Johan Hidding

Research Software Engineer at @eScienceCenter, with interests in cosmology, dynamics and geometry, finding distraction in music, SF literature, and all else

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

Lees net over de ramp in #Zoetermeer; moest hier aan denken: https://t.co/yIH5thjwtz

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@eScienceCenter @abel_siqueira

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Did you know that #JuliaLang can outperform C++ by more than a factor of two? Run-time loop-unfolding metaprogramming for the win! https://t.co/Fc99ODVlHO

[Netherlands eScience Center @akademienl.social @eScienceCenter]

Whether we like it or not, dealing with legacy code is part of a Research Software Engineer's life.

Our engineer @jhidding tells us how literate programming can help with this notoriously hard task.

https://t.co/JppPbNDyPt

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Dit is briljant! https://t.co/zZ42qPZDZk

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

This is so true! Especially when it rains

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A condition referred to as "bicycle face"

[Netherlands eScience Center @akademienl.social @eScienceCenter]

It's SUMMER! What are you doing this summer? Brushing up on your Python skills? Me too! Here is a list of our favourite blogs about handy Python tools from our beloved (former) RSEs: https://t.co/T2wJEiCRu1 @jhidding @jvdzwa @DonMostrenco @egpbos

[Wouter van Bernebeek @StormchaserNL]

🌩️ The most incredible shelfcloud I've ever seen! Verdun (France) just now... #onweer #orage

@KeraunosObs @weermanreinier @ReedTimmerAccu @StormHour

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

Mooie werkjes gevat in het stof van Tata. https://t.co/qS8cEssjZu

[Netherlands eScience Center @akademienl.social @eScienceCenter]

We're hiring 2 Research Software Engineers (#RSEs) to join our Social Sciences & Humanities team! If you:
✔️want to work on exciting projects and
✔️want to make an impact in the world of academia with an enthusiastic team...

...then apply by 15 May!
https://t.co/X9YPNhPCJA

[Daniel Pomarède @DanielPomarede]

Born on this day, April 25, 1918, astronomer and fellow countryman Gérard de Vaucouleurs. A little tribute, from a cosmographer's perspective.

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

@smartereveryday Time is a measure of the amount of change in a system, possibly relative to some other well-known process, like a vibration of the EM field.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

Biggetjes in #dierenparkamersfoort

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@MikeGrudic Rybicki & Lightman is the most expensive book I ever had to buy.

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

Dagje #dierenparkamersfoort

[piterpasma @piterpasma]

today's work in progress ... #genartclub #generative #creativecoding

[piterpasma @piterpasma]

generative program goes brrrrr

[Johan Hidding @jhidding]

Dagje #dierenparkamersfoort en het Honderdduizend-dieren-huis (1000x leuker dan leeuwen en kamelen) @dpamersfoort

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@EU_Social @EU_Eurostat I meant Danish, not Swiss, of course

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@EU_Social @EU_Eurostat Strange list, Sweden up there with Greece and Spain, while the Czechs are supposedly "better" than the Swiss. What do these numbers really mean?