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Mar 31, 2025 • 34min

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

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 toolhttps://spacelift.io/blog/ai-coding-assistant-tools a summary of current tools (non exhaustive)https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering OpenAI's take on prompt engineeringhttps://www.promptingguide.aihttps://web.archive.org/web/20121022091418/http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/spelling.pdf some of the attempts to come up with spelling checkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_completionhttps://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Good old Emacshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor) vi editor (not for the faint hearted)https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-pascal/7x Borland's Turbo Pascal with IDEhttps://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ Stackoverflow survey from 2024 with ca 65000 respondents And here the YouTube clips mentionedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow Cypher musing why he didn't take the "blue pill"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mRMp2kbQY Star Trek TNG, S3E6 - Geordie LaForge talking to the computerGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Mar 25, 2025 • 38min

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

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/2201.09015 das Paper zu Hermeshttps://invenio-software.org/products/rdm/ https://dataverse.org dataverse von Harvardhttps://zenodo.org Zenodohttps://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content Zenodo und GitHubhttps://citation-file-format.github.io Citation File FormatGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Mar 18, 2025 • 34min

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

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 calculatorhttps://codecarbon.io Code Carbon - a Python libraryOther:https://www.software.ac.uk/GreenDiSC Green Disc certificationGreen Computing Special Interest group (SIG) contacthttps://socrse.github.io/green-sig/ home page of the SIG with contact detailsUK RSE Slack channel: #green-sighttps://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0677/ Parliamentary report on ICT energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions https://app.electricitymaps.com/map map of energy sources for electricity (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewables etc)https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-scope-1-2-3-carbon-emissions Emmisions scopes explainedERRATA: I mentioned in the episode that Kirsty is working at the EPCC - but she works at the SSI (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Sorry about the confusion.The sound effects are from Hindenburg audio editing software. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Mar 11, 2025 • 44min

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

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.sciencespo.fr/activites/resin/ le descriptif du projet RésInhttps://resin.medialab.sciences-po.fr/ l'annuaire professionnelhttps://vimeo.com/showcase/11270732 le viméo qui héberge les captations et interviews faites dans le cadre du projethttps://medialab.sciencespo.fr/activites/metat-atelier-de-methodes/ L'atelier de méthodes (MetAt)https://metsem.hypotheses.org/ Le séminaire de méthodologie (MetSem)Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Mar 4, 2025 • 28min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Project Management with GitHub

Discover how GitHub and GitLab can revolutionize project management. Guests share insights on integrating project management with GitHub's evolving tools. Learn about automation opportunities that enhance collaboration and organization among teams. Explore the evolution of project management methodologies, including agile techniques and task segmentation for efficiency. The discussion also uncovers the complexities of managing open source projects and the importance of adapting to diverse stakeholder needs.
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Feb 25, 2025 • 42min

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

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, Fredo Erxleben und Anna-Lisa Döring. Links:https://events.hifis.net/event/1472/timetable/#20241121.detailed Das Programm der Veranstaltung mit Beiträgen zum Herunterladenhttps://www.helmholtz-hida.de HIDA, der Dachverband bei dem die Tagung stattfandhttps://www.hifis.net HIFIS auch eine Helmholtz Platformhttps://www.helmholtz.de/hida-files/user_upload/pdf_dokumente/Helmholz-Incubator-Folder_2022.pdf Übersicht der Helmholtz Platformenhttps://www.uni-regensburg.de/humanwissenschaften/erziehungswissenschaft-medien/team/prof-dr-silke-schworm/index.html Prof Silke Schwormhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKralSEhZq0Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Feb 18, 2025 • 32min

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

Zihao Lu, a UX designer at King's College London, and Meag Doherty, a UX leader with a focus on bioethics, dive into the pivotal role of design in software and research. They discuss the evolving collaboration between design and engineering, sharing insights from projects like CrossFit B. The conversation highlights the challenges of creating accessible digital libraries and emphasizes user research and usability testing. They champion continuous designer involvement in development, showcasing how thoughtful design can significantly enhance user experiences and project success.
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Feb 11, 2025 • 44min

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

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/florian.angeletti/https://gallium.inria.fr/blog/https://github.com/Octachronhttps://github.com/coq/coqGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Feb 4, 2025 • 31min

[EN] An Emerging Voice - Deborah Udoh

Deborah Udoh, a registered nurse and midwife from Nigeria, is now carving a path in research software engineering. She shares her journey of transitioning from healthcare to tech, highlighting the obstacles she overcame and the importance of support systems in STEM. Deborah discusses her experiences with internships in Outreachy and her commitment to diversity in research software. She also reflects on teaching experiences in STEM education and her aspirations for further study, showcasing her passion for empowerment through education and open science.
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Jan 28, 2025 • 41min

[DE] Software Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft - die Tagung in Hannover, Dezember 2024

Deutsche Ausgabe: Vom 2.-4. Dezember 2024 fand in Hannover die Tagung zum Thema Digitale Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft statt. Mit von der Partie waren ca 35 TeilnehmerInnen aus der Landschaft der Forschungssoftware EntwicklerInnen. Bei den Arbeitskreisen kamen dabei interessante und spannende Vorschläge heraus, wie Ihr hoffentlich in dieser Folge hören könnt.Links:https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderung/foerderangebot/themenwoche-digitale-kompetenzen-der-wissenschaft-beendet Die Webseite zur Themenwoche in Hannoverhttps://events.hifis.net/event/1741/ die deRSE e.V. Konferenz in Karlsruhe 25. ß 27. Februar 2025https://de-rse.org/de/index.html der deRSE e.V. Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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