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  • My experiments with an AI assistant or how not to search for shows in NYC

    Introduction The most recent lean in AI have started with ChatGPT in 2023, driven by its ability to generate human-like text and its quick adoption across industries for tasks like customer support, content creation, and programming assistance.It was the frontier of AI. In 2024, and I suppose in 2025 the...

  • Problem-Solving Principles Applied to Data Science

    Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, The Musée Rodin of Paris, France Introduction The field of Data Science is among the most diverse ones. It's relatively young and still in search for its shapes. It results that many problems require non-standard, out-of-the-box solutions.  Being a data scientist is like being...

  • Is It the End of the Theory?

    If it’s possible to find the manifesto of “data science,” the article published in far 2008 can be it. The main idea of research is that the classical scientific approach presented in the scheme form: a hypothesis model – the experiment, faced serious problems today.  One of them – impossibility...

  • Goodhart's Law versus market speculations

    "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."This is a variation of one common low in economics, known as...

  • An ethical dilemma with hacked data

    In addition to above-mention big data problem, I want to share with you one interesting article. In short, one company was trying to collect data for their research for a while and couldn't do it due to the technical complexity. But then some happened and database been hacked and published for everyone. ...

  • Privacy is a new luxury

    "Privacy is a new luxury" - It seems that quite so it is possible to characterize our century of information. I have come across one scandal with Sberbank and one fast-food restraint. Briefly: Sberbank has been charged with sale of the history of transactions of users in order of targeting...

  • Negotiation methods

    I here at work needed the skill of work with clients and ability to conduct negotiations. Up to this point, I was focused only on the financial analysis and did not take into account another part of this business at all - negotiations and process of the conclusion of transactions....

  • New book

    Came across here one fascinating book on cognitive psychology. It not entirely corresponds to the name but well describes how more effectively to solve problems, to acquire material and to organize the time. I the fan of such books in itself not really, but this was pleasant. Reference to the...