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• ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2

  …out. But of course, if you enjoy what you do and other people are into it, too – it’s a double win. Aren't you tired of going to events? Going to events is a whole other story because Dota championships are one step above all other esports events in the world – they have the largest prize pools and everything there is organized at the highest level. As strange …

  08.10.2020

• ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?

  …level being a small puzzle or mini-game. I have been playing computer games since childhood and at some point I decided to create something by myself that would tell my own story. When I was in the sixth grade, my older brother showed me Python and it was fun to do text quests in this language, but it did not support the graphic component that well. This is how I …

  06.10.2020

• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  … engineers over who stole whose idea, so you can make one of them the head and everyone else will leave the company.  As far as I know, you are also interested in the history of weapons and write books on the topic. There are a couple of things I am proud of in this field, though not many people believe me. I have created the main classification system for …

  05.10.2020

• The Unexpectedly Superstitious Side of St. Petersburg

  … Faculty of Philology, there is a nice chubby female hippopotamus named Tonya. Well, it’s not an ordinary hippo but a magical one that is associated with a romantic yet tragic story. Local Romeo and Juliet who were head over heels in love with each other decided to be together at least on the other side and jumped into the Neva. But a miracle happened: a hippo swam i…

  05.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …is of the content written by users. It’s required in order to understand who these users are, what they are into, and what type of personality they have. ITMO.NEWS published a story a few years ago about how our algorithm profiled Trump as a single man. How does it work? We all have a social image that we show to people: our age, location, profile picture, and rel…

  01.10.2020

• Smart Cane and Quantum Physics In Water Drops: Projects by ITMO Students at Youth Awards in Science and Innovations Finals

  … long time already, from our first year at the university. We presented it at many places: the Science Day at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239, the Open Day at ITMO, and so on. The story behind us starting to study the physics of water drops is quite interesting. During his tenth year at school, my friend and colleague Vladimir Igoshin had a practice class at the St. Pete…

  01.10.2020

• New Historical Exposition Set to Open in Russia’s Oldest Science City

  …sion of general vectors for the development of the exposition lasted more than two hours. “The development of the museum will follow a new path. It will not tell a linear story about the development of science but present a story about life, the birth of creative ideas, and the importance of science cities. This will be reflected i…

  01.10.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 3-4, 2020

  … like a local. You will get inside the famous парадные (lobbies of apartment buildings), experience the old “well-courtyards”, and have a chance to learn more about the city’s story. Attention – the tour is sadly only offered in Russian, so you can either take a Russian-speaking friend with you, take the challenge of practicing your language skills, or maybe, if that…

  30.09.2020

• 100 Free Courses from Coursera: Seize the Opportunity

  …nguage: English + English subtitles  This course allows you to learn more about the Solar System along with scientific fields and methods that study it. That includes the history and results of research into the planets and other space objects of our solar system. Keep in mind that the course was created in 2017, so some information may be outdated. Astronomy: …

  29.09.2020

• Are Russians a Gambling Nation?

  …nable passion with which he tries to find out the secret to winning a card game leads him to a terrible fate. According to Yuri Lotman, a prominent researcher of cultural history, gambling in the early 19th century was one of the era’s key features. There was a certain philosophy behind it: these games and other risky activities challenge not only players and thei…

  28.09.2020