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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).
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and how is your day going? 😣
Newsweek headline stating that Azure is down in every region of the world
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Hello Lisbon! beautiful view from my hotel room and apparently I will be giving my session in an igloo 😅
view over a sea bay from a 15th floor. bridge in the background igloo shaped pop up conference room in a large conference center
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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is there a higher adrenaline rush then seeing a series of these checkmarks... and all green! 🤩
a Jupyter Notebook cell [14] showing a successful execution checkmark in 31.9s
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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I have not checked it in a few months (last I remember it did not work), but what a nice surprise today - I found out that there are now Windows ARM native versions of both PyTorch and numpy!

very cool!
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.
August 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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suddenly my home Internet went down and of course there is no way it's DNS.

oh wait it's DNS
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
July 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ah Father's Day!
Got some lovely cards 😅
Cards saying "Happy Farter's Day" and "I think me being your daughter is enough of a gift. You're welcome"
June 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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found this Riemann jinn on Reddit 😂
a person wishing for $1+$2+$3... and Jinn making a reference to Riemann zeta function
May 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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what a historic performance by Dean Henderson and Crystal Palace!

FA Cup is such a special competition 🤩
A TV showing Wembley full of Crystal Palace fans after 1-0 win
May 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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a brand new book by W. Zurek - so a mandatory instant purchase! 👏 #quantum
Red cover book on a sofa Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism FROM QUANTUM FOUNDATIONS TO CLASSICAL REALITY Wojciech Hubert Zurek
May 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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wow, I can see the UK's expanded ETA program was well scaled for today's launch...
ETA system screenshot showing 39 min wait time in the queue
April 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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a tragic hero making a dramatic stand
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."
March 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The day has come! Baseball is back! ⚾
Charlie Brown in a Blue Jays cap and jersey
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Sakura in our garden has decided that it's officially spring 🌸
blossoming sakura tree on the blue sky backdrop
March 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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hast du ihm das gezeigt
Scoreboard showing Mönchengladbach 12, some silly team 0
March 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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what a comment on today's NYT editorial
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
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.
March 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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yup
Dog in the burning room saying "works on my machine "
February 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I am not a political scientist but it does seem like a little conflict of interest

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
a chart showing federal investigations and regulatory battles of various government institutions vs Elon Musk's companies
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Tesla sales down -50% in Europe in January
These are shocking numbers, in a sense that how could anyone still want to buy even one of those...

🔗 electrek.co/2025/02/05/t...
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%
February 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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February in the northern hemisphere means excellent views of the constellation of Orion, the most magnificent patch of sky we have

The weather was great yesterday so I managed to photograph the crown jewels - the Orion nebula (M42) and the Horsehead nebula (B33)
Orion nebula Horsehead nebula
February 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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saw this on r/glasgow on Reddit and I am all for it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
map showing atlantic ocean renamed to "gulf of glasgow"
January 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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wait highlights from what?!
NYT app screenshot showing "highlights from The Microsoft Excel World Championship"
January 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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IC 1795 or, more commonly, Fish Head Nebula, photographed last night.

I love January, always so many great opportunities for spending a bit of time on astrophotography 😀
Fish Head Nebula
January 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I have not used it much, but I am pretty sure it has been like that since day 1 in Paint
a screenshot of Paint and Task MAnager showing NPU usage
January 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Google Scholar
Screenshot of Einstein's profile on Google Scholar showing that he is at Ankara University
January 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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I don't think even Monty Python could have come up with that level absurdity.
Trump is now outright threatening Denmark with tariffs unless the kingdom gives over Greenland to the United States.
January 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM