Community voting results for the domain name of a Swiss-wide RSE website
February 20, 2025
The results are in, and the winner (🥁🥁🥁🥁) is
rse.swiss!
Together with EnhanceR
we will now apply for the domain name rse.swiss.
The process is a bit complicated (see
here) and
and if our application does not go through, we would proceed with the
second place winner rse-ch.org.
December Lightning Talks
November 28, 2024
Thanks for all the persons present for the December Lightning Talks! It was as always great fun with good discussions.
- Son Pham-Ba - Local “AI” generated images
- Valérian Rousset - CDD/CDI workgroup return
- Ahmed Elghareeb - Environmental Impact of AI and its supply chain
And a picture at the end:
Applying for RSE jobs: Panel discussion
October 26, 2024
This blog entry is a collaborative effort by members of the audience to consolidate their personal notes and impressions from the event on 15 October 2024 at ETH Zurich.
For more details about the event, including a full list of panellists, please visit the more detailed event page .
The impressions below are therefore based on the discussions within the panel and with the audience and may be different for other employers. Nevertheless, the panel agreed on most of the points below.
More ...October Lightning Talks
October 2, 2024
It was a pleasure meeting you all for the lightning talks! Thanks for the presentators and the public for the questions. We had the following talks:
- Carine Dengler: Local LLMs for fun, profit and nonesense
- Nicolas Richart: Spack - a package manager for HPC that can be use on any machine
- Uwe Schmitt (ETHZ): pytest-regtest - a pytest plugin for snapshot testing
In addition, we also discussed new projects for the RSEs at EPFL and beyond. Here is a non-binding list of ideas we had:
More ..."Hacking4Sciences" course from MTEC
September 19, 2024
Do any of the following statements sound familiar to you or someone you know?
- I have a non-computer science background.
- I want to incorporate programming into my approach to working with data.
- I want to be part of the open source ecosystem.
If so, the lecture “Hacking for Sciences – An Applied Guide to Programming with Data” by Dr. Matthias Bannert from the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at MTEC-ETH might be the right fit for you.
More ..."Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists" course from ISG DPHYS
September 13, 2024
Do any of the following statements sound familiar to you or someone you know?
- I have taken a Python course but am having problems with the setup or the correct way to install packages.
- I want to know how to use my computer’s command line efficiently.
- I’m interested in Python tools, e.g. for checking Python code.
- I’m not sure which editor or development environment to use for Python development.
- I’m interested in best practices to increase my productivity when working with Python.
The lecture “Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists” from the IT Support group of the ETH Physics department covers these and many other topics that are often missing in many programming courses.
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