Code for Thought
Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software in research and the people behind it all. Languages: English, German, French
Episodes
153 episodes
[EN] Pascal or the art of keeping things simple - in Memoriam of Niklaus Wirth
English 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. A...
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Season 8
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Episode 16
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35:43
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Fun with Containers - Simon Li
English 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...
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Season 8
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Episode 15
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26:11
[DE] Eine kleine Reise durch das Land der Hochleistungsrechner - mit Georg Hager
Deutsche 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...
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Season 8
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Episode 14
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35:26
[EN] Enhancing Science - the eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
English Edition: https://www.esciencecenter.nl Home page of the eScience Center
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Season 8
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Episode 13
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34:54
[FR] Le calcul quantique à GENCI - Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois
L'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 couliss...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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38:17
[EN] Champions for Change in research: Imperial College London and Cambridge University
English 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...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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33:42
[DE] Suresoft, ein Projekt zur Nachhaltigkeit - mit Jan Linxweiler
Deutsche Ausgabe: Diesmal geht es an die TU Braunschweig, von wo aus Jan Linxweiler uns über seine Arbeit am Suresoft Projekt erzählt - und uns erklärt warum es wichtig ist, nachhaltige Software für die Wissenschaft zu schreiben....
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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34:10
[EN] Let there be LUMI (EuroHPC supercomputer) - Kurt Lust
English edition: My guest this week is Kurt Lust from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and part of the user support team of LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure). Acc to the website, LUMI is Europe's fastest supercomputer. K...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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35:08
[EN] HPC software installations made EESSI - Alan O'Cais and Kenneth Hoste
English Edition: Meet Kenneth Hoste and Alan O'Cais who will tell us about EESSI,The European Environment for Scientific Software Installation for high performance computing (HPC). Links:
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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34:16
[FR] Analyse automatique d’articles encyclopédiques - Alice Brenon (GEODE)
L'édition française: Alice Brenon est une doctorande et chercheuse du CNRS en informatique linguistique au LIRIS (Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information) à Lyon. Alice décrit son engagement dans le projet GEODE (“E...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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39:43
[EN] Championing Research Software Part 1: Champions at Imperial College London
Meet 6 of the research software champions at Imperial College London (UK) who help to create better research - through better software: Alan Xavier, Lukas Kopecky, Jakub Lala, Benjamin Scharpf, Sara Patti and Sneha Jha. Links
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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38:36
[EN] BONUS: Green Computing at the RSE Conference 2024 in Newcastle
[EN] English Edition: "Green computing" had a strong showing at the annual conference for Research Software Engineering in Newcastle, UK, early September 2024. I talk to the presenters, poster creator and organisers of the birds of the f...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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47:57
[DE] Stahlwalzungen, Kristalle und Offene Software - mit Ralf Hielscher und Christoph Renzing
Deutsche Ausgabe: in der ersten DE Ausgabe nach der Sommerpause geht es gleich um 2 Open Source Projekte: MTEX und PyRolL. Mit von der Partie sind die Entwickler und Autoren der Softwarepakete Ralf Hielscher (MTEX) und Christoph Renzing ...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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31:54
[EN] Going Large - CERN VM/VMFS - Laura Promberger, Jakob Blomer
ENGLISH EDITION: There are a lot of "large" things at CERN, including the amount of data produced and the software needed to manage and analyse them. In this episode I talk to Laura Promberger and Jakob Blomer from the CERN virtual machine/file...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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32:59
[FR] L'apprentissage automatique et la reproductibilité - avec Pascal Monasse (LIGM)
L'édition française: Ça y est - le premier épisode de Code for Thought en français. Comment reproduire et évaluer l'apprentissage automatique? Publier les résultats de recherche avec les données et le code source? Avec Pa...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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42:36
[EN] Beyond Open Research - Imperial College London
ENGLISH EDITION: Beyond Open Research is a project at Imperial College London (UK), that tries to change research culture more open and transparent. I met with Dr Hamid Khan, who was leading the project and Prof Julie McCann, Vice-Dean f...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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35:12
[EN] Teaser Season 8 - Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
ENGLISH EDITION: Welcome back to Season 8 of Code for Thought. Just before we dive into the new season, this trailer will tell you what lies ahead between September and December 2024.
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Season 8
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10:59
[EN] Planning your research software - a workshop in Paris
In May 2024, I attended a workshop/training course on Software Management Plans (SMP), held at the University Gustave Eiffel east of Paris, France.In this episode I talk to the organisers and participants about why SMPs might be useful and ...
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Season 7
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Episode 36
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40:57
[EN] Thriving Ibis or How to thrive in HPC - Dr AJ Lauer
My guest for this episode is Dr AJ Lauer. AJ has been working hard to make the HPC workplace a more open and welcoming environment. She was inclusivity chair at SC21 in St Louis, US and worked with other groups such as Women in HPC. Lately, in ...
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Season 7
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Episode 35
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30:38
[EN] Digital Research Academy - A Grassroots Network for Trainers
The Digital Research Academy - DRA - was created in 2023 to meet the increasing demand for training in open science and research. In this episode I talk to the two founders, Heidi Seibold and Joyce Kao, as well as members like Yeganeh Khazaei (...
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Season 7
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Episode 34
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34:43
[EN] The Turing Way Part 2: From Handbook to Community
In the second part episode on the Turing Way, I meet with contributors like Patricia Herterich and Sarah Gibson - who were part of the original team - as well as Malvika Sharan and Anne Steele who joined later.Through these conversations I ...
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Season 7
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Episode 33
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41:35
[EN] CERN: Keeping the lights on with OpenStack and Kubernetes - Spyridon Trigazis
CERN, the European Nuclear Research Centre, is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2024 and I want to give you a glimpse of the kind of work that happens there. Meet Spyridon Trigazis, who will take us through CERN's infrastructure and how they us...
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Season 7
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Episode 32
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34:51
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Python Packaging - Liam Pattinson, Laszlo Sranger
In this last ByteSized RSE episode of this season, we talk about an important subject for Python engineers: Packaging. With my guests Liam Pattinson from York University (UK) and Laszlo Sranger from Hypergolic, we go through the standard Python...
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Season 7
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Episode 31
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32:26
[DE] Klima, Modelle und das natESM Projekt - Iris Ehlert, Hendryk Bockelmann
In dieser letzten Folge vor den Sommerferien treffe ich mich mit Dr Iris Ehlert und Dr Hendryk Bockelmann, um mit ihnen über ihre Arbeit am natESM (nationale Erdmodellierungs Systeme) zu sprechen. Hier ein paar Links
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Season 7
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Episode 30
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32:00
[EN] Research Software Engineering Workshop at ISC 2024 in Hamburg
The International Conference of Supercomputing, ISC, met in Hamburg (Germany) between 12-16 May 2024. For the first time, a workshop on Research Software Engineering was held there. And I talk to some of the organisers, Stefanie Reuter and Matt...
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Season 7
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Episode 29
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28:33