2025 in a nutshell. Kinda...

2025 in a nutshell. Kinda...

As the owner of this channel and its promoter, I hang out in a lot of Telegram channels. Now there are many posts with promises for the next year. I definitely don’t want to make the gods laugh, so no promises. The tones vary from very proud (old school) to overly humble (an attempt to follow trends and be original). Unfortunately, all this started a process in my brain, and here we are.

Picture. Activity per week on vocabulary.com in terms of “mastered words”. It doesn’t mean I know all these words already, but at least my brain was exposed to them. It’s my longest streak on the platform, and I hope to finish the first epoch by summer 2026.

I taught a two-semester ML course at Russian-Armenian University (RAU) and expelled one student from it. Two students from my group asked me to be their thesis supervisor → +2 defended graduates under my supervision. A similar story with the School of Data Analysis: two students from MIPT → +2 graduated students with “excellent” marks. Quite rare for MIPT.
Overall: 5 graduated students → 9. +80%.

Probably because my focus drifted from my main work toward educational activities, I was thrown out of the Yandex Education department. Nevertheless, the project on metrics for educational projects was completed. In three months, I came up with quality metrics and orchestrated the work of six people.

I landed on my feet in another department after four months of an undefined state. Now I can proudly say: “I work at Yandex Delivery.”

That’s it for my solo part. My wife and I successfully found a position for her as a prompt engineer. A pinch of luck and a year of hard work.

And this channel. I started it as an exercise in English. But the more I think about it, the more it looks like an attempt to build a community. There are no random people here. Now we have 81 souls who like computers, programming, math, and education. Thank you very much for being here. Feel free to communicate — I’ve opened a chat connected to the channel.

I don’t think the coming year will be easy, but I hope it will be interesting. And I hope we can all support each other with our knowledge and total awesomeness.