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Abdoulaye Diack

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Program Manager ML & AI @ Google Research | Ex-Google Brain. Speaker (FR/EN) Abdoulaye.ai Expert in cheese and coffee 🌍 Accra, Ghana (cover photo: Dar Es Saalam, circa 2015)

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Meet the ultimate gatekeeper of the nucleus. This molecular machine determines what compounds are welcome inside and which shall not pass. The mechanism behind its selectivity remains a mystery. www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...

10.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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You cannot make this thing up

10.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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We created a repo with 250+ notebooks for LLM training.

Train locally on your device with 3GB VRAM or free on Colab.

Learn the entire fine-tuning and inference workflow.

Supports RL, vision, audio, embedding, TTS models

GitHub: github.com/unslothai/no...

10.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Learning Functions of Halfspaces We give an algorithm that learns arbitrary Boolean functions of $k$ arbitrary halfspaces over $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the challenging distribution-free Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning model, ...

Well, this seems like a big deal. arxiv.org/abs/2603.087...

"This is the first algorithm that can PAC learn even intersections of two halfspaces in time 2^o(n)."

10.03.2026 04:03 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze Hippocampal neurons track positions of self, others, and gaze direction. However, it is unclear how their respective neural codes differ enough to avoid confusion while allowing for abstraction. We re...

Compositional representation of self, others, and gaze direction in *human* hippocampus - super cool.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04747

09.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Release DeepVariant 1.10.0 Β· google/deepvariant DeepVariant: Continuous phasing: Long-read variant calls (PacBio and ONT) are now natively phased and phased output is generated for both vcf and gvcf formats. Fuzzy channels: Added β€œfuzzy channel...

Release of DeepVariant v1.10

Phased VCF output for long-reads
Accuracy improvements for multi-allelic variants
Pangenome accuracy improvements (18% fewer errors)
Most technologies ~10% faster
RNA-seq is a full supported mode
DeepSomatic is 12-40% faster

github.com/google/deepv...

07.03.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Funny that I repost these days so that my agent saves it in memory

07.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data.

The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k...

Figure 1 shows they key result

06.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8
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Baturday
Bat World Sanctuary

07.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 6621 πŸ” 1532 πŸ’¬ 153 πŸ“Œ 371

Afrilang AI 2025 proceeedings are live on PLMR. Fantastic list of research papers on AI for African Languages. Check it out.
proceedings.mlr.press/v314/

07.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AtmosphereConf Sponsor: Google Open Source The Google Open Source team is supporting the conference as a Major Sponsor

Thank you to Google @opensource.google for joining #AtmosphereConf as a major sponsor! We appreciate your support!

06.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 16
A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

πŸ“£ OpenIFS is now open source!

The move will make it easier to collaborate andβ€―generateβ€―new ideas.

βž‘οΈβ€―www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

05.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

πŸ’­We need more research that focuses on aspects beyond accuracy, especially in multilingual AI.

πŸ‘‰Help us explore the importance of culture in building and testing AI, with a few minutes of your time.

Happy to have a chat as well with anyone who's interested in that space!

03.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 6545 πŸ” 1324 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 11
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#CopernicusAtmosphere dust aerosol optical depth forecast shows a massive #SaharanDust plume crossing NW Africa, W Mediterranean + parts of Europe over the first few days of March. View the latest charts at atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

01.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->

23.02.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 9
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Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing Its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community Google renews its Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, reinforcing its commitment to open source innovation and collaboration by joining the Board of Directors.

We’re renewing our Platinum Membership with the @linuxfoundation.org πŸš€ Open source comes with a responsibility to contribute & sustain it. We’re building a better future through open technologies. goo.gle/lf-platinum-...

What open source project are you most excited about right now?

24.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Harmattan all the way to Brazil 😲

23.02.2026 08:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#ShareGoodNewsToo
A great example of how, with our new technologies, guarding the planet is cheaper than trashing it.

21.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Non-export bananas are the best

21.02.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The $100 whole human genome sequence finally reached!
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/s...

20.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 258 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 11

Squint your eyes

21.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The first country to BAN the sale of new gas cars is doing just fine, actually Ethiopia made history in 2024 by becoming the first country to ban the sale and import of new internal combustion-powered vehicles. Despite the predictions of the anti-EV hysterics, they’re doing just fine β€” but the process hasn’t been without its challenges! more…

The first country to BAN the sale of new gas cars is doing just fine, actually

20.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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WMO has released new guidance to help Members map national renewable energy resources. The technical publication supports high-resolution atlases for wind, solar and hydropower, turning climate data into decision-ready action. Full publicationπŸ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3ZInsWW

20.02.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of old vs new ocr. 

old ocr text is garbled. New ocr much cleaner.

Screenshot of old vs new ocr. old ocr text is garbled. New ocr much cleaner.

Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs.

- 0.9B model (GLM-OCR)
~$0.002/page
~$5 total on an L4 GPU

Before (old Tesseract ocr) β†’ After

19.02.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

🌱Very proud of our team's latest release 😊 meet Tiny Aya, a massively multilingual model with 3.35B parameters.

Tech report here: github.com/Cohere-Labs/...

18.02.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The πŸ”₯πŸ”₯Anny roll continues this week with the release of Multi-HMR trained with the Anny body model. Multi-person, single shot Human Mesh Recovery predictions are now made in the open, interpretable parameter space of Anny!
πŸ§‘β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘Multi-HMR code: github.com/naver/multi-...
πŸ‘‰Anny: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z

17.02.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

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16.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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France cuts funding for Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria by more than half France cut its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 58 percent on Thursday, confirming a major reduction in funding that health organisations warn will cost lives...

France cuts funding for Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria by 58%!

16.02.2026 08:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

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