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St. Petersburg by Water: Boat Tours Guide
…n June and July during the White Nights, are a great opportunity to watch bascule bridges opening from up close. The bridges go up to facilitate the navigation of cargo ships between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, and watching the big ships pass by only adds spectacularity to the unusual two-hour long tour. Boats at Sevkabel Port A former cable…
25.05.2021
Productive Summer: Online Schools from ITMO University’s Partners and Not Only
ITMO Graduate Maksim Latkin on His Experience of Working as a Systems Engineer
… there. They contacted me in a little while, said that I was admitted, and congratulated me. So I ended up at the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies in the field of network and cloud technologies. Why this field in particular? To tell the truth, there was no particular field I wanted to study. Like many applicants, I didn't know what exactly I wanted.…
21.05.2021
One Perfect Day: Feel German in St. Petersburg
… numerous (romantic and not so) reasons: from the twisted zoned system of public transport in big cities to its shortage in small ones. But the fact remains that an extensive network of bike paths has already made cities like Berlin and Bremen listed among the most bike-friendly places in the world. Although St. Petersburg can’t yet boast a world-class cycling infras…
21.05.2021
ITMO Researchers Create an Algorithm To Help Reduce the Risk of Complications in Cardiovascular Diseases
…lity of life and longevity of patients. In the near future, I am planning to use imitation modelling, such as discrete-event simulation, system dynamics modelling, and neural networks, to upgrade the algorithm. This will help predict the whole “health trajectory” of a patient for decades to come, including the sequence of important milestones in terms of the course o…
20.05.2021
ITMO Technopark Takes Part in the German Week in St. Petersburg
…joined the work and became a member of the strategic committee, which is responsible for the development of e-mobility in Europe. This is about technologies of various sensor networks, energy delivery, and everything related to ecological transportation. Actually, we’re trying to establish certain standards and guidelines for the industry. Today’s event also fits wel…
20.05.2021
Latvian Student on the Challenges of Distance Learning and Closed Borders
…th classmates and teachers? I clearly feel that I am no longer part of the group. Of course, I can text my friends from the university, but I really miss our coffee breaks between lectures and weekend parties. Also, sometimes it’s still difficult to reach the teachers. My emails are ignored and I have to wait for feedback much longer than my classmates. In the …
20.05.2021
Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service
…can influence our reactions towards specific situations. We all possess two types of intelligence: verbal (logic and speech) and intuitive. Intuition is just a vast neural network that learns from our early childhood, and we don’t even notice based on what it’s basically learning from. Therefore, the reactions that this neural networ…
19.05.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 22-23, 2021
…hen we do not ask whether or not something is possible or allowed and the world appears as one, as a whole, not yet shattered by the limitations of adulthood. So, as you walk between figures of giant elephants, monkeys, and rhinos, you are invited to see them through the eyes of your inner child and remember what it feels like to be all-knowing. Quite inspirational, …
19.05.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: How and Why We Study Music’s Effects on the Brain
…s. It is no wonder then that it has recently been investigated in experiments involving eye trackers that provide data on our eyes’ fixations and saccades (brief movements in between fixations). For instance, it has been demonstrated that the participants' fixations grew shorter if they read texts while listening to music with a faster tempo. And in a different exper…
18.05.2021