Throw your printer out the window, HP suggests
| Linux - Drucker |
We have all been at a point where we felt so angry about a glitch with our printer that we would have liked to thrash the useless piece of junk. Apparently the folks at HP Support share our grievances, as they encourage us to throw their own products out the window and to celebrate the accomplished task. On various HP support pages relating to All-In-One printers (for example here) I found the following step-by-step instructions that are given to make jammed carriages work again:
"Throw the All-In-One out the window,[...] then stand cheering on the balcony." - It would certainly be interesting to find out if the warranty covers accidental damages arising from these repair guidelines.
QIP 2011 poster
| Physik - Meine Forschung |
Intimidated by the prestigious nature of this conference, I didn't even try to apply for a conference talk at QIP 2011 (10th-14th January) and confided myself with a poster presentation. It was shortlisted for the "Alice+Bob Award for Original Imagery", but unfortunately got beaten by another poster that was entirely hand-drawn!
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The poster was created with the help of the baposter LaTeX class. I might elaborate on the technical details of this work once I have a bit more spare time. For the time being, feel free to download the source code and experiment with it yourself. :)
AQIS 2010 conference talk
Für diesen Artikel ist keine deutsche Übersetzung vorhanden. Here is the conference talk I gave at the AQIS 2010 conference in Tokyo, Japan on 28th August 2010. It outlines our various findings related to permutation-symmetric states of n qubits, the Majorana representation and symmetric state entanglement classes. The presentation contains animated vector graphics which may not display correctly on some PDF readers, so to be safe please view it with the Adobe Reader (v9 or higher, Win, Mac or Linux). If you want to learn more about the technical aspects of this LaTeX beamer presentation, please have a look at this article where I outline most of the points in detail. 3D printout of spherical function
Für diesen Artikel ist keine deutsche Übersetzung vorhanden. Recently the Design Office of my university acquired a 3D printer, and they offered free print-outs during a trial period. This was a perfect opportunity for me to bring one of the abstract spherical functions appearing in my work to life. The function is closely related to the icosahedron, a regular polyhedron, in the sense that it has an icosahedral rotational symmetry. A more detailed description of the function as well as its relation to quantum mechanical entanglement can be found further below.
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Command Line Magic
Für diesen Artikel ist keine deutsche Übersetzung vorhanden. This article lists some tricks for the command line that I find useful. They're written for Ubuntu, but should be largely compatible with other flavours of Linux. Vortrag fürs Doktorandenforum
Hier ist der Vortrag den ich beim jährlichen Doktorandenforum (Postgraduate Research Symposium) der Universität Leeds am 30. Juni 2010 gehalten habe. Er basiert auf der LaTeX-Klasse Beamer für Präsentationen sowie einigen speziellen Paketen und Vorlagen. In diesem Artikel erläutere ich diese technischen Aspekte meiner Präsentation.
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