Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedA long-term Data Science roadmap which WON’T help you become an expert in only several monthsSome thoughts on becoming a data scientist. It isn’t easy or fast and requires a lot of efforts, but if you are interested in data science, it is worth it. — From time to time I am asked: how does one become a data scientist? What courses are necessary? How long will it take? How did you become a DS? …Data Science7 min readData Science7 min read
Mar 20Paper review: Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language ModelsHyena, a subquadratic drop-in replacement for attention — Paper link Code link Project link Transformers are currently widely used in deep learning thanks to their ability to learn at scale. However, attention exhibits quadratic cost in sequence length, limiting the amount of context accessible. …Review4 min readReview4 min read
Mar 13Paper Review: Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation ModelsImproving ChatGPT with Visual Foundation Models — Paper link Code link ChatGPT provides a language interface with distinctive conversational competency and reasoning capabilities across many domains, but it is currently incapable of processing or generating images from the visual world. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose a system called Visual ChatGPT that incorporates different Visual Foundation…Review6 min readReview6 min read
Feb 23My language learning journey: the past, the current and the future“Languages both permit and oblige to perceive and express the world in a certain way.” © Complete Spanish course by Language Transfer — As the world continues to evolve and change at an increasingly rapid pace, it can be easy to focus solely on technological advancements and forget the importance of human connection. However, it is important to remember that despite all the advancements in communication technology, nothing can replace the personal touch…Language Learning33 min readLanguage Learning33 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Dec 22, 2022The Third Life of a Personal Pet Project for Handwritten Digit RecognitionThe journey of deploying YOLOv3 trained on a custom dataset from scratch with Streamlit — Five years ago, when I got my first job as a Data Scientist, I wanted to get more experience as fast as possible. One of the things I did this was working on a personal project: a Flask app that allowed users to draw a digit and have it recognized…Pet Project9 min readPet Project9 min read
Published in Better Programming·Updated Mar 6How We Tried to Create a Medical ChatbotThe story of a project that never got the green-light — In recent years, the telemedicine market (remote medical services) and MedTech, in general, have been snowballing, and the coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated its development. …NLP22 min readNLP22 min read
Sep 6, 2022Data Science Pet Projects. FAQWhat are data science pet projects, and why are they fascinating? This article was translated in collaboration with Klokov Alexey. The idea to write an article was born after numerous questions about personal projects in the Open Data Science (ODS) community. You will find ideas for new projects and useful…Data Science16 min readData Science16 min read
Aug 8, 2022Lessons learned after 10 years in ITWhat I have learned from my mistakes and successes — ~5 years ago, I started my career as a Data Scientist, and before that, I worked as an ERP-system consultant for 4+ years. During this time, I have worked on many different projects and met a lot of interesting people. Now I want to share some of my experiences, describe…Careers27 min readCareers27 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Dec 10, 2021NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language AugmentationHow I contributed to an NLP data augmentation framework and became one of the co-authors of the ML paper about it — Paper link Code link This paper presents a new participatory Python-based natural language augmentation framework that supports the creation of transformations (modifications to the data) and filters (data splits according to specific features). The current version of the framework contains 117 transformations and 23 filters for a variety of natural…NLP6 min readNLP6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Apr 22, 2021My mentoring experience in Data Science: lessons taught and learnedMy experience of formal and informal mentoring for people at my job and outside of it — What is mentoring? How can I find a mentor? Questions like these are often asked on forums, on social media, and in communities. Mentorship is supposed to be an exciting situation when an experienced person shares insights and guides a mentee on a path to success pro bono. …Careers17 min readCareers17 min read
