Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Feb 21, 2020

Review: Blockchain for dummies

The book "blockchain for dummies" provided by IBM contains 6 chapters on 41 pages. (Download from IBM)

The chapters 1 & 2 describe the basic of blockchain technology.
From my point of view, this part is a bit too shallow, because there is no single formular inside this book ;-)
But there are some nice illustrations given:

and the differences between a public blockchain and corporate blockchains are good explained including their  consequences.

Chapter 3 is about where companies can use blockchains. This chapter i did not understand. It is all about frictions which companies have to overcome. But these frictions are not special to blockchain (like "innovation restrictions").

In chapter 4 some examples are shown. These examples are very universal examples, which are too abstract in my eyes.

Chapter 5 contains information about a project of the Linux Foundation: Hyperledger.
This is very nice opening for https://www.hyperledger.org/.

Chapter 6 comes up with ten steps to your first blockchain application.
Skippable.

My conclusion: a very nice book and really ok for free. But I wouldn't spend any money on it...

Oct 15, 2007

CERN...

Last week a read about CERN...

Three years ago i finished my thesis at CERN or better at Freiburg.
Here is the homepage of my group in Freiburg:
HACO

Just from MAMI to LHC or the simulated LHC. ATLAS has measured the first myons (cosmic) and next year they will start...
Let's hope that they will find anything ;-)

Aug 12, 2007

MAMI

Hi,

view days ago some former members of the X1-collaboration met in a pub. We just talked about the old days of working at MAMI at the Institut für Kernphysik Mainz. Our tutor Prof. Dr. Backe is since a year emeritus and still joining collaborations with other groups and institutes.
Here you can find a list with all his students (diploma & phd) which worked in his X-ray group. I am sorry to say, that there is no such link for his "Amaritium-group". Most of his students left science but some have made their way on other institutes and universities....