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Song of the Month: October 2019
…g dies We won't let that defeat us.” Catherine There is a brilliant young man I want to tell you about, a singer-songwriter and a multiinstrumentalist, whom I only discovered in January this year, but trust me when I say my life has never been the same since. His name is Jacob Collier and I am extremely pleased to introduce you to him if his name doesn’t r…
25.10.2019
Mexican Student Shares His Story and Tips for Better Online Security
…interests. This information is sold to other companies who are in charge of offering those products or services, so they can contact you by email with some offers and product discounts and ensure a sale. It’s not a coincidence receiving an email showing you discounts on something that you needed to acquire at the perfect time. In som…
24.10.2019
Returning to the Path of Human: St. Petersburg to Host Lighting Design International Conference
…stallations and performances in famous public spaces, museums, concert halls, and galleries around the world including Amsterdam City Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, National Art Museum of China, as well as at the festivals: Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), V2_'s DEAF (Rotterdam), Transmediale (Berlin), SONAR (Barcelona), FILE Fes…
24.10.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 26-27, 2019
…t in Russia and third in the world!) to learn about all the ins and outs of how to make a perfect mulled wine, as well as explore the incredible world of spices and herbs and discover how it has influenced humankind. The workshops on mulled wine making (400 rubles) will take place at 4.30 pm and 5.30 pm, while tours of the museum’s collection will be held at 4.30 and…
23.10.2019
Student Grub: Our Easy Meal Favorites
…uick meal recipe. All you need is a ripe avo (I usually opt for the Haas variety – these are a bit more pricey, but they’re really worth it, and you can usually get them at a discount in one grocery store or another), some (preferably fancy, of course) bread and a pop of crunchy sea salt (any salt will do, actually). Just gently mash the avocado with a fork, spread i…
22.10.2019
Programmer Alexander Mordvintsev on Working at Google, Curiosity and Future of Programming
…onduct your experiments? At Google, I familiarized myself with the latest advances in the field of artificial neural networks. All that I’d known before had to do with the discoveries made by researchers in the ‘80s, but their hopes did not come true. And here I was astonished by how well it worked, much better than I expected. I felt an urge to understand these p…
21.10.2019
Lithium-Ion Batteries, Space and How Oxygen Affects Cells: 118th Nobel Week Results
…onics closer to wireless standards. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates are James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Peebles was awarded for “theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” as he devoted many years to research in theoretical cosmology. He studied the cosmic microwave background that is directly linked to the early stage of the uni…
18.10.2019
Fort Boyard: ITMO University Hosts Information Security Quest
…ch, when opened, turned out to be a zip file. This was the first clue for the participants; the first thing they needed to do was to unpack the file. Having done that, they’d discover lots of other files and folders that included the software they needed to proceed.” While one team was searching for the necessary software, another was in a different room rac…
15.10.2019
Top Five: Podcasts
…obsession rekindled. Or, if you’re less extreme, watching each episode at a time as the podcast progresses. Or both. Possibilities are endless and the world can wait. BBC Discovery Last but certainly not least, we have a timeless classic that is BBC Discovery, which, despite its veteran status, still manages to keep its appe…
04.10.2019
ITMO University Specialists Take First Place at International Competition VolgaCTF 2019
…ry year, we also launched our SPbCTF meeting, started to bring together everyone interested and organize workshops, small competitions, exchange tips and tricks. Maksim: I discovered sports hacking at the university: I studied at St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, and the head of my educational program told me about the SPbCTF project and said that…
04.10.2019