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Serokell came in 158th place in the Open AI Codex competition. Learn more about the competition in this article.

Serokell Data Science Team Takes Part in Open AI Codex Challenge

OpenAI Codex is an artificial intelligence system released less than a week ago that generates code based on user requests. On August 12th OpenAI hosted a challenge that allowed anyone to test Codex’s capacities.

Our Data Science team members Dmitry Puzirev and Alexey Khachiyants took part in the competition and came 158th out of a couple of thousands of participants. They had to crack five simple tasks with a twist: using OpenAI Codex as their coding assistant. 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Codex Challenge is now closed. Congratulations to the 842 challengers who solved all 5 puzzles! Codex is taking a break after assisting with 23,439 completions.</p>&mdash; OpenAI (@OpenAI) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1425995602236637189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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‘The platform was lagging at first because there were so many participants’, says Dmitry Puzyrev, Junior Data Science engineer at Serokell. ‘But we still managed to complete the tasks and reach top 160. It was a fun experience’.

ITMO Interviews Arseniy Seroka

Our CEO Arseniy Seroka has recently been interviewed by one of our partners, ITMO. In the interview, he speaks about science, Haskell, and working remotely.

> "Don’t look at the industry, develop your brains in general rather than overly concern yourself with what the market would demand from you."  — Arseniy Seroka 

Our CEO Arseniy Seroka has recently been interviewed by one of our partners, ITMO. In the interview, he speaks about science, Haskell, and working remotely. 

If you wish to read the interview, it is available on ITMO news in [English](https://news.itmo.ru/en/news/9230/) and [Russian](https://news.itmo.ru/ru/science/it/news/9230/). 

![Arseniy Seroka](/files/x8/x8615ztj.IMG_20191108_230521_910_(1).jpg)

HuntIT has also recently published a 20 minutes long [video interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsfzwa3h9pE) with Arseniy. To read an English transcription of it, head to [our blog](https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-at-200-mph).

Functional Futures by Serokell has made it to the  Feedspot list of the 10 Best Functional Programming Podcasts

Functional Futures Among Top 10 Functional Programming Podcasts

We're delighted to announce that our podcast, *Functional Futures*, has earned recognition from Feedspot, making it to their list of the [10 Best Functional Programming Podcasts](https://podcasts.feedspot.com/functional_programming_podcasts/?feedid=5534285).

***Functional Futures*** is a podcast where our passion for FP meets real-world applications and innovation. Through our interviews, we bring to our listeners the voices that are shaping the present and future of functional programming. Whether it's the intricacies of functional programming languages, the complexities of compiler development, or the nuances of type theory, we got you covered.

Feedspot employs various methods, from an in-house research team surfing the internet to proprietary media monitoring tools, to find and curate the best podcasts in several niche categories. An expert editorial team then reviews every podcast. The platform's lists aim to provide listeners with credible, relevant, and constantly updated information. It prioritizes podcasts that bring authoritative and genuine insights and looks at how the podcast resonates and interacts with its audience.

We are happy that Feedspot has recognized our functional programming expertise and our ability to create valuable and engaging content. 

We'd like to thank our listeners for their support and curiosity. We will continue bringing you the most interesting discussions, debates, and stories from the world of functional programming.

*For those new to [Functional Futures](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/functionalfutures), we invite you to check out our episodes.*

*You can also subscribe to Serokell's [YouTube channel, ](https://www.youtube.com/@Serokell)where we share our DevOps practices for effective development and maintenance.*

*If you want to stay updated on the latest publication in our blog, follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/serokell).*

*Thank you for being part of our community!*

Feedspot Includes Serokell's Functional Futures in Top 10 Functional Programming Podcasts

### Hi everyone! 

Let us tell you what happened at **FPure Conference in Kazan**.

The main event list of speakers was amazing – actually, it was expected from the only functional programming conference in Russia.

Alexander Granin, lead of the Novosibirsk LambdaNsk community, talked about two different approaches in functional programming – Final Tagless and Free Monad. [Vitaliy Bragilevsky ](http://https://twitter.com/_bravit) from SFEDU made a short lecture about building a compiler, and Alexey Pirogov from Hexlet talked about functional design and FP patterns.

What about us? Our haskellers [Danya](http://https://twitter.com/CartesianClosed) and Rinat performed excellently (congratulations once again!) It was a great opportunity for guys to represent their work and shake some hands, of course.

Our engineers gave a talk about approaches and problems of the type-driven development in Numeric Haskell. The visitors were posting their impressions online on Twitter. We selected some of the tweets to share with you.

https://twitter.com/_bravit/status/1132201805797052416
“They’re telling programmers about Presburger arithmetic. This is useful!”

https://twitter.com/xufocoder/status/1132202918923440128
“It seems that I’m starting to understand what is happening here. The dimension of the matrices cannot be controlled with the types that guys use when they solve their ML tasks. This problem can be solved using dependent types, but Haskell doesn’t have this feature! What to do? Emulate.”

https://twitter.com/xufocoder/status/1132206956788297728
“If your code is simple and the algorithm is not COMPLICATED, you may skip messing around with dependent types in your Haskell programme. But if you need to deal with it, remember that you will have to make efforts to prove your code is correct to the compiler at least.”

Meanwhile, Danya and Rinat are writing the next chapters of their series “Dimensions and Haskell”. 
“The second and third parts of the article series are going to be the most intense. In the blog post, we’re going to depict how we solved the issues and where our approach came from. After that, we will show various examples and explain how the approach is useful.

A couple of words about our approach. It can be applied not only to dimensions but to any parameters. It can be designed as a library which is compatible with any of matrix libraries and allows separating an algorithm from the proof of its correctness. But no more spoilers! Just believe me, it’s going to be hot.” 
– Danya Rogozin

The second part of the series is coming soon, stay tuned!

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Serokell at FPure 2019

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