I'm Yagub Ismayilli — a data scientist and AI engineer in Baku, Azerbaijan. My work is mostly on making machine learning read Azerbaijani, a language most models were never trained for. That's what the portfolio is about.
This site is the other thing. Music, films and books I keep coming back to, with a note on each — not reviews, and not a ranking. Closer to a shelf than a catalogue.
It ends up spread across a few languages, because I do: Azerbaijani natively, Turkish, English and some German. So a Turkish historian sits next to a Russian novel next to a German thriller, and that ordering is the only thing they have in common.
The player at the bottom stays with you while you read, so you can start something on one page and finish the thought on another.