Code for Thought

English edition: As part of our ByteSized series, we are going through some of the (many) aspects of AI assisted coding with my guests Robert Chatley (Imperial College London, UK), Reece Walsh (Newcastle Uni., UK) and Faruk Diblen (eScience Centre, Amsterdam, NL). Links: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/agentic-coding/ A good run-through of agentic coding by MIT/USAhttps://martinfowler.com/bliki/AgenticProgramming.html Martin Fowler on agentic codinghttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/...

English Edition: scikit-learn is THE open source programming library for all things machine-learning. And since 2024, it is the core part of a company called :probabl. What this means for the millions of users of scikit-learn and the many contributors is something we find out in this episode, where I talk to Marie Sacksick (skore), Arturo Amor (skolar) and Yann Lechelle (president and co-founder of :probabl.). Links: https://www.probabl.ai Home page for :probabl. https://prob...

English Edition: PsychoPy is an open source library widely used in behavioural sciences. I met with Jonathan Peirce, author and psychology researcher himself, about what the library does and how he, and his team, manage to keep it running while still doing research. Links https://psychopy.org the homepage for the libraryhttps://github.com/psychopy/psychopy GitHub repohttps://opensciencetools.org the company behind PsychoPy https://pavlovia.org Pavlovia - run your experime...

Deutsche Ausgabe: In der Woche vom 1. Juni fand in Berlin eine Woche zum Thema Forschungssoftware statt - mit Trainingsprogrammen und Meetups. Dazu gehörte auch der erste RSE (Research Software Engineering) Tag in Berlin. Hier hört Ihr von den Organisatoren Claudia Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9785-4154 ) und Alexander Struck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1173-9228) wie das so gelaufen ist. Links Webseiten der Events: https://forschungssoftware.info/RSdays/2026/Berlin/...

English Edition: Andre Piza is one of the authors of the paper: "Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: A Roadmap". And in this episode Andre tells us what this roadmap contains and how this benefits digital skills in the arts and humanities domain. Links: https://zenodo.org/records/15083396 the original paperhttps://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FU000019%2F1#/tabOverview funding of the project by the Arts and Humanities Research Cou...