Sometimes it seems (or marketers assure us) that everything new is better than the old stuff.
I’m migrating a translation service that uses language models. The old version uses gpt-4.1, and the new one uses gpt-6-luna. Users complained that the new version was translating more slowly.
I thought: how …
The first time it happened was in seventh grade, in shop class. What I liked most was working on the engine lathe (Isaak Naumovich, hi!). I remember it like it was yesterday: I clamped the workpiece in the spindle, secured the tool holder, adjusted the tailstock coupling, tightened the screw …
So, students, how’s exam season going? Successfully?
Today on Lenin Avenue I fell victim to... what? you don’t know where that is? Then let’s put it this way: today on Nauky Avenue I fell victim to an interesting kind of marketing. Clearer now? Good. A young man was walking toward me and asked:
— Do you …
Over ten years of teaching at a university, I’ve noticed one detail. When a student is already in a total disaster with a subject, when finals are already on and it’s too late to study properly, people come to plead on the student’s behalf. Uncles, aunts, Dad …
Students are curious:
Which specialty/department should I write my application for in the second year?
Only SCS. Only APVT.
Speaking as a department lecturer, I’ll answer for myself: my courses “Programming Cloud Technology Services” (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) and “Programming Mobile Platforms” (Apple iPhone) are taken …
December 19, 2014, room 229, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. Cell phone theft. The thief was caught red-handed and handed over to the response team. Our guys did well: they quickly assessed the situation and acted decisively.
To students: keep your valuables with you; don’t take your eyes …
I’ve been studying English for a very long time, but I keep running into more and more new unfamiliar words. When I used an IBM PC-compatible computer running Windows 7, I used ABBYY Lingvo X3 to peek at translations of unfamiliar words (three languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English). An excellent …
I usually don’t talk to taxi drivers. But today he started it.
“Look, they didn’t get the roads done for Euro 2012, even though he promised he’d do everything! What will foreigners think when they see this? This is our home, what will they think of us …
On my way to work in the morning, my eye caught on a book stall. I was disappointed to find it had nothing but fiction. But today the seller got lucky: I noticed a book by Anton Semyonovich Makarenko titled “Pedagogical Poem.” Anton Makarenko is our countryman, an outstanding educator …