Great Grandparents – Peter and Aksana Ostapovitch
This is an extract from “Theodore and District History”, (c) Theodore Historical Society, published in 1987. Peter and Aksana’s son Fred is my grandfather.
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Grandparents – Fred and Rose Ostapovitch
This is an extract from “Theodore and District History”, (c) Theodore Historical Society, published in 1987. OSTAPOVITCH, Fred and Rose Dad, the son of Peter and Aksana, and Mother, the daughter of Martsia Kitzul, both emigrated from Bukowina, Austria with their respective families and settled in the present Theodore district. They met some time later… Read more »
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Back story: New articles about Google achieving “quantum supremacy”. Got me interested in understanding quantum computing. I have a Ph.D. in physics and worked for 40 years doing computer software, so I should be able to understand this stuff… Right? TODO: Link to the google paper. Simple summary of what “quantum supremacy” means. Google built… Read more »
A Year of COVID-19 Lockdowns
Today is the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns in Montreal. Thinking back, we were all scared about what we were hearing. Estimates were 30-50 times worse death rate than the annual flu. We all had to decide what we personally could do about the pandemic. I wrote a short summary of my thinking last… Read more »
My Earliest Memory – Walter Yacovitch
My Uncle Walter died when I was 5 years old. I have no actual memories of him. What I do remember is sitting on the stairs where I grew up. A row-house/duplex in Rosemount. We lived in the flat above my grandparents. I was sitting on the stairs seeing all these people visiting my grandparents… Read more »
The Strangest Man
Book Review: This is a biography of Paul Dirac. TODO: Add book image.
Why Start a Blog?
Why am I doing this? We go through life collecting our stories. Once we have a full set, that’s when we die. I’m at an age where my collection is almost complete. Maybe it’s time to capture those stories. I started reading blogs 20 years ago. I’ve always thought it would be interesting thing to… Read more »