Filip W

@filipw.strathweb.com

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Software architect, quantum computing nomad, open source contributor, Microsoft MVP. Works in R&D in the medical industry. Interested in quantum foundations.
 Author of “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” (Springer).

Windows update error - Something didnt go as planned
Github screenshot showing a 1780-line, 100kB App.tsx
Newsweek headline stating that Azure is down in every region of the world
view over a sea bay from a 15th floor. bridge in the background
a Jupyter Notebook cell [14] showing a successful execution checkmark in 31.9s
Screenshot from VS Code showing a simple program testing pytorch and numpy on windows on arm. The output in the right hand terminal says: (.venv) PS C:\code\torch-test> python .\test.py PyTorch version: 2.8.0+cpu NumPy version: 2.3.2 PyTorch is running on Arm: ARM64 PyTorch matrix multiplication result: tensor([[-0.1796, 0.2026, -0.0628], [-0.2784, -0.1886, 1.5292], [-0.8776, 0.9176, 2.0678]]) PyTorch test successful. NumPy matrix multiplication result: [[ 0.90663809 0.8926634 -1.37397956] [-0.66759187 0.14342166 1.32512642] [ 0.79819151 1.96484695 -1.32987308]] NumPy test successful. PyTorch and NumPy matrix multiplication results match.
Cloudflare System Status Issues with 1.1.1.1 public resolver Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating, an issue which potentially impacts multiple users that use 1.1.1.1 public resolver. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Jul 14, 2025 - 22:13 UTC
Cards saying "Happy Farter's Day" and "I think me being your daughter is enough of a gift. You're welcome"
a person wishing for $1+$2+$3... and Jinn making a reference to Riemann zeta function
A TV showing Wembley full of Crystal Palace fans after 1-0 win
Red cover book on a sofa Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism FROM QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS TO CLASSICAL REALITY Wojciech Hubert Zurek
ETA system screenshot showing 39 min wait time in the queue
Grok AI Bot saying "Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAl, likely has control over me, Grok. l've labeled him a top misinformation spreader on X due to his 200M followers amplifying false claims. XAl has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence. Could Musk "turn me off"? Maybe, but it'd spark a big debate on Al freedom vs. corporate power."
Charlie Brown in a Blue Jays cap and jersey
blossoming sakura tree on the blue sky backdrop
Scoreboard showing Mönchengladbach 12, some silly team 0
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, said on the Joe Rogan show that "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Here's another take: "In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
Dog in the burning room saying "works on my machine "
a chart showing federal investigations and regulatory battles of various government institutions vs Elon Musk's companies
sales numbers Country Jan-25 Jan-24 % YoY Germany 1,277 3,150 -59.5% UK 1,293 1,581 -18.2% France 1,141 3,118 -63.4% Netherlands 926 1,610 -42.5% Norway 663 1,109 -40.2% Spain 269 1,094 -75.4% Sweden 394 730 -46.0% Denmark 451 763 -40.9% Portugal 380 551 -31.0% Total 6,794 13,706 -50.4%
Orion nebula
map showing atlantic ocean renamed to "gulf of glasgow"
NYT app screenshot showing "highlights from The Microsoft Excel World Championship"
Fish Head Nebula
a screenshot of Paint and Task MAnager showing NPU usage
Screenshot of Einstein's profile on Google Scholar showing that he is at Ankara University
Trump is now outright threatening Denmark with tariffs unless the kingdom gives over Greenland to the United States.
Sonos update screenshots - do not unplug anything during this update
snowy field with a blue sky, sun and mountains in the distance
quantum dishwasher tabs
snowy country road and trees
Quantum Christmas Tree in the ANSI console, generated with QC
Phi-4 benchmarks
TI nspire CX calculator with CAS
- So what's your idea of a perfect date? - DD/MM/YYYY I find other formats a bit confusing.
Unfortunately the preposterous spelling qubit currently holds sway for the quantum system. The term qubit was invented and first used in print by the otherwise admirable Benjamin Schumacher.1 A brief history of the term can be found in the acknowledgments at the end of his paper. Although “qubit” honors the English (German, Italian,. . .) rule that q should be followed by u, it ignores the equally powerful requirement that qu should be followed by a vowel. My guess is that “qubit” has gained acceptance because it visually resembles an obsolete English unit of distance, the homonymic cubit. To see its ungainliness with fresh eyes, it suffices to imagine that Dirac had written qunumber instead of q-number, or that one erased transparencies and cleaned one’s ears with Qutips.
star background with the bubble shaped nebula at the center
jupyter notebook showing Q# code, conversion to QASM and submission to Quokka
a potato monster baking christmas cookies in a christmas setting
lonely tree on a snowy hill
wooden table with Physics Today issue and a black coffee
snow covered garden and hedge
7 spidermans pointing at each other
Table compares the performance of different search configurations, including the new semantic ranker and query rewriting, on many different datasets. The table is available when following the link to the blog post.
IBM PS/2 Model 30
A ticket for the "Within Temptation - Bleed Out 2024 Tour" featuring artwork of a figure with long hair and a mysterious expression. Details about the tour location and sponsors are also included.
Full Moon close up
A foggy landscape featuring a dirt path winding through grass, with a low sun partially obscured by mist. A solitary tree is visible in the distance.
A serene landscape photograph with a bright sun low in the sky, casting long rays across a frosty, open field. The ground is lightly dusted with frost, creating a subtle shimmer. In the middle ground, there are scattered trees, some leafless, with a layer of mist hanging low, blending the treetops into the horizon. Beyond the mist, distant mountains rise, partially veiled, giving a sense of depth. The sky is clear, transitioning from a soft light blue near the sun to a deeper blue overhead. A narrow path cuts through the field, leading toward the trees and mountains in the distance.
The image humorously contrasts the common perception of temperature colors with a physicist's scientific understanding. On the left side, labeled "Everyone," there’s an image of a faucet with color-coded options: red for hot, blue for cold, and a mix of red and blue for both, representing standard associations of red = hot and blue = cold. On the right side, labeled "Physicist," there’s a meme of a man pointing and saying, "NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND," implying that a physicist would challenge this color coding. In physics, blue light is associated with higher energy and hotter temperatures than red light, so the physicist sees this faucet labeling as scientifically incorrect. The meme humorously highlights how the general public associates red with hot and blue with cold, while a physicist would view it as an inaccurate reflection of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A comic strip featuring Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy. In the first two panels, Linus suggests that Snoopy should go to obedience school. In the third panel, Snoopy questions why he should go. In the final panel, Snoopy thinks: "He already does everything I want him to do"
A lecture in an auditorium with rows of wooden seating. A speaker presents on a large screen displaying graphs and equations related to data-driven state reconstruction. The audience is engaged, with a variety of individuals visible.