Recycle Punch Cards — Get Money Accounting to Programming My father attended Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, on the G.I. bill and received an accounting degree. After graduating, my father was hired by GTE Sylvania, in their accounting department. Soon after my father started working at GTE, they purchased and installed those mammoth IBM 360…

The No-Cost Way to Reduce Junk Mail — As we all do I receive junk mail. The kind I’m talking about is the paper envelope containing a postcard and another smaller return envelope. Here’s what I recently received in the mail. The postcard states something like: “Yes, I would like to learn more about…” with some spaces to…

A Little Regular Expression Solves Our Problem — Overview We will explore the problem and solution of parsing the “counts” section of the Quantum Circuit JSON string literal. Previously, we ran a Quantum circuit job using the IBM Composer. The circuit simulates rolling a die using five Hadamard gates. The Composer generated a JSON string literal containing the job…

Let’s See How Our Quantum Circuit Performed — Overview We describe the steps required to obtain and parse the raw results output of a Quantum Circuit job. We ran the job with IBM Composer. IBM Composer generated the results of our quantum circuit job in JSON format. We can download and parse the JSON data. …

Rolling Our Die in Parallel — Overview We’ll create a quantum circuit to simulate the rolling of a die using a different circuit design than in my previous article. In my previous article, we created a quantum circuit using a single Hadamard gate. We ran the circuit for five shots and counted the 1s measured from the…

The Quantum Casino Craps Table — Overview We’ll create a simple quantum circuit using IBM’s Quantum Composer tool to simulate rolling a single die. Then, we’ll view the results. Thought Process How do we design a quantum circuit to simulate rolling a die? In my previous article, I described creating a simple quantum circuit to simulate the flipping of…

We’ll use IBM’s Quantum Composer — Overview This article explains how to compose, run and view the results of a simple quantum circuit using IBM’s Quantum Composer. The circuit will generate a series of 0s and 1s. …

Now, I have weeks of sweet & salty popcorn Backstory I love popcorn. I’d love to go to the movies. I’d buy the largest tub of popcorn and enjoy the movie and scarf down those tasty buttery kernels of popped corn. Several years ago, I decided to skip the artificial flavors…

From Confusion to Organization and Motivation Where do I start? Ideas swirled around in my head. No direction. I was in a state of confusion. I’m a BigCommerce eCommerce platform partner. I want to find merchants and sign them up on the platform and earn revenue. In order to accomplish…