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Dec 21, 2023 • 31min

[DE] Wissenschaft ohne Grenzen - Konrad Förstner

Send us a textSo, 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:https://konrad.foerstner.org Konrad's Webseitehttps://www.openscienceradio.org Open Science Radio - das Podcasthttps://sci-hub.st Sci-Hub https://royalsociety.org/about-us/history/ "Nullius in verbia" das Motto der Royal Society das Konrad anspricht. Will soviel heissen wie: traut nicht den Aussagen von anderen (und implizit - traut Euren Daten). Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Dec 19, 2023 • 30min

[EN] Open Data without Friction - Sara Petti and Evgeny Karev

Send us a textIn 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 pagehttps://github.com/okfn GitHub of Open Knowledge Foundationhttps://frictionlessdata.io Homepage of the Frictionless Data projecthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKAN the CKAN project https://csvw.org CSV on the Webhttps://datadryad.org/stash Data Dryadhttps://zenodo.org ZenodoSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Dec 12, 2023 • 31min

[EN] Being a Research Software Engineer in France - Ghislain Vaillant

Send us a textI 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 Institutehttps://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/team/team-colliot-durrleman/ The team Ghislain has been part ofhttps://www.inria.fr/en/aramis The Aramis projecthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ghisvail/ Ghislain's LinkedIn profileSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Dec 7, 2023 • 23min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Web Development with Django

Send us a textIn 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 referenceshttps://www.dj4e.com Django for you tutorial sitehttps://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x the Book Two Scoops of Django by David Greenfeld https://pydanny.blogspot.com and here is his bloghttps://2024.djangocon.eu If you want to go to a Django conference - here is one...https://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Crispy forms in Djangohttps://cookiecutter-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Cookie Cutter Djangohttps://medium.com/@devsumitg/how-to-connect-reactjs-django-framework-c5ba268cb8be an article how to connect ReactJS with DjangoTriviahttps://www.holovaty.com Adrian Holovaty gave Django the name - apart from an engineer he is also a talented musicianhttps://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-the-Django-web-framework-Why-has-it-been-described-as-developed-in-a-newsroom/answer/Simon-Willison an interview with Simon Willison on how Django got createdhttps://simonwillison.net Simon is co-creator of Django https://web.archive.org/web/20140716123229/https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/committers/ a brief history of the first Django committershttps://archive.org/details/django-reinhardt/107-django_reinhardt-djangos_blues.mp3 The MP3 file of the music played in the episode. 1947, Django Blues by Django Reinhardt Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Dec 5, 2023 • 39min

[EN] Culture of Women in Tech (Diversity in Tech, Part 2) - Mariann Hardey

Send us a textIn 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 Germany (Research Centre Jülich) https://www.fz-juelich.de/en https://www.mariannhardey.com Mariann's home pageThe Culture of Women in Tech, Mariann Hardey, Emerald Publishing, 2020: ISBN 978-1-78973-426-3 (print), ISBN 978-1-78973-425-6 (Epub)https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01712 Understanding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Challenges within the Research Software Community, paper Neil Chue Hong, Jeremy Cohen and Caroline JaySupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Nov 28, 2023 • 33min

[DE] Alter Code - Alter Kaffee? Mit Markus Harrer

Send us a textWas 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.de  https://tqdev.com/2018-the-boring-software-manifesto The Boring Software Manifesto - mit Links zum z.B. Agile Manifestohttps://leanpub.com/strategische-spielzuege Ein Buch von Markus (im Entstehen)https://www.innoq.com/de/staff/markus-harrer/ Markus bei InnoQhttps://www.feststelltaste.de/ Bloghttps://www.feststelltaste.de/top5-legacysystems/ Markus' Top 5 legacy Systemehttps://github.com/feststelltaste/awesome-legacy-systems Ein Link zu guten Legacy Systemenhttps://softwareanalytics.de/ Eine Webseite zum Thema Software Analyticshttps://scholar.google.de/citations?user=OND5wuAAAAAJ Markus auf Google ScholarSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Nov 21, 2023 • 32min

[EN] Jean Zay Supercomputer, Large Language Models - Nathan Cassereau, Hatim Bourfoune

Send us a textI 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 Coursera course run by Andrew Ng. Here are a few links:https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100 a paper on BLOOM on ArXivhttps://github.com/ncassereau-idris/lm-evaluation-harness Evaluation of LM https://github.com/dptrsa-300/start_with_bloom Getting started with BLOOM on GitHubhttps://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom Summary on BLOOM from Huggingface https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/ a technology review on BLOOM by MIThttps://towardsdatascience.com/run-bloom-the-largest-open-access-ai-model-on-your-desktop-computer-f48e1e2a9a32 another BLOOM articlehttps://www.youtube.com/@CNRS-FIDLE YouTube channel by CNRS https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM Megatron LM library used in the projecthttps://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed DeepSpeed library used in the projecthttps://pytorch.org PyTorch library https://www.genci.fr/en a national infrastructure to provide access to HPC (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) in Francehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Zay brief summary of Jean Zay's lifehttp://www.idris.fr/eng/jean-zay/jean-zay-presentation-eng.html The Jean Zay supercomputer at IDRIS/Paris-Saclay Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Nov 14, 2023 • 36min

[EN] ITER - Nuclear Fusion and a Site Visit

Send us a textFinally! 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 work that Simon and Olivier are doing on the software side to help put it all together.Linkshttps://www.iter.org the main portal for ITER.https://www.iter.org/mach more details about the ITER tokamakhttps://www.iter.org/jobs/IPA ITER project associates scheme - as mentioned in the interviewhttps://ccfe.ukaea.uk/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future/ the record breaking JET tokamak in Oxford, UKhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak a good Wikipedia summary of tokamaksSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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Nov 9, 2023 • 16min

[EN] ByteSized RSE: Software Estimation or - How Long Is A Piece of String?

Explore the challenges of software estimation with insights from experts. Learn about the complexities of estimating software projects, negotiating estimates effectively, and using user stories in Agile development. Discover estimation methods like planning poker and three-point estimation for task duration in agile teams.
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Nov 7, 2023 • 41min

[EN] Conference Report: US RSE Conference 2023 in Chicago

Send us a textThis 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 Laboratory https://www.ornl.gov Geoffrey Lentner from Purdue University https://www.purdue.edu Leah Wasser founder and director of pyOpenSci https://www.pyopensci.org Daniel S. Katz US RSE association co-founder and board member https://danielskatz.org Ian Cosden US RSE association co-founder and board member https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/about/people-directory/ian-cosden Sandra Gesing executive director http://sandra-gesing.com of the US RSE assoc. and Julia Damerow, member of the steering committee  Other linkshttps://www.software.ac.uk Software Sustainability Institute, its director Neil Chue Hong gave the second keynote at the conferencehttps://data.agu.org/notebooks-now/ Notebooks Now! initiative by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) https://www.agu.org Music excerpts from the Chris Green Quartet, Chicago Jazz Festival 2016 - with kind permission https://chrisgreenequartet.bandcamp.com Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me 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 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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