Code for Thought

Jan 20 2025 157 ep. 30 mins 63
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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software in research and the people behind it all.  Languages: English, German, French

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Gestalt and Data Visualisation - Kirsty Pringle

Jan 20 2025 29 mins  
Send us a textHappy New Year and Welcome to Season 9 of Code for Thought. The season opens with a ByteSized RSE session - the short online courses with companion episodes for all of you who do science and write code. ByteSized RSE is sponsored by the Universe HPC project. Subject for this episode is data visualisation and how you could use the perception features of our brain (see

[EN] Keeping Time - in Memoriam of David Mills (with Harlan Stenn)

Dec 23 2024 28 mins  
Send us a textEnglish Edition: In this last episode of 2024 I want to remember David Mills and his work on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). The tool that keeps our machines in sync. David Mills worked closely with Harlan Stenn from the Network Time Foundation on NTP and I was very fortunate to grab some of Harlan's time to talk to him about NTP and David Mills' contribution. Some l

[EN] A MOOC for Reproducibility - A Legrand, Ch Pouzat, K Hinsen

Dec 16 2024 38 mins  
Send us a textEnglish Edition: Arnaud Legrand, Christophe Pouzat and Konrad Hinsen, three French researchers, who went through the pain of making research data and software reproducible. Out of that pain grew a set of online courses. I met with them to discuss how they developed the courses, the steps they had to go through and what the courses cover. https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/cou

[FR] Reproductibilité avec GUIX - P-A Bouttier, L Courtes et S Tournier

Dec 09 2024 38 mins  
Send us a textEdition française: GNU Guix est un gestionnaire de paquets pour GNU/Linux. Ghislain a rencontré Pierre-Antoine Bouttier, Ludovic Courtes et Simon Tournier de GUIX pour discuter de la façon dont GUIX peut aider à la reproductibilité. https://guix.gnu.org/fr/https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/guix-as-a-tool-for-computational-science/https://10years.guix.gnu.org/vid

[EN] Pascal or the art of keeping things simple - in Memoriam of Niklaus Wirth

Dec 02 2024 35 mins  
Send us a textEnglish edition [EN]: Niklaus Wirth is one of the computing pioneers and his work inspired many other technologies and a generation of engineers. In this episode I discuss one of his many contributions: the programming language Pascal. And we hear from 3 people who worked and learnt with Pascal in their career: Irving Reid, Todd Jacobs and Charles Forsythe.Links:https

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Fun with Containers - Simon Li

Nov 28 2024 26 mins  
Send us a textEnglish edition [EN]: We're kickstarting a round of new ByteSized RSE online classes and podcast episodes with an episode on containers. Focusing on Podman (used in the online class) and Docker. My guest for this episode is Simon Li from the Uni. Dundee. Many thanks to Universe HPC for supporting this podcast. Containers:https://docs.docker.com Dockerhttps://www.docke

[DE] Eine kleine Reise durch das Land der Hochleistungsrechner - mit Georg Hager

Nov 25 2024 35 mins  
Send us a textDeutsche Version: In dieser letzten Folge vor Weihnachten treffe ich mich mit Priv. Doz. Dr Georg Hager vom Rechenzentrum der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Georg Hager gibt uns einen kleinen Überblick in die Entwicklung von HPC Rechnern, also Hochleistungsrechnern und wir sprechen über die Herausforderung bzgl. Software Entwicklung und wie man Personal and HPC Re

[EN] Enhancing Science - the eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nov 18 2024 34 mins  
Send us a textEnglish Edition: https://www.esciencecenter.nl Home page of the eScience Center https://www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-proposals/fellowship-open-call/ Fellowship programme at the eScience CenterSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] UK

[FR] Le calcul quantique à GENCI - Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois

Nov 11 2024 38 mins  
Send us a textL'édition française: On a beaucoup de promesse sur l'usage du calcul quantique. Ghislain Vaillant discute avec Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois de GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) pour jeter un coup d'œil aux coulisses de cette technologie fascinante. https://www.genci.fr/connaitre-genci/calcul-haute-performance-intelligence-artificielle-et-calcul-q

[EN] Champions for Change in research: Imperial College London and Cambridge University

Nov 04 2024 33 mins  
Send us a textEnglish Edition [EN]: In this episode I am looking at two different champion schemes: one at Imperial College London, focussing on research software and the other at Cambridge University for research data. My guests are Jeremy Cohen and Mike Bearpark from Imperial and Clair Castle, Sacha Jones and Lutfi Ben Othman from Cambridge University. Imperial:https://www.imperi