September 2020 - update

It’s been quite a long time since my last update. Things that I’ve done since May -

• I completed a short course at City, University of London - Introduction to Data Analytics and Machine Learning with Python
• Attended an online webinar hosted by IBM on quantum computing - Throwing the dice with a Quantum Computer
• Set up another Ethereum 2.0 node, this time on the Medalla testnet, more on that here

I really enjoyed the DAML course, it was challenging and it definitely covered a lot more ground over the 10 weeks than I had originally anticipated.

It covered everything from - NumPy, Matplotlib, stats, pandas, web scraping, sklearn, supervised/unsupervised learning, PCA, and neural networks.

The course was definitely useful in that it gave a great overview of the field and it’s equipped me with some practical skills and knowledge of tools/techniques that I might find useful in the future.

I attended a IBM webinar on quantum computing, where we built a quantum circuit using IBM Q Experience and we explored the Qiskit Python library. It culminated in generating a random number with a real quantum computer, a thing that I imagine very few people have done - I got a number 6.

The GitHub repo for the meetup is here - https://github.com/IBMDeveloperUK/Hello-Quantum-World.