Blog Posts
24 posts
Starting and iterating on a Kaggle competition in Google Antigravity
I used a Claude Code starter kit and Google Antigravity with Gemini 3.1 to participate in a Kaggle Playground competi...
Cayley graph search with Claude Code: what puzzle competitions look like in 2026
Two experiences from two CayleyPy Kaggle competitions: how learned-heuristic beam search solves enormous Cayley graph...
Testing MiniMax M3 on real tasks: repo refactor, screenshot debugging, and Spotify recommendations
A hands-on look at MiniMax M3 through Claude Code — what its new MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) is and how it differs...
Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows
An evaluation of MiniMax M2.7 used through Claude Code on three workflows I run regularly — writing code for a Kaggle...
Redesigning My Personal Website with Claude Code
A practical walkthrough of redesigning a Jekyll personal website — adding search, dark mode, structured data, and a f...
Top-10 ML papers I read in 2025
Top-10 ML and AI papers I read in 2025
My experience of interview preparation as MLE
My experience of interview preparation as MLE in 2024-2025
My experience of searching for a job in 2024 as an MLE
My experience of searching for a job in 2024 as an MLE across the globe
Two Years of Studying and Practicing Foreign Languages
Two Years of Studying and Practicing Foreign Languages. Spanish, German, and Japanese
12 years of studying foreign languages with Anki
12 years of studying foreign languages with Anki
KindleVocabToAnki app: importing words from your Kindle to Anki for language learning
A story of my app for converting Kindle vocab file to Anki-compatible tables
Crafting My Personal Website: Jekyll, GitHub Pages, and a Custom Domain
A short guide on creating a personal website using Jekyll, Github Pages and custom domain
My language learning journey: the past, the present and the future
My language learning journey. The past, the present and the future. English, German, Japanese and Spanish.
A third life of a personal pet-project for handwritten digit recognition
A pet-project for handwritten digit recognition using YOLOv3 and Streamlit
Medical-chat bot: the history of our attempt to do it
A story how the project of developing a medical-chat bot was closed after a lot of efforts spent on it
How I relocated and started living in Dubai
A story of relocation to Dubai and of living there for several months
Lessons learned after 10 years in IT
Some thoughts and ideas bases on my working experience in ERP-consulting and DS
My results of 2021
Some thoughts about how I lived through 2021
My mentoring experience in Data Science: lessons taught and learned
My experience of formal and informal mentoring for people at my job and outside of it.
Data Science: Can the job be fun or are we bound to face familiar problems every time?
My thoughts about difficulties that data scientists face at work and many positive aspects of working in DS.
What to do when you didn’t get any medal in a Kaggle competition?
Be like gradient descent — learn from the errors!
A story of my first gold medal in one Kaggle competition: things done and lessons learned
Or a story about a great team
Approaches to sentimental analysis on a small imbalanced dataset without Deep Learning
Let’s make logreg great again!
A long-term Data Science roadmap which WON’T help you become an expert in only several months
Some thoughts on becoming a data scientist. It isn’t easy or fast and requires a lot of efforts, but if you are inter...