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2026-07-06 13:10 UTC
New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science"
https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/07/06/conviviality.html
"Conviviality matters for science for multiple reasons. One of them is epistemic: if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools."
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@khinsen@scholar.social 2026-07-29 08:24
Related: "Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby" https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/Files/simhobby-local.htm (h/t @akkartik@merveilles.town) Written 30 years ago, this article assumes that convivial modeling software will become widely available. The opposite has happened: even modeling software for professionals (computational scientists) is no longer convivial.