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My Turn to Walk the Dog: Moving Back Home During the Pandemic
…l come back. This time it took a pandemic to have such a nice time with the family. We will probably remember its beautiful aspects forever and laugh together later at the occasional clash.…
25.09.2020
Ibraheem’s Expeditions: Nevsky Prospect
…teacher had, I can surely understand what she meant when she told me to "never miss a chance of going out, the city is a living museum", so now I have the same interest and passion about living in St. Petersburg and telling the world how it looks in the eyes of a foreigner. In a series of posts I will share my thoughts and experience moving around in this city not li…
21.09.2020
Experience as a Volunteer at ITMO’s Art & Science Center
… advice is whenever you find an opportunity to volunteer — take it! Many people resist, since it is working for free, but it is not about the money. Personal experience, impressions and new acquaintances — that is what you will get. This memory will stay with you forever.…
17.09.2020
St. Petersburg Communal Apartments: Unique and Endangered
…unal apartments are slowly disappearing. They were meant to save space by accommodating several families in a single space, sometimes in revenue houses or even aristocratic mansions. Today, some buildings are of no significant value (that's how we usually picture communal apartments to ourselves) and about to be gone, while others are in sore need of repairs and reno…
25.08.2020
Graduating During a Pandemic
… presented my final thesis, and July 11 was the graduation ceremony. The ITMO live online graduation ceremony started at 12 PM, and it lasted until about 5 PM. In this live session, there was a mega battle event, congratulations from special guests, congratulations from ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev, and so on and so forth. The invitees for this ceremony were graduat…
10.08.2020
Scenic Tram Routes of St. Petersburg
…rails on Liteyny Prospect with no tram coming around from the 1990s — the result of an unfortunate trend towards reducing costs after the collapse of the USSR. Luckily, old mansions, lush gardens, and sunsets over the Neva River at a go are still available for one who takes a seat in the right tram. Everyone knows the famous tram route 3. But in fact, there are much …
06.07.2020
Myths and Truths About the Students Services Office
…ven higher power that can perform such actions — Department of Academic Affairs. The SSO is capable of informing this department about any existing problems, but the final decision is up to them. 3. The SSO can prepare almost any kind of certificate for ITMO students in both Russian and English That is the truth! You can ask the Office to provide you with almos…
22.05.2020
Let Yourself Be Unproductive
…only friends to see on a daily basis are Rachel, Monica, and Chandler. So, here it comes — the need to fill the void in the schedule with the stuff that at least cause the illusion of changes. Apparently, everything is pointing to the obvious answer — self-education: learn languages, python, drawing, enjoy your life! And we all believe, and start, eagerly taking up 5…
20.05.2020
ITMO Talks: A Review of the Event
…dents of the university. In this article, we will show you our experience as participants and also the winners of this event. There were four workshops with different professional experts of Public Speaking expertise. On the first day, the workshop was at the Kronversky campus building with Johanna Campbell. She was really talented and has vast experience in this …
27.04.2020
A Brief Guide to Artificial Intelligence
… parameter is activated by neurons very often, then the sum will become large quickly Gt is a sum of squared updates and is just a small number that’s needed to avoid division by zero. So, the idea of Adagrad is to use something that reduces updates for elements that we already update frequently. No one forces us to use this particular formula, so Adagrad is som…
24.04.2020