Marina Costantini

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Applied scientist intern @amazon Luxembourg • Optimization, operations research & computer science

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Marina Costantini

Marina Costantini has 219 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and El Compadrito by Jorge Luis Borges

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What comes to my mind every time I read the word "realm" in an academic text, e.g. "Within the realm of computational problem solving, ..."
Random gym thought: solving the Tower of Hanoi with plates in minimum time should be a standard CrossFit task.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi
Tower of Hanoi - Wikipedia

Better late than never, I’d like to share that in June I defended my Ph.D. thesis🎓

Special thanks to my advisor, Akis Spyropoulos, who’s honestly the best supervisor that I personally know😊

Next: I’m excited to join Amazon Luxembourg as an Applied Research Scientist Intern!🚀

In my thesis, I present several gradient decent methods.

And no, I didn't misspell it.

What better way to honor preferential attachment (also Matthew effect, "the rich get richer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect) than by citing Newman's paper (23481 citations, https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=The+structure+and+function+of+complex+networks&btnG=) when talking about preferential attachment.
Matthew effect - Wikipedia

Don't care about what people say, always follow your gradient 🔻
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

All four coding competitions are discountued at Google. I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more details.

The Pragmatic Engineer
My dad just sent me this :)