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48 interviews away from a Google offer

I’ve been looking for Applied ML scientist positions for quite a while, got rejections from 16 companies (mostly, bigtech and startups) and 2 offers. In an e...

[EN/RU] To Ph.D. or not to Ph.D.

In this post I collected my own subjective pros and cons of pursuing a Ph.D. degree. If you scroll down, you’ll find a richer version of this post in Russian...

[EN/RU] My 2022 in books

This post is about the best books that I read in 2022. Those are “Why nations fail”, “The simple path to wealth”, “Designing Machine Learning systems”, “Work...

Bonus mlcourse.ai assignments

​ Here we cover the best assignments of mlcourse.ai – an open and free Machine Learning course with a good balance of theory and practice. The course is avai...

[EN/RU] Train your own AI bullshit detector

​ Defining what is possible and what is impossible is one of the main tasks that science solves every day. This is especially noticeable in the field of mach...

Easy image generation with OpenAI DALLE API

With the OpenAI beta-version of image generation API generating cool images for any purpose is made easier than ever. This also solves legal issues, no need ...

Course overview – Venture Deals

I full-heartedly recommend the Venture Deals course taught by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson, supported by KauffmanFellows and TechStars.

[RU] My 2021 in books

This post is about the best books that I read in 2021. Those are “The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business”, “The riches...

[RU] Machine Learning LEGO blocks

This is a long introductory lecture in Machine Learning where I compare ML tasks to the LEGO game with its building blocks. Originally posted in the mlcourse...

[RU] Data Science failures - part 2

This is a longreed where I honestly describe what people typically do not mention on their LinkedIn profiles – failures. This post is in Russian, originally ...

[RU] Data Science failures - part 1

Here I honestly describe what people typically do not mention on their LinkedIn profiles – failures. This post is in Russian, originally posted in VK.com.

How to jump into Data Science

In this talk, I’ll describe the learning path you need to step in to find your first DS job. Assuming that basic ML is covered (mlcourse.ai, Andrew Ng’s cour...

[RU] Yury Kashnitsky: work and life

Here goes Yury’s story: life in Israel and Canada, bullying, Ph.D. and industrial Data Science, MIPT and Mail.ru, the Netherlands.

[RU] A talk with Sergey Nikolenko

Here goes a vide recording of my talk with Sergey Nikolenko. Sergey is a player of the intellectual TV club “What? Where? When?” (world champion in 2015and 2...

[RU] a talk with Dmitry Vertrov

Here goes a transcript of my talk with Dmitry Vetrov. Dmitry is a research professor in the Department of Computer Science, Higher School of Economics, and H...

[RU] A talk with Evgeniy Sokolov

Here goes a vide recording of my talk with Evgeniy Sokolov, – Associate Professor, Head of Faculty of Computer Science, Higher School of Economics, lead Data...

[RU] A talk with Konstantin Vorontsov

Here goes a vide recording of my talk with Konstantin Vorontsov – Head of the MIPT Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Professor of the Yandex Faculty of Comput...