Life has started again…

Back in my hometown I had to catch up with a lot of things… but I did pretty good… had my first badminton course and balcony BBQ this year, went to see the Berlin bears and so on… unfortunately there where also some drawbacks like a expensive security check for my car or my broken printer… damit. Anyway…

Home sweet home

Yeeha… back in Berlin! After my CERN-Provence-Frankfurt-CERN trip I’m finally back in Berlin… at least for some months!
This weekend I got my first SummerStudent visit… Sarah is coming over for some days to enjoy the beauty of Berlin…

It’s good to be home…

Provence and the French-German Relations

After a very nice and long trip from CERN to Aix (which costs 35EUR btw) I had an interesting guided tour through Aix, met some tourists from Copenhagen and Sydney that gave me their email and postal addresses for my future visits… then I enjoyed the beautiful countryside of the Provence and the Verdon canyon.
The next day started a bit worse… I found my car with a hole in the front window… I’m lovin’ it! Anyway… after some calls and hearing the police say: “We’re busy, you hqve to come tomorrow!” We (greetz to Julie and Melissa) went on to see the mediterian sea (following the original plan) and the Cardargue national park… also very nice countryside.
Today I “enjoyed” a french law lecture… whereas I have to admit that I was reading most of the time (thanks to Andy for the book)… but it was fun…
In the moment I’m suffering the pain of writing this up standing in front of a pc with a f***ing french keyboard…
Anyway I “love” france…
Since I don’t have a proper connection the pictures will follow later…

Everything has an end… only sausage has two!

Awesome german idiom, isn’t it?!
Anyway… if you like it or not, a bit truth is in it!
Today is my last day of my CERN summer school stay… and what a coincidence, today the MySQL server broke down! Which means not much work for me…
Writing about sausage… I have to add, that we had a real nice German BBQ at the Prevessin BBQ site yesterday evening. It was also probably the last official kitchen parade of this year’s summer school.
Writing about summer school… I have to add another thing. Yesterday we finally got the official summer school t-shirts… and I have to say, that I’m a BIT proud!

p.s.
but every end is the beginning of something new…deep isn’t it?!
see you all again!

War revealed

Here we go… for those of you interested in War 1.0!

sourcecode
deckfile for 52 card game
deckfile for 54 card game

This version is using ROOT to plot the stats.
You have to have a proper ROOT setup to compile/run it.

Here are some example results.
setup: war -G 100000 -P 3 -C 54cards.crd -O war.root -R 1 -S 5
ROOT file
NTricks plot
Ndraws plot
Nwinner plot

btw
if enyone can solve the problem why player two always wins more games than player one… he/she’ll get a drink