Here are some reviews of movies, TV shows, books, gadgets and other things.
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Almost two years after I went to The Dungeon, I went with Eliza and Ruxi to The Museum, another room escape game in Cluj. The Museum has two different puzzles and for some reason we chose to go to the second one, which is more difficult. Because one person bailed
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Having a goal to read books really helps with reading them. I finally started reading through the mountain of machine learning books that have been sitting on my shelves for half a year. The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos, a professor at the University of Washington, is an user friendly
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The Israeli dance troupe Mayumana was in Zürich this weekend and I went to see one of their shows. Colour me impressed. That was amazing. It was a really good show. The theme of the show was time. They started off by showing a video about flies and how their
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I finally finished this book. I bought it from one of the authors a year and a half ago. The book has seen some serious mileage in my hands, having been to the Belgium and to the US. But I finally managed to read all of it. Having a goal
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Last year I bought myself a pair of Bose SoundLink Around-Ear Bluetooth Headphones. After 6 months of usage, I feel like it's time that I finally review them, having used them enough :)) Let me first say my track record with all of my previous wired earphones: none of
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The Christmas party organized by Google in Zurich this year was... drumroll a private Star Wars: The Force Awakens screening. They rented out half of Arena Cinemas for half a day and they invited all Zooglers to watch the movie. Normally I don't go to see movies in
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Back in April, after my trip to Geneva, I realized I needed a camera. Just using my phone to take pictures wasn't going to cut it. No matter how good cameras in phones get, they still have a small sensor and a fixed lens, so in many conditions
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Google Cardboard is a low cost virtual reality headset made out of cardboard, obviously, two lenses, a small magnet and some velcro. Instructions on how to make one yourself are available online. I was quite skeptical when it came out last year. I'm not a big
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Over the two weeks of winter holidays I finally had some time to watch some movies, some of which were on my to-watch list for quite some time. Two of them were very pleasant surprises: * Coherence - a very light science fiction, but which has a genius twist on a
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On Saturday I went to see Interstellar. I had heard many opinions about it. Dodo was praising it to heavens. Some colleagues said it was boring and way too long. Other complained about the *spoiler*. Other said it was very good. First let me describe the Swiss
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Recent, la conferința Google I/O, a fost anunțată următoare versiune de Android, care deocamdată este numită doar L, fără vreun nume de desert sau vreo versiune. Versiunea de preview pentru telefoane a fost făcută disponibilă pentru telefoanele și tabletele din seria Nexus. Săptămâna aceasta mi l-am pus
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Ca să sărbătoresc sfârșitul facultății, am mers cu Cătă și cu sora lui la The Dungeon, primul joc de room escape din Cluj. Au mai fost ceva colegi la ediția anterioară a jocului și mi-au zis că îi super. Confirm. Îi awesome. Ideea din spatele jocului este că