Brian Svoboda's Homepage
Assistant Scientist of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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My Code
The software programs for my research are primarily written in Python but also include code written in C, Cython, Julia, and IDL. The code for my projects is available on my GitHub page as free software under the GNU GPL. I am also an enthusiast of programming languages and have dabbled with Racket, Rust, Smalltalk, and Forth, among others.
- nestfit — Bayesian spectral decomposition and model fitting with Nested Sampling.
- besl — personal library of astronomy related routines, unmaintained.
- radexgrid — run RADEX model grids.
- intro_to_cython — an introduction to the Cython programming language.
- intro_to_oop — an introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python.
- dotfiles — my system configuration files.
- Bok — a concatenative, dynamic programming language.
Free Software
I feel strongly about broadening the availability of research tools used by students and researchers to analyze their data. Although the scientific community embraces publicly released data and open-access publications, the code and software that researchers use to determine their findings is largely hidden and proprietary. I believe that free and open-source software benefits the entire scientific community, empowers the public, and makes results more easily independently verifiable.
GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux (or simply Linux) is a family of free and open-source operating systems. I have been a Linux enthusiast since 2006 and run Debian on most of my systems. I prefer and enjoy Linux as an operating system because it empowers users to modify the software on their computer and share those changes with others.