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Abdoulaye Diack
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Program Manager ML & AI @ Google Research | Ex-Google Brain. Speaker (FR/EN)

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🌍 Accra, Ghana

(cover photo: Dar Es Saalam, circa 2015)
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Abdoulaye Diack @diack.bsky.social · Nov 30
We recently published an open source dataset of building footprints and height estimations for the Global South. It covers ~2 billion buildings and 8 years of data derived from Sentinel 2 imagery.

Blog: shorturl.at/S8ejc
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.11622
Dataset: shorturl.at/FHuQE
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cobbo3.bsky.social
World’s oldest adult cremation found in northern Malawi, dating back 9,500 years.
World’s Oldest Adult Cremation Found in Africa, Dating Back 9,500 Years - GreekReporter.com
A 9,500-year-old burial in Malawi is identified as the world’s oldest adult cremation, offering insight into early African mortuary practices.
greekreporter.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
diack.bsky.social
I don't think the world cup is happening
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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spacecowboy17.bsky.social
You can now use "show more like this" and "show less like this" in the For You feed.

(this is being rolled out so you may need to update your Bluesky app)

Here is how it works in For You 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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tmlrorg.bsky.social
The end of 2025 marks the end of Hugo Larochelle's term as (Founding co-) Editor-in-chief of TMLR. It is an understatement to say that he was indispensable to making TMLR what it is today. Huge thanks to
Hugo for everything he's done!
January 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
diack.bsky.social
1) 3 years of WeatherNext-2 precipitation forecast in one image
2) Wind power density at 100m in 2025

Weather-2 dataset: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Prepipication forecast from WeatherNext2 dataset 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z–2025-12-31T12:00:00Z Wind power density power density equation $P = \frac{1}{2}\rho v^3$ to vector wind components at 100m.
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
diack.bsky.social
Visualizing the Somali Jet with WeatherNext-2 via Google Earth Engine. Gemini helped with the code.
​This model generates a 15-day, 64-member forecast ensemble in under 1 minute on a single TPU.
​Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10772
Dataset: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
December 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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eumetsat.int
Satellites like Copernicus Sentinel-3 & -6 track ocean waves across the globe. This data helps improve forecasts, track sea level changes, & support climate research, showing everything from gentle ripples to large winter swells.

Learn more: bit.ly/3NmMpUF
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
diack.bsky.social
Q4 was fun
>npx gemini-wrapped
My Gemini-cli stats
December 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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fuelcellsworks.com
China activates the world’s largest 100% #hydrogen gas turbine (30MW), delivering stable #zerocarbon power with the “Jupiter-1” unit. A major step for wind-solar-hydrogen integration and #cleanenergy scalability.

#HydrogenNow #HydrogenEnergy #CleanTech

fcw.sh/sh80XZ
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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torsolarfred.bsky.social
India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity #energysky -- via pv magazine global:
India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity
India’s installed solar capacity reached 132.85 GW at the end of November 2025, led by utility-scale projects in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, according to the central government.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
diack.bsky.social
Happy birthday Linus Torvalds
December 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
diack.bsky.social
how is it going with the Lego set
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
diack.bsky.social
Accra 🇬🇭 (2016–2023) 7 years of rapid growth. Visualization: Nighttime Lights (VIIRS) × Google Open Buildings.

💡 Lights: NOAA VIIRS (Annual V22) 🟩 Buildings: Open Buildings Temporal

Code: github.com/adiack/geosp...

#EarthEngine #Urbanization #DataViz #AI
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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cpaxton.bsky.social
Autonomous RIVR delivery robots in Pittsburgh
December 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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wmo-global.bsky.social
@wcrpclimate.bsky.social's APARC releases a landmark report on global atmospheric impacts of the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption

159 scientists. 21 countries. 3 years. One report.

More information here: https://bit.ly/493hOmz

#WCRP #APARC #ScienceforAction #HungaEruption
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ellis.eu
🏹 Job alert: PhD position on generative modeling for constrained Bayesian inverse problems in imaging at IMT Atlantique

📍 Nantes 🇫🇷
📅 Apply by Jan 30th
🔗 https://bit.ly/3KzrGfG
PhD position on generative modeling for constrained Bayesian inverse problems in imaging at IMT Atlantique | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
ellis.eu
December 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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sharky6000.bsky.social
Hello! 👋

Are you interested in AI for board games using language models? Want to do some hobby tinkering with fine-tuning or RL?

We've released an easy-to-follow example colab that fine-tunes Gemma models via Kauldron to mimic an MCTS player.

Details here: github.com/google-deepm...

♟️🎲♦️♠️♥️♣️✨🎉
2025 Wrap-up: Fine-tuning Gemma with Kauldron Example ✦︎ · Issue #1414 · google-deepmind/open_spiel
Hello everyone! We've been hard at work this year working on OpenSpiel 2.0, which will be better than ever. Major developments have been underway to make working with language models easier. I'm lo...
github.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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gusthema.bsky.social
FunctionGemma, a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model that’s fine-tuned for function calling ⚙️

Function calling to the edge, and is designed as a strong base for further training into custom, fast, private, local agents
NL -> executable API actions

blog.google/technology/d...
FunctionGemma: Bringing bespoke function calling to the edge
FunctionGemma is a specialized version of our Gemma 3 270M model fine-tuned for function calling.
blog.google
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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eumetsat.int
Our Image of the Week series showcased some remarkable events & environments this year 🌍

Each week we scan the planet from space & our satellites have seen a lot - from wildfires to hurricanes, & dust storms to phytoplankton blooms. See them all at: https://www.eumetsat.int/image-week
#2025Wrapped
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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esa.int
🌊🛰️ Just weeks after its launch, #CopernicusEU Sentinel‑6B has reached orbit and delivered its first data, revealing sea‑level variations and showing the Gulf Stream current in detail.

🔗 www.esa.int/Applications...

@eumetsat.int @noaa.gov @cnes.fr
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 17d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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kaggle.com
📣 Competition Launch Alert! Deep Past Challenge: Translate Akkadian to English hosted by Deep Past AI

🎯 Build an AI model that translates 4,000-year-old Old Assyrian business records into English
💰 $50,000 Prize Pool
⏰ Entry Deadline: March 23, 2026

www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Deep Past Challenge - Translate Akkadian to English
Bringing Bronze Age Voices Back to Life – Machine Translation of Old Assyrian Cuneiform
www.kaggle.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted!

"An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

Not […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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niessner.bsky.social
Today in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have the amazing Ruiqi Gao, Google DeepMind.

She'll talk about "𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: progress and challenges".

Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/CkOSMqw...

7pm GMT+1 / 10am PST (Tue Dec 16th).
TUM AI Lecture Series - Building generative world models: progress and challenges (Ruiqi Gaoi)
Abstract: Equipping AI models with the ability to imagine, reason, and act in the physical world is a crucial step toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Generative world models, whic...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM