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Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community?

Posted by prideout on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have a computer science / math education. I love creating software and I'm quite skilled at it. But, I'm also very interested in physics and astronomy, and I greatly admire the people who push those fields forward. I want to write tools for scientists in my free time, but I don't know what they need. How do I find out?
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Re:Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community? by j2kun on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:21PM (#31361713)
Maybe reach out to Arfon Smith, who does a lot of stuff at GitHub and is passionate about astronomy: https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/arfo...

I recall talking to him years ago about tools for scientists and how GitHub could help.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community? by bartmika on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:51PM (#31361506)
A previous post on HN via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31330502 on distributed computing might be interesting?
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Re:Ask HN: How can I help the scientific community? by anthk on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:51PM (#31360573)
Help Gnu Scientific Library, Lapack and BLAS.
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