programming Playing Codenames in Rust with word vectors In a previous post [https://rolisz.ro/2020/06/10/playing-codenames-with-rust/] 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, using word vectors. Word vectors (or word embeddings) are a way of converting
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 made by the Moors. A portugese king fell in love with them and tasks the players with making the most
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 and I got back: machine learning + board games - Rust = Codenames So let's implement Codenames in Rust. It's a simple
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. On the box it says it can be played by 4-8 players, but I think you can easily have more
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 are four diseases ravaging through the world. The players must cooperate to prevent outbreaks and to find cures for the
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 more than 20000 kilometers every year, my feet are itching to travel again. I can't wait for airports to open
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 be either a bacteria or a virus. Of course, in our last play-through, everyone was a (corona)virus. The two
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 [https://rolisz.ro/2020/02/07/interview-about-wfh/], nor that I can really leave the house even if I wanted to, because I managed to sprain my ankle,
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 a fireworks maker in China, who have messed up the fireworks, right before the show is supposed to start. The
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 game is played between 3 and 7 players. The Duel version is made for two player game, with several nice
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 like it. Last night we played it with some friends and it was a blast. The playing board, with the
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 knew (cough Dixit cough). But today, we did a spontaneous board game night in our house and I
boardgames Boardgames Party: Splendor One of the games that we recently played a lot is Splendor [https://event.2performant.com/events/click?ad_type=quicklink&aff_code=de74d8a57&unique=9a6f02fef&redirect_to=https%253A//www.libris.ro/splendor-LEX-3558380055419--p1259416.html] , a game with some really neat tokens, representing precious stones, and where
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 wife also enjoys this hobby very much, so we often have friends over to play various boardgames. Almost all of
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 couldn't find flights together with the rest of the team, so I went a day early, but I stayed at
trips Nice time in Nice Because I had such a good time in Paris last month [https://rolisz.ro/2016/05/24/paris-revisited/], I just had to go again to France, this time to the French Riviera, to hear the beautiful French language again :X:X. Or maybe it was just an SRE offsite.
