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Grokipedia vs Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis (video)

Nov

11

2025

Recently, Grokipedia v0.1 was released — an AI-based knowledge system inspired by Wikipedia. But how complete is it? And what does its topic coverage look like compared to Wikipedia? Moreover, how does it differ across the many language editions of the world’s largest encyclopedia?

Python 3.14 vs 3.13 / 3.12 / 3.11 / 3.10 – performance testing (video)

Oct

27

2025

In this article, the performance test results of Python version 3.14 are presented and compared with the results obtained for earlier releases — 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, and 3.10. A total of over 100 diverse benchmark tests were conducted, covering both computational operations and tasks related to data processing, input/output operations, and application startup.

Introduction to Python Variables (video)

May

12

2025

A video lesson about basic variable types in Python and operations on them has been published on YouTube. In Python, variables act as containers for data values. The kind of data a variable can hold is defined by its type. Understanding these types is essential for efficient programming.

Data Science with Excel, Python, Transport Tycoon (video)

Dec

30

2024

During this lecture, we will discuss how the “IF” function in Excel works, as well as conditional statements in Python. We will explore these concepts using an example from the game Transport Tycoon, also known as OpenTTD.

Python 3.12 vs Python 3.13 – performance testing

Oct

14

2024

This article describes the performance testing results of Python 3.13 compared to Python 3.12. A total of 100 various benchmark tests were conducted on computers with the AMD Ryzen 7000 series and the 13th-generation of Intel Core processors for desktops, laptops or mini PCs.

Combining multiple attack methods for effective adversarial text generation

Sep

21

2024

An article entitled “OpenFact at CheckThat! 2024: Combining Multiple Attack Methods for Effective Adversarial Text Generation” has been published in open access. The paper describes the approach that won first place in an international competition in the area of information credibility.

Analysis of cryptocurrency exchanges using open data

Sep

3

2024

The work of our scientists on the analysis of digital currency exchanges has been published on the Springer website. As part of the research, models for predicting the success and bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchanges were developed, based on financial data and information collected from open Internet sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The aim of ...

The most cited scientific information sources in Wikipedia articles across various languages

Mar

28

2024

The latest issue of the journal “Biblioteka” published an article on the analysis of citations to scientific works in Wikipedia. The analysis covered 332 million references in 61 million Wikipedia articles in 309 language versions. In order to standardize the metadata of important sources of information on multilingual Wikipedia, data from the OpenAlex, an open ...

Quantifying Americanization: A comparative analysis of information in Wikipedia

Jan

13

2024

The research paper entitled “Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias” was published in the Social Science Computer Review journal. This is the first quantitative study that confirms various theories about Americanization and related phenomena often discussed in scientific literature.

Quality of content on Wikipedia and reliability of information sources

Jan

5

2024

The latest issue of the ACADEMIA journal published an article that focuses on automating the process of assessing the quality of content in Wikipedia, an encyclopedia available in many languages. The publication draws attention to both the advantages and disadvantages of the open nature of Wikipedia, including differences in the systems for assessing the quality ...