2022-07-26 | What Every Developer Must Know About READMEs
For Open Source projects on github.com a README file is mandatory. But what about your company’s internal and proprietary project? In this post I will tell you why having a README file is essential for ANY project and what it should (and should not) contain.
2021-06-18 | Living in Taiwan
I have been living in Taipei (臺北), the capital of Taiwan (台灣) from 2007 to 2009. If you plan a visit you can find my recommendations of gorgeous food or great places to visit.
2021-03-26 | Risk Management for COVID-19
A global pandemic poses many challenges. It is entire societies, countries and even continents that have to cooperate to manage the aftermath. It turns out that COVID-19 has separated the sheep from the goat like no other threat in recent history. In the following I look at successful responses and what sets them apart. Then I’ll talk about how they fit into a bigger picture from the perspective of risk management.
2020-10-11 | Mathematics of Investing
This post deals with investment and finance, applying practical mathematics and physics to financial markets. I also provide a program written in Python that performs an analysis of a portfolio of assets and finds the best selection available.
2020-10-11 | Basics of Quantum Mechanics
The History of Atoms? Since the early days of mankind philosophers have speculated what the smallest component may be which makes up matter. They intuitively assumed that this question makes sense, i.e. that there is such a thing as the “smallest scale”. However, answering this question is out of the scope of science itself, but is rather in the realm of philosophy. The idea of tiny, indivisible units dates back to the ancient Greeks who invented the word “atom” (ατομος=indivisible unit). The first known inventor of this idea was Leukipp (5th century BC). Demokrit (also 5th century BC) refined the theory further by introducing different properties of atoms and later followed an atom-based creation theory by Epikur (3rd century BC).