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Why Reproducibility is Important
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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Episode 28: R We Not Statisticians?
July 6, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
Listen to the podcast On episode 28, we finally get around to tackling R, a language for statistical computing. R has a storied history as an LGPL code related to the S language which came out of Bell labs which itself was influenced by Scheme. R is the go-to tool for many statisticians, analysts, and data scientists. […]
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Open, Free, or Me: Return of the Binary in the Coalmine
June 28, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
You may recall that a few months ago I wrote a post about how open source is a continuum and that free and open are orthogonal concepts. Well, the nice people at the American Nuclear Society invited me to a round table discussion on software licences on Monday where I presented this material. I figured I’d post my […]
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Episode 27: Ladies Who Learn And Code
Listen to the podcast On episode 27, the henspeckles were flying. In April, we had a very lively chat with some very inspiring women in computing and computing education. This episode discusses the importance of educational organizations like the ones that these ladies are leading, addresses some challenges and opportunities for women in computing, and […]
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UUID for #include Diamond Problem
June 22, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
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 C/C++ you are well aware of the #include diamond problem. Basically you can’t have the same binary include the same header […]
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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 doing this : Software Carpentry brought a boot camp to the University of Chicago with collaboration from the FLASH Center at the University of Chicago’s Computational Institute and The […]
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Evolution of a Solution
March 31, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
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, we have two points (p1 and p2) which define a line segment. Additionally there exists experimental data which can be […]
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July 13, 2012
by Anthony Scopatz
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