Filip W

@filipw

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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Filip W@filipw· Jun 10

booted my Windows PC for the first time in months and after about an hour of churning various Windows updates it has spent the last hour on this - not particularly reassuring - state

Windows update error - Something didnt go as planned

Filip W@filipw· Dec 3

they should not let me anywhere near React 🤦‍♂️😅🤷‍♂️

Github screenshot showing a 1780-line, 100kB App.tsx

Filip W@filipw· Oct 29

and how is your day going? 😣

Newsweek headline stating that Azure is down in every region of the world

Filip W@filipw· Oct 15

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

Filip W@filipw· Sep 25

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

Filip W@filipw· Aug 27

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!

$Screenshot from VS Code showing a simple program testing pytorch and numpy on windows on arm. The output in the right hand terminal says: (.venv) PS C:\code\torch-test> python .\test.py PyTorch version: 2.8.0+cpu NumPy version: 2.3.2 PyTorch is running on Arm: ARM64 PyTorch matrix multiplication result: tensor([[-0.1796, 0.2026, -0.0628], [-0.2784, -0.1886, 1.5292], [-0.8776, 0.9176, 2.0678]]) PyTorch test successful. NumPy matrix multiplication result: [[ 0.90663809 0.8926634 -1.37397956] [-0.66759187 0.14342166 1.32512642] [ 0.79819151 1.96484695 -1.32987308]] NumPy test successful. PyTorch and NumPy matrix multiplication results match.$

Filip W@filipw· Jul 14

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

Filip W@filipw· Jun 2

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"

Filip W@filipw· May 28

found this Riemann jinn on Reddit 😂

a person wishing for $1+$2+$3... and Jinn making a reference to Riemann zeta function

Filip W@filipw· May 17

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

Filip W@filipw· May 14

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

Filip W@filipw· Apr 2

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

Filip W@filipw· Mar 27

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."

Filip W@filipw· Mar 27

The day has come! Baseball is back! ⚾

Charlie Brown in a Blue Jays cap and jersey

Filip W@filipw· Mar 27

Sakura in our garden has decided that it's officially spring 🌸

blossoming sakura tree on the blue sky backdrop

Filip W@filipw· Mar 20

hast du ihm das gezeigt

Scoreboard showing Mönchengladbach 12, some silly team 0

Filip W@filipw· Mar 8

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.

Filip W@filipw· Feb 13

yup

Dog in the burning room saying "works on my machine "

Filip W@filipw· Feb 11

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

Filip W@filipw· Feb 7

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%

Filip W@filipw· Feb 6

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)

Filip W@filipw· Jan 30

saw this on r/glasgow on Reddit and I am all for it! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

map showing atlantic ocean renamed to "gulf of glasgow"

Filip W@filipw· Jan 20

wait highlights from what?!

NYT app screenshot showing "highlights from The Microsoft Excel World Championship"

Filip W@filipw· Jan 15

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 😀