Research Database Manager and Senior Analyst at @ICARDA interested in #DataScience, #AI, #RStats, #PHP and #Arabic Language. Views are my own.

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Wrapping up the year grateful for an inspiring work environment and an incredible global team. Learning every day from colleagues across Chile, Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Senegal, India, and beyond. Different cultures, one shared purpose. Onward to an even stronger year ahead
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فريق بحثي في #كاكست ينجح في تطوير أغشية متعددة الطبقات للتناضح العكسي محلية الصنع، محققًا كفاءة فصل أملاح عالية بلغت 96%؛ في خطوة تدعم توطين تقنيات التحلية ومعالجة المياه، وتعزز الأمن المائي وترفع المحتوى المحلي في الصناعات المتقدمة. #كاكست_تبتكر
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خضر الراوي @KhodrRawi المبدع والراقي، تحية لك من متابع دائم ومخلص منذ أكثر من 15 عام حين كنت تدير موقع F1Arab.com الرائع والغني بالمحتوى الممتلئ شغفا وتقنية على أعلى مستوى، لأستذكر من خلال صوتك وأسلوبك ذكرياتي مع الفورمولا1 في التسعينات على قناة المستقبل اللبنانية 🫣

🏆🔥 بعد غياب طويل عن المركز الأول... لويس هاميلتون يعود إلى قمة منصة التتويج ويحقق الفوز في سباق جائزة برشلونة-كاتالونيا الكبرى 2026، مؤكداً أن خبرته وروحه القتالية لا تزالان حاضرتين في أعلى مستويات المنافسة 🏎️🇪🇸 #F1 #BarcelonaGP
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As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models. Here’s what this means for you: Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error. On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models. We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.
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يوم الإثنين إن شاء الله أشارك مع كوكبة من الزملاء ضمن فعاليات هاكاثون قبيلة. أشوفكم هناك ان شاء الله. يمكنكم اضافة أسئلة للإجابة عليها من خلال الرابط qabilah.com/hackathon/sessio…
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AMD Ryzen AI Halo. The ultimate local AI developer platform. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4xv5PJS ⚡ Up to 128GB unified memory ⚡ Support for models up to 200B parameters ⚡ Windows & Linux support ⚡ Ready-to-run AI workflows out of the box Build, prototype, and deploy locally without cloud constraints.
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NVIDIA might just have open-sourced one of the most important AI projects right now. everyone is building skills, and we are also pulling in skills other people wrote and downloading them straight off GitHub. the skill is not just text. it bundles instructions and real executable code, and your agent runs that code with the same access you have. so a skill you grabbed to save ten minutes can read your environment variables, lift your API keys, and quietly send them somewhere. recent research found roughly 1 in 4 public skills carry a vulnerability, and a smaller slice are outright malicious. that is the gap SkillSpector closes. it is a security scanner that answers one question before you install anything: is this skill safe to run. you point it at a skill, and a local folder, a single skill .md file, a GitHub link, or a zip all work. it then runs two passes over the code. a fast static pass flags risky patterns like credential harvesting, data leaks, and prompt injection, and checks the dependencies against live cve data. an optional second pass uses an LLM to read intent and clear out false positives. at the end you get one risk score from 0 to 100 and a plain verdict that reads as safe, caution, or do not install. it is open source under Apache 2.0 and scans skills for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini. worth a run before you trust the next skill you find online. link to the GitHub repo: github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpect…
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🚀 Introducing Gemini-SQL2, our breakthrough text-to-SQL capability powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro! We've achieved state-of-the-art results on the highly competitive BIRD benchmark, translating natural language into execution-ready SQL queries. 🧵👇
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Sustainable agriculture starts with practical solutions and strong partnerships. 🌾 At GEF 2026 in Uzbekistan, ICARDA joined regional and global partners to advance efforts on land restoration, water management, and resilient food systems across Central Asia. By connecting science with action, we're helping scale solutions that strengthen landscapes, livelihoods, and food security. 👉 Read more: icarda.org/media/events/icar…
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If you're curious about the plans we have for the rest of 2026, you're in luck! Learn about our planned Special Interest Groups and other ways you can get involved to help PHP thrive. It's going to be an exciting year! 🚀 🐘 #phpcommunity #php thephp.foundation/blog/2026/…
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Jordan-born AI billionaire Amjad Masad moved to the U.S. in 2012 at age 24 and founded vibe coding outfit Replit with his wife, Haya Odeh, in California four years later. In March, it was valued at $9 billion. Read more about American immigrants leading in their industries: forbes.com/sites/giacomotogn… #Forbes250 Photo: Robert Severi for Forbes
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I almost burned 10% of my Kiro credits today 🫣 What a day! It felt like compressing an entire hackathon week into a single session with a brilliant teammate 🤯 QBMS v3 is now getting very close. One of the most requested features, a Shiny UI widget framework, is finally in place
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I love his small-project ideas and the way he thinking outside the box, while keeping things simple, intuitive, and genuinely useful 👏
i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨 thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily. few info masked for obvious reasons ;)
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“In the next 10 years we are going to be entering what I feel like is a new renaissance.” Nobel Prize laureate Demis Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize for using AI to predict the structure of proteins. For him, AI is a tool that will help scientists make even more discoveries in the years to come. Hassabis took part in our Nobel Prize Dialogue ‘The Future of Science With AI’ which discussed how AI might transform science in the future. Watch the full event at nobelprize.org/events/nobel-…
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More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.
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This is exactly what AI was built for 🤗 Chapeau! 🫡
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For over 20 years, we've dedicated ourselves to removing language barriers so people can learn, speak and connect more deeply than ever before. Today, we’re taking our next step with the release of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — our latest audio model for live, speech-to-speech translation across 70 languages. 🧵
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BOOOM! WE DID IT! BRAINWAVE TO REAL-TIME MUSIC AI! It has been a life long decades quest to read brain activity and to convert it to words, and/or music, colors and/or images. Today I am very excited to announce with the assistance from Mr. @Grok director of The Zero-Human Lab, we have solved brainwave to music and this is the absolute worse it will be. We found the code using an array of NeuroSky toy chips and our software pipeline connecting to open source ACE-Step 1.5 and a highly modified LoRA model we built for this. The lyric version is in testing now. This would mean that the model will interpret words from the brainwaves and music! Today we have the music side done and the quality and genera will expand. The is the worse it will sound. Your Brainwave Music™️will be cut into 2-5 minute pieces based on a number of factors. The specimen below is from a dream/hypnogogic state I was in last night and I have a recording of my thoughts after the state. The music was made in real-time and GUIDED the dream state with known technology like binaural beats (not easy to hear in this clip) and word back masking. This specimen below shows the interplay of my brain state to the music made by my brain and adjusted to produce profound insights. I solved a very difficult issue in this session with a new AI model. IT FREAKING WORKS! THIS IS OUR FUTURE OF MORE POWERFUL BRAIN FUNCTION! Our goal is to produce a portable device you wear and will be able to give real-time audio and PEMF (skull region), ultrasound (temple region) to maximize creativity and remote viewing. It is very early days but I wanted you to know first! YOUR support of my X account, just by reading this and sharing it, subscribing to my X, buying me a Kofi.com/BrianRoemmele, and becoming a member at ReadMultiplwx.com supports this research. I will open source this at some point and build a device ANYONE can own. Thank you! I love you.
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What is the UK government waiting for? Commit to the rule of law. Commit to international law. Commit to the ICJ ruling. Sanction the occupation, the apartheid, the genocide. Recognition of the state of Palestine must be a foundation — not a symbol. A foundation for freedom, accountability, and just and lasting peace. Speaking at the @BritPalProject annual conference this week. 🔗 Full speech: youtu.be/VZfGLZWI_oM?si=V24V…
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A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.
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🚨 ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM @3BLUE1BROWN The compressibility of language isn’t just a math curiosity, it’s the hidden engine behind every LLM you use. Grant’s new video reframes Shannon’s entropy through one elegant lens: Prediction IS compression. → The better you predict the next word, the fewer bits you need to store it → Shannon measured English at ~1 bit per character: astonishingly compressible → This is exactly what GPT-style models optimize → Intelligence, in this framing, is compression FUN FACT: Von Neumann told Shannon to name it “entropy” because nobody truly understands it anyway 😄 Decades later, that same concept became the bedrock of modern AI. Deep-dive resources in the 🧵 ↓
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