GP Moto Malaysia
1 Marc Marquez Honda
2 Alex Rins Suzuki
3 Johann Zarco Yamaha
Valentino Rossi was leading the race but fell

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The only problem I have is a webcam photo. EDX wants a photo of me and of an identity document (e.g. a driving license) to certify my identity. My only webcam is on a HP laptop and when I send a photo they say it is blurry. I thought that bureaucracy was an Italian invention but the American version is worse. I paid the fee via my credit card and it was accepted. What do they want more?
Tullio

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Great Tullio:)
Next step is of course learn to program a real QC.
Is it possible? Yes. IBM have the tools needed that you can install on your own computer and from my understanding the code can be even be executed on a real QC.
https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/learn/what-is-quantum-computing/
I have tried this checking a x Gate. It is the quantum equivalent of the NOT gate for classical computers.
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/editor

include "qelib1.inc";
qreg q[1];
creg c[1];

x q[0];
measure q[0] -> c[0];

The result was as expected. 100% of all the probabilities was correct:)
Note that you use both quantum and classic registers to store data.

Congratz Tullio.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Today I finished my course on Quantum Computing by the Delft Technical University and took the final tests. My final average grade is 62%. which means I can ask for a diploma and pay for it (about 50 euros). Monday there will be a meeting in Geneva on the use of Quantum computing in High Energy Physics and it will be streamed.
Tullio

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It´s called Norway Spruce in English.
Abete rosso grows here as well. We call them rödgran. Literally translated to Red Spruce.
I wonder why you and we call them red:)
They can get very old. Old Tjikko is 9500 years old.

The recent storm in Italy has destroyed much of the Paneveggio forest in the Dolomiti where Stradivari used to go to get the wood for his violins and violas. The tree he used was abete rosso, which I believe is a kind of spruce bu I don't know the exact English term. A forester said it will take two hundred years for the trees to grow again.
Tullio

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GP Mexico
1 Max Verstappen Red Bull
2 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari
4 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes World Champion

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No men giant slalom at Soelden, Austria, for bad weather conditions.

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GP Moto Australia
1 Maverick Vinales Yamaha
2 Andrea Iannone Suzuki
3 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
GC
1 Marc Marquez Honda 296
2 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 210
3 Valentino Rossi Yamaha 195

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Alpine World Cup has started again. Ladies Giant Slalom in Sölden.
1 Tessa Worley FRA
2 Federica Brignone ITA
3 Mikaela Shiffrin USA

Courmayeur is in Val d'Aosta and the valdostani speak their patois, which is close to French.

I don't think Valdostano is so close to French or Italian.
Perhaps it is but I don't understand anything of it.
Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quhJ3DRbjlo
Apparantly Valdostano is also spoken on the French side of the border to Italy and even in Switzerland.
Well, Even in my small country there are dialects that I have problem to understand.
And the Sami language... Then I'm totally lost:)

Fascinating insight and history on the life of the "irascible genius" Charles Babbage. If only he had a better machinist.

Courmayeur is in Val d'Aosta and the valdostani speak their patois, which is close to French. Many piemontesi and torinesi speak French, like Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange who became Joseph Louis.
Another example is that of Luigi Menabrea, who wrote an article in French on a Geneva magazine about a conference held in Torino by Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine. The article was translated in English by Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, who wrote many comments and greatly enlarged it, so it is one of the main sources on the Analytical Engine. The translation was made on a suggestion by Babbage himself.
Tullio

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I could almost rely on my smattering of knowledge of Latin and Spanish. Also after coming in from France I could often just add a vowel to the french word. Bain became Bagno.

Well, it toke me some time to know the difference between "bagno caldo" and "bagno freddo" when visiting Italia first time:)
In highscool we have to learn a second foreign language beside english. I chosed French.
Went to Courmayeur in Italy at the border to France for skiing.
Ha. Of course they know French I thought. They didn't.
Never the less, Italians understand you anyway eventually.
The French don't however even if I tried French. Hehe:)

Thanks William. I was born in Trieste and am more familiar with Austrian and Slovene foods than with Rome and Venice foods, but you can eat well in all parts of Italy. I remember the risotto di pesce at Manarola, Cinque Terre in Liguria. I have also a brother in Pegli,near Genoa a former merchant navy captain and his wife, a Spanish Senora, makes an excellent Pesto. I live alone and mostly of frozen foods, like Alaska fish. But I regret that too many Italian volunteers never visit this cafe. Incidentally, I recently bought an Illy caffee machine which allows me to make an espresso or an American coffee cup. Illy is based in Trieste and imports coffee from Ethiopia, Colombia, Brasil,Guatemala and Haity. Yes, I am a coffee lover since it keeps me awake. Ciao.
Tullio

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Ciao Tullio,

It pains me that there are not more posters here in Dante Alighieri's answer to the Latin tongue. I am also embarrassed that I learned just enough Italian to find my way around the trains, bathrooms and restaurants in Roma, Venezia, Firenze and Milano. I could almost rely on my smattering of knowledge of Latin and Spanish. Also after coming in from France I could often just add a vowel to the french word. Bain became Bagno and remember the pronounce the gn like the Spanish n with a tilde.

The culture of a nation is often expressed in it's cuisine and I remember some great little places to eat in Italy. In Roma there is a restaurant called Otello which is still there. It is just off the Corso. There we learned to like the Saltimbocca alla Romana and enjoyed meeting fascinating people from around the world. They wouldn't let you leave--they wouldn't bring the check until you literally got up to leave. The pizza joint at the piazza de popolo had the best pizza ever--Just simple pies with sweet yellow peppers or fungi. There is also a restaurant near the plaza around the Spanish Steps --Abruzzi where the chicken tasted like the best game bird that you could imagine. The best pasta that we found was by following the locals down an alley off of the Corso. The place was down a few steps and into a modest size dining area where you sat on what was essentially a picnic table. You could see the old grandpa in the kitchen in his undershirt stirring the sauce. They plunked down a carafe of good ordinary red wine on the table and I guess they charged you by how much you drank.

In Venice we kept going back to a little trattoria just over a bridge across a narrow canal behind St Marks. The waitress' name was Norma and we had the "Coda d' Rospo" each time--Later learned that this was Monkfish.

Back 40 years ago it was a simpler life. It was 1800 lire to the dollar and a good Gelato was only cinquecento.

GP USA Austin Texas
1 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari
2 Max Verstappen Red Bull
3 Lewis Hamilton Meecedes
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
Lewis still leader but not yet champion

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Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati, wins the moto GP at Motegi Japan. Marc Marquez is still the leader,with Dovizioso second and Valentino Rossi third, but not yet the champion.
All wrong, Dovizioso has fallen and Marc Marquez, Honda, wins and get the title.

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Candida is the name of my brother's first wife. I met doctor Costa in Chamonix and we talked about Italian wines compared to French wines with a log burning in the fogoler (so called in Friuli). He is a nice person and has gone back to his native Corsica after Candida died.
Tullio

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