programming Playing Codenames in Rust with word vectors In a previous post I implemented the game of Codenames in Rust, allowing a human player to interact with the computer playing randomly. Now let's implement a smarter computer agent,
boardgames Boardgames Party: Azul Last weekend I played a fun game called Azul, which has won many awards, among which the famed Spiel des Jahres in 2018. The name comes from "azulejos", Portuguese tiles
programming Playing Codenames with Rust I love playing board games. I love machine learning. I love Rust. So why not combine them and do something really fun? So I ran a word vector analogy query
boardgames Boardgames Party: Codenames Lockdown is over, time to play some games that work well in larger groups, such as Codenames, which is a very fun game to play, but it requires language skills.
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Pandemic The pandemic is "over" in Romania (or at least, the most severe lockdown is over), so it means we won the game of Pandemic :) Pandemic is a game were there
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Itchy Feet I haven't traveled abroad in one year. [1] I haven't travelled more than 80 km from home in two months. Considering that in the previous six years I have travelled
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Plague Inc. It's time to see how a virus can spread all over the world and kill a lot of people. In Plague Inc., each players represent a different disease. You can
boardgames Quarantine boardgames: Travelin' Since Romania instituted a general lockdown this week, I haven't really left the house. Not that I normally leave the house too much, nor that I can really leave the
boardgames Boardgames Party: Hanabi This time I'm going to present a Hanabi, a cooperative card game. It's super small, can easily be taken on trips to be played between 2-4 players. Each player is
boardgames Boardgames Miniparty: 7 Wonders Duel Last night, my wife and I wanted to play a boardgame by ourselves. Looking through my collection, we decided to give 7 Wonders Duel a try. The original 7 Wonders
boardgames Boardgames Party: Rival Restaurants Rival Restaurants is a game I ordered on Kickstarter. When ordering from KS, it's always a bit of a gamble, but my wife loves cooking, so I figured she will
boardgames Boardgames Party: Tokaido I've bought Tokaido about two years ago. I've opened it about a year ago, but I was quickly overruled by the others, who probably wanted to play a game they
boardgames Boardgames Party: Splendor One of the games that we recently played a lot is Splendor, a game with some really neat tokens, representing precious stones, and where the rich get
boardgames Boardgames Party: Sushi Go This year I caught the bug of boardgames. I bought a lot of them, I tried a lot of them and I played some a loooot of times. My lovely
trips Maltalavista Last week I was in Malta, on an offsite with the new (extended) team. It was possibly even better than in Nice. Because I switched to this team "late", I
trips Nice time in Nice Because I had such a good time in Paris last month, I just had to go again to France, this time to the French Riviera, to hear the beautiful French
