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• From White Nights to Black Days: Surviving the Deep, Dark Winter in St. Petersburg

  …conjuring up the New Year dreams of a young Russian boy; while the third promises an intriguing contemporary animated comedic travelogue involving two obstreperous suitcases abandoned on the luggage belt in Pulkovo airport! On December 30 at 10pm, the digital imagery on the stucco will be complemented by an equally incandescent firework display in the velvety sky …

  21.12.2016

• Janush Holyst: "Emotions Are the Main Engines for Discussions in a Cyber Community."

  …ions. We also discovered that if a discussion includes several comments containing one common emotion, the next ones will also be the same. To get more precise information we randomized data and shortened the amount of clusters. In real life, emotions help us to avoid dangerous situations. But why do we need them while being online? Using BBC forum we found out that…

  16.12.2016

• Going Extreme — Active & Adventure Sports in Saint Petersburg

  …g no less. The price of one jump can be from 500 rubles and higher; also, there are many places to jump from within the city, so you won’t have to leave it. Those are mostly abandoned plants or heat power stations; the height you jump from can be up to 88 meters. As for choosing where to go — there are several organizations in and around Saint Petersburg that prov…

  29.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

  …he hallowed place where the Venniki are steeped, first in cold water then hot, to achieve precisely the requisite level of suppleness. In the Prebannik, you may also notice a random guy, sweeping, cleaning, tending to the leaves. This is actually the Bannshik or "High Priest" of the Banya, who keeps all of the processes running smoothly. At the very epicentre of i…

  25.11.2016

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

  …ssia by the far snappier term "Kvest' or "Quest.' The basic premise is usually that a group or teams of friends are trapped in a particular enclosed space — examples include abandoned dungeons, high security prison cells, or a locations connected to well-known films, such as the Da Vinci Code’s Rosslyn Chapel — all of which are recreated in lavishly detailed sets. Un…

  25.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …ic "benefits" today we have lactose acceptability, infections resistance and prolonged childbearing period. In the past, the process of selection was provided by natural and random processes. Now technologies and cultural phenomena contribute to the evolution. For instance, when vaccines were invented, lots of diseases stopped being fatal. According to Meredith Sma…

  24.11.2016

• Network Science for Computing Beliefs

  …ety concerns. Powell's speech instilled a belief system where belief in the first statement led to trusting the other two. The results of the computations for the model using random properties showed similarities with results from real sociological polls from the time of the start of the invasion. This works backwards as well: after one stops believing the first sta…

  27.10.2016

• The ACM ICPC Quarters: To Cut an Anniversary Cake In Order to Compete with Champions

  …m, which compares input data with the correct results. The solution given by a team has to take no longer than two seconds processing and use up no more than 256 megabytes of random access memory (RAM). The tasks have various difficulty levels. To solve the Anniversary Cake problem the participants had to develop an algorithm for cutting a cake with two birthday c…

  23.10.2016

• #VKlive: VK’s Developers Advise on How to Solve Highload Problems

  …, you just can't create a test for them. So, what do we do? How to do it so that users won't notice? We really like simple solutions at our company. So, we use the "if and random" approach. Let's say we have the new code and the old code. Each time we receive a request, we "flip a coin" and use one of them to process it. This allows to limit the test group. And th…

  11.10.2016

• Relativity Theory in Layman’s Terms: a New Lecture at the «Gutenberg's Lounge»

  …mprehensible examples, how to motivate the audience. Well, I'll try to solve this task while talking about relativity theory. The central concept of the relativity theory is random variable. Just try to imagine a dice: it's something mankind invented about 5,000 years ago, between the wheel and writing. When talking of the dice as a rando

  05.10.2016