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• The Optics Are Looking Good

  …re quoting it. For everyone who’s upset with me I just want you to know, I regret nothing.) Running through what one can assume are really long glow sticks is easily one of my new favorite pastimes. Although this room is perfect for photos I don’t think any of my photos do the room any justice. For all the optics enthusiasts out there carrying a pocket Kaleido…

  22.04.2019

• (Ex)change your life

  …So why do students go on exchange? To improve language skills, to travel, to see how education is conducted in other countries, to meet new and interesting people, to learn something new. I wrote it all in my motivation letter when I was applying for this program. But I didn’t know that it’s going to be a lot more than that. First of…

  12.04.2019

• Guide on IT meetups in St. Petersburg. Part 2: Softcore and Hardcore

  …g the participants you can meet backenders, frontenders, full stack developers, data scientists, QA engineers, technical managers and Java developers. Whether an attendee is a newbie or an acknowledged programming guru, the meetup welcomes anyone who wants to learn new things and socialize. The only requirement for the attendees is to s…

  02.04.2019

• Memories

  … now you’re simply excited, as excited as a five year old at Disney Land. The first days are surreal. You don’t plug your ear phones as usual. The language sounds like a brand new music. After a week you start making new friends. At first it’s difficult with all the new names and cultural differences; you …

  15.03.2019

• Experiences with Teaching at ITMO

  …Russian, the students experimented with different word embedding methods and settings to train embeddings on the Russian-language book versions, and used those to evaluate the newly created datasets.They also tried to explain the differences regarding evaluation metrics between the English original versions and the Russian versions. The other student projects were eq…

  05.03.2019

• 5 Things to Know About Dating a Programmer

  …hances are if your date has a good programming position, they’ll keep it for some time. And if times get tough and they’re laid off, they can easily transfer their skills to a new company. They know the value of cleaning up. In programming, garbage collection refers to cleaning up the memory used by a program when it’s no longer needed. Thus, it’s no surprise that p…

  26.02.2019

• Is there life after academic mobility?

  … know how a lager differs from a stout. It was way too sociable. Before moving abroad I have never talked to so many people at once. I have met more than one hundred new people. (My Facebook is filled with new contacts, my Instagram gained new followers ;). I am finally not afraid of small talk, …

  04.02.2019

• Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah, Sankta Lucia, Diwali and… New Year!

  … say). They sing beautiful songs and celebrate it in a very warm and peaceful atmosphere. Our teacher organized a small Lucia for us and it was an amazing experience! Learning new languages could give you not only a new line in your CV but so much experience! New culture, new…

  24.12.2018

• Guide on IT meetups in St. Petersburg. Part 1: Hardcore Meetups

  …emove unused imports and variables in a life program in order to compile it and achieve a target value. Goal.go of organizers of Golang Piter is pointing engineers to the good news of using Go as the most effective instrument among other programming languages in certain tasks. I’d call this technology evangelism Go-spel. Although Go has become popular nowadays, it is…

  21.12.2018

• Indulgence and Nutrition — What to Eat in Belgium

  …ionally Belgian as well. It’s even served with berry sauce as an option. Another example — chicory rolls with ham in cheese sauce. At first I was like — what, chicory? I only knew chicory root in the form of an instant drink (my father drinks it)… As for the taste, it’s more of ham and cheese, and the chicory itself is quite tasteless. Another famous Belgian thing…

  19.12.2018