even if you want to do it from the comfort of your home, LeWiBo give you an opportunity to share your work in schools. https://www.lewibo.org The web-site lists a number of partnering organisations like https://www.europlanet-society.org/e...
[EN] scikit-learn: Software is People
April 01, 2024 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBscikit-learn is a highly successful and popular Python library for data science and machine learning. It is open source and has a large contributor base. I had the pleasure to meet with some of the scikit-learn team to talk about how they got involved and how it is possible to run an Open Source project of this size and scale. If you like to get involved, here are a few links to their home page and GitHub repository. https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html scikit-learn homepage http...
[EN] Building Data Science Teams - Alan Turing Institute Skills and Policy Award - Part I
March 26, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode I meet with Dr Emma Karoune and some of her colleagues from The Alan Turing Institute in London https://www.turing.ac.uk/ to talk about who and what skills we need to create and run modern data science teams. Emma is one of the awardees of the Skills and Policy award at the Turing. https://www.turing.ac.uk/skills-policy-awards-20232024 The Skills and Policy Award by The Alan Turing Institute https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/programme/bridgeai/ The UKRI Bridge AI programme People int...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: the Citation File Format - Jason Maassen
March 21, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBThis ByteSized RSE episode talks about the Citation File Format (CFF) https://citation-file-format.github.io/ , created in 2017 to promote the inclusion of software in scientific papers. My guest is Jason Maassen from the eScience Center in the Netherlands. For answers to the quiz questions, email: mailto:[email protected] Background: Early scientific Journals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_des_sçavans and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal...
[DE] deRSE24 - Die RSE Konferenz in Würzburg
March 19, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBDie diesjährige Konferenz des deRSE Vereins in Deutschland fand in Würzburg zwischen dem 5.März und 7.März statt. Es gab, wie auch schon letztes Jahr viele interessante Schwerpunktthemen, wie z.B. Continuous Integration oder Teaching RSE. In dieser Folge hört Ihr von verschiedenen TeilnehmerInnen der Konferenz: John Arnold RWTH Aachen - 3min06s Jan Küster Universität Bremen - 7min7s Uwe Schmitt und Franziska Oschmann - 15min12s Guido Juckeland - 21min30s Heidi Seibold - 27min38s Flori...
[EN] Crossing the Language Barrier - Yanina Saibene
March 12, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBYanina Saibene is well known in the R community and from her work e.g. in the Software Carpentries. In this episode we talk about what it takes to localise and translate training programs and indeed software applications and packages. https://yabellini.netlify.app/about/ a bit about Yanina from her home page https://carpentries.org/ the Carpentries home page https://rladies.org R Ladies https://latin-r.com Latin R https://ropensci.org rOpenSci https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini Yanina...
[EN] From Rock Climbing to AI - Janan Arslan
March 05, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBI had the pleasure of meeting with Janan Arslan in Paris in 2023. Janan has a fascinating career path that involved not only forensics but also various roles in AI in medicine, which is what she now does at the Brain Institute in Paris. https://www.inria.fr/fr/aramis The Aramis Lab in Paris https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/3mt/video-archive/2020-grand-final Janan has been a finalist in the 3 minute Thesis challenge https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janan-Arslan Her profile ...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: User Experience Design - Maeg Doherty
February 29, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBIn this session we talk about the importance of user experience and user experience design. My guest is Meag Doherty, who works for the National Institutes of Health in the USA and is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/meag-doherty Meag’s Fellow profile at the SSI. Check out the link to her contributions on the same page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmM0kRf8Dbk The YouTube page to the full clip from Donald Norman, ...
[DE] Es tut sich was im RSE-Land - mit Beiträgen vom deRSE, GI und NFDI
February 27, 2024 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBIn dieser Folge hören wir Beiträge vom Vorstand des Vereins zur Forschungssoftwareentwicklung deRSE e.V., Anna-Lena Lamprecht und der RSE Arbeitsgruppe in der Gesellschaft für Informatik und Bernd Flemisch und Martin Hammitzsch über deren Arbeit im NFDI. Denn, es tut sich so einiges im Bezug auf Forschungssoftware im deutschsprachigen Raum. Interview mit dem deRSE e.V. Vorstand 1'46" Interview mit Anna-Lena Lamprecht (Gesellschaft für Informatik) 22'12" Interview mit Bernd Flemisch und...
[EN] Open Source Projects & Communities - Chris Holdgraf from 2i2c
February 20, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode I talk to Chris Holdgraf, executive director of https://2i2c.org about what it takes to manage and run open source organisations. Open source projects come with unique challenges (and opportunities) and I think Chris brings important insights from his experience at 2i2c. Some links: https://chrisholdgraf.com Chris' home page https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public 'Working in Public' by Nadia Eghbal, mentioned in this episode Support the Show. Thank you for listening...
[EN] Make Science Reproducible (Again) - Rima-Maria Rahal, Peter Steinbach
February 13, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBPeople are talking about the "Reproducibility Crisis" in science. Good to see, that there are researchers that do something about it. Meet Rima-Maria Rahal and Peter Steinbach from the German Reprodicibility Network. I met Rima and Peter in 2023 to talk about why reproducibility is important, what we as researchers can do to make our work more reproducible and what the network is doing in Germany https://reproducibilitynetwork.de The German Reproducibility Network homepage https://www.u...
[EN] Host Your Own Story on Code for Thought - Selina Aragon
February 08, 2024 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.33 MBIf you want to co-host an episode on Code for Thought get in touch. per email on mailto:[email protected] RSE Slack channels in the UK (@code4thought or @piddie) or the US (@Peter Schmidt) Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought It's great fun, as my co-host Selina tells us in the short interview. Support the Show. Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: ...
[EN] Learning How to Learn (and Teach) - Barbara Oakley
February 06, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBWith her online course 'Learning How to Learn' (and companion book 'A Mind for Numbers'), Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor in engineering, reached many of us who - like myself - wanted to improve the way we learn, adopt new technologies or get into complex subject areas. Many researchers, PhD students, post-docs teach themselves how to program while trying to get their thesis or work done. But how do you go about it. I hope this interview gives some food for thought on how to get b...
[DE] Eine RSE Arbeitswelt für Alle - Bernadette Fritzsch und Ruth Schöbel
January 30, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSoftwareentwicklung, auch im Forschungsbereich ist immer noch eine Männerdomäne. Aber es gibt inzwischen viele Bestrebungen den Zugang zu Stellen und Berufsaussichten für Frauen und andere unterrepräsentierte Gruppen zu öffnen. In dieser Folge hören wir von zwei Vertreterinnen: Bernadette Fritzsch vom Alfred Wegener Institut in Bremerhaven und Ruth Schöbel vom Forschungszentrum in Jülich. https://womeninhpc.org Women in HPC https://womeninhpc.org/membership/chapters-and-affiliates/chapte...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Easy Does It - with easybuild - Jörg Saßmannshausen
January 25, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIt's time for a ByteSized RSE episode - and this time on the subject of 'easybuild' a tool to help you build and install software on high performance computers (HPC). My guest to help me with presenting easybuild is Jörg Saßmannshausen from Imperial College in London, UK. NOTE: this is an entry level discussion. And there is a QUIZ as well. If you know the answer to the two following questions email them to [email protected] : What is the main reason to use a tool like EasyBuild ra...
[EN] Patterns in Science And Medicine - Veronika Cheplygina
January 23, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBMy guest in this episode is Veronika Cheplygina, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. We talk about machine learning and AI in medicine and Veronika brings a badly needed realism to the discussions. In the latter part of our conversation we also focus on the difficult and sometimes frustrating aspects of academic life. I enjoyed my discussion with Veronika and I hope you will, too. https://veronikach.com Veronika's home page https://dasya.itu.dk The Data-Int...
[EN] Net Zero and Computing? Part I: Wim Vanderbauwhede and John Wernvik
January 16, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome back to a new season of Code for Thought. The subject of this episode is energy consumption in computing. My guests are Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and John Wernvik (Eco Datacentre, Sweden). This is a big subject area and there will be more on this later this season - so watch out. Links: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wim/ Wim's page at Uni Glasgow https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam9744 There is room at the top - paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.0664...
[DE] Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - Konrad Förstner
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSo, das ist jetzt die letzte Folge der 6. Serie von Code for Thought und diesmal geht es um Open Science. Mein Gesprächspartner ist Konrad Förstner von der TH Köln, den einige von Euch vielleicht vom Open Science Radio her kennen, das er mit Matthias Fromm schon seit längerer Zeit betreibt. Euch Allen ein paar schöne und hoffentlich erholsame Tage. Ich mache eine kleine Pause und es geht dann im Januar 2024 mit der 7. Folge des Podcasts weiter. Hier noch ein paar Links zu dieser Folge: ...
[EN] Open Data without Friction - Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev
December 19, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this last (English) episode of Season 6, I'll be talking to Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev from the Open Knowledge Foundation. Sara and Evgeny work on a project called Frictionless Data, which aims to make working with (open) data easier and more seamless. Like many organisations around open source and open data they invite contributions from engineers. Some links for the Open Knowledge Foundation and others mentioned in this episode: https://okfn.org Open Knowledge Foundation home page ...
[EN] Being a Research Software Engineer in France - Ghislain Vaillant
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBI met Ghislain Vaillant for our interview at the Brain Institute at the Pitié Salpetrière Hospital in Paris. Ghislain has an interesting career path that took him from an RSE role in the UK to the private sector and back to academia (in France) again. Our conversation touches on differences in RSE roles between countries (e.g. UK/France) and how big events shape our careers. Some links: https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/ The Brain Institute https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/team/t...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn this episode of ByteSized RSE I talk about Django, a Python based web development framework that was developed in the mid 2000s. My guests are Tom Couch from the University College London and Max Albert from Southampton University. Links: https://www.djangoproject.com the entry point for Django with tutorials and references https://www.dj4e.com Django for you tutorial site https://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x the Book Two Scoops of Django by David Greenfeld https:...
[EN] Culture of Women in Tech (Diversity in Tech, Part 2) - Mariann Hardey
December 05, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBIn the second part of the diversity in the RSE community series, I am talking to Mariann Hardey. Mariann is an associate professor at Advanced Research Computing of the University of Durham, UK. She also published a book called 'The Culture of Women in Tech' in 2020. In our conversation we don't only talk about the barriers women and other underrepresented groups in tech still face, but also what is and can be done about it. This episode is sponsored by the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germ...
[DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer
November 28, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBWas alt und gebraucht ist muss nicht immer schlecht sein. So Markus Harrer von der Firma InnoQ. Markus erklärt uns wie man Legacy Software erhalten kann und warum "Boring Software" eigentlich ganz gut ist. Und wenn man schon erneuern muss, sollte man sich über die Vor- und Nachzüge im Klaren sein. Markus zieht durch die Lande mit Vorträgen und Seminaren. Unten eine kleine Auswahl von Links. Markus Handle auf Mastodon und Twitter is @feststelltaste. Seine Webseite ist https://markusharrer.d...
[EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune
November 21, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBI met with Nathan Cassereau and Hatim Bourfoune from IDRIS, a national computing centre for the CNRS (the national research centre in France). Nathan and Hatim work on the Bloom project, an open source large language model, which was created using the Jean-Zay supercomputer. Thanks to Nathan and Hatim I had the chance to take a look at the machine after our interview. LLMs and AI/ML in general have created a lot of excitement. Hatim said he got into AI/ML himself, and he highlighted a Cour...
[EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit
November 14, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBFinally! After a failed attempt in 2022, I managed to visit Simon Pinches and Olivier Hoenen at ITER this time. ITER is the international thermonuclear energy reactor - and its aim is to build a nuclear fusion reactor that produces a surplus of energy in a sustainable manner. And can be used as a blueprint for future power stations. Simon and Olivier gave me the grand tour before we sat down and discussed their work. It was a truly impressive tour - in every way. No less impressive is the w...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?
November 09, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBWelcome back to Season 2 of ByteSized RSE, a program supported by Universe-HPC http://www.universe-hpc.ac.uk . The subject for this session is: Software Estimation and some ideas on how to approach it. Things mentioned in this episode: The Mythical Man Month, Frederick Brooks, 1975, Software Estimation, Steve McConnell, https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Software_Estimation/U5VCAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 https://rclayton.silvrback.com/software-estimation-is-a-losing-game a critical view ...
[EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago
November 07, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBThis episode takes us to Chicago, the host for the first ever conference of Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the US https://us-rse.org/usrse23/ . The conference was organised by the US RSE association https://us-rse.org and was sold out. In this report I'll talk to a number of participants, presenters and organisers. In order of appearance: Mary Anne Leung Founder and President of the Sustainable Horizon's Institute https://shinstitute.org Joseph Tuccillo from Oak Ridge National...
[DE] Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur NFDI - mit York Sure-Vetter
October 31, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBDie Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - NFDI - hat die grosse Aufgabe Forschungsprojekte, deren Daten und Anwendungen miteinander zu vernetzen. Der Verein wird geleitet von Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, mit dem ich über die Aufgaben und Herausforderungen des NFDI spreche. Links https://www.nfdi.de/ Das Hauptportal des NFDI https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2023 Die erste Konferenz - CoRDI 2023 - ausgetragen im September 2023 Auf Mastodon: @[email protected] https://twitter.com/NFDI_de Auf Tw...
[EN] AI at Helmholtz - Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach
October 23, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBMy guests for this episode are Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. Helmholtz is the largest research association in Germany and has created a unit around all things AI and machine learning recently. Marie and Peter talk about their contributions and how AI/ML can help in research and science. Links https://www.helmholtz.ai Helmholtz AI https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/computational-health-center Helmholtz Centre in Munich (Marie) https://www.hzd...
[EN] Diversity in Tech Part 1: Women in HPC
October 16, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn this first episode on the theme of diversity in tech I talk to Cristin Merritt and Elsa Gonsiorowski from Women in HPC. The aim is to raise awareness and give a voice and visibility to women and other underrepresented groups in high performance computing, as Cristin and Elsa explain during our conversation. Links: https://womeninhpc.org The main website for Women in HPC https://n8cir.org.uk/news/diversity-checklist/ A proposed checklist for recruitment re diversity and inclusion fro...
[DE] Konferenzbericht: Unkonferenz deRSE Jena September 2023
October 11, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBIn dieser Sonderausgabe berichte ich von der Unkonferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins, die zwischen dem 26. und 28. September in Jena stattfand. Ca 60 Teilnehmer*innen trafen sich, um über Themen zu diskutieren, die sie in ihrem Alltag bewegen. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung traf ich mich mit mehreren Organisatoren und Teilnehmern um über ihre Eindrücke und Beiträge zu sprechen. https://un-derse23.sciencesconf.org Der link zur Veranstaltung https://theconversation.com/re-designing-the-confe...
[EN] Where is all the code Part 2: eScience Centre (NL) and Helmholtz (DE)
October 09, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn this second report on research software archives and directories I am talking to Jason Maassen from the eScience Centre in the Netherlands and Christian Meessen from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. The eScience Centre developed the Research Software Directory (RSD) to show the impact software has on research. Researchers who code can register their software with the directory from all over the work. Helmholtz has adopted the RSD platform to produce a Helmholtz specific version an...
[EN] Hidden no more - The HiddenREF Festival Sep '23
October 02, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBThe HiddenRef https://hidden-ref.org in the UK is an initiative to push for considering a wider range of research outputs than publications, e.g. software and data. The members of the initiative organised an event on 21 September 2023 to bring together academic institutions, funders and publishers. The aim is to increase the amount of non-publication output for the next research assessment in the UK in 2028. https://hidden-ref.org/festival-of-hidden-ref/ The HiddenREF festival page In thi...
[DE] Reproduzierbarkeit und Physik - mit Julian Lenz
September 25, 2023 23:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBJulian arbeitet an der Universität Swansea in Wales in Grossbritannien. Zusammen mit Kollegen bemüht er sich darum, Ergebnisse von Simulationen und Berechnungen reproduzierbar zu machen. Erstaunlicherweise, sind wenige der Papers und Ergebnisse auch heute noch reproduzierbar und Julian und das Team bemühen sich darum das zu ändern. In unserem Gespräch geht es auch ein wenig um den Physik Zusammenhang - der sogenannten Quantenchromodynamik (QCD). Dazu ein paar Einführungslinks https://de....
[EN] Conference Report: UK RSECon 2023 in Swansea
September 18, 2023 23:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBAnd it's this time of the year again, when the RSE communities meet for their annual gathering. The UK RSE Society held its annual conference in the Welsh city of Swansea this year. And in this episode you'll hear from a range of different participants and presenters. Here they are in the following order Jamie Quinn (University College London and trustee of the Society until this year) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/advanced-research-computing-centre Gael Varoquaux from...
[EN] Where is all the code, Part 1: Software Heritage
September 11, 2023 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBI had the great pleasure to meet with Morane Gruenpeter and Benoît Chauvet from Software Heritage in Paris in 2023. Software Heritage aims to help preserve and archive software, not only for research but also for the private sector. Unlike research software directories (from whom we will hear later this season), Software Heritage archives the actual code. Morane and Benoit take us through what's involved in that. Links: https://www.softwareheritage.org/ the main Software Heritage portal...
[EN] Hello Fortran!
September 04, 2023 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBDespite the fact that Fortran has been around since the 1950s, it remains a very relevant programming language today and has an active community of keen engineers. In this episode I'll take a sweep from the origins of Fortran, how to deal with legacy (Fortran 77), how the language evolved to modern day use cases of Fortran. In the course of the episode you'll hear from Thomas Clune (NASA, US), Wim Vanderbauwhede (Uni. Glasgow, UK), Milan Curcic (Uni. of Miami, US) and Ondrej Certik (GSI Tech...
[EN] Teaser: First US RSE conference in Oct 2023 - with Sandra Gesing
August 21, 2023 23:00 - 11 minutes - 7.59 MBLet me interrupt your well-earned summer break for a brief episode and teaser: the first ever US RSE conference will be upon us between 16-18 October in Chicago, USA. I met with Sandra Gesing from the organising committee to talk about how the preparations are going and what you can expect from the conference. https://us-rse.org/usrse23/ - here the official US RSE Conference web-site http://sandra-gesing.com Sandra's web-site https://twitter.com/us_rse US RSE Twitter (yes, I won't call it...
[DE] Extra: Software Preisauschreibung bei Helmholtz - mit Dr Uwe Konrad
July 26, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBDr Uwe Konrad von der Helmholtz Forschungsgemeinschaft stellt den neuen Preis für Softwareentwicklung vor. Obwohl der Preis im Moment nur für Helmholtzprojekte (oder solche mit hauptsächlicher Beteiligung von Helmholtz) zur Verfügung steht, hofft Dr Konrad dass der Preis Schule macht. Denn schliesslich wird es endlich Zeit, dass Software (und deren EntwicklerInnen) ernst genommen wird und als gleichwertiger Beitrag von Forschungsprojekten anerkannt wird. Die Frist für Bewerbungen ist der 30...
[DE] Künstliche Intelligenz bei Helmholtz - Peter Steinbach
July 24, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBPeter Steinbach leitet eine Gruppe von Consultants am Helmholtz Institut in Dresden-Rossendorf. Die Gruppe ist Teil der Helmholtz AI Initiative und beratet WissenschafterInnen bzgl KI, Machine Learning usw. Neben Fragen über KI in der Wissenschaft hat mich auch interessiert wie Datenwissenschaft mit Software Entwicklung zusammenhängt. Schliesslich sind mehr und mehr Research Software Engineers mit KI und ML Themen beschäftigt. Links: https://www.helmholtz.ai Helmholtz AI Home Page mailt...
[EN] Open Data, Open Software - with Teresa Gomez-Diaz
July 17, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThe guest for this episode is Teresa Gomez-Diaz from Université Paris Gustave-Eiffel, east of Paris, France. For a long time Teresa has been promoting Open Science and last year she talked on this show about the need for licences in research software. Teresa and her collaborator, Tomas Recio from the University Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid published two papers about Research Data and how to ensure they adhere to Open Science and in particular FAIR principles. We start with a discussion of t...
[EN] Test Driven Data Analysis - with Nick Radcliffe
July 10, 2023 23:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBNick Radcliffe, data scientist and entrepreneur, talks to us about the importance of test your data. As software engineers we are familiar with test driven development. Test driven data analysis puts the same emphasis on validating and testing data for your AI app. We also dive into the Python library of the same name tdda. Links: https://linkedin.com/in/njradcliffe LinkedIn profile Nick Radcliffe http://www.tdda.info Test Driven Data Analysis Blog https://tdda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
[EN] Next Stop - RSE Con 2023 in Swansea
July 03, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBWith Sam Mangham and Ed Bennett from the Uk RSE Conference organising committee. In this episode I want to take a look behind the scenes and find out what it takes to organise and run a conference. And how we participants can contribute to the success of this UK RSE Conference and future events! The conference takes place on the campus of Swansea University, UK and runs from 5-7 September. There are satellite events on Monday 4 Sep and Friday 8 Sep. The main link for the conference is belo...
[DE] Bringt uns Programmieren bei - mit Fredo Erxleben
June 26, 2023 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBFredo Erxleben vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf erzählt uns, wie er und seine KollegInnen WissenschaftlerInnen, DoktorantInnen und Postdocs Programmieren beibringt. Der Bedarf an Training ist riesig. Der Bedarf an Ausbildern auch. In dieser Folge schauen wir ein wenig hinter die Kulissen und Fredo erzählt welche Herausforderungen es bei den Trainingsprogrammen gibt. Hier ein paar links: https://hifis.net HIFIS Platform (Helmholtz Federated IT Services) https://hifis.net/services/...
[EN] Conference Report: JupyterCon 2023, Paris
June 12, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBJupyterCon 2023, the conference on all things Jupyter was held in Paris between 10-12 May 2023, followed by 2 days of hands-on "sprints". Jupyter is a very popular open source platform with tools such as Jupyter notebook/lab and driven by a very active community. There were a number of excellent talks from a range of different subjects. I had the pleasure to meet and talk to a number of people, see the interview list below. Order of Interviews: Leah Silen and Arliss Collins from Numfocus...
[EN] ByteSized RSE: The README - with Julian Lenz
June 07, 2023 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBAnd in this last episode of our first ByteSized RSE season, we talk about the README file. My guest in this episode is Julian Lenz from the University in Swansea, UK who will take us through the importance of READMEs, what should go into them and at what stage should you create one (spoiler alert: a.s.a.p.). Here are a few links you might find useful. Example READMEs and templates https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme a list of example READMEs https://dev.to/documatic/awesome-r...
[EN] Qubits and Qugates - with Oliver Brown
June 05, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThis episode is about Quantum Computing and trying to look behind the hype around it. Helping me with that is Oliver Brown from the Edinburgh Parallel Computer Centre (EPCC), where he leads a quantum applications group. There is plenty of material on the subject out there. Here are some links, also mentioned in the episode: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Textbook by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen ISBN: 978-1-107-00217-3 https://qiskit.org An open source toolkit and resourc...