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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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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French
Code for Thought is hosted by Peter Schmidt. The show has published 228 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "[DE] In Guter Gesellschaft: Forschungssoftware in wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften (GI und GAMM)" (27 October 2026, 34 minutes), "[EN] Data on ice: the Arctic World Archive" (19 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "[EN] ByteSized: AI, agents and coding" (14 October 2026, 38 minutes).
Code for Thought publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 228 episodes.
Booking probability for Code for Thought is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Code for Thought requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Code for Thought's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Code for Thought are IT Services & Software Development and Scientific Research & Development. Code for Thought has a technology audience.
Peter Schmidt hosts Code for Thought, a technology podcast with 228 episodes published.
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Episode #10
Deutsche Ausgabe: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften wie die Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM) oder die Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) spielen eine zentrale Rolle in Forschung und Lehre. In...
Episode #9
English Edition: How can we preserve data not for years, but for centuries, perhaps even millennia? Meet the Arctic World Archive (AWA), located on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen part of the Svalbard archipelago. I...
Episode #11
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...
Episode #8
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...
Episode #7
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...
Episode #6
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...
Episode #5
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...
Episode #4
English Edition: The Institut for Research Software (formerly the Software Sustainability Institute) in the UK can look back on a long tradition of promoting 'better software, better research'. A key element of this is...
Episode #3
English Edition: Just in time for the RSE conference in Sheffield 2026 here a portrait of one of the larger groups of digital research professionals in the UK: the team of the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at...
Episode #2
English Edition: what do rivers have in common with online communities? This, and other questions, is something I will be talking about with my two guests Nathan Matias (CatLab, Cornell Uni. US) and Bastian Greshake...
Episode #1
English Edition: welcome back from your summer holidays. And what a summer this has been! In this short trailer you'll find out what's in store between now and the end of this year. I hope you find something interesting...
Episode #23
Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser letzten Folge vor der Sommerpause (und der letzten dieser Halbjahresserie) schaue ich mir, zusammen mit meinen Gästen Florian Mannseicher und Falk Schlegelmilch, das Projekt FutuRSI an...
Episode #22
English Edition: making your code and data safe(r) is the theme of this ByteSized online class and podcast episode. Madalyn Hardaker and Ellie Sheppard from King's College London will tell us why it is crucial to do...
Episode #21
English Edition: I want to come back to agile development practices with my guest Dave Thomas, or Pragmatic Dave as he is also known in the trade. Dave is one of the authors of the manifesto for agile development - and...
Episode #20
Versión en espagñol : El software se está comiendo al mundo, y esto incluye al mundo científico. En estos días, hacer ciencia requiere también desarrollar software, ya sea usando Python para analizar datos, o...
Episode #19
English Edition: floppy disks, hard drives, CDs, DVDs, SSD drives - no matter what you choose to store your data on - ultimately they all decay. With my guests Callum McKean, Leontien Talboom and Adrian Page-Mitchell...
Episode #18
English Edition: Will spec-driven development replace agile processes? My guest Graham Lee ( https://chironcodex.com/ ) and I discuss if there is still a place for agile software engineering in a world of AI assisted...
Episode #17
Deutsche Ausgabe: Seit über 25 Jahren bringt die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNDW) Forschungsprojekte und ForscherInnen der Allgemeinheit näher. Zusammen mit Christina Quensel, die die LNDW leitet, habe ich mich...
Episode #16
English Edition: In this ByteSized episode & online class we're talking about GitHub Pages and how it can help you to create a web-site for your research project (reasonably) quickly. With me are Sarah Gibson and Jeremy...
Episode #15
English Edition: there is a (relatively) new kid on the block - of open source package managers. It's called Pixi: and in this episode I talk to Raniere de Silva (GESIS) and Wolf Vollprecht (Prefix - the company behind...
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Technical Director for Climate and Resilience and Strategic Consulting, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, School of Podiatric Medicine
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