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Make Blinis Like a Russian
…have too much butter. The easiest way to turn all this into a party is to make a stack of plain blinis and offer an array of fillings so people can choose whatever you want. If all fails, or even as a perfectly sane and appropriate plan A scenario, there’re excellent blinis at Teremok.…
04.03.2019
Movie Fridays: Fine Tuning
…’t equal you and me.” Any questions? So I thought. (ps: the music video starts at 4.05, with a backstory prelude for the OG fans of The Office which I assume you are because I want to believe in the good in people.) Baby Driver: Opening Scene A quirky musical camouflaged as a wild car-chase thriller, Baby Driver serves as an illustration of what a good play…
01.03.2019
Interdisciplinary Innovations at ITMO University: In Conversation With ChemBio Professor Ekaterina Skorb
…ists, specialists in robotics, physicists and even designers. We have Bachelor’s students come to us from all over the University with their own knowledge telling us that they want to work with us: though they don’t know chemistry that well, they can always assist us in various ways, for instance, to develop alphabet for our informational systems or do MatLab simulat…
01.03.2019
ITMO Master’s Student on Using Robots in Medicine
…g companies, but what we got in response was always the same “It’s a cool idea, but we aren’t sure about the niche. If you had a ready product, then it would be a yes”. Nobody wanted to collaborate with us at that stage. How did you figure it out? We continued looking for talented workers. We found one, then another, and it turned out that they both were fr…
28.02.2019
European University’s Nikita Lomagin: How IT is Changing Historical Science
…e those texts, gain permission to use them, and talk to our colleagues in IT about our options in terms of software. And, first and foremost, we must decide what it is that we want to do. Do your peers in other countries use such methods in their research? Definitely not on the topic of the Siege of Leningrad. For instance, Alexis Peri, who has published a book…
28.02.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 2-3
…nd can be purchased here. Use the ВЕСНА promo code to get 30% discount. The ‘St. Petersburg’s unusual lobbies and courtyards’ walking tour What can be more romantic than wandering through the maze of St. Petersburg’s small streets and courtyards, peeping into the most gorgeous lobbies on your way? The ‘St. Petersburg’s unusual lobbies and courtyards’ tour throu…
27.02.2019
On-Site Round of “I Am a Professional” Competition: Participants Share
…s harder, and the whole experience more complex. I wasn’t fully happy with how everything turned out because I was hoping I’d solve more tasks. I don’t yet know where I want to apply to for my Master’s, and what I’d like to do as my future career. I think that studying abroad would be a fun and interesting experience, but I’m still considering what university …
27.02.2019
Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI
…artnership” to a new type of a relationship between humans and machines. The standard partnership is about machines, robots and algorithms carrying out tasks that humans don’t want to or can’t do for whatever reason. The new partnership implies that AI also performs functions that once were the domain of humans, like intuition and decision making. It turns out that i…
27.02.2019
Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI
…artnership” to a new type of a relationship between humans and machines. The standard partnership is about machines, robots and algorithms carrying out tasks that humans don’t want to or can’t do for whatever reason. The new partnership implies that AI also performs functions that once were the domain of humans, like intuition and decision making. It turns out that i…
27.02.2019
Fighting Hibernation: Is It Springtime Yet?
…, but staying awake may be even trickier. It’s so easy to doze off and not even notice it, and I’m not talking about actually falling asleep: it’s more about letting your mind wander off. On the whole, it’s conscious vs. subconscious, and a good way to go about it is to make more conscious choices rather than acting out on habit. Enliven your daily routine: try somet…
26.02.2019