Code for Thought

Peter Schmidt

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

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    [EN] Computing, but not as you know it: FPGA (II) - with Michael McLeod

    English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them. Links: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learninghttps://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinxhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htmhttps://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAshttps://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as wellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision processhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    31 min

  2. 27 APR

    [DE] ICON oder der Weg zu einer offenen Software mit H Bockelmann, J Engels, L Schlemmer

    Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen.  Hier ein paar Links: https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source https://www.icon-model.org/icon_model/getting_startedhttps://gitlab.dkrz.de/icon/icon-model https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31FjyhyyqwkvOaj_e-EbJa4F0Z0n8yGU online courseshttps://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/icon-team-receives-international-recognition-for-groundbreaking-achievements-in-high-performance-computing https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/announcements/2025/icon-team-wins-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate-modeling Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:peter@code4thought.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    39 min

  3. 20 APR

    [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 UKhttps://www.dpconline.org/ Digital Preservation Coalitionhttps://bit-list.dpconline.org/ list of 'endangered digital material'https://thorsten-ries.net/ Thorsten Ries home pagehttps://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/digital-preservation-southampton Digital preservation at the Uni. Southamptonhttps://arcticworldarchive.org/ Svalbard Arctic World Archive https://piql.com/ piql data preservationhttps://github.com/piql GitHub Piql - the archiving file formathttps://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 Silicahttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    1hr 1min

  4. 13 APR

    [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-Leehttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Casshttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-ahern Samanthahttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    48 min

  5. 6 APR

    [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 Projektshttps://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/alps_ii/index_eng.html https://alps.desy.de/our_group/ Die ALPS II Kollaborationhttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    42 min

  6. 30 MAR

    [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 errorshttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163  Goldberg Paper: What every computer scientist should know about floating pointshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02492 revisiting Goldberg, Vincent Lafagehttps://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 formatshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem Chinese remainder theoremI 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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    41 min

  7. 24 MAR

    [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 homepagehttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    58 min

  8. 17 MAR

    [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 paperhttps://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain/#/home  the UCL project for the browserhttps://github.com/UCL/NextBrain#  the NextBrain projecthttps://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.orgUK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.socialLinkedIn: 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/

    48 min
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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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  • Creator
    Peter Schmidt
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    209
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