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Peter Schmidt

Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it.  Languages: English, German, French

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  • S11 · E12
    April 20 · 1 hr

    [EN] Making Data Last

    English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University of Southampton, UK). Some links to tools and sites mentioned in the episode: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/format/proformatsearch.aspx?status=new Pronom database by the National Archive in the UK https://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalition https://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material' https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home page https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southampton https://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive https://piql.com/ piql data preservation https://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file format https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/434376-preserving-today-s-digital-data-for-tomorrow https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w storing data in glass/silica https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/ Project Silica https://english.umd.edu/directory/matthew-kirschenbaum Kirschenbaum papers on recovering digital texts etc. https://www.kali.org/tools/foremost/ the open source "forensic" data tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls going back in time: a link with a description of the Dead Sea scrolls Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E11
    April 13 · 48 min

    [EN] Meet the SSI Fellows of 2026 - Anne Lee Steel, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern, Sara Villa

    English Edition: Say hi to the new fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) - Anne Lee Steele, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern and Sara Villa. In this episode they tell us all about the plans for their fellowship. And it covers a wide range, as you will hear. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/anne-lee-steele Anne-Lee https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Cass https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-ahern Samantha https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/sara-villa I'd like to thank the SSI for supporting this show. Don't forget there is the Collaborations Workshop, organised by the SSI, coming up at the end of April: 28-30 April 2026 in Belfast. Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E10
    April 6 · 42 min

    [DE] Mit Licht durch die Wand: das ALPS II Experiment - mit A Lindner und S Karstensen

    Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser Folge machen wir uns auf die Suche nach dunkler Materie - mit dem ALPS II Experiment am Deutschen Elektron Synchroton in Hamburg. Mit meinen Gästen Axel Lindner und Sven Karstensen tauchen wir in die Welt der Axionen, mysteriöse Teilchen, und wie man sie aufspüren kann. Daneben gibt es, wie immer in der Teilchenphysik, spannende Fragen zu Software und Datenaufarbeitung. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://alps.desy.de/ Die Home Page des ALPS Projekts https://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/alps_ii/index_eng.html https://alps.desy.de/our_group/ Die ALPS II Kollaboration https://darkmatter-alps.desy.de/dark-matter.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E9
    March 30 · 40 min

    [EN] ByteSized: fun with floating points - U Ruede, A Herten and E di Napoli

    English Edition: how are real numbers e.g. 0.1 represented on computers? What can go wrong with using their representation in calculations? And does it matter? These and other questions are the subject of this ByteSized episode with my guests Prof. Ulrich Ruede (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Andreas Herten and Edoardo di Napoli (both Research Centre Juelich). Links: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html an online tool to convert numbers into their bit/hex equivalent - also showing the rounding errors https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163 Goldberg Paper: What every computer scientist should know about floating points https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02492 revisiting Goldberg, Vincent Lafage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 the Wiki entry on the IEEE 754 standard for floating points (the standard itself is not accessible for free) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place definition von "ulp" https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/floating-point-8-an-introduction-to-efficient-lower-precision-ai-training/ NVidia’s take on lower precision numbers https://indico.esa.int/event/445/contributions/8473/attachments/5559/9378/gernigon_cedric_EDHPC2023.pdf list of lower precision formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem Chinese remainder theorem I would like to thank the STEP-UP project in the UK for supporting this series of ByteSized episodes. Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E8
    March 24 · 57 min

    [EN] Team Portrait: Research Software Engineering in Newcastle

    English Edition: for this episode we're going "up North", to visit the Research Software Engineering team of the University of Newcastle. The team has been hosting the UK RSE Conference in 2022 and 2024 and here is a chance to meet at least some of the people behind it all. Links: https://rse.ncldata.dev/ Team homepage https://rse.ncldata.dev/team https://www.litandphil.org.uk/ oh and the great "Lit and Phil" library in Newcastle for good measure Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E7
    March 17 · 48 min

    [EN] NextBrain: exploring the human brain - Eugenio Iglesias, James Hughes

    English Edition: NextBrain is a next generation atlas of the human brain. Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzales from Massachusetts General in Boston, US, has been leading this project. My colleague James Hughes (University College London) and I were working on part of it at the time. And in this episode we explore, once again, what NextBrain is, how it evolved using AI tools in a shifting technology landscape and how it can be used in education and research. Links https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09708-2 the published paper https://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain/#/home the UCL project for the browser https://github.com/UCL/NextBrain# the NextBrain project https://lemon.martinos.org/ Eugenio's research home page https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/ https://freesurfer.net/ https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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  • S11 · E6
    March 10 · 40 min

    [EN] Revealing the structure of crystals and proteins with CrystFEL - Thomas White

    English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://www.ccp4.ac.uk https://vimeo.com/1017833941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-electron_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_femtosecond_crystallography Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.org UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social 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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