curl_e

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curl_e··on Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

Allow me to suggest Research Software Engineering - https://society-rse.org/careers/rse-stories/

US Organisation - https://us-rse.org/ UK (but also worldwide) - https://society-rse.org/

There are RSEs who specialise in Earth Science, e.g. https://socrse.github.io/geoscience-sig/

curl_e··on Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

Steve M. Easterbrook Computing the Climate - How We Know What We Know About Climate Change

Tom Deakin and Timothy G. Mattson Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: Performance Portability for GPUs

curl_e··on The Limits to Growth

Submitted previously, more relevant than ever.

curl_e··on Dick Smith (Entrepreneur)

I learned electronics from

https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...

pasting the circuit diagram on to a block of wood and screwing down the components...

curl_e··on Constructing an 8-bit relay computer from scratch

See also TIM a computer made from scrap relays - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXrT619jBw

curl_e··on Imperial College London have released their Covid-19 epidemic simulation

There is also a more user friendly version of the MetaWards at https://metawards.org/ ( GH repo: https://github.com/chryswoods/MetaWards ) implemented in Python which identically matches the results of the C implementation, verified by tests.

curl_e··on Differences between the word2vec paper and its implementation

The good news is people are trying to address this. Starting in the UK there is a movement for Research Software Engineering https://rse.ac.uk/ and happening right now is the German RSE conference https://www.de-rse.org/en/conf2019/

curl_e··on The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software

- Research software (e.g. scientific)

curl_e··on Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

"A FORTRAN Coloring Book" - http://www.amazon.com/FORTRAN-Coloring-Book-Roger-Kaufman/dp...