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• One Hour: A Trip to Catherine Palace

  …and side, we saw a map of Catherine park. When we went a little further, there was a queue of people for the entrance. The line was quite long. The guide kept telling us the history of the palace till we reached the gate. Finally, we entered after security checking. There was another ticket counter on the left side of the entrance gate. Our guide bought ticket…

  12.09.2019

• Buddy System: My First Experience as a Buddy

  … this article and you would like to join our "Buddy system", you need to know you have to prove you can be "a buddy" taking an entrance test and giving a presentation on the history, customs and traditions of St. Petersburg.…

  21.07.2019

• Life in the Czech Republic as an International Student

  …What is the attitude of Czechs' to Russians? Actually, the question is not easy to answer, as the history of our relationship is pretty complicated. The Prague Spring changed a lot. People in Prague do still remember the spring of 1968. It means that you can find yourself in an awkward or uncomfortable situation just because you are Russian, as Russia is inevitably a…

  28.06.2019

• Discover the Museum that Shows You Mini-Russia

  …ple will be pleased to see their city on this layout. The most famous building here is the Peter and Paul Cathedral. Also, the city center is recreated with its beautiful five-story buildings. Unfortunately, there is no Lakhta Center and Gazprom-Arena at the expo. I hope that one day they will appear on the layout. Near St. Petersburg is Moscow. The model pres…

  08.04.2019

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

  …yntax). Usually there are 60−100 attendees. The amount depends on the speakers. Recently Paul Everitt, a colleague of the designer of Python, visited St. Petersburg and told a story about the process of developing Python at a meetup. Guido van Rossum expressed his nostalgy in Twitter. Paul had worn the same T-shirt at the meetups in the USA in the 1990s (though or…

  02.04.2019

• Women in IT

  … Judy Malloy is a writer, as well as a self-taught programmer, she also invented own database system for her novels. In 1986, Judy wrote and programmed an innovative hypertext story "Uncle Roger", the first online project of hyperfiction with links that change the story depending on the choice of the reader. Judy Malloy: "In 1986, it…

  08.01.2019

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

  … interesting research of students, the most remarkable topics are "generating programs from natural language' and "developing convenient and secure DSL for smart contracts'. History of programming languages is the history of increasing the level of abstraction from the machine hardware. DSL follow this path too, providing engineers an o…

  21.12.2018

• Big science communication story in Russia born from a small networking coincidence

  …aked the information about seemingly superluminal neutrinos detected by Gran Sasso lab in Italy and Ms. Cossi was the science communicator who had to deal with that developing story. This was the first time I faced the ethical vs. corporate values of a science communicator job and got to reflect on this seeing the situation from both sides. And I met Dmitry — the Rus…

  10.12.2018

• Student Exchange in Europe and Why You Must Travel

  …s we are, no one likes to make mistakes. Often a mistake is a reason to give up. Although while I travel, every single oversight or deviation from the plan turns into a unique story. I never tell you that I arrived at the station in advance, but I always want to share the story of how all the chocolate paste flowed on me from the trdeln…

  27.11.2018

• The Time I Saw the Queen… Twice

  … presentation on computer vision and training computers to see and compare differences between art and printed materials. Simon Rowberry, meanwhile, delivered an interesting history on the development of e-book readers, which, considering my role as an e-book publisher with my company ArcInset, was intriguing. It also called out to my inner geek with the references t…

  01.11.2018