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SciPy 2011 recap episode coming soon!
Dear neglected inSCIght subscribers, I have the pleasure of announcing that the long wait is almost over! Episode 18 is “dans la boîte”, as we say in French; in the box, recorded, edited and all...
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Episode 18: SciPy 2011 Recap
Listen to the podcast For episode 18, we grabbed a group of attendees at the SciPy 2011 conference in Austin, Texas. We recorded an hour-long episode in which we discussed absolutely everything SciPy...
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Episode 19: Toolkit Modularization
Listen to the podcast Apologies for the long delay since the last episode! A number of our regular panelists are undergoing life transitions, but we may be back online soon. On episode 19, we discuss...
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Episode 20: Clean Code
Listen to the podcast On episode 20, we discuss clean code. A few of the primary techniques for achieving human-readable code are tabled, including using descriptive, clear names, not mixing levels of...
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Episode 21: CMake
Listen to the podcast On episode 21, we discuss the cross platform build system popular in scientific computing: CMake. We cover how CMake lets developers use the tools they are the most efficient...
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Episode 22: Public Access to Federally Funded Research
Listen to the podcast On episode 22, we discuss the response to two Request for Information (RFI) that the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has posted in order to gather feedback on how to...
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Advice to Grad Students
One of my friends, who is a graduate student in Math and Statistics and is a rock-solid developer besides, asked me for some advice today. They have seen posted around their university offerings for...
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The Cost of Knowledge
In the post-SOPA/PIPA haze, a website was recently launched called the Cost of Knowledge. This site is basically a petition for a vote-of-no-confidence against Elsevier, a major academic publisher....
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Episode 23: git-svn, one tool to rule them all!
Listen to the podcast On episode 23, we discuss the ever important subject of version control. We talk about distributed vs centralized version control systems through two popular implementation: git...
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Research Works Act
Related to a post from last week about a petition against Elsevier, the U.S. Congress House of Representatives has put forth HR 3699 – the Research Works Act (RWA). The innocuous name belies the...
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Episode 24: ParaViewWeb
Listen to the podcast On episode 24, we discuss ParaViewWeb, software for interative, 3D browser-based web visualization based on a client-server architecture. We go over the technologies that make...
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Happy Birthday inSCIght! A huge thanks to all of our moderators, hosts, guests, friends, and colleagues who have helped define the podcast & scientific computing in the past year. And of course,...
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Interactive visualization of WordPress blog view statistics.
As a follow-up to our episode on ParaViewWeb, we present visualization of the WordPress statistics for episode page views of our blog. While most listeners subscribe to our RSS feed, the blog page...
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Bruce Dawson’s update on comparing floating point numbers.
Bruce Dawson wrote a very popular white paper on comparing floating point numbers. A few days ago, he posted an update with corrections and a great, easy-to-follow discussion of the topic. The problem...
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Episode 25: Advanced School For Scientific Software Development
Listen to the podcast On episode 25, we discuss the Advanced School For Scientific Software Development, an educational effort in Trieste, Italy supported by the International Center For Theoretical...
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Binary in a Coalmine; Open Source as a Continuum
Figure 1: Rough placement of software licenses as a function of free & open source. A couple of weeks ago Milad (animal) and I engaged in a lively discussion at the NIF User Group Meeting banquet...
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Episode 26: PyCon 2012 Recap
Listen to the podcast For episode 26, a group of Hacker Within alums visited PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. We discuss some of the very exciting developments in the world of scientific computing in...
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Evolution of a Solution
the thought process of a computational scientist To appease the PI, our hero – the dashing, young scientist – faces down the following problem with moxie normally reserved for Marie Curie. In 2D or 3D,...
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University of Chicago Software Carpentry Bootcamp
This post was cross-posted from software-carpentry.org in case you’ve been wondering what your inSCIghtful panelists are up to when they’re not making podcasts. This week, Anthony, Katy, and Milad were...
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UUID for #include Diamond Problem
Hello scientists! Sorry it has been a while since we posted. We promise that there are episodes in the pipeline, coming soon to an eardrum near you! In the meantime, if you have ever programmed in...
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