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Junction 2022 – make videos great again

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 […]

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Capture The Flag – first thoughts on being noob hacker

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 […]

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Speaking at Framework Days about engineering behind Data Science (and when things go wrong in public speaking)

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 […]

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Scaling Data Science at Bolt

Bolt is one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, and our engineering team is orders of magnitude smaller than those of rivals. Which means that to be competitive, we need to be efficient with our time and resources. Algorithms, including machine learning, are among the tools we use to improve the efficiency of our […]