On 24 July 2023, the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne that defined the borders of modern #Türkiye and Greece, good to remember @bruceclark7’s excellent Twice A Stranger which describes the population exchange it mandated.
'Gas' is a loanword from Dutch, in which the word first appears as a scientific concept in the 17th century.
It's thought to derive from Ancient Greek kháos (hence 'chaos'), with Dutch approximating the initial 'kh'-sound of the Greek with the fricative sound of Dutch G.
Elon Musk: If I buy Twitter, will I be able to destroy Youtube?
Oracle: If you buy Twitter, a great social media site will be destroyed.
Elon Musk: Great! Do you take checks?
Interesting way to simplify your data pipeline 👉 Getting started guide for near-real time operational analytics using Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift buff.ly/3CSgWBm#AWS#Database#Analytics#ETL#ELT
Athens on the list of European cities with the highest per-capita density of engineers for a number of specialisations, according to Sequoia’s Atlas report
AI, data science, front-end, security, systems, etc
atlas.sequoiacap.com
“Athens has a thriving startup scene, fuelled by a talented, ambitious and youthful workforce.”
@sequoia on the tech ecosystem in Athens
atlas.sequoiacap.com/city/at…
On my way back to London after a short visit to Athens where we engaged with a number of AWS' Startup customers. I am leaving re-energized by the increasing ambition and capability of the Greek startup ecosystem. Until the next time! Στο επανιδείν!
Introducing Falcon 40B and 7B. Two open source LLMs from @TIIuae, built and trained with #Amazon SageMaker, that you can easily deploy from SageMaker Jumpstart. aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine…
Thessaloniki cloud folks! @net2grid is a fascinating Dutch 🇳🇱 AI company helping energy providers and their customers save. With an R&D hub in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 , they are hiring 3 positions Cloud/Backend/Devops related. net2grid.com/work-with-us
Thessaloniki, soon will have the largest 4th-generation #science & #technology park in SE Europe with the establishment of Thessaloniki Innovation & Technology Center.
Find out more via @Thessintec ⤵️
thessintec.eu/
I am back in Amsterdam for the AWS Summit! Excited to be meeting some of the most innovative Dutch startups. In between, you will find me at the startup area. Come and say hello if you are there!