Abdoulaye Diack
@diack.bsky.social
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)
Abdoulaye.ai
Opinions are my own. He/His
A lot of my retweets and likes are for bookmarking purposes.
🌍 Accra, Ghana
(cover photo: Dar Es Saalam, circa 2015)
Whoa now forecast to make landfall as a CAT 4!
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Whoa now forecast to make landfall as a CAT 4!
According to Weatherlab Typhoon Fung-wong (Uwan) is now forecast to hit the Baler Bay area tomorrow as CAT3. Cities like Baler, San Jose City, and Baguio remain on its path.
Official PAGASA bulletin: www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/tropical-cyc...
Weatherlab: deepmind.google.com/science/go/X...
Official PAGASA bulletin: www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/tropical-cyc...
Weatherlab: deepmind.google.com/science/go/X...
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
According to Weatherlab Typhoon Fung-wong (Uwan) is now forecast to hit the Baler Bay area tomorrow as CAT3. Cities like Baler, San Jose City, and Baguio remain on its path.
Official PAGASA bulletin: www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/tropical-cyc...
Weatherlab: deepmind.google.com/science/go/X...
Official PAGASA bulletin: www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/tropical-cyc...
Weatherlab: deepmind.google.com/science/go/X...
Seeing so many new and unknown Chinese EVs on the road must mean they've reached an attractive price point..
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seeing so many new and unknown Chinese EVs on the road must mean they've reached an attractive price point..
Sharing work from my colleagues on forecasting deforestation risks.
research.google/blog/forecas...
Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
South East Asia dataset: console.cloud.google.com/storage/brow...
Notebook to load the data: gist.github.com/ovolve/9b86c...
research.google/blog/forecas...
Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
South East Asia dataset: console.cloud.google.com/storage/brow...
Notebook to load the data: gist.github.com/ovolve/9b86c...
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sharing work from my colleagues on forecasting deforestation risks.
research.google/blog/forecas...
Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
South East Asia dataset: console.cloud.google.com/storage/brow...
Notebook to load the data: gist.github.com/ovolve/9b86c...
research.google/blog/forecas...
Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
South East Asia dataset: console.cloud.google.com/storage/brow...
Notebook to load the data: gist.github.com/ovolve/9b86c...
Perfect timing to go for a run.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Perfect timing to go for a run.
Kalmaegi makes landfall today in central Vietnam.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/m...
deepmind.google.com/science/go/m...
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Kalmaegi makes landfall today in central Vietnam.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/m...
deepmind.google.com/science/go/m...
Forecasts shows powerful typhoon (FUNG WONG) is heading for the northern Philippines this weekend. The Japan Meteorological agency expects a "very strong" storm, while Google Weather Lab sees it peaking at 𝐂𝐀𝐓 𝟓 on Saturday before landing as a CAT 3. This could be much worse than Typhoon Tino.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Forecasts shows powerful typhoon (FUNG WONG) is heading for the northern Philippines this weekend. The Japan Meteorological agency expects a "very strong" storm, while Google Weather Lab sees it peaking at 𝐂𝐀𝐓 𝟓 on Saturday before landing as a CAT 3. This could be much worse than Typhoon Tino.
Google’s experimental weather lab predicts storm Thirtytwo will likely impact the Philippines this weekend.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: This is an 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 research tool. For all official warnings and guidance, please follow 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/H...
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: This is an 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 research tool. For all official warnings and guidance, please follow 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/H...
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Google’s experimental weather lab predicts storm Thirtytwo will likely impact the Philippines this weekend.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: This is an 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 research tool. For all official warnings and guidance, please follow 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/H...
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: This is an 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 research tool. For all official warnings and guidance, please follow 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞.
deepmind.google.com/science/go/H...
Sad to see Home Base go. It was a fantastic and rare free app for kids. It's amazing Scholastic ran it for so many years.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sad to see Home Base go. It was a fantastic and rare free app for kids. It's amazing Scholastic ran it for so many years.
Buildings in Jamaica (Source: Google Open Buildings).
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Buildings in Jamaica (Source: Google Open Buildings).
The forecast track has shifted, with landfall now expected on West Jamaica tonight or early Tuesday morning as a catastrophic Category 4+ storm. This looks really bad.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The forecast track has shifted, with landfall now expected on West Jamaica tonight or early Tuesday morning as a catastrophic Category 4+ storm. This looks really bad.
Google Research floodhub is also predicting major flooding for Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the storm's catastrophic rainfall.
sites.research.google/floods/l/18....
sites.research.google/floods/l/18....
October 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Google Research floodhub is also predicting major flooding for Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the storm's catastrophic rainfall.
sites.research.google/floods/l/18....
sites.research.google/floods/l/18....
Sobering forecast for #HurricaneMelissa from Google DeepMind's experimental Weather Lab.
The AI model's ensemble shows a high-confidence track:
Jamaica (CAT 4, ~Oct 28)
Cuba (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
Bahamas (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
This is a research tool. Follow official warnings in your country.
Links below.
The AI model's ensemble shows a high-confidence track:
Jamaica (CAT 4, ~Oct 28)
Cuba (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
Bahamas (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
This is a research tool. Follow official warnings in your country.
Links below.
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sobering forecast for #HurricaneMelissa from Google DeepMind's experimental Weather Lab.
The AI model's ensemble shows a high-confidence track:
Jamaica (CAT 4, ~Oct 28)
Cuba (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
Bahamas (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
This is a research tool. Follow official warnings in your country.
Links below.
The AI model's ensemble shows a high-confidence track:
Jamaica (CAT 4, ~Oct 28)
Cuba (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
Bahamas (CAT 3, ~Oct 29)
This is a research tool. Follow official warnings in your country.
Links below.
Kind of a big deal. We can now monitor and track air pollution by the hour. ESA Sentinel-4 can beam back hourly data on nitrogen dioxide hotspots & sulfur dioxide plumes. This is a massive leap for public health & air quality forecasting. See Northern Italy 😱
www.esa.int/Applications...
Credit: ESA
www.esa.int/Applications...
Credit: ESA
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Kind of a big deal. We can now monitor and track air pollution by the hour. ESA Sentinel-4 can beam back hourly data on nitrogen dioxide hotspots & sulfur dioxide plumes. This is a massive leap for public health & air quality forecasting. See Northern Italy 😱
www.esa.int/Applications...
Credit: ESA
www.esa.int/Applications...
Credit: ESA
Big news today with the announcement of the Coral NPU—an open platform to empower innovators to build custom, low-power #EdgeAI solutions. (Pictured is the old board that started my Edge AI journey)
Blog: developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Platform: developers.google.com/coral
Blog: developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Platform: developers.google.com/coral
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Big news today with the announcement of the Coral NPU—an open platform to empower innovators to build custom, low-power #EdgeAI solutions. (Pictured is the old board that started my Edge AI journey)
Blog: developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Platform: developers.google.com/coral
Blog: developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...
Platform: developers.google.com/coral
This weekend I got to smell the famous Ylang-ylang. Surreal! I get why it's used in perfume
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This weekend I got to smell the famous Ylang-ylang. Surreal! I get why it's used in perfume
Lake Volta, Ghana.
October 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Lake Volta, Ghana.
My 9y old likes playing with this Arduino starter kit (UNO R3). 3D printing your own robot arm and getting it to work also sounds like a fun learning experience, maybe we'll try that next github.com/huggingface/...
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My 9y old likes playing with this Arduino starter kit (UNO R3). 3D printing your own robot arm and getting it to work also sounds like a fun learning experience, maybe we'll try that next github.com/huggingface/...
Using Lora I fine-tuned the 550MB Gemma 270m model into an agri "expert" 😂 on my laptop with a Q&A dataset and HF Transformers! Evaluating with Gemini CLI shows mixed results including "Cement and plastic fertilizer". Still mind-blown by the size and massive potential for these specialized models.
September 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Using Lora I fine-tuned the 550MB Gemma 270m model into an agri "expert" 😂 on my laptop with a Q&A dataset and HF Transformers! Evaluating with Gemini CLI shows mixed results including "Cement and plastic fertilizer". Still mind-blown by the size and massive potential for these specialized models.
Google Deepmind AlphaEarth Satellite embeddings & NASA fire data.
Satellite Embeddings V1: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Active Fires (FIRMS): NASA LANCE / EOSDIS
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Code: code.earthengine.google.com/de7448ec0c63...
Satellite Embeddings V1: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Active Fires (FIRMS): NASA LANCE / EOSDIS
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Code: code.earthengine.google.com/de7448ec0c63...
August 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Google Deepmind AlphaEarth Satellite embeddings & NASA fire data.
Satellite Embeddings V1: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Active Fires (FIRMS): NASA LANCE / EOSDIS
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Code: code.earthengine.google.com/de7448ec0c63...
Satellite Embeddings V1: developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Active Fires (FIRMS): NASA LANCE / EOSDIS
developers.google.com/earth-engine...
Code: code.earthengine.google.com/de7448ec0c63...
I see this and I should just move along but no, all I can think of, isn't this a single point of failure
August 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I see this and I should just move along but no, all I can think of, isn't this a single point of failure
I'm finally trying out Ollama and Medgemma on my laptop and getting pretty good performance of about 103 tokens/s. I'm also really enjoying the convenience of Gemini-Cli.
ollama.com/alibayram/me...
ollama.com/alibayram/me...
August 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm finally trying out Ollama and Medgemma on my laptop and getting pretty good performance of about 103 tokens/s. I'm also really enjoying the convenience of Gemini-Cli.
ollama.com/alibayram/me...
ollama.com/alibayram/me...
Really enjoying our summer break in London, kids are learning about capoeira in summer camp, having delicious Jamaican food, found banana plantain at the corner store where someone from Indian descent knows greetings in Wolof (Sénégal) and Twi (Ghana)..
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Really enjoying our summer break in London, kids are learning about capoeira in summer camp, having delicious Jamaican food, found banana plantain at the corner store where someone from Indian descent knows greetings in Wolof (Sénégal) and Twi (Ghana)..
First AI generated video from my laptop using the image-to-video HunyuanVideo model via Pinokio. Running time 20 min. Why is Earth showing in background, no idea.
August 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
First AI generated video from my laptop using the image-to-video HunyuanVideo model via Pinokio. Running time 20 min. Why is Earth showing in background, no idea.
damn, nvidia linux drivers got hands but I think i won
August 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
damn, nvidia linux drivers got hands but I think i won