talachem

Anime Recommendations

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:22:05 +0100

There are many great anime out there and there’s no point in recommending already well known ones. Here are two, which I perceive as rather lesser known.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Link to heading

It’s a show about Mukouda, an ordinary guy, who gets teleported to Kingdom of Reijseger, a European-style medieval world, where he has to go on adventures, traveling between towns, fighting monsters and explore dungeons. Everyone who gets brought to this world has a certain unique skill set. His is only grocery shopping.

Liquid Glass

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:40:28 +0200

My opinion is rather anticlimactic: it’s fine. Techinically impressive, but the novelty wears off quickly and then it’s just there. Some users complained. I fully believe that the marketing department came up with this design. This isn’t about clarity, usability or speed. It’s about showing off. Sorry for the cynical take.

Overall, it’s an okay design, but there are three things I genuinely dislike:

Custom Icons

I don’t like the custom home screen icons. I don’t use it, so it is harmless, still I think it makes everything look the same.

Breathe - How I came up with the idea.

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 23:29:49 +0300

Breathe is a writing app, that came to me while dozing off into sleep. I was working all day with decision trees.

Decision trees are an ingenious concept in machine learning. Unlike neural networks, which often behave like black boxes, decision trees are transparent and interpretable, because you see which features and values lead to what decision. They are essentially a sequence of if/else statements leading to a final decision.

They are primarily used in supervised learning for classification and regression tasks, but they also find surprising applications in unsupervised learning. For example, outlier detection can be performed by training multiple decision trees with random splits; from this randomness, data points that deviate significantly from the norm emerge naturally. It’s a clever technique that exploits the tension between randomness and clustering.

Introduction

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:14 +0200

Welcome to my personal blog. I’ll write about whatever the fuck I want.

Mostly, you’ll find posts about my apps and other people’s apps. But I’ll also write about TV shows, movies, video games. And whatever else comes to mind.

Don’t expect regular posts. When I write about apps it will always be unapologetically positive, because I want to be a more positive and I want to celebrate what other people build.