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Episode 32: Code Reproducibility and Open Source
Listen to the podcast The panel discussion in episode 32 raises the importance of code reproducibility for scientific work. Open source software is a great contributor towards that end. The panel gives examples related to those issues from perspectives: spaceflight engineering, healthcare modeling, and nuclear engineering. On today’s show our hosts include: Jacob Barhak (special […]
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Thence Flash, Thither UW
June 2, 2013
by Anthony Scopatz
Life Update I am not really sure where to post this, so I have decided that inSCIght is as good a place as any. Due to our current funding round coming up during the sequester, the Flash Center is currently scaling back to focus on its core mission. So my job as a Research Scientist at […]
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The Shining: Panda Edition
January 19, 2013
by Anthony Scopatz
Or, Adventures in CI Py. As some of you may know I help run an open source nuclear engineering project called PyNE. It is awesome, and complicated. It isn’t complicated because it is nuclear related. It is complicated because we provide C++ and Python APIs (which are idiomatic to each language) and data. We also have the […]
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Passive Reproducibility: It’s Not You, It’s Me
November 29, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
The ICERM workshop on Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics at Brown University is coming up in a couple of weeks. Prior to this, they invited all participants to submit a short position paper “…to express [our] thoughts on issues concerning reproducibility…” I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I hope you enjoy my submission (below). Dear […]
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Episode 31: Scientific Grand Challenges
Listen to the podcast On episode 31, we discuss “Scientific Grand Challenges”– a new, rigorous approach to evaluation of algorithms and methods. A Grand Challenge consists of a set of data used as input to a problem of interest, and participants apply their algorithm to that data in a blinded manner. Participant results are evaluated […]
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A Big Challenge From an inSCIght Guest
Sumana Harihareswara brought the fun to Episode 27: Ladies Who Learn And Code. Now, she’s bringing a big challenge to the geek community. Sumana and her partner, Leonard Richardson have pledged to support the Ada Initiative with a generous, $10,000 donation matching challenge. From Valerie Aurora’s Geek Feminism post on the topic : Sumana is a joyful, passionate […]
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Episode 30: Check Please!
Listen to the podcast On episode 30, we talked about code review. We had a lovely chat with a few Kitware software development experts who gave very informed perspectives on the efficacy of various methods of code review. We also talked about a piece of code review facilitation software called Gerrit. This episode addresses obstacles […]
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Episode 29: OSS in the US Military
August 14, 2012
by Andy R. Terrel
Listen to the podcast The US DoD develops and maintains huge amounts of software for all aspects of military life. In episode 29 we talk about the challenges and benefits of use of open source tools in regards to Military software culture, acquisition or contracting with open source, and handling security of both code and […]
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A Note on Replication
July 22, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
SciPy 2012 Postview: The following is a section taken from my SciPy 2012 proceeding from the conference last week. You can see the paper at github. This post is a follow up to the “Why Reproducibility is Important” post. I hope to do a recap of the conference itself next week! (NOTE: flmake is a specific CLI utility for workflow management in the […]
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Why Reproducibility is Important
July 13, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
SciPy 2012 Preview: The following is a section taken from my SciPy 2012 proceeding for the conference next week. You can see a preview of the paper at github. I hope to see you at the conference (and my talk)! True to its part of speech, much of ‘scientific computing’ has the trappings of science […]
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October 19, 2013
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