I'll be joining a panel discussion with RSSE Africa (Research Software & Systems Engineers of Africa ) on 20 Feb.

The topic: #Testing #ResearchCode

Registrations are open, come along if you want.
https://buff.ly/3EIPOc4

Elle O'Brien at UMich says there are barriers to data science in academia. Does generative AI break this down?

Many researchers are using LLMs for tips on using software even when good documentation exists. They're not software literate.

They wrongly think chatbots do web search, can code, have databases, can calculate, and give faithful explanations. Does that make their use more risky?

#ICSSI #DataScience #LLMs #AItools #CoPilot #ResearchCode #ScienceofScience #ChatGPT #InformationLiteracy

Our team got a hands-on overview of programming language Julia's key features by our colleague @abelsiqueira He installed Pluto (an interactive notebook environment for Julia), showed some code, and highlighted differences between Julia, Python, and C++.

#JuliaLang #Python #ScientificComputing #ResearchCode