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Join Dimitri Theodorakis, a Research Software Engineer at the Met Office, and Bill Little, a software engineer focused on data analysis, as they unveil the fascinating world of weather prediction. They discuss how historical methods shaped advancements during the World Wars and the innovative technology they use today, including parallel computing techniques. The conversation highlights the significance of collaboration between scientists and software developers, as well as the vital role of Python and open-source tools in enhancing climate research and analysis.

Deutsche Ausgabe: Vera Karlsbauer und Jonas Hagenberg arbeiten am Max-Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in München. Aber Software und Datenverarbeitung spielt auch dort eine große Rolle. Vera und Jonas erzählen uns etwas über ihre Arbeit und über den Code Klub den sie gegründet haben um anderen Forschenden und Studierenden den Zugang und Umgang mit Software etwas zu erleichtern.Links:https://www.psych.mpg.de/2931418/deutsch_pm_jonas_hagenberg_comic.pdf  Ein Poster zum Thema Depression und Mikrobenhttps://www.psych.mpg.de Das Max Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in Münchenhttps://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_3428878_1 der Code Klub am InstitutGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

FOSDEM is the annual event for all things free and open source software in Europe happening over the 1st weekend in February in Brussels. In this episode I want to talk about one "dev room" (developer room) in particular: the one on Open Research, that has been running since 2020. Over the course of a day, we heard from a variety of speakers on topics ranging from climate change to human choreography in computing. Curious? Have a listenLinks:https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/research/  the link to all the talks at the Open Research devroom at FOSDEM25https://research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-schedule there was an "unofficial" devroom online on 15 Feb, 2 weeks laterInterested in joining the effort on semantic climate? Here's the speaker's email: Peter.murray.rust@googlemail.com https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episodes/13216530-en-open-data-open-software-with-teresa-gomez-diaz Previous episode with Teresa Gomez-Diaz (Uni Paris Gustav Eiffel)Announcements:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdV75CnxOjw4Xd7AYad8ChZir1OPnW8ex7yUsOCldqRDzdUaQ/viewform Survey from Maxence in Karlsruhe/Germanyhttps://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-maxence-azzouz-thuderoz Maxence profilehttps://github-pages.arc.ucl.ac.uk/Education/rseworkshop/ UCL workshop 23 - 27 July (in person)Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

Parallel programming is hard. Say Hi to Parsl a Python library and tool that aims to make the task a bit easier. I spoke with two of the key people on the project, Dan Katz and Ben Clifford.https://github.com/parsl/parsl the GitHub repo of Parslhttps://funcx.org FuncX http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu Montage programme mentioned in the discussionhttps://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage it's GitHub projecthttps://www.astropy.org AstroPy a popular lib in Astrophysics https://numfocus.org Numfocus in the US, which supports a number of open source projectsGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

Meine Gäste Carina Haupt und Christoph Steinkamp vom DLR beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Einsatz von Large Language Models (wie z.B. ChatGPT) bei Forschungsprojekten und deren Softwareentwicklung helfen? Große Versprechungen - aber kleine Brötchen?Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

John MacFarlane and Albert Krewinkel from Pandoc take us through the history and development of this very popular Swiss-army knife for digital documents and document publishing. Pandoc is, of course, open source. And if you want to contribute, don't be shy!https://github.com/jgm/pandoc GitHub repohttps://www.lua.org Lua languagehttps://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html Lua filters and Pandochttps://www.haskell.org Pandoc is written in Haskellhttps://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paper.html JOSS and Pandochttps://johnmacfarlane.net/tools all the tools from John MacFarlanehttps://github.com/tarleb Albert's GitHubGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

Brad Frost is the author of a book called Atomic Design, in which he tries to help UI/UX designers improve their workflow and approach and create digital apps.We also talk about the changing roles of designers and design in a world where we get new gadgets all the time. As Brad says in his book: let's go atomicLinks:https://bradfrost.com Brad's home pagehttps://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com here the bookhttps://www.webcomponents.orghttps://www.w3.org/History.html bit of history re the WWWhttps://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.htmlGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

Dr Elisabeth Lobe und Dr Peter Schuhmacher vom DLR geben uns einen (nicht ganz so) kleinen Einblick in die Welt von Quantencomputern und an welchen Themen sie daran arbeiten. Ein spannendes Gebiet auf dem viel passiert!Hier eine Reihe von Linkshttps://qci.dlr.de/en/alqu/ Die Quanteninitiative und die daran beteiligten Projektehttps://qci.dlr.de/en/quantum-computing-basic-knowledge-in-five-video-lectures/ ein paar Einführungsvideoshttps://gitlab.com/quantum-computing-software/quark ein bisschen Softwarehttps://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit Qiskit von IBMhttps://openqasm.com OpenQasmhttps://www.qir-alliance.org Quantum Intermediate RepresentationMore general stuff:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithmhttps://ionq.com/resources/what-is-hybrid-quantum-computinghttps://www.classiq.io/insights/quantum-algorithms-shors-algorithmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch–Jozsa_algorithmhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-a-qubithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiVincenzo%27s_criteria Di Vincenzo Kriterien für Quanten Rechnerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gatehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_theoremhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_error_correctionhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuantengatterGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/

In this episode, John Stevenson, a senior software developer at the British Geological Survey, shares his unique journey from volcanology to engineering. He discusses the emotional challenges of leaving academia and his passion for open-source software in geology. John recounts thrilling field studies in Iceland, revealing fascinating magma properties. He also addresses the importance of open-source solutions for reliable data collection, and tackles security concerns related to software in the scientific community.

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 YouTube channelhttps://www.oneeyedmen.com Duncan's websitehttps://github.com/dmcg and his GitHubhttps://www.dask.org Daskhttps://github.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/distributed-compute-on-aws-with-cross-regional-dask cross regional programming with Daskhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-efficient-cross-regional-i-o-intensive-workloads-with-dask-on-aws/https://blog.dask.org/2022/07/19/dask-multi-cloudhttps://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Zarr formathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF NetCDFhttps://www.ecmwf.int European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecastshttps://github.com/ecmwfhttps://www.eumetsat.inthttps://pangeo.iohttps://testbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Unit testing with Jupyterhttps://github.com/nteract/testbookConferences/Events:https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk King's College London: summer school for digital humanities. 30 June - 4 July, Londonhttps://www.software.ac.uk/workshop/collaborations-workshop-2025-cw25 The annual Collaborations Workshop of the Software Sustainability Institute UK, 13-15 May, University of Sterling, ScoGet in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at https://en.tipeee.com/code-for-thought-podcast/ 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/