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Matthias Feb 22

Just measured my #darkfactor of personality.

https://darkfactor.org

There is serious psychological science behind this test.

My #darkscore is 2,13.

What is yours?

D: The Dark Factor of Personality

The Dark Factor of Personality (D-factor) is the common core of aversive (so-called \

Matthias Jan 23

The Codex Hamurapi (photo taken 2018 in the Louvre).

At the stone the oldest written rules known in the world (from mesopotamia, 1800 bc) are written.

Imagine such a stone where nowadays rules of living together in a nation and worldwide would be written up. What would mankind think of that in 3800 years?

Matthias Jan 19

Digital Sovereignity also means to do little personal steps.

My bank (Deutsche Bank) offers now also #wero .

It took me two minutes to install the wero app and to connect my personal bank account.

Feels good to have an alternative to #paypal .

In light of the US government's attacks on the EU, I wish everyone would prepare for greater #independence .

Matthias Dec 28

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela Dec 28

System/360 was quite an engineering feat, with an architecture developed first which supported different implementations, including using microcode or not being part of the implementation details.

From the Wikipedia entry on the generic System/360 [1]:

«System/360's chief architect was Gene Amdahl and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr.»

Gene Amdahl [2] formulated the eponymous scaling law [3], while Fred Brooks [4] was the author of “The Mythical Man Month” [5], and Thomas J. Watson Jr. [6] was IBM’s second president, who managed the mainframe era of IBM. Watson, the expert system supercomputer that beat Jeopardy! in 2011 [7] was named after his father, IBM’s original founder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Amdahl
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson
https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/115797198191231974

#retrocomputing #IBM #SystemScaling #Scalability #ComputerArchitecture #System360 #IBMSystem360

IBM System/360 - Wikipedia

Matthias Dec 22

Jeff Jarvis Dec 17

I wrote this about the fuller history behind Marco Rubio's banning of a woke font. Hitler did it, too. I also explore the history of Times New Roman. With this, I'm honored to make my first appearance in Katie Couric Media.
https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/rubio-calibri-font/

Times New Roman Font Is Back — and History Is Rolling Its Eyes

What seems like a harmless font choice evokes a long, uncomfortable tradition.

Katie Couric Media

Matthias Dec 21

My this years most used communication platforms and social networks. This is heavily influenced by my daily work, doesn't mean I like them all. Decending order:
Slack
Cisco Jabber
E-Mail System 1 (Outlook)
Matrix in a closed network
E-Mail System 2 (Outlook with MS Copilot)
LinkedIn
Confluence (yes, really for cross protocols and mentioning)
WhatsApp (not for work)

Not: Facebook, Xing, Nostr, Bluesky, Discord

Some #digitaldetox needed

Matthias Dec 21

I work as Senior Solution Architect.
This year I needed to do a specific industry certification for senior consultants.
Surprisingly part of the certification package was also to show eminence in doing social media with evidence and examples of influencing posts.
I never thought 17 years ago when starting to use #linkedin that it would help me in my professional career.
The last three years in my large bubble of real (former) clients and (former) colleagues I shared business insights.

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Matthias Dec 21

@arpitaaa
As an introduction, start here:
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/learning/en/courses/basics-of-quantum-information

If you want to play with Python on a real system, try this (there is also explained how to get some access and compute time for free) :
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/tutorials/hello-world

Overview | IBM Quantum Learning

Learn about quantum states, projective measurements, and unitary operations; quantum circuits; how entanglement enables quantum teleportation, and more.

IBM Quantum Learning

Matthias Dec 20

Yesterday I used the first time a Quantum Computer myself.
Fascinating to work with qubits.

Easy part: python coding with qiskit on an #IBM Quantum instance in Washington is very straight forward and easy to understand (I am quite experienced with cloud computing). I have 10 minutes compute time for free.

Hard part: understanding the mathematical quantum stuff in detail. It is fun to play with algorithms and to execute stuff. But I am not able to understand really the math.

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