Archive for 2009
- The Drunkard’s Walk
I was walking to a lecture this afternoon when a new poster in one of the engineering building captured my attention. It was about the next Perimeter Institute public lecture entitled The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. A weird coincidence since it happened to be the title of the last book I read. [...]
- Quantum Computing Continued
As promised, here is the second video of my visit to the Institute for Quantum Computing.
- This Post Wasn’t There Before You Read It
Last Thursday I went to the Institute for Quantum Computing for a talk by Raymond Laflamme on programming on quantum computers. Mr Laflamme is the current director of the IQC as well as a former sudent of Stephen Hawking and, as such, is considered to be one of the main reference on quantum information processing. [...]
- Euler 26 to 30
I just finished uploading my solutions to the Project Euler problems 26 to 30. They are all in Ruby since it is the language I am currently learning during my free time. I decided this time not to write the answers at the end. This way you have to execute the code yourself if you [...]
- Open Phones?
Thursday the FOSSLC organised a conference named Free/Open Source Mobile Development in Waterloo. They invited three speakers, each working on a different platform, to talk about their projects and the advantages their platform have to offer for open source developers. The first speaker was Jay Freeman, also known as Saurik, who is an important member [...]
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