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This is the web presence of Valentin Boettcher a.k.a. Hiro98.
Valentin:
- is a PhD student @ McGill University under the supervision of the wonderful Bill Coish.
- codes stuff.
- is a science-fiction junky and space enthusiast.
- loves jamming with the saxophone.
- is hooked on LISP and Clojure.
- appreciates C++.
- uses python a fair bit.
- likes his Kyria.
You can check out my Github, Gitlab and KDE Invent profiles for most of my projects as I publish the source to most things I produce.
I've got a CV.
My usual internet/user/nick name is Hiro or Hiro98 after Hiro Protagonist from Neal Stephenson's novel "Snow Crash", who is usually depicted in profile pictures like the following one.
{{< figure src="/images/Pages/2021-08-01_15-14-54_screenshot.png" caption="<span class="figure-number">Figure 1: By Ben Towle." >}}
Things Made
- The source of this website lives here.
- I've written a bachelor's thesis about Monte Carlo Event Generators. I even built my own in python.
- A simple, easy-to-use and firewall penetrating control software for
streaming stuff from
rtmpcams to youtube. - Along with a commilitone I've written some lecture notes about Quantum Information.
- The website of SimuNova.
- The software behind klausurnoug.at.
- A visualization of neutrino oscillations.
- A python library to calculate the gaussian error propagation.
- A small hack to scrape and organize physics courses at the TU-Dresden. See it in action.
- A script to convert the wunderlist export to org-mode.
- A script to create an arch linux image with bcachefs support.
- I've made the website and some of the continuous integration for the SHERPA project.
- A new [midi brain]({{< relref "converting-a-kawai-ksp-30-to-pure-midi" >}}) for my KSP-30.
Activities
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I am the admin and the most enthusiastic user of the TU-Dresden Physics Forum.
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I am an occasional contributor to KStars. As of late I have participated in the Google Summer of Code to implement a better Deep-Sky-Object backend.
I also implemented and now maintain the KStars DSO Catalog Repository.
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Sometimes I release some noises on Soundcloud and Bandcamp under the name "Abschreibung für Abnutzung".
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I am also the maintainer of the RoyalCam backend which is also used by the Urban Wildlife Trust for their Wildcams.