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This episode is about Quantum Computing and trying to look behind the hype around it. Helping me with that is Oliver Brown from the Edinburgh Parallel Computer Centre (EPCC), where he leads a quantum applications group.

There is plenty of material on the subject out there. Here are some links, also mentioned in the episode:

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
  Textbook by Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen
  ISBN: 978-1-107-00217-3
• https://qiskit.org  An open source toolkit and resource for Quantum Computing including tutorials etc
• https://learn.qiskit.org/course/ch-algorithms/quantum-fourier-transform Quantum Fourier Transform
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate Gates in Quantum Computing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_gate "Classical" gates
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_qubit Qubits and phases
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem The no-cloning theorem
• Shor's algorithm
  • https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/shors-algorithm an article on Shor's algorithm by IBM
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm summary of Shor's algorithm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_quantum_eigensolver Variational Eigensolver in quantum computing
• https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/quantum-advantage-in-learning-from.html Quantum advantage
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05176 a paper on the subject

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Mit Kristine Schima-Voigt und Kay Liewald von der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek in Göttingen. 
In dieser Folge berichten Kristine und Kay von ihren Erfahrungen über die Einführung von Agilen Software Methoden, insbesondere Scrum, in ihrem Bereich der Softwareentwicklung. Agile Methoden wie Scrum, Kanban und andere finden eine immer weitere Verbreitung. Um so wichtiger ist es von praktizierenden Gruppen wie dem Team aus Göttingen zu hören. Und zum Abschluss geben Kay und Kristine Tipps für die Einführung von Scrum.

Links:

• https://zenodo.org/record/7727988 Kristine's Vortrag bei der deRSE Konferenz 2023 über RSE an der Bibliothek in Göttingen
• https://zenodo.org/record/7715041 Kay's Vortrag bei der deRSE Konferenz 2023 über Scrum 
• https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/kontakt/abteilungen-a-z/abteilungs-und-gruppendetails/abteilunggruppe/software-und-service-entwicklung/ Die Webseite für die RSE Arbeitsgruppe in Göttingen
• https://lab.sub.uni-goettingen.de Der Blog von der RSE Arbeitsgruppe
• https://www.agile-bibliothek.org Eine Gemeinschafts-webseite für Agile Softwaremethoden in Bibliotheken
• https://www.liberatingstructures.com Eine Zusammenfassung der Liberating Structures
• http://agilemanifesto.org Das Agile Manifesto (in Englisch)
• https://scrumguides.org Hinweise für Scrum (in Englisch)

Und dann gibt es noch die "Klassiker", d.h. Bücher, über Scrum von Jeff Sutherland und Ken Schwaber. 

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Research Software Engineering is a global movement. In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Saranjeet Kaur and Jyoti Boghal from India, how they built the RSE Asia network from scratch. In this conversation they take us through the journey of building a RSE community. 

Here are some links:

• https://rse-asia.github.io/RSE_Asia/ The homepage for RSE Asia
• https://twitter.com/RSE_Asia Twitter RSE_Asia
• https://github.com/rse-asia RSE GitHub
• https://openlifesci.org Open Life Sciences network
• https://www.rladies.org R Ladies

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In this ByteSized RSE episode we talk about GIT and some of the great features it comes with. I also wanted to find out where GIT comes from, and what's with its name.
My interview partner is Raniere Silva who works at Gesis, which is part of the Leibniz Institute in Germany.

Git comes with loads of features: in this episode we focus on how to deal with and avoid merge conflicts, branching patterns and features such as stash and cherrypick. 

Here are a few links:

• https://git-scm.com a great resource of documentation including GIT references and a book you can freely download
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ the repo for GIT itself. Try and find the first release 0.99 from 2005 by Linus Torvalds!
• https://www.gesis.org/en/institute the Gesis Institute 

Linus wrote that about the name of GIT in the  README of version 0.99:

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

•  random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command.  The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
• stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
• "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
• "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

Enjoy working with GIT

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Meet Graham Lee, who has decided to investigate research software engineering  for his PhD thesis. I met Graham at the RSE conference in Newcastle, UK late 2022 where he presented his work in form of an "inverted" talk (i.e. driven by the audience). 
Since there are not many people who make RSEs a subject of study and a PhD thesis, I caught up with Graham after the conference. In our conversation we discuss his thesis and questions such as: is RSE actually a distinct role/discipline and what the future might hold.

Talking of conferences:

• UK RSE Conference https://rsecon23.society-rse.org Swansea, UK, between 5-6 September 2023.
  • NOTE: submissions of abstract deadline extended to 3 May 2023! 
  • Keydates: https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/key-dates/ 
• US RSE Conference (the first!) https://us-rse.org/usrse23/ Chicago, IL, USA, 16-18 October 2023
• deRSE Unconference https://un-derse23.sciencesconf.org/index Jena, Germany, 26-28 September 2023.

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In dieser Folge ist Musik in der Tat Trumpf. 2021 haben sich das DLR und Martin Hennecke zusammengeschlossen um ein aufregendes Projekt auf die Bühne zu bringen. Das Gedicht 'The Sphinx' untermalt von Charles Ives' 'The Unanswered Question'. 
Dabei war die Aufgabe, Reaktionen des Publikums mittels Biosensoren und künstlicher Intelligenz aufzunehmen und damit die live gespielte Partitur zu verändern. 
Lynn von Kurnatowksi von der DLR erzählt uns in dieser 2. deutschsprachigen Folge wie das ganze Experiment zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft und Software Engineering verlaufen ist.

Links:

• https://wiki.theater.digital/projects:theunansweredquestion:start Projektbeschreibung
• https://vimeo.com/712835935 Video auf Vimeo
• https://www.dlr.de/sc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1192/1635_read-34048/sortby-lastname/ Lynn von Kurnatowski von der DLR
  • https://twitter.com/LYNX_V Twitter Konto
• https://www.martinhennecke.com Martin Hennecke's Webseite
• https://theater.digital Akademie für Theater und Digitalität
• https://www.mdc-berlin.de Das Max Selbrück Zentrum in Berlin (Aufnahme der MRI Daten des Schauspielers)
• https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/en/hida-news/when-data-becomes-sound 
• https://www.dlr.de/content/en/institutes/institute-for-software-technology.html DLR Institute for Software Technology

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Getting funding for software engineering in research is an ongoing challenge. The Research Software Alliance together with the eScience Centre in the Netherlands organised a 2 day workshop in Amsterdam 8-9 Nov 2022 to see how we can get on top of it. I invited the director of ReSA, Michelle Barker and Joris van Eijnatten, director of the eScience centre to talk about the workshop and the declaration that came out of it. 

Links:

• https://adore.software official Amsterdam declaration site
• https://future-of-research-software.org the workshop page
• https://zenodo.org/record/7330542#.ZCHG7C8w3uc the draft declaration
• https://www.researchsoft.org ReSA the research software alliance
• https://www.esciencecenter.nl/ the eScience Centre in the Netherlands
  • https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/global-support-for-funding-sustainable-research-software-in-amsterdam/ the workshop

Other links mentioned

• https://eosc-portal.eu European Open Science Cloud
• https://wellcome.org Wellcome Trust
• https://chanzuckerberg.com The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative

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The 6th instalment of ByteSized is about IDEs. They are mostly taken for granted these days. Hence, it might be easy to forget how much effort and time they saved when they were introduced. 
After a brief history and talking about some popular IDEs, I'll be talking to Joaquin Dominguez from the US about how he uses IDEs, which ones and why. He also pointed out a relatively new one called zed (Mac only for now). 

Here a links to some editors etc.:

• https://code.visualstudio.com Visual Studio Code by Microsoft - also used in the interactive ByteSized RSE sessions
  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode VSCode GitHub
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--_EOzdTHk example of how to set up VSCode for Python
  • https://analyticsindiamag.com/is-microsofts-vs-code-really-open-source/ is VSCode open source? 
• https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ PyCharm - there is a free Community edition
• https://neovim.io Neovim - a Vim based IDE
• https://www.pydev.org PyDev as part of the Eclipse IDE 
• https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder Spyder 
• https://zed.dev - seems a new kid on the block (beta version), for now it's Mac only 

Some older stuff

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html - good ol' Emacs
  • https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy Python for Emacs

Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
ByteSized RSE link to Imperial College

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There are a lot of excellent training programmes for researchers and RSEs, like the Code Refineries and various Carpentries. But with demand of experienced engineers growing rapidly, we have a gap in training enough RSEs. In this episode I meet with Jeremy Cohen, Radovan Bast, Weronika Filinger and Malvika Sharan to discuss training and what we can do to fill the gap. 

There are a lot of training programs, but here are the links for those mentioned in the panel discussion: 

• https://software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry
• https://coderefinery.org Code Refinery
• http://www.hpc-carpentry.org HPC Carpentry
• https://excalibur.ac.uk/projects/universe-hpc/ UK Universe-HPC programme
  • https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/ ByteSized RSE programme (and this podcast) as part of Universe-HPC
• https://intersect-training.org/training-links/ a roadmap and overview of existing training resources

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Hallo und herzlich willkommen zur ersten deutschsprachigen Folge von Code for Thought. Und wir beginnen diese Serie mit einem Bericht über die diesjährige Konferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins in Paderborn zwischen dem 20. und 22. Februar 2023. Circa 150 TeilnehmerInnen haben sich im Heinz Nixdorf Zentrum eingefunden, nach einer fast vierjährigen Pause. 
In dieser Folge möchte ich Euch einen Einblick geben was so an den Konferenztagen passiert ist, inklusive Interviews mit einigen der TeilnehmerInnen und VeranstalterInnen. 

• https://zenodo.org/communities/derse23/ die Vortrags PDFs gibts hier
• https://de-rse23.sciencesconf.org Konferenz Homepage
• https://de-rse.org/de/index.html Homepage des deRSE Vereins

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