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Do Comfort Food Like a Russian
…y or community when they make dishes they’ve loved their entire lives. You’re probably making your own special comfort food in your kitchen these days. I’ve made plenty of instant noodle soup with an egg, which just happens to be my personal guilty pleasure. But for a serious dose of comfort I turn to: Loaded Baked Potato There’re versions of these in ever…
13.04.2020
ITMO University Scientists Create App to Calculate COVID-19 Infection Risks Based on Human Behavior
…le gather en masse. “Our team works on modeling the everyday behavior of people in cities; we understand how people act on public transport, in stores, at work,” explains Alexander Boukhanovsky, the head of the National Center for Cognitive Technologies. “Right now, we are able to model contact networks, observe their dynamics, and use our knowledge of socia…
13.04.2020
Researchers Demonstrate a Platform for Future Optical Transistors
…h coolers, thus wasting even more energy. Second, electronic devices have a limited processing speed. Some of these issues can be solved by using photons, light particles, instead of electrons. Devices that use photons for information encoding would produce less heat, require less energy, and work faster. That is exactly why scientists all over the world conduct …
13.04.2020
ITMO Hosts MemoryHack: New IT Services for a Project About Veterans
…ith the battle route and information about the veteran’s distinctions. Moreover, the program can find and tag the veteran on group pictures, even those previously unknown (for instance, those found in National Archives). In the future, the service will be integrated with VK, so that the children and grandchildren of the veteran could contact the relatives of his fell…
13.04.2020
How Reading and Literature Changed in the Digital Age
…the beginning of the ‘80s, Stephen King published a best-selling novel The Stand, and became a celebrity. They wanted to print it in The New Yorker, but the main editor was against that, saying it was a dime novel that was not worthy. By the end of the ‘80s, the magazine became bankrupt, and William Shawn resigned. Stephen King, however, got a National Book Award …
10.04.2020
Gaka-Chu: The Robot That Dreams of Being an Artist
…ow the exact parameters of the surface in order to, for example, apply the brush with a certain pressure. Any surface, whether it is a table where the robot and the canvas are installed, a wall, or an easel, has some irregularities and angles of inclination, which complicates its description for the robot. The Airalab team solved this problem only partially by
10.04.2020
It Is Lies that Spread Panic: ITMO PhD Student on Automated Identification of Fake News
…their data with me; I also took some data from MyNews.es and gathered some more manually. After that, I proceeded with creating a dataset and teaching my neural network,” explains Arseniy Tretyakov. The student notes that most research on fake news focused on content in English, and very little had to do with identifying Spanish or Russian fake news. What’s more…
10.04.2020
Life After MVP: How Startups Can Avoid the Post-Acceleration “Crash and Burn”
…but effective practice can help you avoid his problem: HADI cycles. They consist of four stages: Hypothesis, Action (testing the hypothesis), Data (acquiring information), and Insight (making conclusions based on the action’s success or lack thereof). HADI cycles must be done regularly on a one- or two-week basis. One week is enough for B2C, where you can quickly …
10.04.2020
Yuzhny Satellite City to Feature New Transport Hub
William Ngona Mulenga: ITMO Opened Up a Whole New World of Opportunities For Me
…n’t cool now? Like many of my friends, I grew up watching western movies and seeing the snow, especially in the Christmas movies, was very cool. The other thing was fast trains. They were extraordinary. But now that I have lived in Russia, I got used to it. Written by Ethan Avila …
09.04.2020