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My journey with <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/machine-learning" target="_blank">machine learning</a> started in high school. I was lucky and motivated enough to get my hands on old textbooks about Artificial Neural Networks. It was 2000. Friends were super popular on TV, Eminem was dropping hit after hit and there was I, an utter geek perplexed and literally blown away by object recognition systems, which at that time were scientific curiosities. My first paper, <a href="http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/firststep/results/9" target="_blank">“Seeing and Recognizing Objects as Physical Process — Practical and Theoretical Use of Artificial Neural Networks”</a>, written at the age of 18, was my juvenile attempt at becoming scientist. It won me scholarships and entry to the best universities in UK (Cambridge) and the Netherlands (Groningen), and eventually unlocked academic carrier in <a href="https://scholar.google.it/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Tamiola&btnG=" target="_blank">computational biophysics of proteins</a>. Finally, I was lucky enough to combine scientific expertise and a love affair with machine learning into<a href="https://peptone.io" target="_blank"> an AI venture, Peptone</a>.