Abdoulaye Diack

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

📣 OpenIFS is now open source!

The move will make it easier to collaborate and generate new ideas.

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

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

👉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!

#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

In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->

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 🚀 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?

Harmattan all the way to Brazil 😲

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

Non-export bananas are the best

The $100 whole human genome sequence finally reached!
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/s...

Squint your eyes

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 — 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

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 publication👉 https://bit.ly/3ZInsWW

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) → After

🌱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/...

The 🔥🔥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!
🧑‍🤝‍🧑Multi-HMR code: github.com/naver/multi-...
👉Anny: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z

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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%!

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...

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI | TechCrunch OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

That was fast... techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/o...

Used Gemini-CLI to help me set up a 5G Standalone network (Open5GS + UERANSIM) locally and made a succesful call. AI agents are fundamentally changing the barrier to entry for complex network R&D. You can read more about Open5GS here: open5gs.org

simply, more OSS projects should DO THIS.

OSS is a long playing game, if not forever. but we are people behind those projects, and we need good rest and balance to keep things sustainable. I am super happy to see this move and looking forward to see how it could change how OSS works for all of us.

"It's So Fluffy" #3dgs #GaussianSplatting

🎉 Announcing TabICLv2: State-of-the art Table Foundation Model, fast and open source

A breakthrough for tabular ML: better prediction and faster runtime than alternatives, work by Jingang Qu, David Holzmüller @dholzmueller.bsky.social , Marine Le Morvan, and myself 👇

TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%.

EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days)

Read on for more! 1/n

🚨New Paper on Bonobo and Chimpanzee tool flexibility. As so often performance is leveraged by the captivity effect yet the two species differ in explorative behavior and how readily they switch between tool types. For more 👇🏼 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @rachelaharrison.bsky.social

MC Hammer following me on the other site is the main reason why this took me so long

Finally a feature for all the stuff I'm too chicken shit to post

People playing football along the corniche in Dakar, Senegal.

Probably one of my best shots ever. (Dakar, Senegal)