If you missed the Julia day at Jussieu in Paris last week, but still want to get to know the programming language Julia a little, have no fear: I'll be doing an introductory Julia session at the 36th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig this year (on day 4, 11am, so …
read moreMRMCD18: Pitfalls for performance: Latencies to keep in mind
This weekend I attended the MRMCD18 in Darmstadt, which is one of the many chaos events where a few hundred people interested in computer science, hacking, making, politics and society gather for a weekend of talks, coding and discussion. Having participated in this event regularly in the past few years …
read more[c¼h] Parallelised numerics in Python: An introduction to Bohrium
Thursday a week ago I gave a brief introductory talk in our Heidelberg Chaostreff about the Bohrium project. Especially after the HPC day at the Niels Bohr Institute during my recent visit to Copenhagen, I became rather enthusiastic about Bohrium and wanted to pass on some of my experiences.
The …
read more[c¼h] Testen mit Rapidcheck und Catch
Last Thursday, I gave another short talk at the Heidelberg Chaostreff NoName e.V. This time I talked about writing tests in
C++using the testing libraries rapidcheck and Catch.In the talk I presented some ideas how to incorporate property-based testing into test suites for
read moreC++programs. The idea …[c¼h] Einführung in die Elektronenstrukturtheorie
The week before my bash scripting course I gave another short talk for the weekly meeting of the Heidelberg Chaostreff NoName e.V. Unlike last time the talk was not concerned with a traditional "Hacker" topic, but much rather I tried to give a brief introduction into my own research …
read more[c¼h] Härtere Crypto für unsere Services
Last Thursday I gave a talk (in German) in our local Chaostreff in Heidelberg — the NoName e.V. The main topic was to introduce the various cryptographic algorithms used in modern cryptography and to give practical advice how to improve the default configuration even further. The talk mainly focuses on …
read more31st Chaos Communication Congress
Just at the end of last year I went to the 31c3, the annual hacker's conference organised by the Chaos Computer Club. I've been following this event via the streams and by watching the recorded videos for many years. This time, however, I actually made my way to Hamburg. Even …
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