Arsenal Football Club:

We are looking for a Research Engineer to join our Data Analytics team, embedded directly with the Men’s First Team Analysis department, and play a key role in working with Analytics and Analysis colleagues to plan, implement, and deploy end-to-end internal products supporting the Men’s First Team.

https://careers.arsenal.com/jobs/8083296-research-engineer

🎙️ How will AI shape the future of science and the next generation of researchers?

Join scientists, entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and policymakers for a high-level panel discussion on the role of AI in Science and Human Capital Development.

Together, we will explore how AI is transforming research, accelerating innovation, preparing the next generation of researchers, and strengthening Kazakhstan’s global scientific and technological competitiveness.

📅 Friday, August 7 | 4:00–6:00 PM
📍 Astana Hub, Astana
🌐 Hybrid Event join us in person or online

The QIST 1st Annual Members Forum will bring together members of the global Kazakh scientific community, including university faculty, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, PhDs, entrepreneurs, innovators, industry R&D professionals, and policymakers to discuss the future of science, AI, innovation, and international collaboration.

📌 Registration is now open: link

Harbour Space Talent Acquisition ✨️

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-anufrieva

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

(By Justin Uberti and Zahan Malkani, Members of Technical Staff OpenAI)

For voice AI, knowing when to speak is harder than it sounds. Human speakers effortlessly hand off to each other in a fraction of a second, but previous voice AI systems couldn’t keep up with this rhythm. Their turn-based architecture relied on tiny models known as turn detectors, which faced an unenviable task: guess too soon, and the user gets cut off; guess too late, and the response feels sluggish. Only after the detector made its decision could the much larger LLM get to work.

GPT‑Live⁠, our third-generation voice system, removes the turn detector from the audio path. Its voice model is full-duplex, which means it can listen and speak at the same time. That eliminates the need for a separate detector and makes conversation feel more immediate and natural.

https://openai.com/index/continuous-voice-interaction-with-gpt-live/

Google DeepMind выпустила книгу How to Scale Your Model.

В ней разбирается, как эффективно масштабировать и запускать модели в условиях ограниченных вычислительных ресурсов — например, в автомобильных системах, где требования моделей постоянно растут, а доступные ресурсы ограничены.

Такие сценарии требуют глубокого понимания закономерностей масштабирования, и именно этому посвящена книга.

https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book

IBM Bob 2.0 Hackathon

IBM Bob 2.0 is an AI-powered development partner that works directly with your codebase, helping you build and improve software with real context.

It is designed to support developers across everyday workflows, allowing you to apply AI within your own project rather than working in isolation.

Link: https://lablab.ai/ai-hackathons/ibm-bob-2-hackathon

Sum of the first N odd numbers = N^2

#math #visual_proof

BCC HUB Tech Radar опубликован - первый в своём роде в Центральной Азии.

Совместно с Павлом Стручалиным, IT-архитекторами Бахытжаном Карабалиным и Николаем Кочубашевым мы организовали онлайн опрос всех технических командам компании и собрали их в единую карту.

BCC HUB Tech Radar отражает наш реальный инженерный стек - языки, фреймворки, платформы, инструменты - распределённые по классическим кольцам Adopt / Trial / Assess / Hold. Go, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Testcontainers, FastAPI и многоедругое.
Это живая карта того, что мы внедряем (Adopt), тестируем (Trial), изучаем (Assess) и откладываем (Hold) - общий ориентир для инженерных команд и прозрачный взгляд для партнёров и техно-комьюнити на то, как BCC HUB строит технологии в масштабе.
Смотреть радар: bcchub.kz/en/radar.
@devs_kz

ICPC Online Challenge powered by Huawei

A new online optimization challenge from ICPC and Huawei is coming this August.
The challenge focuses on a real-world AI infrastructure problem: Scheduling Algorithm for Collaborative Inference System. This is essentially an optimization problem inspired by real-world LLM serving and AI infrastructure.

Challenge dates
📅 Start: August 14, 2026 — 11:00 UTC
📅 Finish: August 28, 2026 — 10:59 UTC

Prizes
🥇 Rank 1 — €12,000 + travel and invitation to the 50th ICPC World Finals as a guest
🥈 Ranks 2–6 — €8,000
🥉 Ranks 7–16 — €3,000
Ranks 17–50 — €800

An interesting bonus: AI tools, including generative AI and AI-assisted coding tools, are explicitly permitted during the challenge. Participants remain responsible for the correctness and originality of their submissions.

🔗 Registration:
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/155646

Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with 17 times fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers.

At Startup School 2026, Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov shares the seven lessons behind that journey, from bridging the gap between a demo and a real product to building systems that can safely operate in the physical world.

Link: https://youtu.be/Gp4zrV3-6N8?si=NbN3af83uWi9bw1b

Walking wakes up your brain 🧠

1. ​Increases blood & oxygen flow: Physical movement immediately boosts circulation, delivering a fresh supply of oxygen and glucose to your brain for instant mental clarity.
2. ​Triggers neurotransmitter release: Walking prompts your brain to release dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which sharpen focus, elevate mood, and reduce stress.
3. ​Stimulates neuroplasticity (BDNF): It triggers the release of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), a protein that protects neurons, promotes new cell growth, and improves memory.

#walking #energy #notes

Бірінші турдың 30 минуты өтті.

Онлайн нәтижелер кестесі:
https://ranking.ioi2026.uz

Алға, жігіттер! 🇰🇿

Это репо с задачами IOI 2026: https://github.com/ioi/task-archive/tree/master/2026/day1

На этом канале можно следить за статусом наших ребят (team Kazakhstan): https://t.me/ioikaz

🏆 Official final standings: Team Kazakhstan - International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2026)

🥇 2 gold medals (+abs #2 champion: Dauzhan Beketov);
🥈 2 silver medals;
🥉 4 bronze medals;

Congrats, Outstanding Results!! 👏🎉

🔗 Final Standings: https://ioai2026.kz/results/
🧩 Upsolving (GitHub): https://github.com/IOAI-official/IOAI-2026

The right metrics and evaluation strategy are critical to building successful ML systems.

#ml_production #notes

All Things Agentic Hackathon by Gemini & Google Cloud

Ready, Set, Agent! Build next-generation agents that run in the background, handle the heavy lifting of massive datasets, and automate complex workflows asynchronously.

* Who can participate? Above legal age of majority in country of residence
* Deadline: Sep 1, 2026

🔗 Hackathon link: https://allthingsagentichackathon.devpost.com/

+ Full instructions & webinars from Google Team on building agentic systems: https://allthingsagentichackathon.devpost.com/resources

#hackathon