Episode 76
Games Industry Is Rough Consider Manual Labor
We discuss what the work is like in the gaming industry. Oskar talks about the benefits of working a manual food delivery job and how that adds to his…
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Episode 75
So, What Has Been Up? Two Years Post Uni and Other Memories
Reflecting on what's been going on in our lives lately. Mainly a touch base about university and how we got into computing, etc.
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Joining the Big Corporate Life as a Software Engineer
In this episode Marius shares what the corporate life is like for a newly hired software engineer at a big corporation. Thoughts about life, the meaning of…
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Does Size Matter w/ Aylin Ibryamov
Talking about mobile phone screen sizes with Aylin. His research for the honours project involved testing reaction times of users using a single hand to pop…
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Did The NFT Bubble Just Burst?
"The NFT market has imploded over the past month, with sales in every single category almost entirely drying up." The mentioned in the podcast article:…
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Detecting Boulders on Lunar Surfaces Using AI w/ Yaseen Lahmami
Landing a spacecraft on a planet's surface is quite a challenge. Yaseen was working on a system to detect boulders on lunar surfaces in an attempt to assist…
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Keeping the Elderly Secure Online w/ Melvin Abraham
Pretty much everyone who uses the internet these days are exposed to some sort of an authentication system. Meaning they most likely have an account. By the…
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Microservices & Expectations About University w/ Dumitru Vulpe
Final year university project involving microservices and other goodies explained by Dumitru. We also chat about expectations and disappointments regarding…
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The Importance of a Good Plan
Projects are over it is time to reflect on what was learned along the way. One of the main takeaways is that a plan is really important. Can you plan out…
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Leaving University & The Sense of Community
Graduating university in these weird times. Feeling the sense of community. And having an early midlife crisis.
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The Overpowering Nature of the Environment
The environment is more powerful than you. We talk about Conway's Game of Life, simple rules governing our lives and the existence itself. Is the universe…
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Crazy Diets, Nutrition & Productivity
Does eating influence your mood and productivity. Some crazy high calorie diets and the kcal vs cal misconception.
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It's Time to Talk About Time
Today we have a chat about time and the illusions and paradoxes caused by time.
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Structure, Logic & Emotions
A chat about imposing limits and introducing mandatory requirements for academic articles. We also talk about logic, emotions and computer science. Why is…
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Timelessness & The GTA Special
Today we are joined by our friend Laura to talk about Grand Theft Auto games. A really chill conversation with a guest speaker.
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Gen Z & Absurdism
Today we talk about the generations. Baby boomers, generation x, generation y (millennials), gen z, iGen, etc. Even the generation alpha which is not yet…
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Two Apes Discuss Food and Takeout
Today we chat a bit about the psychology of addiction, starting a new diet and takeout.
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Could Dogs Speak Human Language
If you gave a dog a brain the size of a human brain could the dog learn all the things that a human can. If you learn something new do you forget something old?
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How to Wake up Excited & Challenge Yourself
Marius has found a new exciting thing! Daily short videos. Those can be found on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/mariusurbelis. What does it take to…
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Full Time Employment vs Roaming Free
This episode is us thinking whether getting employed full time is worth it. How else would one sustain self? And Marius gets a job!
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Usefulness & How to Figure Out Your Purpose
Work to live, not live to work. Figuring out how you may contribute to the society might be difficult. However, understanding what usefulness means might…
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How Do We Call This?
Let nature take its course. What happens, happens.
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Diamond Hands! Apes Together Strong!
If you thought nothing could top the year 2020.. Think again.. What is going on with WallStreetBets, GameStop, AMC and how does that relate to the apes and…
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New Strand Is Here. Lockdowns Continue. The End Is Near!?
Today's podcast is a chill one. Some speculations about AI and why people are not following the restrictions. How long will this COVID pandemic last? Is…
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin
In this world we have choices. A lot of them. However, sometimes the environment decides our fate.
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Impulsive Decisions & Uncertainty of Creativity
Impulsive decisions lead to great experiences. However, not always. We talk about Albert Einstein and creativity. Does conforming and paying attention to…
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Take a Breather and Don't Overpromise to Yourself | New Year Edition
Happy new year! However, don't rush to make new year's resolutions just yet. Don't overpromise. Especially to yourself. We chat about gifting and what type…
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Reflecting on the Year 2020 | Christmas Special
This year has been a mess, this episode is one too. However, the year is over and we are glad. Here is to what's to come. We try to reflect on the main…
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Is There a Better Way?
What is the goal you are trying to achieve? Is there a better, a more optimized way of doing that? Maybe it is not worth the effort? Or maybe it is possible…
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The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence (GPT-3)
Here are our two cents on what are some pitfalls and what the future possibly holds for Artificial Intelligence. We mostly chat about GPT-3 and it's uses.
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Mental Models, Evolution & Impact of an Individual
We talk about mental models. Marius has a revelation about how mental models relate to machine learning models and AI. Some existentialism where we try to…
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Deferring a Year of University & Making Bad Decisions
What led Oskar to a decision to defer the last year of university? More about dharma, some stock trading mishaps and how your past choices and experiences…
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The Key to Unlocking Infinite Creativity
The main questions answered: What does creativity mean? Where does creativity come from? Where does creativity go? How does one capture a spike of creativity?
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We Choose What's Familiar
We talk about which loads we perform better under. We ask a question if Oskar is more of a scatterbrained person or deep, focused tasks work better for him.…
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Episode 42 - the Meaning of Life Special
In this special longer episode we talk about mood swings, dharma, meaning, the purpose of an old man shoveling snow and other things like creativeness and…
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We All Think the Same
Are humans just data processing machines? What is the impact of coursework on our willingness to do things on our free time? Why did we miss an episode?…
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Crunch Time!
It is that time of the project when we are having to work harder than usual. It affects our conversation too, we are visibly tired. But join us for a chat…
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Collective Consciousness & Tiring Work
This week we have been presented with quite a significant project and are now supposed find our rhythm in developing a software solution for a company. It…
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Growing as a Person and What Is Emotion
This time we are coming to you from the studio! We have a chat about what we think growing as a person means. We also discuss some topics about the hot and…
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Internet Detox and the Search for Truth
This time we are in a studio! Oskar shares his experiences of internet detor and we also chat about the search for truth. We are also experiencing slight…
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What If You Had No Internet
Temptations and distractions can be limited. In this modern internet era it is very easy to access online content or order food delivery. What does it take…
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We Are All Confused
In this episode we have a discussion on why people are confused. We have engineered the systems around ourselves to be confused. That's why. Life became way…
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Work Life Balance & Personal Finance
This week we have Angela join us from Toronto to chat about the importance of correctly managing your personal finances and starting to do that from a young…
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Did We Evolve to Be Distracted?
In this episode we are talking about the definition of distraction. Why a schedule is important? And that you cannot be distracted if you do not have…
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Diversifying Your Commitments
This week we have a brief discussion on the importance of diversifying one's commitments. Does focusing on one single thing yield any real benefits? Or is…
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Is Online Presence Important for Modern Day Writers?
This week we have Laura on to tell us about linguistics and English literature. We talk about the importance of reading books and how 18th/19th century…
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Keep a Cool Head and What Is the Hot State
This time we have Oskar submerged in cold water! The effects of which are becoming more and more apparent with time. However, there are positives to taking…
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Joe Rogan Was Right About Gaming
This time we provide our take on the controversial Joe Rogan clip about gaming addiction. We share our stories and think about what the future may hold for…
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Hacking Performance With Exercise
This week we have a chat with Dumitru about his inspiring exercising journey. We learn how exercising can help you during hardships and how it can boost…
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Answering the "Why?" Is Important
In this episode we discuss the future of the podcast and try to answer the "Why?". Is sharing important or does saying too much make you look ignorant.
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Be Normal & Follow the Rules
We are joined by Megan from Toronto, Canada to have a chat about rules, setting and breaking them. What does it take to stay open-minded, curious and always…
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Relativity Crux in Goal Setting & Time Traveling Opinions
We chat about when we should set/revisit goals for ourselves. We also discuss how our opinions and views change with time. Also, there is no absolute truth.…
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A Thing Is a Thing Not What Is Said of That Thing
Do we need to say anything else? A matchbox is not really a matchbox.. Find out why.
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That Which Observed Spoils
A chat about the academia, deep focus, consciousness and subconsciousness, interruptions some Socrates and Zen and an interesting mantra that Oskar has come…
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Back to the Basics. Career, Future and Health
This time we have quite a long chat about game design, career goals, arranged marriages, keto diet and life in general.
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Can You Brute Force Success?
This week we are joined by our dear friend Yaseen. We chat about what it takes to define and strive for your own success. How in layman's terms computer…
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What Motivates You?
We chat about what it means to hold yourself accountable and find your drive. Summer is here which means we will have quite some free time on our hands.…
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Finishing Projects and Implementing Ideas
In this one we have a chat about the importance of setting goals to finish a project and how hard it can sometimes be to implement ideas that you visualize.
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Hit The Ground Running
Some of this... Some of that... AI, philosophy and preparations for the summer.
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Quick and Messy Introduction to Zen
I tried winging it, but Zen can not really be explained in a podcast episode. Main message: know that Zen exists and see if you can study it and apply in…
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The Importance of Social Media Presence
What do you think your employers are looking for when they open your social media profiles?
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Comfort Zone & Motivation
In this episode we chat a bit about expanding one's comfort zone.
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Optimizing Life
What is optimizing and how to achieve the optimal performance.
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Don't Give Up Your Freedom!
Did you know that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) does not necessarily mean it is not paid? Also, how does freedom of speech help people and what dangers…
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Stop. Breathe in. Breathe out. Act.
There is a range of topics discussed in this podcast. We start off with water drinking habits, move on to pressure put on people by today's society and how…
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Tackle Your Goals and What the Future Holds
You should get after it! Whatever it is. Don't let the dream go away. Also, we have a little chat about what we think the future holds for us and more.
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Determinism and the Scary Corona Virus
It was probably determined that we were inevitably going to speak about the corona virus. Listen to the episode to find out more!
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Holding Yourself Accountable and Managing Your Time
This time we chat about time management and holding yourself accountable. Planning for success, dedicating effort to become better in future and a chat…
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Interpretations
This time we discuss how interpretations can be dangerous and misleading. Always keep in mind that you are looking at things through your own prism!
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Focus and What Is Philosophy?
Oskar a third-year computing student shares his stories about how he spent his free time discovering philosophy. We discuss what can be called a philosophy…
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Micro Habits and No YouTube Weekends
Join us on the first episode of the year 2020. Also, participate in a small challenge of ours to not use YouTube on weekends when you have the most free time!
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A Chat About Minimalism and The Essential Things
As Patch is taking a short break we discuss minimalism.
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Memes, Dark History and the Uncanny Valley
In this episode we discuss a variety of topics. Starting with memes and why they are sometimes offensive, moving on to dark history memes, transitioning…
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Question Everything or How Conspiracies Shape the World
Conspiracies, checking your facts/sources and Edward Snowden. We discuss how a person should navigate in this information age. Especially when most of the…
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Sleep Is Not a Charge Bar
Do not forget that sleep is very important! For your mood, health and productivity too. Also, this week we are joined by a special guest Kornelija.
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Sound Mind Rests in a Sound Body
In this episode we are discussing the importance of taking care of your body and mind. Some thoughts on the keto diet. And even a guy who managed to not eat…
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