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11 articles · Latest March 13, 2025

Suvayu·Mar 13, 2025

A debugging journey into the unknown (part I)

Faced with a buggy library, most people will just give up and wait for a patch to be released. Certainly not our engineers. NASA/JPL-CaltechIt all started with a colleague trying t...

Bart Schilperoort·Mar 12, 2025

Sharing MATLAB models with everyone

MATLAB is still commonly used in many scientific fields, despite its closed-source nature. While many (technical) universities used to teach coding using MATLAB, more and more are...

ole·Feb 21, 2025

A Helpful Noob

Photo by Keiteu Ko on Unsplash Introduction Yesterday, my colleague Faruk asked me to conduct a Hallway Test for the NLeSC/python-template he is working on: he just grabbed me off...

Carsten Schnober·Jan 28, 2025

A Different Game

3 According to a panel of football experts, the world's best male player of the year 2024 was Rodri. The choice is naturally debatable, but even if you put him together with other...

Olga Lyashevska·Jan 23, 2025

How to run a containerized Agent-Based Model on HPC

This blog was written by Faruk Diblen and Olga Lyashevska. Imagine you are preparing Torta Caprese for your friend’s birthday. You have a recipe that consistently delights everyone...

Lieke de Boer·Jun 27, 2024

Transparency in research... and football

A strategy for dealing with subjectivity in research, and in football, is to expose it. The VAR system in football allows the referee to scrutinise video footage of players, decide...

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Flavio Hafner·Feb 27, 2024

How to manage your IP address in Python

> This post is the first of a series of blog posts arising from a collaboration between the eScience Center and the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team. You can find this text also at...

Lieke de Boer·Jun 8, 2023

NL-RSE: What Open Science can learn from Open Source

NL-RSE meetups are bimonthly events where the Dutch community for Research Software Engineers comes together to learn new skills or hear inspiring talks by experts in the field of...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Jan 26, 2022

Speed up your Python code using Julia

Part two of the series on achieving high performance with high-level code Python holds the steering wheel, but we can make it faster with other languages. Photo by Spencer Davis on...

Florian Huber·Nov 10, 2020

Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user.

How I slowly went from my imposter-syndrome hiding to accepting what I am. A Windows user, at least most of the time. (Don’t worry, this is NOT one of those Linux vs. Windows posts...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Aug 17, 2020

Parallel R in a nutshell

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Loops are, by definition, repetitive tasks. Although it is not part of the definition, loops also tend to be boring. Luckily for us, computers ar...