Yesterday was the Victory Day in Russia when Nazi’s Germany surrendered. We decided to look at the war from another point of view and watch American movie Catch 22.
The Gentlemen
I watched the Gentlemen movie not long ago. Well, there is something in criminal films that made them interesting and easy to watch. This movie is one of them
Beta CAE
On Tuesday I took part in a webinar (everything is online now) about products of company Beta CAE. I’ve never heard about them, but they are saying that it exists for three decades. Looks like they have made a large number of products for since the beginning, from messanger to file manager and FEM solver.
Halloween party
I’ve finished another book from Litress library site. This time it was a detective story Halloween party by Agatha Christie. It was quite hard to read this book full of old-fashoin words. So my list with new words to leard expanded dramaticaly. Though I was rewarded with a nice plot and some witty thought of […]
Long way to falafel
I’ve finally made falafel that tastes good. I ate it for the first time long ago in one of the Moscow’s cafe and was not impressed about it at all. But during the trip to Germany I ate in at the street market and it was delisious. May be I was hungry, or it was […]
The Jelly-Bean
I’ve just finished listening an audiobook The Jelly-Bean by Scott Fitzgerald. I took it from the library at Litress and was surprised that it was not available when I searching for a new book, but after a request it was provided to me in couple hours.
Land to the Peasants!
Navalny has just launched his another campain against Vladimir Putin. In his “5 steps” program he is demanding to pay each adult in Russia for 20 000 roubles (about 270 USD), to nullify utilities bill for all households and to spend about two trillions of roubles for small busyness support.
Statistics fan
I’m listening Financial markets course on Coursera platform and decided to make some math for russian market. However, results looks rather strange. At first I tried to figure out what data to use for risk and profit calculation. Averaging by month eliminates peaks, and make grath much smoother.
Deutsch
There’ve been a one year this week since I started learning german language. We planned to visit Germany in Sept 2019 and I decided to learn couple phrases. I tried couple apps until installed Duolingo.
Chickens vs Viruses
I was listening another episode of Planet Money podcast recently and was surprised that most vaccines are made using chicken eggs. There are several secret labs across the US that grow chickens in a great number to be able to get thousands of eggs in case of any virus outbeak.