Code for Thought

Apr 14 2025 168 ep. 31 mins 62

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Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French

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[EN] From Research to Production? With Duncan McGregor

Apr 14 2025 32 mins

How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask. Links: https://www.youtube.com/@PairingWithDuncan Duncan's You

[EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao

Mar 31 2025 34 mins

English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK. Links: https://github.com/features/copilot GitHub Co-Pilothttps://huggingface.co HuggingFace another AI

[DE] Hermes - oder wie veröffentliche ich meine Software. Mit S Druskat und M Meinel

Mar 24 2025 38 mins

Deutsche Ausgabe: Das Hermes Projekt versucht das Publizieren von Software zu vereinfachen und auch zu automatisieren. Stephan Druskat und Michael Meinel, beide vom DLR und dem deRSE e.V. erklären uns was es damit auf sich hat. Links: https://hermes.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes homepagehttps://docs.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes workflowhttps://arxiv.org/abs/22

[EN] ByteSized RSE: What's the carbon footprint of my app?

Mar 17 2025 33 mins

English Edition: This episode is all about 'green computing' and how we can check the impact of our computing efforts. Helping me with that are Kirsty Pringle (SSI), Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge, UK) and Andy Turner from the EPCC in Edinburgh (UK). Tools discussed in this episode: https://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithms home page with the online calculatorhtt

[FR] RésIn: un nouveau réseau pour les ingénieurs - avec A Baneyx et D Antolinos-Basso

Mar 10 2025 43 mins

Edition française: le projet RésIn - réseau d'ingénieurs RésIn est une collaboration entre Science Po et l'Université Paris Cité pour valoriser le travail des ingénieurs pluridisciplinaires. Audrey Banyex et Diégo Antolinos-Basso (maintenant à l'Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse) nous expliquent pourquoi créer ce réseau et à quoi il sert. Liens: https://medialab.scienc

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Project Management with GitHub

Mar 03 2025 28 mins

English Edition: How can repository services like GitHub or GitLab help you manage your project. Listen to my conversation with three guests, Gemma Turon (Ersilia), Ben Clifford (Parsl) and Mike Simpson (Uni Newcastle) how they use GitHub PM tools effectively in their work. Links: https://ersilia.io Ersilia project - Gemma Turonhttps://github.com/ersilia-os GitHub pages for Ersilia

[DE] TEACH Konferenz in Berlin im November 2024 - ein Rückblick

Feb 24 2025 41 mins

Deutsche Ausgabe: Ende November 2024 fand in Berlin ein Austausch von Ausbildern und Tutoren bei Helmholtz statt - unter dem Namen TEACH. Wie kann man dem wachsenden Bedarf and Weiterbildung gerecht werden und welche Mittel und Tools helfen dabei. In diesem kleinen Rückblick spreche ich mit den OrganisatorInnen und Sprechern der Veranstaltung: Prof Silke Schworm, Jolanta Zjuba, Fr

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Design with a capital D - Zihao Lu and Meag Doherty

Feb 17 2025 31 mins

English Edition: together with Meag Doherty and Zihao Lu I want to shine a light on UX/UI design in research and put the capital "D" back into it. The way we design our software and research projects shapes the way not only the way they are being used, but also how successful they will be. Links: https://www.figma.com/ Figma tool for wireframinghttps://balsamiq.com Balsamiq wirefra

[FR] OCamL: un langage multi-paradigme - avec Florian Angeletti

Feb 10 2025 43 mins

Edition française: Nous sommes ravi d'accueillir Florian Angeletti d'INRIA, qui est très connu pour son travail sur OCamL (anciennement Objective CamL), le langage multi-paradigme. OCamL est Open Source et très utilisé dans le métier de la recherche. Mais aussi dans certains secteurs industriels. https://ocaml.orghttps://dev.realworldocaml.orghttps://perso.quaesituri.org/flori

[EN] An Emerging Voice - Deborah Udoh

Feb 04 2025 30 mins

I met Deborah at the Research Software Engineering 2024 conference in Newcastle, UK, where she gave an impassioned speech about her drive to carve out a new career and new opportunities in STEM. Here she talks about how she got here and the obstacles she faces. My apologies, I initially uploaded the raw version of the interview. This should now be corrected https://we-are-ols.org O