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DSF Fall 2023 Learner Log Entry #7

Prompts

Following the Rose/Bud/Thorn model:

The rose/bud/thorn learning model is a simple but powerful tool for reflection and improvement. It encourages people to identify positive aspects (roses), challenges (thorns), and opportunities (buds) in a given situation. This information can then be used to plan for the future and make changes as needed.

Here is how the rose/bud/thorn learning model works:

  • Identify roses. What went well? What did you enjoy? What were you proud of?
  • Identify thorns. What challenges did you face? What could have been done better? What did you learn from your mistakes?
  • Identify buds. What opportunities are there for growth? What are you curious about? What new things would you like to try?

Rose:

The highlight from the previous FOSS session, such as something you found particularly interesting. This could also be something you're excited to implement now.

  • FOSS session 7 was about containers -a.k.a. the gold standard for reproducibility- with an application on Docker hub. This session taught me what the containers are, how to use them and their importance for the reproducibility. I understood the pros and cons of them: one of the most important cons is their scalability, portability and velocity. Basically, using containers is a way to distribute software so that people can run the software on their computer across different operating systems. The cons is that I think you need a higher level of experience to introduce them into your work cause you need to first of all search for the container you may need, verify the security of the source, and know how to implement them.

Bud:

Something that you are looking forward to digging into deeper. This could also include ideas on how to apply concepts to your research in the future.

  • I would like to understand more about containers and in particular I would like to see an application of how to find the best container, how to efficiently apply it in a more complicated scenario than the one we have seen in the tutorial.

Thorn:

Something that was challenging that could be worked on, such as anything that wasn't 100% clear and could be elaborated on. Any sticking points should be addressed here.

  • In session 7 tutorial, we experienced how to implement a container using Docker hub and GitHub. I do not feel like I would be able to do something similar by myself cause I think that finding the right container to use could be very difficult.

DSF Fall 2023 Last update: 10/26/2023

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