16:47, ready for action! ZeroVariance. Dall-e is in public beta, so Carlos was excited about using the API Place to draw&chill Talking with Luisa from Modash and Dasha from ClickAndGrow. Super hyped from caffeine from NOCCO After splitting responsibilities and convincing Carlos to allow me deal with video processing (which he considers really difficult problem) […]
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Crafting Personal Reward System
On how to align personal rewards with the job well done. This post will have 2 parts, with this one focused on the idea, and 2nd will cover technical implementation Overview Those of us lucky enough to have a stable income get paid at the beginning of each month. This means that you get that […]
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VR game in 48 hours and Bus Pitch
In this post, I’ll tell a story of how I got to pitch a VR game while riding an inter-city bus in front of a thousand-person stream of hackathon finals. If you’re curious to see what was built first – check out the game itself and my github repo Why VR game? Every November I participate in Junction – the […]
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October Reading
Some of the best discoveries (or rather re-discovery) is Erik Bernhardsson’s blog. I’ve read a few pieces (https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html, https://erikbern.com/2020/01/13/how-to-hire-smarter-than-the-market-a-toy-model.html and https://erikbern.com/2018/08/30/i-dont-want-to-learn-your-garbage-query-language.html) in the past with big intervals, but never realised it’s the same person behind them. When discussing Youtube’s recommender algo paper (https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/45530.pdf) colleague of mine mentioned Nearest Neighbours library Annoy – https://github.com/spotify/annoy/, which is […]
Today, we’ve got a chain of events to unravel, as I do enjoy noticing the links between events & ideas and build a mind map of how something has influenced me. I’m not terribly good at it though -> there’re many facts and ideas in my head that I can’t attribute to anything in particular, […]
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July Read&listen&watch
Read: I’ll be brief here -> my main reading is Thinking: Fast and Slow which is an amazing book with so many insights about inner working of us, human beings.From the fiction, I’ve re-read short stories by Ray Bradbury, and they are just so amazing! 15 pages can be so fulfilling! And while we’re on […]
Hey, I’m Denys and I’m a Machine Learning Engineer & Team lead. I love building production-grade ML systems and talk about it – you can see some of my past talks here. For the past 2 years, I’ve been working at Bolt, which was recently voted as “Hottest European Unicorn” by TechCrunch. As a recap, […]
AI Lex Fridman with Ben Goertzel https://open.spotify.com/episode/7a1KzyIHHF51aTsuaEeejE Designing Data Intensive Applications with Martin Klepmann – Ok overview for brushing up concepts, interesting reminder that A in CAP theorem isn’t availability most of us consider practical; interesting idea of not having Unix pipes for data systems, like MySQL | ElasticSearch I’m slowly reading “Thinking – Fast […]
Yesterday I was watching Lex Fridman’s AI podcast’s episode with George Hotz. The guy is a founder of https://comma.ai (2nd-level autonomy vehicle module for 1000$) and a guy known for being first to career-unlock first iPhone among other things. Among discussions on autonomous vehicles and hacking I’ve heard term “CTF” or “capture the flag”. Originally […]
This September I got a chance to speak at first Data Science conference in Kyiv, organized by Framework Days (FWDays). When I came and talked to participants, I felt thrilled, as Kyiv’s DS community was evolving so rapidly, and people are working on amazing topics. I intentionally decided to not give any particular advice or […]