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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’.

Serokell Offers Free Consultations

During these times, we believe it is our duty to help others. Therefore, Serokell conducts hour-long audits and consultations for free for those in need.

During these times, we believe it is our duty to help others. In particular, small and medium-sized businesses because those are the ones most vulnerable right now.  

Therefore, [Serokell](https://serokell.io/fintech-development) will conduct hour-long audits and consultations for free for those in need. 

**How we can be useful right now:**

*   We can help you with the transition to remote work, provide a list of tools and instructions on how to use them.
*   We can analyze your business and tell you about the processes you should prioritize digitalizing.

This is not a hidden sales tactic that will end up with “if you want to learn more, order our consulting services”. What it is, is an hour-long consultation (or audit) from one of our executives that will result in a list of things to do and directions to pursue. After that, it is your decision on whether and how to proceed.

**Dates**

We cannot promise to get back to you “tomorrow”, as this is something we are doing in addition to our usual work with our customers, but we will try to free as much time as we can. 

**How to apply**

Leave a comment below or write to us: [hi@serokell.io](mailto:hi@serokell.io). After that, we will contact you in the next few days with clarifying questions and tentative dates. If we understand that we can’t adequately help you in the situation you are in, we will say so.  

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Right now, we can process about 10 applications. Our customers, obviously, will still be a priority for us as we are already working overtime to answer their questions and needs. 

We wish everyone the best of luck in tackling the crisis. It will require hard work, but we will persevere.

Serokell at AiML 2020

Advances in Modal Logic is one of the most popular conferences on modal logic. Read about the conference and Danya Rogozin's participation in it.

[Advances in Modal Logic](http://www.aiml.net) is one of the most popular conferences on modal logic. AiML covers the whole landscape of modal logic and its current state of affairs. Topics are not restricted to only abstract questions of modal logic but also includes the aspects related to artificial intelligence, philosophy, topology, algebra, etc. This year, the conference was online due to the pandemic – the University of Helsinki did a great job in organising it via Zoom.

## AiML talks

The AiML talks were split into three categories. The first category was plenary talks. This year, invited speakers were Bahareh Afshari (the University of Amsterdam), Nick Bezhanishvili (the University of Amsterdam), Melvin Fitting (City University of New York), and Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark), all great talks indeed. 

Out of those, I would like to emphasise the talk by Nick Bezhanishvili called ‘Filtrations, Canonical Formulas, and Axiomatisations of Superintuitionistic and Modal Logics’. The talk was quite close to my current research on model-theoretic aspects of Boolean algebras with operators.
 
There were also talks based on full papers. Topics of those papers represent a variety of trends in modal logic that include technical, applied, philosophical, and historical problems. Moreover, this conference is my debut as a paper reviewer. One of the accepted papers has been approved by myself as well.

## My presentation 

My talk was the short one and is based on a short five-page abstract. It's called ‘Canonical extensions for the distributive full Lambek calculus with modal operators’. 

Briefly, this talk provides an algebraic approach for Stone-style representation for bounded distributive lattices with modal operators to characterise the class of canonical logics. Canonical logics, in their turn, are adequate with respect to relational Kripke semantics if their algebras ‘respect’ such an algebraic representation called canonical extension. The result of this talk extends some of the results by [Mai Gehrke, Yde Venema, and Hideo Nagahashi](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007204000880).

Serokell Is Top 10 on Techreviewer

New year, new accomplishments! Serokell made it to the top 10 on the Techreviewer’s list of top software developers.

Serokell Is Top 10 on software developers listing

New year, new accomplishments! Serokell made it to the top 10 on the Techreviewer’s list of top software developers. 

Techreviewer is an online aggregator that conducts research about the best software developers on the market and publishes lists of the top players in various business domains. For more than 15 years, they help businesses find IT vendors based on market research and analytics.

This year, we were included in their list of [top software developers in 2020](https://techreviewer.co/top-software-development-companies/). Our achievements in software development and scientific projects of Serokell Labs pushed us to the leading positions in this rating. It is always a pleasure when your hard work and efforts are publicly recognized.

Thank you, Techreviewer!

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