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Week 12 [22-28.01.2018] My training

Each of my trainings I start from a warm-up. The warm-up is an essential part of training and one of the most important. Some people don't do warm-ups before training, and I think it's a big mistake because you risk injuring yourself. I spend 10-15 minutes on the warm up. After that, I start my training. Usually my training lasts from 90 to 120 minutes. I'm a powerlifter, that's why I focus on 3 main exercises: a bench press, a squat and a deadlift. Each of them I do on different days of  a week along with assistance exercises. So usually, it's one group of muscles in one day, but sometimes I can mix them and for example can do the bench press with squats etc. Main exercises could take more than half of whole training time. It's because I'm trying to increase my strength. In such types of training people usually do few reps in set with a long pause between sets. For example, when I do the deadlift,  the pause between each set is around 4-5 minutes and the

Week 12 [22-28.01.2018] Piff the magic dragon

All of us have watched or heard about those talent shows: "America's got talent", "Britain's got talent" and so on. This video is about first audition of Piff the Magic Dragon on TV show "America's got Talent". He's a magician from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is very serious person,  the same as his magic tricks. He always wears a realistic costume of dragon when he performs. Sometimes it's hard to realize that it's just human and not a dragon. Did you like the way he shows magic tricks? Have you ever heard about Piff the Magic Dragon before? Do you want to buy the same table as he has? Will you watch his other performances?

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] 21st Century Kids

Today’s kids are surrounded by totally different enviroment than kids from 90’s. They are growing up in the world with such a great oppurtinities to develop their skills thanks to technology progress. Questions:           What is the major difference between growing up at 90’s and nowadays?   2.     If you could choose - when would you like to born, at present or in the past?   3.     What do you think about young developers?

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] Benefits of snowboarding

Most of the people are complaining about boredom during the winter time. Of course they are happy at the beggining of that season thanks to snowing, christmas time but after few weeks they are getting tired because of lack of physical activity. Whilst you don’t have any influence of changing seasons, you don’t have to wait till summer because there is perfect solution which calls snowboarding.                                      There are a lot of advantages of this winter sport. First of all it puts you in a good mood due to releasing endorphins responsible for happiness. It also increase your flexibility because you have to change directions. Moreover it requires body balance. You are increasing self-confidence whenever you obtain new skill and crossing your own barriers. If you like muscle traning, you have to try snowboarding because during ride your major muscle groups works especially feet and ankles. Beginning are always difficult, but after couple of hou

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] Your future career is not defined yet

Most of you recognize this guy but do you know his amazing story?  Everything you do has an impact on you, ends up being an experience that makes you see the world from a different perspective. Watch this talk and see how one’s life can dramatically change. What do you think about Adam’s way of giving back to the military community? How do people handle transition from a soldier into a civilian? Do you know anybody who went through something like that?

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] What made Sheryl Sandberg successful?

            Sheryl Sandberg is listed first on Forbes’ list of world’s most powerful women. She started conquering technology industry by working at Google after that she’s gone to work for Facebook where she holds a position of Chief Operating Officer. She is also a first woman to be elected as a member of Facebook’s board of directors. Sandberg put on paper her journey to success and her will to lead in a book called “Lean in” where she gives many pointers on how to be apart of this game and how to get to the top.               The book is called “Lean in” and that is a piece of advice she would give to anyone no matter what. It simply means be involved, go out and get to know people and let’s be honest it’s good piece of advice it’s not that common for computer scientists to socialize. But it’s even more than that it’s not only for your own good you should lean in so you would be recognized so people would say “oh yea I remember her she was in my chess club”. source: np

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] CS:GO as a job and cybersport discipline

Everybody knows about counter-strike, but not everybody understands what it means for someone. I know, that not everyone is interested in cybersport, all this annoying games are for kids you will say, but for some people it is not only a hobby or a typical waste of time, but it is a full-time job with a huge amount of fans all over the world. One of the biggest and most prestigious event in CS:GO called ESL ONE Cologne It is a game, but you need to think like you are staying in the middle of the hostilities. Different kind of tactics, grenades, dark corners and an enormous variety of guns make this game cunning and interesting to watch. I want to share you my knowledge about this game not on amateur level, how it looks like when you are giving all your time to the game and making it your lifestyle. Below you can see the most popular map in cs:go competitive called de_mirage. How it looks like in the game: One of the maps in cs:go de_mirage The first thing you need

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] Our body as a microchip

As speaker said, we had a global health challenge today, so our technologies are making huge steps forward day by day. A big amount of problems causes the slow process of technologies improvement. As you know, that we can’t get new things, until we don’t utilize old ones. Even making fast changes in technologies make destruction of a well-established system. When I was 7 years old, I used to have a computer that was bigger than me. Now we are using microchips and microprocessors that are smaller than our hand. Big companies are using electronic devices with tiny chips that are smaller than insects. And what about medical devices? I would say without any hesitation that they are improving faster than any other typical appliance. So I want to share with you this awesome speech about how technologies can affect on our daily life. 1.What do you think about the speech? 2.How many years we need to implement this kind of microchips to our pharmacies nowadays? 3.What can

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] Driverless Cars

Artificial Intelligence has already weaved its way into many of the technologies that humans are using in their everyday life. AI technologies are being improved everyday influencing our everyday life in a better way. For most of us, driverless cars will be one of the first domains where we will be able to check if it is good decision to trust AI systems. Every day people around the world are in traffic jams, get into car accidents, and this is one of the problems over which people are already finding a solution. One of these solutions is a driverless AI car. Driverless cars is the next generation technology that can help us to automate traffic, make driving safer, better and better every year. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/fdb926ee3863935e6cdbeffe678f38b0f70327dd/c=340-0-5805-4099&r=x408&c=540x405/local/-/media/2018/01/11/DetroitNews/B99618232Z.1_20180111223642_000_G3L1QI7S0.1-0.jpg A driverless (sometimes called a self-driving car, an automated car or an  au

Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] How computers learn to recognize objects instantly

Technology of recognising object on an image is vital technology to move forward, it is useful almost everywhere nowadays (in robotics, medicine, education, security). This technology is a starter for new systems that might make our life even better. Questions: Do you like image recognition technology? Do you think this is a useful technology? If not, please explain why? This technology is an open-source technology, so would you like to try to build your own unique world changing a product or a start up?