2022-03-16 15:44:57 RT @nakhaneofficial: You Will Not Die came out today, 4 years ago. That's a long wait for a follow up, but it’s done and it’s being buffed… 2022-03-16 15:44:52 @nakhaneofficial Cannot wait!!! 2022-03-15 18:13:38 RT @vukosi: There should be no stigma on Mental Health. Seek help. 2022-03-15 05:21:26 RT @molly_struve: The plural of regex is regrets 2022-03-15 05:20:47 RT @sarahookr: “Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.” ― Daniel C. Dennett 2022-03-13 15:30:39 RT @mus_meressa: #Tigrayans have been in complete darkness with no access to medical supplies, food, banking services or telecom for 15 mon… 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-20 13:22:50 sparkley jackets, sparkley shoes, glitter all over perfection 2022-01-20 13:20:38 I think "backend developer css" is my real world aesthetic tbh https://t.co/RqvtIcKshU 2022-01-20 12:59:32 RT @TheJackForge: Machine Gun Kelly looks like a backend developer worked on his CSS. https://t.co/dZakfD2dBs 2022-01-20 12:59:26 @TheJackForge @midori_san_ deceased 2022-01-20 12:58:53 All this rain is Jozi is making it look like Nairobi SO GREEN https://t.co/CVVA6efy11 2022-01-20 10:01:16 RT @SamAllenX: software engineering means oscillating between "I'm a fucking genius" and "fuck I'm so fucking stupid", often multiple times… 2022-01-20 06:35:26 RT @DesireYavro: The firm shall lead a user-centered design process for the development of an AI-powered English-Kinyarwanda translation se… 2022-01-20 06:32:46 I cannot breath https://t.co/XKQw70jGtp 2022-01-19 18:07:02 @jdbothma @codebridge I was actually in CT a few weeks ago. (Was just thinking about it). Will definitely give you a shout next time I'm down! 2022-01-19 14:23:48 RT @ashtonshudson: How do I reliably kick Spotify into totally random mode? Every couple weeks I roll off the edge of a playlist or somet… 2022-01-19 13:17:38 @type_and_code I hope they can rest now 2022-01-19 13:15:37 @JacaNews Why did they not report what Carla is going to go study and only Christiaan? We're invested now... We need to follow their story 2022-01-19 11:22:08 @wittyphd Over 10 years ago I wouldn't be surprised, sure. My hope is now it has changed 2022-01-19 10:37:12 @wittyphd HOW IS THAT EVEN LEGAL? When were you there? I guess I'm largely comparing to Joburg. 2022-01-19 10:26:15 The fact that it's mostly African *FinTech* companies getting US VC funding makes me skeptical (as opposed to other African companies). It reminds me of working with banks who are obsessed with "Banking the Unbanked" because ultimately it makes them loads of money 2022-01-19 10:23:00 I find the racial segregation that still exists in Cape Town unfathomable. 2022-01-19 10:13:11 RT @BantuLanguages: You want to bamba? You wanna chill with Bantu languages? Does "bamba" mean something in yours? 2022-01-19 08:33:51 RT @MesrenyameDogbe: The phenomenal Ruth Ikejah (@IkegahRuth) will be speaking on "Getting Started with Open Source" at #everythingopensour… 2022-01-19 07:31:05 RT @vukosi: Yo. People, we have stats, studies etc. showing us this every day. But wilful ignorance not to understand your community and ho… 2022-01-19 06:07:45 It's raining, I'm listening to Mankokosane by @PhomoloFlex and reading the Zondo commission report Happy Wednesday 2022-01-18 16:55:53 RT @FloMasebe: My favorite thing about this season https://t.co/Wb73Abah14 2022-01-18 16:47:27 RT @billyperrigo: I profiled @TimnitGebru for my latest story, which explores the narratives that Big Tech companies spin about AI, the ris… 2022-01-18 15:13:15 @timhwang Marvelous! 2022-01-18 13:03:00 RT @swardley: X : I thought you were in favour of DAOs? Me : I take an interest in them, mostly because of the long running research I have… 2022-01-18 13:01:13 RT @ali_naka: France doesn’t have a SINGLE Gold Mine but they have the fourth largest gold reserves of 2,436 tons in the World besides cont… 2022-01-18 12:58:38 @forealiously 2022-01-18 12:40:56 @forealiously I require that you start one of these in Cape Town. kthxbai https://t.co/Wj2K1cIKOX 2022-01-18 12:29:06 RT @MightiJamie: Only now? Only an apology? https://t.co/3SlZpZaAfz 2022-01-18 11:56:40 RT @Geekulcha: Introduce yourself. Who are you and what do you do? #KnowYourGeeks https://t.co/ZgJg36RwqU 2022-01-18 11:30:02 RT @kevbeadle: Streaming Sunday’s show here https://t.co/iYcEygoOpu and includes new releases from @matsulimusic @martinatjazz @tamilrogeon… 2022-01-18 11:11:16 RT @fair_forward: Join the #Innovate2030 challenge on 'Sustainable Cities & 2022-01-18 10:00:39 Only discovered @jpegmafia now. Jeez, where was I in 2021? 2022-01-18 09:58:01 @forealiously omg what did she say?! 2022-01-18 09:50:53 RT @MasakhaneNLP: ANNOUNCEMENT The 3rd AfricaNLP Workshop will be held at @iclr_conf ! Submission : March 3 Extended abstract (… 2022-01-17 17:39:30 RT @fineutuvai: UNOFFICIAL Reports gathered via satellite communications with . Source: Kakalu ‘o Tonga Media https://t.co/LAfKGKDedv 2022-01-17 17:38:28 So many people talking about the #Tonga volcano but so little talking about the tsunami and it's affect on the 100k people who live there and have been cut off from all communications. An absolute horror story. 2022-01-17 14:00:05 RT @TartanLlama: Playing Stardew Valley with @paarsec: - we go to buy fishing rods - get distracted by following someone like spies, hiding… 2022-01-17 13:59:17 RT @hadyelsahar: To keep the yearly tradition, The AfricaNLP2022 workshop is colocated this year @iclr_conf with an exciting lineup of spea… 2022-01-17 12:04:42 RT @CarlaNotarobot: The existence of Google Earth, Apple Air, and Amazon Fire implies there must be a Microsoft Water. 2022-01-17 11:54:10 @eebsidian I have not done wordle yet. I've seen it. I refuse to google it. This seems like a trap 2022-01-17 11:42:58 Does anyone have any good "Monday morning" rituals that prepare one for the rest of the week? I'd like to start my week off with something different as a way to set the cadence or theme for the week. I do exercise daily. Something creative perhaps? 2022-01-17 09:54:14 RT @SiphoKings: The system is broken. Luckily, it’s all made up anyway so we can change it. https://t.co/HnJJ834NPF 2022-01-17 08:51:52 My dad has a specific whistle tune for finding my mum and my sisters in grocery shops or other excursions https://t.co/SEfwEIG9XX 2022-01-17 08:49:53 RT @Ituika_: The languages of Zimbabwe, courtesy of @Ndawana_ https://t.co/rGoWA8HpRy 2022-01-17 08:49:45 RT @compArch1: A poem a day is a great way to start one’s morning https://t.co/Rw7mJaj6Nn 2022-01-17 08:36:43 RT @_angie_chen: A time-honored tradition: stress baking before an ARR deadline. https://t.co/3QHmx6uP1e 2022-01-17 08:33:49 RT @NanaiaMahuta: Our P3 Orion has been dispatched to Tonga to support the assessment of the extent of damage caused to Tongatapu and outer… 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-28 15:12:11 @Abebab I'm so so so sorry! 2021-12-28 08:57:54 RT @zilevandamme: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”- Desmond Tutu 2021-12-28 08:57:47 RT @zilevandamme: “I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.” - Desmond Tutu 2021-12-28 08:57:26 RT @zilevandamme: “Do your little bit of good where you are 2021-12-28 04:53:45 RT @Bored_Babes: HELLO TWITTER, it’s us. Girls who just wanna have funds. We are the Bored Babes. Web3 needs more sassy and classy human… 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-21 04:54:16 RT @PhScribble: For everyone who needs to hear this today: @OpenAcademics @firstphdchat @PhDVoice #phdchat #PhdLife #phdchat #AcademicChat… 2021-12-20 20:38:47 Like, don't you wanna come over, have some tea, listen to music, and decoupage this box? 2021-12-20 20:37:19 What I feel like I'm missing are some of the creative playdates I had with my closest school galpals. We'd meet up, watch shows, and fabric paint a Pokemon onto a cushion or something 2021-12-20 14:39:33 In today's "How the internet is biased" Googled for Zendaya, and I get articles about her relationship with Tom Holland Googled for Tom Holland, and I get just articles about Tom Holland Women do not just exist in relation to their male romances. Make it staaap! 2021-12-20 14:29:52 RT @mikarv: Google Vision AI is so reliable it recognises a screenshot of its own product as being 90% certain as Azure. https://t.co/pWPDz… 2021-12-20 14:28:11 RT @alexhanna: There was an essay called "'Transgender' as Borg" and none of you told me? smh 2021-12-20 14:26:53 RT @MihaelaVDS: Opportunity alert! Our lab is recruiting for a handful of fully-funded Ph.D. studentships, starting in 2022. If you're in… 2021-12-20 14:26:32 This looks freaking fantastic! https://t.co/hgQfgDmOhg 2021-12-20 14:25:44 RT @ashtonshudson: The biggest expense in South Africa atm is uncertainty. 2021-12-20 05:52:26 @timnitGebru @Nanjala1 OMG! It's 3 of my favourites together! @thecontinent_ @Nanjala1 and @timnitGebru Cannot wait to read it!! 2021-12-20 04:56:21 @bonadossou so great! You deserve a rest!! I'm looking forward to hearing your good news!!! 2021-12-19 17:31:18 @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue Online games with friends, host a dinner party, learn to play an instrument 2021-12-18 11:05:03 @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue My strength in resting? Book a whole bunch of outdoor activities. Hiking, swimming, rock climbing, etc. 2021-12-18 05:43:43 RT @davlanade: Our Workshop "AfricaNLP 2022: NLP for African languages" will take place #ICLR2022. A big thank you to the organizers @alie… 2021-12-18 05:43:29 @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue Y'all must rest!!! 2021-12-14 22:12:36 RT @dr_appie: "We have incorporated all the reviewers' comments, which we believe has substantially improved our work" https://t.co/ftu7Azm… 2021-12-14 22:08:30 RT @siminyu_kat: If you're attending #NeurIPS2021, come check out this panel I will be on a little later today(T-3 hours) at the @ML4Dworks… 2021-12-14 22:08:06 RT @siminyu_kat: Pyjama party went great! Thank you for having me @ML4Dworkshop and well done on a wonderful job year after year. 2021-12-14 22:07:41 RT @hadyelsahar: Any clue how finetuning a +100B param LM with 100 examples doesn't overfit? 2021-12-14 22:06:26 RT @vukosi: Why we work on African Language Natural Language Processing. Haikhona!!! 2021-12-13 09:47:57 RT @drtlaleng: The competition commission must recommend Covid PCR tests to be lass than R100. Finish. 2021-12-13 09:22:17 RT @zakareeee: everyone: yes you can get infected with covid if you are vaccinated the vaccine reduces likelihood of severe illness and fur… 2021-12-13 09:21:03 RT @LitMoose: What is sleep? Apache don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more. 2021-12-13 07:43:36 RT @RaiaHadsell: Happy to be a founding editor of this new journal, TMLR: Transactions on Machine Learning Research! Please read all about… 2021-12-13 07:20:51 Calling the Indaba vision folk! @bonjora @kleinric @banQomania @dannimassi 2021-12-13 07:17:07 RT @mennatullahSiam: I really benefited from the non traditional ML mentorhsip roundtable discussing with @alienelf She pointed out these… 2021-12-13 03:36:49 So @mennatullahSiam would like to create a @MasakhaneNLP like initiative for Computer Vision in Africa! Who is in? https://t.co/nswQQzxl29 2021-12-11 11:53:51 RT @sina_ahm: Our #workshop proposal on "Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia" h… 2021-12-11 09:51:33 RT @me_develops: @WiMLworkshop @goodfellow_ian @timnitGebru @AnimaAnandkumar @le_roux_nicolas @yisongyue @chelseabfinn @_beenkim @ShamKakad… 2021-12-10 20:30:51 RT @WiMLworkshop: Thank you for joining us @goodfellow_ian @timnitGebru @AnimaAnandkumar @le_roux_nicolas @yisongyue @chelseabfinn @_beenki… 2021-12-10 10:27:44 Yeah, it feels like barely anyone is attending this year. Online conference fatigue? Weird timezone slots? https://t.co/K4xIiBuDub 2021-12-10 07:57:49 RT @a_ogayo: Had a wonderful time! Thanks @WiMLworkshop and @alienelf @orevaahia ! 2021-12-10 07:57:46 RT @NanaYaaSally: It was an amazing talk 2021-12-10 07:56:51 @bayoadekanmbi @WiMLworkshop @NeurIPSConf @MasakhaneNLP @a_ogayo @orevaahia @NanaYaaSally We miss you Bayo! Hopefully we can meet again next year @DeepIndaba in Tunisia 2021-12-10 05:21:50 So excited to have spoken at @WiMLworkshop at @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2021 about @MasakhaneNLP with @a_ogayo and @orevaahia! (And chaired by the one and only @NanaYaaSally!) Together, we build https://t.co/DdJxj3bfC7 https://t.co/dg8DBDoSVG 2021-12-09 20:33:44 Stayed up especially to watch @ledell keynote the benchmarking track at #NeurIPS2021! https://t.co/zkuVxYaGxz 2021-12-09 19:18:05 RT @tejuafonja: Excited to present our work tomorrow at the @black_in_ai workshop. If you're attending #NeurIPS2021, please visit our virtu… 2021-12-08 08:45:43 Myself & "Constructing a Visual Dataset to Study the Effects of Spatial Apartheid in South Africa" Cant wait to see what y'all do next! #NeurIPSHighlights #NeurIPS2021 https://t.co/2GCqGZxfMB 2021-12-08 06:54:00 RT @eaton: this is the best opening to a technical book the world has ever seen and i will fight anyone who says otherwise https://t.co/t6Q… 2021-12-08 06:30:26 RT @vukosi: Ohh. Our lab and collaborators contributed to this. This is a great resource and we also call for more transformations that cat… 2021-12-08 06:06:35 RT @rajiinio: There are *so* many things to think about when it comes to ML evaluation - some of which the field has yet to investigate pro… 2021-12-08 06:06:00 RT @mmitchell_ai: Super excited to announce the Data Measurements Tool! An open-source project (coded up personally by me, @YJernite, an… 2021-12-08 06:05:32 I know them feels I stopped wearing eyeliner and eventually they got the picture https://t.co/ahRPhUEL67 2021-12-08 06:03:52 RT @sarahookr: This remains one of my favorite papers. Offers surprising insights into how sparsity impact on generalization is nuanced.… 2021-12-07 21:04:00 This v cool https://t.co/2DGv4DJ5N0 2021-12-07 17:03:39 @MelMitchell1 One day when they start letting Africans back into the US 2021-12-07 16:30:32 @anetv @ZKHorton Thank you! :D 2021-12-07 15:46:00 RT @bonjora: In all of the reviews for this work at different venues, there was always one reviewer who would say something along the lines… 2021-12-07 14:19:01 Makes me wonder if we trained one on sociology and tried to embed our research, where would it end up, compared to the largest circles here? We can finally see where ML scientists "attention" has been focused? (it's all you need, right 2021-12-07 14:19:00 Un-interpretable as all hell, or is it? I added our paper to this, and it put us on the outskirts of a cluster of machine translation (the orange dot). Seems fair https://t.co/VMuJvwr5Zr https://t.co/0q3rWicAY1 2021-12-07 14:05:59 Look at #NeurIPS2021 looking at itself in the mirror, using the mirror it built for itself https://t.co/MBlQwEOpTX https://t.co/zamSIJKlv0 2021-12-07 14:04:18 @emilymbender We get the same thing, "some strange mathematical character as first author in ref 4". https://t.co/w4cFPK7GIM 2021-12-07 13:45:22 Omg! Been waiting to see the full work forever now So so excited!!! https://t.co/Ks3gjdHLYZ 2021-12-07 13:42:42 RT @bonjora: Super excited for the upcoming interactive poster session on our work at #Neurips2021 this Wednesday!! We will be in poster s… 2021-12-07 11:23:13 Gosh, I feel like a puppy who wants to play with other doggos at #NeurIPS2021 but so few of the doggos want to engage (tired, timezones, etc)... and that is sad. Because conferences used to be like ALLLLL the doggos meeting in the park to play I MISS @DeepIndaba 2021-12-07 11:05:13 RT @wuraoyewusi: AFRIRAZER, AFRIFASHION1600, AFRIGAN,AFRIFASHION40000. This series of work @DataScienceNIG Research has spanned more than… 2021-12-07 11:03:19 In particular, I am seeking conflicting perspectives from cognitive scientists, complexity scientists, sociologists, economists, epidemiologists, ML researchers, optimization specialists /6 2021-12-07 10:52:01 I have more silly thoughts, but I'm gonna stop and this is a conversation! Let's scale the conference corridor conversations to twitter! #NeurIPS2021 #CorridorConversations /5 2021-12-07 10:52:00 Or can we not? Because we're fundamentally talking about intelligence at different physical scales (i.e human versus societal versus whatever scale digital is) /4 2021-12-07 10:51:59 Conversely, if society figure out how to effectively improve collective societal intelligence (in both low- & /3 2021-12-07 10:51:58 Suppose we achieve human intelligence, and suppose it were simply a function of effective search & Then could we apply the same principles (more effective search & /2 2021-12-07 10:51:57 Sharing my #NeurIPS2021 thoughts and inviting all perspectives to help me refine my (very likely) broken line of questioning. Seeking conflicting perspectives Inspired by this panel: https://t.co/ZbGHmfpLGi And this book: https://t.co/VosH6zrRbS /1 2021-12-07 08:29:56 Also, holy shit that panel was awesome. #NeurIPS2021 https://t.co/258MyN2MrT 2021-12-07 07:58:23 One of my life dreams (just putting it into the universe): Meet, hangout, and do some research with @MelMitchell1 one day! 2021-12-07 06:43:03 @fhuszar @gather_town ideally it should save my avatar, and ask if I'd like to change it :P 2021-12-07 06:42:16 RT @anoushnajarian: Excited for our first poster Getting Started with Model Cards @WiMLworkshop #NeurIPSConf2021 with @LWH_Bos @elatihc Bri… 2021-12-07 05:38:02 Folks at @gather_town, why is it that I need to re-make my avatar for every room at the #NeurIPS2021 poster session today? 2021-12-06 20:49:21 @Abebab YEEESS! I love the joy on your face so much! How does it feel?! 2021-12-06 20:48:00 RT @filippie509: A nice dose of realism into data science fantasy. #DataSciFi 2021-12-06 16:21:03 RT @mhdksafa: I don't know who needs to hear this but Polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity. They were eradicated by vacci… 2021-12-06 16:20:45 RT @bewilldered: So Canada won’t accept PCR tests from South Africa and Botswana, yet will believe our scientists when they identify a new… 2021-12-06 16:17:03 A wild 12 hour day, but a joyous & 06h00 Kick off with prep call for @WiMLworkshop w @orevaahia and @a_ogayo 09h00 - Exam time for my NLP students 15h00 - chairing @vukosi and @davlanade 's #NeurIPS2021 tut Just finished (18h00) Now to rest 2021-12-06 16:10:52 @a_ogayo Sending you love and energy 2021-12-06 16:10:07 RT @a_ogayo: I felt this. 2021-12-06 16:10:01 RT @aihuborg: We’re excited to be ‘here’ at #NeurIPS2021 and making the most of today’s tutorials, which are free for all Pictured is @vu… 2021-12-06 16:09:45 RT @juan_s_gomez: Very cool tutorial by @vukosi starting @NeurIPSConf! #decolonizingAI. Nice review on this topic by @racheladamsward https… 2021-12-06 13:41:43 RT @emilymbender: Ever since ELMo, muppets have been key figures in ML. But Sesame Street can do more for us than just provide mascots. Con… 2021-12-06 11:22:48 RT @killedbygoogle: The neurodivergent urge to work on the weekend because of that feeling of guilt that chronically follows you around. 2021-12-06 11:13:33 RT @BhavMaharaj: Top tier scientists making us all proud with cutting edge discoveries. Eskom: "The rain is wet." 2021-12-06 11:12:56 I have so much marking to do and I'm so tired 2021-12-06 09:30:07 RT @MasakhaneNLP: If you're attending #NeurIPS2021, please join @vukosi and @davlanade's tutorial: A Journey Through the Opportunity of L… 2021-12-06 08:41:10 RT @zilevandamme: “Is It A Cold Or Is Do I Have COVID?” A short story about the human species in the year 2021. 2021-12-06 08:41:04 I made a chat for ML in Africa for all our African machine learning researchers on the @NeurIPSConf rocket chat. If you're attending the conference and are involved in the African ML community, please do join the channel! https://t.co/cYwaAn0E5e 2021-12-06 08:33:20 RT @timnitGebru: If you’re at @NeurIPSConf @cephaloponderer and I have this tutorial tomorrow (Monday). We will also be joined by @alexhann… 2021-12-06 05:09:02 RT @Abebab: I love this paper so much 2021-12-06 05:08:37 RT @WiMLworkshop: Jade will be giving a joint talk with Perez Ogayo (@a_ogayo), who is a masters student at Carnegie Mellon University, and… 2021-12-05 20:30:37 RT @AstroKatie: This is what is known to space scientists as an orbital burn https://t.co/oUUNO5W0zL 2021-12-05 20:16:34 Credit: https://t.co/ldC67E6DTp 2021-12-05 20:16:21 @compArch1 Nooooo, noooooo 2021-12-05 19:04:47 RT @Mochievous: red list they said but what they really mean is racist list 2021-12-05 19:00:58 @aithios @improvethenews @tegmark @NeilDegrassi In short, people when given the power to explore all perspectives and the context of where they are in particular dimensions, will learn by themselves to correctly reason about information 2021-12-05 18:59:23 @aithios @improvethenews @tegmark There is a lovely podcast with the creator @tegmark and @NeilDegrassi about it Highly recommend https://t.co/fvB0XRAlxh 2021-12-05 18:56:03 And now for something completely different... An otter introducing Eric Idle https://t.co/3YXKgWh4JC 2021-12-05 18:51:39 RT @asmelashteka: The first release of #HornMT is out. This is a Machine Translation (MT) benchmark dataset for languages in the Horn of Af… 2021-12-05 18:51:33 RT @davlanade: Nice work 2021-12-05 18:12:01 OMG @improvethenews is SUCH A FANTASTIC FANTASTIC idea! @tegmark really looking forward to reading about what you've done and the open sourced code. I read that your technique is still under review for publication. Is there a preprint available to read? https://t.co/ccH45zf7Ou 2021-12-05 13:36:00 RT @sridhartweet: This is what racism looks like. h/t @gaby_arguedas https://t.co/40tmE3ttaR 2021-12-05 13:30:25 RT @LateefSaka: The re-brand of COVID-19 as an African issue is happening in front of our eyes. 2021-12-05 12:41:25 RT @GirlsWhoCode: HUGE NEWS: We just made the first ever codable music video with @dojacat. You can control the story using code Go try i… 2021-12-05 12:41:11 There are few things that bring me more joy than art, music, black woman empowerment in tech, & New @DojaCat & https://t.co/yKsY11UabS 2021-12-05 12:06:46 FRIENDZ https://t.co/6xXr7BXszY https://t.co/T8nuwNjqeT 2021-12-05 12:05:33 OMG @DojaCat @GirlsWhoCode WHAAAAAT THIS IS THE ENERGY I NEED #GirlsWhoCode https://t.co/9dyQtTLSR3 2021-12-05 11:33:02 RT @Abebab: The travel ban is just absurd yet the West continues to add more African countries to their 'red list' every day 2021-12-05 11:31:26 RT @vukosi: Did say. We don't need to have all these think pieces about how unjust the travel band are. It's just racism. 2021-12-05 08:25:31 @rajiinio So excited Recently did a talk looking at this from an Industry lens to explain why nothing works. Data is contextual thus resists commodification. Therefore attempts to commodify AI - i.e. general ML APIs (e.g. Google Vision) are doomed to fail https://t.co/siZaj3hK1B 2021-12-05 08:20:18 RT @rajiinio: In our upcoming paper, we use a children's picture book to explain how bizarre it is that ML researchers claim to measure "ge… 2021-12-05 07:25:11 @tamati_biskit @vukosi @davlanade @black_in_ai @NeurIPSConf @WiMLworkshop Ironic in many ways 2021-12-05 07:05:39 RT @tamati_biskit: Except for @vukosi and @davlanade and @black_in_ai workshops, so many of the the things I want to attend at @NeurIPSConf… 2021-12-04 08:11:49 RT @json_dirs: check my math: 1 = p(adversarial botnets | algorithmic recommendation systems) 2021-12-04 08:10:51 As a woman of Jewish heritage, I believe it's my duty to make chicken soup for all my friends with the covivi 2021-12-04 08:07:30 RT @DaAwkwardLauren: I'm being attacked https://t.co/PEdBUHXa1m 2021-12-04 08:06:42 @rmaclean Recommended covivi watches: Centaur World, I love Arlo. Gen Z cartoons are very wholesome 2021-12-04 08:05:26 RT @mykola: Do people not understand that getting a booster shot every six months to avoid suffering and dying and killing your community i… 2021-12-04 08:05:12 RT @zilevandamme: True. That’s the part they don’t want to get despite being told repeatedly. 2021-12-04 07:59:00 @rmaclean Wishing you a swift recovery For me (while vaccinated) it was VERY rough for 2 days, then 2 days of feeling sorry for what it put your body through and then it's largely fine. 2021-12-04 07:54:24 RT @zilevandamme: Expecting women to be nice to you about GBV is laughable. Why? No, women fear me. No woman walking down the street feels… 2021-12-04 07:53:56 RT @yoditstanton: Dear Twitter followers who come for the IoT and Tech but then get bombarded with African politics. Until my people's circ… 2021-12-04 07:52:58 RT @forealiously: verifying vaccination certs within the first 5 minutes of each tinder date 2021-12-04 06:10:10 RT @dr_nickiw: FLEXOFTHEYEAR! https://t.co/uML3lxXNxx 2021-12-04 06:00:18 RT @TheKaranMenon: The Omnicron variant is just another example of how COVID will be prolonged if rich nations and Big Pharma keep blocking… 2021-12-04 05:57:27 RT @ThatSaraGoodman: https://t.co/lkcW06w1B7 2021-12-04 05:56:38 RT @JoshuaPotash: Today in "why don't people want to work" https://t.co/1Z6hmU9ADM 2021-12-03 15:58:59 @nickhedley @MmakiJ 2021-12-03 15:58:21 RT @vukosi: I can add to last month. I was a @FulbrightSciTec PhD Fellow. This year I was a @AfricaHarvard South Africa Fellow at @HarvardH… 2021-12-03 15:57:28 RT @forealiously: fyi you can now verify vaccine certificates via https://t.co/WmLhzhpHRz so, um, SA businesses, get on it? dont wait for… 2021-12-03 13:55:17 RT @SalomonKabongo: Back on this, our paper has won the best paper award at ICADL 2021. I'm grateful to my supervisor @SoerenAuer and Jenn… 2021-12-03 12:06:59 RT @davlanade: If you are attending NeurIPS and interested in Low-Resource NLP, please join our tutorial https://t.co/3W0hGYQcwa Mon 6 Dec… 2021-12-03 12:06:51 RT @vukosi: For 2022, some might still be thinking of applying for MSc/PhDs in Data Science, Machine Learning or Natural Language Processin… 2021-12-03 12:06:24 RT @zilevandamme: South African men are trash. Does this make you angry? Good. Ask yourselves why South Africa has one of the highest GBV r… 2021-12-03 11:01:16 This tutorial is a momentous & @costajussamarta & 2021-12-03 10:00:02 @io_exception @AstroSibs Oooh ooh which ones? 2021-12-03 09:53:58 RT @AstroSibs: Bespectacled sound editors of Twitter, what lifehack do you use to avoid ear strain from your pair of headphones? 2021-12-03 09:04:52 RT @vukosi: A look back at the 2021 Data Science for Society Seminar Series @UPTuks #3 Emily Muller - Measuring the urban environment us… 2021-12-03 08:48:39 RT @dinabass: Timnit Gebru is marking the 1 year anniversary of her dismissal from Google by announcing her new AI research institute -- a… 2021-12-03 08:48:26 RT @Zubiscuit: Hi, hope this email finds you vaccinated. 2021-12-03 08:48:07 RT @nitashatiku: I talked to @timnitGebru about her new AI research institute, launched on the one year anniversary of being fired from Goo… 2021-12-03 08:38:29 RT @hardmaru: “A sad cat” https://t.co/x92u6NMsyz 2021-12-03 05:37:46 RT @chrisalbon: (adds “quit job to sound of marching band playing Darude Sandstorm” to bucket list) 2021-12-03 05:36:17 RT @DAIRInstitute: Our Founder, @timnitGebru, will be speaking at the Women in AI Ethics Summit today! Tune in 8am-12pm PST! #AIChangemakers 2021-12-03 05:36:04 RT @alexhanna: Congrats so much to @timnitGebru on the launch of @DAIRInstitute! I know this has been in the works for the while, but seein… 2021-12-03 05:35:52 RT @m_0_a: @MasakhaneNLP is delighted to host @steveddev to presents his fantastic work bringing the benefits of #NLProc to more people h… 2021-12-03 05:35:48 RT @sarahookr: Someone who regularly puts the spotlight on others is @hardmaru. I really appreciate all the small ways (often behind the sc… 2021-12-02 18:58:24 RT @naamii_nepal: We are thrilled to have David Ifeoluwa Adelani in the 3rd Nepal Winter School in AI. David will present his research on N… 2021-12-02 18:58:02 RT @DAIRInstitute: We are @DAIRInstitute — an independent, community-rooted #AI research institute free from #BigTech's pervasive influence… 2021-12-02 16:16:43 RT @F_Kaltheuner: A strange time to launch something with the pandemic (rightly!) taking up all attention. Still, I'm very excited to shar… 2021-12-02 10:19:09 RT @Zergylord: What an interesting paper, and the lead author is still in grad school -- perhaps they should apply to be my intern *checks… 2021-12-02 10:18:23 RT @thingskatedid: it's end of year corporate self-review time https://t.co/imuBjx64Hi 2021-12-02 09:56:13 Thanks to Poté, @TomMisch @PhomoloFlex @65dos @parcelsmusic @thearmed @Thundercat @DojaCat and @BeachhouseB for making this year bold and happy - you inspired me https://t.co/Mf3nO7kSe8 /2 2021-12-02 09:56:12 #SpotifyWrapped It's been a year. A mixed one apparently. Apparently my spotify aura is bold and happy and I can definitely say that BOLD and HAPPY is how I feel, despite everything /1 https://t.co/GXxrIWc34Y 2021-12-02 09:43:23 RT @vukosi: A look back at the 2021 Data Science for Society Seminar Series @UPTuks #2 Ernest Mwebaze - Environmental urban noise predict… 2021-12-02 08:36:49 RT @annargrs: @yoavgo @alienelf @LChoshen @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre… 2021-12-02 08:23:06 RT @zilevandamme: You woke up and decided to choose violence. 2021-12-02 07:58:48 RT @SADiLaR_ZA: IsiNdebele newsletter available on the SADiLaR website https://t.co/o1U6aHm5DU https://t.co/RJUGyGUFC9 2021-12-01 16:27:34 RT @NivashniNair: Raise your hand if you didn't attend Rage in matric and survived. 2021-12-01 16:27:03 I've 100% been there https://t.co/Of0ttC7XS3 2021-12-01 16:26:17 RT @BlakeleyHPayne: Big yup. I interviewed at a tech company several months ago for a "AI ethics and fairness" position. Talked to them for… 2021-12-01 16:26:03 RT @ComradeShannon: I wonder if @sundarpichai thinks about me before he closes his eyes every night 2021-12-01 15:55:38 Wooh, excited to be talking at @WiMLworkshop with my magical sisters @orevaahia and @a_ogayo Come watchWe're gonna be talking on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Collaborative Research - The @MasakhaneNLP Story" https://t.co/ML2Y0Se1QW 2021-12-01 14:42:50 RT @emilymbender: This is poetry, indeed! It feels like there's need for a zine of wisdom from author responses, because gems like this des… 2021-12-01 14:24:57 @yoavgo @LChoshen @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia Who is "we" here? In contrast, I've witnessed the ML research community arguing about this on this very platform - It seems it's still controversial. It shouldn't be, but it is. I'm sure that's why they chose to write the paper. 2021-12-01 14:10:29 RT @natematias: See also public-interest technology. It feels nice to have my expertise acknowledged when orgs reach out with questions o… 2021-12-01 13:57:29 RT @CatullusSedecim: @_florianmai @Abebab Because the point here is not that @Abebab 's paper is perfect and indisputable proof. The point… 2021-12-01 13:53:29 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia “I find that snappier ones catch my attention more” https://t.co/oo8liT0Xma 2021-12-01 13:48:28 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia I guess I've just done a 180 on my original opinion. Venue should matter but apparently it doesn't. What matters is the ability to harness scientist's attention 2021-12-01 13:44:54 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia Stochastic Parrots is a perfect example of this. The controversy meant LOADS of attention got paid to what was a beautiful but non-controversial paper. It was published at FAccT but that didn't matter to the amount of attention that got paid to it 2021-12-01 13:40:32 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia Having a system reject the paper that criticizes that system - very controversial! In fact, newsworthy. Journalists are more likely to write about it for the story. I'm not sure the venue matters too much anymore :) 2021-12-01 13:38:46 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre @KreutzerJulia ML researchers don't know where to focus - there is too much. It's become a game of finding ways to focus their attention on valuable work. And these days, twitter is an attention engine, that exploits controversy. 2021-12-01 13:14:59 RT @ewnupdates: Omicron in Europe before South Africa reported first cases https://t.co/ZNh6XME5sM https://t.co/hLYxBdj4hV 2021-12-01 13:13:35 RT @Abebab: ML researchers are discounting our paper as "social science" & 2021-12-01 13:08:53 Still fuming over the #REDLIST decisions Comic by @africartoons for @dailymaverick https://t.co/dciOEfrTes 2021-12-01 12:54:39 RT @Abebab: Yup, this is the review for our paper "The Values Encoded in ML Research". The reviewers (& 2021-12-01 12:47:04 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre On the topic of reviewers, our reviews were SO AWFUL for that paper (low scores, completely misunderstanding the paper). We wrote this message to the chairs. @KreutzerJulia constructed true poetry. I think I'm going to frame it. https://t.co/XHHew86JIU 2021-12-01 12:37:02 RT @Abebab: Our (@radical_ai_, @dallascard, @willie_agnew, @DotanRavit, @TheMichelleBao & 2021-12-01 12:35:40 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre And, instead, we ended up in EMNLP Findings (and were subsequently asked to keynote on our paper at WMT ) 2021-12-01 12:34:50 @LChoshen @yoavgo @Abebab @heghbalz @radical_ai_ @dallascard @willie_agnew @DotanRavit @TheMichelleBao @LeroCentre I agree with this. We wanted to do the same with this paper (https://t.co/DEcLt2YpUc). We wanted to publish at an ACL conference so that the problem could get attention from the NLP community which was taking a narrow view of the problem and going in circles as a result. 2021-12-01 12:31:41 RT @tamati_biskit: Major face palm when modern science is based on modularity and the “experts” are unable to comprehend the connecte… 2021-12-01 12:29:19 RT @willie_agnew: Reading the actual reviews we got for the AI ethics paper we submitted to NeurIPS https://t.co/FqGzrMYshI https://t.co/n… 2021-12-01 12:22:19 @MmakiJ @siminyu_kat @AzanianRepublic I would not be alive if it were 3 bottles, although I did Google this this morning https://t.co/eW1NwZSIwz 2021-12-01 12:20:17 @MmakiJ @siminyu_kat @AzanianRepublic Fam, 3 glasses 2021-12-01 10:39:03 I had 3 whole wines last night and I am DYING today. Yoh yoh yoh. COVID made me such a lightweight 2021-11-30 11:16:55 RT @carlolinks: South of Texas 2021-11-30 11:08:33 Yoh, SA twitter has been giving me life these past few days Thank you for this energy. I needed those laughs. 2021-11-30 10:59:51 RT @john_sipher: @GregAbbott_TX A simple wall between Texas and South Africa would seem the wisest move. 2021-11-30 10:45:51 RT @Kolie_Yola: It's been there for a while. South African virologists are just better than North American ones. 2021-11-30 10:10:05 RT @AIforBusiness: "Pushing for NLP for Africa" - @itweb press release on our recent @IITPSA webinar with Dr Vukosi Marivate @vukosi & 2021-11-29 12:56:34 RT @MwileliBenson: Zambia with no recorded cases of the Omicron variant is on the UK Redlist while countries like Australia and the Netherl… 2021-11-29 12:54:41 RT @Nanjala1: We are in a race between the virus, vaccines and variants as Dr. Nkengasong says, but as Africans we are also in a race again… 2021-11-29 11:24:43 RT @EminentGrey: WE WON!!! #DecrimBotswana 2021-11-29 11:22:23 RT @Afri_Alliance: Yes!!!! And if you want a deeper dive with Dr. Alakija, check out our podcast episode with her from last month: https://… 2021-11-29 11:19:21 RT @PaikinAndEggs: English swimmers South African swimmers: “Hold my Castle Lite…” 2021-11-29 11:17:42 RT @ZuZage: It was a thrilling experience co-facilitating with the amazing @yobamoodua the West Africa sessions of @risingvoices' Language… 2021-11-29 11:16:08 RT @jdbothma: https://t.co/l8PFW1E5Yh 2021-11-29 11:16:00 RT @jdbothma: PERI formwork and scaffolding, hello? No this is not the Free State ANC - we are a scaffolding company in Cape Town. Yes pe… 2021-11-29 11:15:13 @sheraaz_hassan @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/zQmrfoN9CC 2021-11-29 11:12:16 RT @sheraaz_hassan: @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/TXZIFOZHxj 2021-11-29 11:11:47 RT @doodlehabibi: @African_Spring @GregAbbott_TX Did you see this one? South Africa for the WIN! https://t.co/bHLR8TpMw9 2021-11-29 11:01:51 RT @EdgarMoeketsi: @AstroSibs South Africans crossing into USA https://t.co/eP1a6NIV06 2021-11-29 10:58:20 RT @AstroSibs: Good morning, fellow South Africans. https://t.co/A3QMF0OgjC 2021-11-29 10:57:47 RT @fair_forward: To create truly representative AI applications we need to include all voices regardless of the language in which they… 2021-11-29 09:50:54 RT @papertigerx_: A friend of mine sent me this and holy shit https://t.co/rrgSdqwhyN 2021-11-29 09:49:22 RT @Nanjala1: And now African countries start inflicting bans on each other as a way to distinguish themselves from those countries affecte… 2021-11-29 09:09:31 RT @ProgIntl: BREAKING: 2.5 million nurses from 28 countries have filed for a UN investigation of human rights violations by the EU, UK, Sw… 2021-11-29 09:07:25 RT @miamalan: #JoePhaahla: SADC countries will issue a press statement after a WHO meeting today that will condemn COVID19 travel bans for… 2021-11-29 09:07:18 RT @Nanjala1: Evidence based policy for what? 2021-11-29 09:06:17 RT @Mavumavu91: My country is in the right side of an international issue for once and it’s so weird to not be embarrassed 2021-11-29 08:07:40 RT @karynmaughan: It’s the map for me! https://t.co/UUzz217siK 2021-11-29 08:06:05 RT @siba_onthebird: We're never getting away from these rumours I'm afraid https://t.co/z2N6f6NKNp 2021-11-29 07:31:48 RT @owenbarder: Omicron has been detected in UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Australia, South Africa. South Africa did the… 2021-11-29 06:54:49 RT @SKevinM: the worst thing some lawyers do is try and convince folks that debating is an exercise in finding the truth. it’s not - it’s a… 2021-11-29 06:53:55 RT @TrevorABranch: Latest update for those still keeping track. https://t.co/vHnstqL5al 2021-11-28 15:02:25 @JoeyUchiha_ there is going to be a wine tasting at the year end 2021-11-28 13:34:06 I've been off my ADHD medication for about 6 months. I had a good work change that meant I was doing more engaging work. That said, I forget that I'm still suffering when I'm not on it. Been struggling recently and saying "I don't need it". Took it today. I DEFINITELY do 2021-11-28 10:48:25 RT @vukosi: #NeverForget 2021-11-28 10:47:17 RT @vukosi: So are we going to do a vaccine mandate to access any public spaces? * At least one Jab by Dec 15 2021 (mega drive starting to… 2021-11-28 10:43:33 RT @frankbulldozer: The UK had 46,000 new cases in a day, USA had 630,000 new cases in a week…..SA had 2,500 new cases yesterday - And SA… 2021-11-28 08:58:43 RT @sailorrooscout: Good news for your morning. “The new Omicron variant of the Coronavirus results in MILD disease, WITHOUT prominent sym… 2021-11-28 08:56:54 RT @iamSivN: This woman didn’t mince her words , I love her vibe of “I said , what I said”… a must watch video and the entire world should… 2021-11-28 08:15:37 RT @nixcraft: Using kubernetes to manage and deploy tiny static blog be like. Via https://t.co/rYCCnR34Hq https://t.co/i52UJQwZmV 2021-11-28 08:11:04 RT @ThuliMadonsela3: The cherry on top after my brief motivational talk to Africa’s bright minds being trained in #genomics at ⁦@STIAS_SA⁩… 2021-11-28 08:09:38 @vonderleyen @EU_Commission You are hurting us. 2021-11-28 08:04:52 RT @Mavumavu91: I am once again pleading with y’all to read. We cannot spend all our time explaining concepts like modelling 2021-11-28 08:00:50 RT @AIforBusiness: The recent @IITPSA webinar: "Chatbots by Africans for Africans". We discussed Natural Language Understanding research fo… 2021-11-28 07:57:48 In so fucking sick of these travel bans to . I haven't seen my sister and my best friend in 2 years. Please let them come here #redlist #Omicron 2021-11-27 19:16:10 RT @KizzyPhD: I’ll raise you one: BY THE TIME YOU DETECT ONE VARIANT ANOTHER IS ALREADY CIRCULATING UNDER THE RADAR SOMEWHERE SO WITH A MIX… 2021-11-27 18:53:34 RT @FrancoisVenter3: On behalf of a continent: "Told you fucking so". 2021-11-27 18:53:11 RT @JoshuaPotash: How long are we gonna do this?? https://t.co/Mg0a9choXD 2021-11-27 18:51:14 Someone tell @BorisJohnson https://t.co/LkrypG5aTj 2021-11-27 18:50:04 RT @Matt_Brownell: New variant detected in a positive sample in Belgium from 5 days ago that has no link to . No restrictions placed, no… 2021-11-27 18:49:25 RT @StephPanecasio: the feminine urge to finish every sentence with, "if that makes sense" despite knowing it absolutely makes sense 2021-11-27 18:46:44 RT @saskiafalken: Can we get a standing ovation for our amazing South African scientists who are leading world research with this fuckery… 2021-11-27 18:44:37 RT @MissAmyTobey: it's called SRE because "software engineering engineering" sounds silly 2021-11-27 18:43:00 @bonadossou @DeepIndaba In person 2021-11-26 18:25:20 RT @WholesomeMeme: https://t.co/H0n7gIjwkN 2021-11-26 17:56:51 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Masakhane is SO DOWN Finally, we shall all meet 2021-11-26 17:52:51 RT @vukosi: We back 2021-11-26 17:40:28 AAAAAHHHHHH!!! @DeepIndaba IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!! https://t.co/zn112QdsTT 2021-11-26 13:34:13 RT @JoeyUchiha_: They posting these numbers daily but wanna give us travel bans? https://t.co/ICEa84uLtv 2021-11-26 10:21:27 RT @Nanjala1: If travel restrictions were purely about public health all countries would be banning travel to and from Europe. But they don… 2021-11-26 09:38:41 RT @RoryPetzer: When I saw B.1.1.529 trending I thought Elon Musk had another child. 2021-11-26 09:34:46 RT @urbanjodi: B.1.1.529 variant detected in country known to have excellent detection and sequencing capabilities just weeks after certain… 2021-11-26 09:34:24 RT @BitaScicomm: Dear UK gov, The Nu variant has already reached Hong Kong. You are too naive to think it's not in UK or your neighborin… 2021-11-26 09:33:49 RT @D_elleriously: @jsphctrl What's even more galling is the uk has been averaging 40k+ new cases a day for weeks. Then this knee jerk rea… 2021-11-26 09:33:35 RT @JeremyFarrar: South Africa needs to be praised, offered whatever support is needed & 2021-11-26 09:16:07 RT @urbanjodi: South Africa and Botswana have exceptional sequencing capabilities due to our countries histories with HIV/AIDS and now we a… 2021-11-26 09:11:18 Lol, apparently Lancet cant tell me which variant I have. Which samples get sequenced to determine variant? 2021-11-26 09:05:50 RT @Ms_ZamaNdlovu: Hi @Twitter, maybe watch what you label is science? https://t.co/M9FF7WFR7b 2021-11-26 09:05:37 RT @MoanerLeaser: Not the newly-elected mayor of Cape Town calling SAFM to say the scientists who discovered the new variant should have ke… 2021-11-26 08:33:33 @KimTommy92 Drunk Kim knows self-care! Miss you friendles Sounds like you're having a blast 2021-11-26 08:32:43 RT @vukosi: This is bad advice. Get your sleep, protect your health and mental health. Work, but take your breaks seriously. 2021-11-26 08:32:26 RT @igezeani: Looking forward to this exciting talk on "Advances in NLP for Africa" by the 'dynamic duo' @bonadossou and @ChrisEmezue from… 2021-11-26 08:32:20 RT @siminyu_kat: None of the shortened links I shared yesterday were any good , so let's try that again (sw) - https://t.co/aQrPFKmL… 2021-11-26 08:31:00 RT @TheLDPage: I have a strange suspicion that the UK and US purposefully don't announce the discovery of new COVID-19 variants, and wait f… 2021-11-26 08:30:02 @yestinj I was diagnosed years ago :P 2021-11-25 12:47:40 RT @samhforbes: Me: *writes positive review of paper* *Sees that I have been allocated as reviewer 2*. Me: Sigh *deletes all positive comme… 2021-11-25 12:45:46 RT @beajammingh: The majority of organisations use of Kubernates. https://t.co/aaA3U9jiTN 2021-11-25 12:33:36 RT @siminyu_kat: Blogpost #5 of the 'Sauti ya Jamii' series is out. :tada: Mahojiano kati ya Mwandishi George Githuma Njogu na Kevin Omondi… 2021-11-25 09:52:01 @fhuszar I often have the same thought 2021-11-25 09:36:35 @fhuszar My first appointment with a psychiatrist she said "I'm not sure if you have ADHD triggering anxiety-like symptoms, or anxiety triggering ADHD like symptoms". I missed the follow up appointment. She then said "You have ADHD. People with anxiety never miss the follow up" 2021-11-25 09:26:18 RT @Abebab: Hard to believe the West conspiring to overthrow a democratically elected Ethiopian government in a broad daylight. Just imposs… 2021-11-25 09:20:11 Twitter seems to be a literal trap anyone with ADHD. It seems like the majority of the people I follow are all slowly but surely getting diagnosed 2021-11-25 09:17:40 RT @KimTommy92: Learning from two phenomenal leaders, Prof @agnesbinagwaho and Prof Catherine Ngila, is the highlight of my @4womeninscienc… 2021-11-25 07:45:12 RT @siminyu_kat: I wish you all days and days with clear calendars and nothing on your to-do list but yummy deep-work projects. I wish more… 2021-11-25 07:35:58 RT @savvyRL: My absolute #1 reason to attend NeurIPS this year — keynote at “Datasets & 2021-11-24 13:56:37 RT @levelsio: Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 2021-11-24 13:54:35 RT @vukosi: Hey you, reading this tweet. Yes you. #GetVaccinated 2021-11-24 13:53:18 @pamelaahill @rmaclean Awww friend 2021-11-24 11:26:48 RT @buffalocialism: Shazam is the only app that solves an actual problem people ever developed 2021-11-24 10:35:56 RT @HhMkhaliphi: Morning Peeps https://t.co/fOGIJK9YJ3 2021-11-24 07:47:08 RT @fair_forward: We are looking for a consultancy firm to develop an #AI practitioners’ guide in #Kenya! To receive the tender document… 2021-11-24 07:30:44 RT @sarahookr: Wow! The Hardware Lottery is the December cover of @CACMmag. This is really special, grateful this work has resonated with… 2021-11-23 10:43:24 RT @shayeharty: @Onyothi with @MasakhaneNLP are creating 1 million language sentences to power speech and text technologies in African lang… 2021-11-22 09:43:14 @KimTommy92 @LCosnet Kigali? Looks stunning! Have the BEST TIME! 2021-11-20 15:44:32 @JoeyUchiha_ Rough. 2021-11-20 15:42:22 @CityPowerJhb @BekkerUlandi Please can we have an update? Any update? I'm stuck at home with covid so can't go anywhere 2021-11-20 15:33:04 RT @splitendedpoem: A most beautiful thing: an artist in France fills holes in sidewalks with mosaics. He is known as the "paving surgeon"… 2021-11-20 15:31:48 So I have COVID and no electricity all day. How's your Saturday going? 2021-11-20 14:03:09 @CityPowerJhb @BekkerUlandi Are technicians on site? 2021-11-20 13:15:20 @CityPowerJhb since 9h00 this morning. when will they attend? 2021-11-20 13:01:25 @CityPowerJhb CP2755706 for vrededorp - ETA please? 2021-11-20 09:17:27 RT @Dad_a_bot: So STILL no fibre service since Tuesday, I have phoned @MWEBTweets Mweb and also managed to get through to @vumatel, ticke… 2021-11-19 14:51:41 @navaneethsen_b Oh thank you! you're so kind 2021-11-19 10:16:25 RT @DeepIndabaX_ZA: Passionate about data AND sleeping? Tune in today @ 2PM for the @LifeQinc event, filled with insights from sleep expe… 2021-11-19 08:41:34 @kananiparth1102 @fmfyband It is! https://t.co/oESKTmqoB3 2021-11-19 04:49:50 RT @DynamicWebPaige: I wrote a source code poem tonight, and it actually ran! https://t.co/M3UzoYFDPs 2021-11-18 19:53:19 RT @Sentletse: Naspers, which owns @news24 funds the DA. Their relentless attack on the EFF must always be viewed from that perspective. 2021-11-18 12:38:18 RT @hgilles06: You can now pip install AfroTranslate !!! AfroTranslate is a small package built on top of JoeyNMT to allow you to get acce… 2021-11-18 12:37:02 @QueerinAI 2021-11-18 11:59:38 RT @heri_uct: Don't take your eyes off of @KimTommy92! Moving from strength to strength even in a pandemic 2021-11-18 11:59:17 RT @Chris_Fourie_SA: Excited for the @LifeQinc @DeepIndabaX_ZA Roadshow event tomorrow!! starting at 14.00 SAST R2000 spot prizes… 2021-11-18 11:50:10 @vboykis Thank you 2021-11-18 11:33:11 @Dad_a_bot @vumatel @MWEBTweets @LiquiSue this is ridiculous @vumatel ! 2021-11-18 11:32:45 To conclude this rant, I want to encourage all the impostors to fight their boxes, acknowledge their unique perspectives. When people treat you one way, know you are more, and tell them you are more and demand more 2021-11-18 11:27:06 And after all this social conditioning, it's already so hard to talk about my own successes. Most women (esp in STEM) are feeling this. So yeah, we get really annoyed when we get mansplained something by someone who doesn't trust your expertise and has no experience. 2021-11-18 11:20:55 RT @AnneArdon: Giving my first talk on a technical topic today after many requests and sessions to talk about inclusion. And yes, I do incl… 2021-11-18 11:13:09 @lukOlejnik You're definitely right in some cases. Although my experience has shown men who are very technical and have no non-technical getting promoted into positions where non-technical experience is required in addition to technical. Women who are only technical aren't asked to lead 2021-11-18 11:04:43 RT @alienelf: Men usually get promoted and acknowledged when they take on more responsibility Women's progress gets hindered because they'… 2021-11-18 11:04:15 Men usually get promoted and acknowledged when they take on more responsibility Women's progress gets hindered because they're "not technical enough to lead". The sheer fact they take on more responsibility beyond engineering is used against them 2021-11-18 10:44:39 My CV says "software engineer". It's so funny because so many people don't see me as technical. I have written & Yet few properly acknowledge me as anything else, despite the fact I've done SO MUCH else too. 13/n 2021-11-18 10:25:51 RT @alienelf: Things you may not know about me: I have been deploying deep learning systems into prod since 2016. My first DL model was a… 2021-11-18 10:25:12 There are some people who noticed - who made me feel seen and accepted and proud to be an imposter - or rather - a complex well-rounded human @Chris_Fourie_SA @siminyu_kat @texasmichelle @BenjaminRosman @nyarisam @CatSwetel @nunuska @vukosi @Onyothi to name a few 12/n 2021-11-18 10:25:11 Instead, people largely ask me about my experiences of being a woman in tech. This means I talk about my imposter syndrome and not being acknowledged, instead of talking about the wealth of work I've done and wisdom I have acquired. (10/n) 2021-11-18 10:25:10 I co-founded @MasakhaneNLP and my role was largely enabling the community to grow in a way that lowered barriers and was inclusive. This is once again set around strategically influencing robust complex systems This is one thing people ask me about (8/n) 2021-11-18 10:25:09 I am bassist at a band @fmfyband. I arranged tours. We somehow managed to entice audiences to watch our weird niche music. This led us to play everywhere from Oppikoppi to Soweto. For me music is a means for building cultural bridges. No one asks me about those things (7/n) 2021-11-18 10:25:08 I worked with fancy evil business consultants, dodgy NGOs. I repetitively failed with company policy decisions, and eventually got some right. I was only ever employed as a "software engineer" though. No one asks me about those things (5/n) 2021-11-18 10:25:07 I consulted with a start up to grow their team, find their direction, guide their product - I created processes to agile design better. I learnt and built with UX designers to understand user concerns. No one asks me about those things. (3/n) 2021-11-18 10:25:06 Things you may not know about me: I have been deploying deep learning systems into prod since 2016. My first DL model was a LM written in Theano. I had to work with clients, and minimal research to try understand our models before and after deploying them (1/n) 2021-11-18 08:43:40 I've come to realize how truly wide and valuable my skills & Very few people are aware of even a % of the things I have worked on, or have any idea what my strengths are - I wear many hats after all 2021-11-18 08:33:16 RT @zilevandamme: Elon isn’t coming to save you. Elon doesn’t care about you. Elon isn’t the Great White Hope. You need to find better idol… 2021-11-18 08:26:04 RT @JohnKieti: We have a thriving disinformation industry. The eye opening report on this by @mozilla foundation is a must read (https://t… 2021-11-18 07:43:50 RT @commandasaurus: Bringing this back, because it’s pure genius https://t.co/dM1Hk87c0Y 2021-11-17 16:15:26 @HiredThought Plz me! 2021-11-17 15:58:13 Watching the Joburg storm disappate listening to the new @idlesband https://t.co/8X1eh4hVFZ 2021-11-17 15:01:53 RT @_WanjiruCate: My first ever paper was accepted to #NeurIPS2021! I will be presenting the poster @neurIPSConf This comes a year… 2021-11-17 15:01:00 RT @zilevandamme: A thread of scholarships/bursaries/competitions currently available South Africans can apply/enter. Puff and pass. 2021-11-17 13:27:17 Happiest of birthdays to one of my closest collaborators @vukosi! It has been a joy and a privilege to be able to work with you and learn from you these past few years https://t.co/07PKWw5u6w 2021-11-17 13:24:15 RT @kalikabali: Adding our bit to making #CHI2022 trend: Our paper "Feeling Proud, Feeling Embarrassed: Experiences of Low-income Women wit… 2021-11-16 20:33:58 RT @davidtlang: I'm enthusiastically following @opencollect here: https://t.co/tAw4Pg3DOt Not pushing all the viral web3 buttons, just qu… 2021-11-16 09:19:00 @ashtonshudson @mark_mkzo His response to that: "Plus. I might actually *want* to mentor the ferret engineers" 2021-11-16 07:16:05 RT @ashtonshudson: @mark_mkzo Ha! At least you can get engineers! We’ve been forced to hire ferrets that enjoy running on keyboards. 2021-11-16 07:15:27 @ashtonshudson @mark_mkzo I sent this to one of my bosses and he replied: "Ok, but the ferrets might be better than grads though" 2021-11-16 07:01:07 RT @dyoder: “It's a pipeline problem.” 2021-11-15 12:11:54 RT @zilevandamme: I kip forgeting you are alaaf. 2021-11-15 12:10:54 @zilevandamme I cannot https://t.co/N69hxsPGMm 2021-11-15 12:08:40 RT @film_influence: After his death last week, #FWdeKlerk's foundation released a video of him saying his critics accused him of "in some w… 2021-11-15 12:08:03 RT @zacharylipton: Just landed in Switzerland, "home of the @Toblerone, @rogerfederer, & 2021-11-15 10:09:06 RT @swardley: X : Won't you miss meeting people? Me : I meet people all the time ... online X : It hardly replaces the real world. Me : Sur… 2021-11-14 17:06:53 @gliese1337 Thank you! This is very helpful 2021-11-14 16:45:02 RT @MarthaPersdatt1: @TheRaDR I cant find the tweet. But this is so important. Thank you https://t.co/Gmf3SZyZhw 2021-11-14 16:44:29 RT @NoContextBrits: Naan bed. https://t.co/sIPERCnxTT 2021-11-14 16:25:27 @jbrucj Bees do a little dance to direct other bees to flowers they found. Is that not displacement too? 2021-11-14 16:07:01 Calling on @GretchenAMcC and @emilymbender for thoughts! 2021-11-14 16:05:48 Question for linguist twitter: The various definitions of "language" seems very centric to humans What separates "language" from other forms of communication that ants, fungi or mammals might have? 2021-11-14 04:42:05 RT @paulyberk: The EFF really are not about democracy. You can't trade metro councils like Pokemons. This is a stunning FU to voters and th… 2021-11-13 12:28:29 RT @derguene: Une opportunité pour la communauté #francophone de se former au #DeepLearning ! Merci @papasegaw pour le partage! @galsenai… 2021-11-13 11:59:02 RT @drmichaellevin: This seems cool: https://t.co/mpSWh3WpuQ 2021-11-12 14:11:21 RT @TartanLlama: querying databases queering databases 2021-11-12 14:11:07 RT @siminyu_kat: I'll be on a panel tomorrow at the @goetheinstitut AI-Festival - When Machines Dream the Future taking place this weekend(… 2021-11-12 08:17:33 RT @DrWendyRocks: I need to set this as my email auto reply. https://t.co/42gl1YfwM2 2021-11-12 08:14:39 RT @CarlosCartoons: The debate about De Klerk's legacy suggests that many white South Africans drink a lot of milk https://t.co/TOJCtZTWun 2021-11-12 08:13:36 RT @AstroSibs: Those born after 1994 or were babies in the early 90s, when did you first realise...something is not right, and that it was… 2021-11-12 08:13:04 RT @DeepIndabaX_ZA: Join us today at 2PM for a panel discussion on how AI and ML changes collaborative research in science and engineering!… 2021-11-12 07:22:25 RT @sarahookr: Research is never just about the ideas but also the people. Grateful to have met @orevaahia through @tejuafonja in Lagos, an… 2021-11-11 16:57:50 RT @NeurIPSConf: #NeurIPS2021 Tutorials: Timnit Gebru @timnitGebru (Black in AI) and Emily Denton @cephaloponderer (Google), will be giving… 2021-11-11 16:15:30 @mbalimcdust But if we're talking sci-fi, at least Dune was 2021-11-11 16:14:41 @ZeerakTalat @alexhanna I wanted to do it but never did. But I did find something akin to a datasheet - an analysis of sorts on the common crawl. Let me try find it 2021-11-11 14:38:29 RT @artnome: Them: “You did not respond to my email yet but I see you are on Twitter all the time” Me: “Correct” 2021-11-11 14:37:47 @mbalimcdust I couldn't get through the 2nd episode 2021-11-11 12:21:47 RT @Athi_Saba: @CarlosCartoons Captured it well for the @mailandguardian https://t.co/17mULyRMAB 2021-11-11 12:18:50 RT @TashJoeZA: Fascinating work by a German linguist who's studied Chadian languages for 50 years: How I reconstructed an unwritten ancient… 2021-11-11 11:28:26 RT @AstroSibs: De Klerk is dead https://t.co/5OIbqhhxHw 2021-11-11 11:28:16 Truth https://t.co/RHJoZlv3zj 2021-11-11 09:46:23 @Abebab Right?! You know the ones. Where it becomes akin to harrassment. Like, please stop spamming my digital sphere 2021-11-11 09:42:44 @Abebab Get yourself one of these! https://t.co/OWrfy9c8zr 2021-11-11 09:34:52 RT @MosesKilolo: If you learn in your local language, you have better capacity to grasp concepts in that language and other languages than… 2021-11-11 09:34:27 @Abebab I just added an auto-responder telling people to expect days, and default responses to certain types of requests I have 0 capacity for 2021-11-11 08:45:02 RT @MarcDavenant: It is day 18 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike outside the Foreign Office. I promised him that I would do my best to m… 2021-11-11 07:03:24 RT @Ituika_: We are challenged by the observation that "Marginalised Cultures and Languages have the duty and responsibility of making the… 2021-11-11 06:43:38 @ashtonshudson I'd probably mention it to one of the gym trainers and ask if they'd mention it 2021-11-11 06:11:11 RT @sarahookr: Today, @orevaahia will present our work on the "The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource… 2021-11-11 04:01:23 RT @CatSwetel: there are a lot of people putting a lot of creative energy into ambition-shaming women. so here I will start a thread of amb… 2021-11-10 15:02:09 RT @Africa_Archives: The Democratic Republic of Congo will no longer allow the country's minerals to be processed outside Africa. https://t… 2021-11-10 14:55:29 RT @MosesKilolo: We are absolutely pleased to announce that the @Ituika_ African Languages Teachers Database is now LIVE. You can access it… 2021-11-10 14:54:46 RT @annargrs: A highlight from #EMNLP2021 fascinating keynote by @StevenBird: NLP often comes with a set of assumptions about what are the… 2021-11-10 14:54:03 RT @Big_IDIA: IDIA researcher @Kshitij_Th joins @vukosi and other academic colleagues at @UPTuks for an @DeepIndabaX_ZA panel discussion on… 2021-11-10 14:30:06 RT @RebeccaFiebrink: Might be of particular interest to @black_in_ai @_LXAI @Khipu_AI @QueerinAI @AiDisability : strong focus on challengin… 2021-11-10 14:28:59 RT @vukosi: Given the current state of electricity, will share later today how we got a good enough solution to keep us comfortable in our… 2021-11-10 14:27:23 RT @seb_ruder: This is one of the best opportunities I am aware of to contribute to inclusion and diversity in NLP. Sign up to be a mentor… 2021-11-10 04:13:45 RT @jennplusplus: https://t.co/ThGqVhSyfA 2021-11-10 04:07:27 RT @issa_madjid: For this week #TidyTuesday, about Africa Maps with R, I made a facets plot to show how Polio vaccine has nearly wiped out… 2021-11-09 15:39:53 The other day I saw a women in disheveled clothing running for her life I was driving. Turned around to find her but she was gone. There were some Metro cops nearby so I went to ask for help. Before I say a word he says "Why don't you marry me?" All part of the problem 2021-11-09 13:58:11 RT @Abebab: I mean, even Black women researchers with with university degrees... what proportion has Open AI (or any FAANG) hired? 2021-11-09 10:29:04 RT @Nanjala1: This year I committed to writing more in Kiswahili. At the beginning of the year the longest thing I'd written in Kiswahili w… 2021-11-09 08:26:50 @HiredThought me me me!!! 2021-11-09 06:41:50 RT @RameezKhanSA: A South African proverb... https://t.co/urDSBIW1tl 2021-11-09 06:41:20 @cocolovesdanger What's going down this weekend? 2021-11-08 20:41:53 RT @timnitGebru: The pressure to automate is now so strong...that some companies are pretending to have built and deployed AI...Bloomberg N… 2021-11-08 20:40:51 RT @me_develops: Thank so much @alienelf for helping us wrap up @deltanalytics 's 2021 Global Teaching Fellows cohort! Everyone was inspi… 2021-11-08 20:40:40 @sarahookr @me_develops @deltanalytics @MasakhaneNLP @crypt_irem @aliciaytsai @DMachuve @k_saifullaah @simret_araya no you 2021-11-08 15:45:22 RT @Abebab: Original story vs Google Translate’s French -> 2021-11-08 11:52:56 RT @plzchair: Hi, hello Come join me on Monday, 15 November to learn more about ethical AI! 2021-11-08 11:39:40 RT @Onyothi: 3 weeks later, to a generous donation from a remarkable women, late nights with @ledell @alienelf, @siminyu_kat,@compArch… 2021-11-08 10:11:52 RT @DigiAfricanLang: [Open call for participation] Language digital activism workshops for native or heritage speakers or users of Indigeno… 2021-11-08 09:31:00 RT @davlanade: Join our oral presentation for MasakhaNER: Named entity Recognition for African Languages (with @MasakhaneNLP ) 4C: Informa… 2021-11-08 09:30:49 RT @andre_niyongabo: MasakhaNER: Named entity Recognition for African Languages of @MasakhaneNLP was presented @EMNLP2021 today. Thanks @da… 2021-11-08 06:35:29 RT @vukosi: We have extended to Wednesday 10th November 2021 2021-11-07 18:20:28 RT @bonadossou: Met another @MasakhaneNLP and finally @cheeesio #EMNLP2021 https://t.co/JedPVQQkPS 2021-11-07 10:08:14 RT @davlanade: @NandoDF If TACL papers are counted @MasakhaneNLP is presenting MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages,… 2021-11-07 09:40:27 RT @morlaicassiopea: How can we enrich NLP research? All-hands brainstorming and discussion sessions at @emnlpmeeting (no registration req… 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-08-23 16:19:09 RT @chstoneliu: Catherine Muthoni Gitau giving talk on Challenges and Advances in MT systems for African Languages. https://t.co/isgPB7KIkR 2021-08-23 14:04:20 Please share with me your favorite Software Engineering presentations! What are your software engineering classics? (I'm thinking some of Martin Fowler's stuff etc) 2021-08-23 12:52:53 RT @nandofioretto: Please help me disseminate the following PhD opening in my group at Syracuse University in the area of #MachineLearning… 2021-08-23 12:10:32 RT @aiconference20: Conversations on #ArtificialIntelligence with thought leaders in Africa. This week Zenzele Ndlovu and Johan Steyn @AIfo… 2021-08-23 12:04:53 RT @Nature: A team is creating bespoke words for scientific terms in African languages, and the sustainability of the electric car boom. ht… 2021-08-23 12:04:43 RT @siminyu_kat: I featured on an @Nature piece alongside @alienelf and @AstroSibs talking about 'Decolonising Science' a project from the… 2021-08-22 07:09:04 RT @FAccTConference: We are beginning preparations for #FAccT2022 — we are aiming to have it as a hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) confere… 2021-08-19 08:42:20 @Sewagodimo_M So sad I cant retweet this 2021-08-19 08:39:49 RT @bbdatc: "One of my biggest struggles was unlearning the toxic elements of #techbro culture in order to find myself, my femininity, and… 2021-08-19 08:39:41 RT @bbdatc: "If you're happy in the #techbro culture then that's fine. It suffocated me. I avoided dressing a certain way at work and even… 2021-08-19 08:39:21 RT @Katescub: The amazing @alienelf is speaking to @bbdsoftware live from Lesotho today on her journey as a woman in tech - the highs, the… 2021-08-19 08:39:00 RT @DankVonDankish: Jade Abbott @alienelf giving a great talk @bbdsoftware today on her journey as a women in the tech industry #bbdthings… 2021-08-19 08:38:16 RT @sarahemilywild: My latest for @nature African languages to get more bespoke scientific terms https://t.co/lqBAA4wPwb Featuring @Masak… 2021-08-18 10:30:26 RT @pyconza: We are excited to announce that we have accepted @alienelf's keynote: "You don't need AI 2021-08-12 13:07:23 @utheprodigyn You will be receiving your lecture live from the mountains, don't you worry 2021-08-12 08:11:02 On leave for 10 days kthxbye 2021-08-12 07:48:24 Loving this new font 2021-08-11 14:37:08 RT @KimTommy92: Me: This is my superhero Morpho My cousin in our family chat: This is super cool My other cousin in our family chat: It s… 2021-08-11 11:21:56 RT @SciSuperheroes: #Palaeoscience is so but a bit extra can't hurt. Joining Bones - Morpho, Rocktor, & 2021-08-11 11:17:42 RT @vboykis: https://t.co/XYj9iF2iGY 2021-08-11 09:37:46 RT @seb_ruder: Broadening Our Call for Participation to ICLR 2022 ICLR introduces a CoSubmitting Summer program (starting today!) to make… 2021-08-11 09:31:36 RT @mpd37: Broadening Our Call for Participation to ICLR 2022 https://t.co/5Tws9x7BNX @iclr_conf 2021-08-10 09:30:44 RT @bluebiscotti: The truth about black representation in the @Our_DA must have struck a nerve with this person, since they felt that their… 2021-08-10 09:09:26 Just seen that @jurafsky's v3 of "Speech and Language Processing" has included a segment on Data Sheets and Data Statements https://t.co/pMbaQk02IB 2021-08-09 19:11:35 RT @bluebiscotti: @ALETTAHA @LLunga18 @helenzille That narrative is still true - 22 of the 31 members of the #DA shadow cabinet are white i… 2021-08-09 19:03:41 RT @random_walker: There’s a much-needed and active line of work on mitigating ML dataset harms. The main implication of our findings for t… 2021-08-09 12:13:29 @o_guest For me that's usually a side effect of the THC treatment of the migraine 2021-08-09 12:10:23 RT @bluebiscotti: Not really. If white people comprise 7.85% of the population (STATSSA 2020), then of the 24 reshuffles, there should only… 2021-08-09 12:09:43 RT @forealiously: one day is never enough, but happy women's day to the incredible, smart women in my life who are powerful enough to wrest… 2021-08-09 07:12:06 RT @vukosi: Our pre-print looking at Machine Learning models to identity South African disinformation websites is out. This is a step in a… 2021-08-08 06:08:00 RT @HeyJessGray: this pandemic is the worst group project i’ve ever been a part of in my life. 2021-08-08 06:07:11 RT @imchristiepitts: Me, at the airport, impulsively buying Wired bc @timnitGebru is on the cover https://t.co/saGSnGDWHc 2021-08-08 06:03:04 RT @neuromatch: First week of #Neuromatch DL is done where students have learned about basics of pytorch, MLPs, optimizers, & 2021-08-06 16:32:04 RT @gremblexyz: Nothing attracts senior devs like a weird bash question in slack 2021-08-06 15:14:15 RT @UjuAnya: Reminding you patriarchy is a system of labor: ie patriarchal idea women are better at or more suited for domestic work. This… 2021-08-06 15:10:25 RT @naledimashishi: My cat is a menace to this neighbourhood. Now I understand why I walked outside and found a bunch of cats sitting in my… 2021-08-06 15:08:34 This . I AM DECEASED https://t.co/ayB2XuC69R 2021-08-06 15:06:16 @Abebab you deserve it! rest well 2021-08-06 14:02:54 RT @rajiinio: This is why we need regulators to protect qualified third-party auditor access. Big tech companies should not have the abilit… 2021-08-06 09:49:39 RT @softbellysofia: - CPT vaccinations for folks without IDs, any street-based person, refugees, and asylum seekers. it’s the JnJ jab so… 2021-08-06 07:54:44 @avishkar58 Yay! @TessaDarbyshire did such an excellent session for @MasakhaneNLP 2021-08-06 07:53:56 RT @DeepIndaba: The Indaba Mentorship Programme is excited to launch our new LIVE Spotlight Talk series! These talks are aimed at providing… 2021-08-06 07:53:49 RT @avishkar58: So excited for the first live Indaba Mentorship Spotlight session! Please hold this time in your diaries and post any quest… 2021-08-06 07:11:16 The @MasakhaneNLP slack is so wholesome 2021-08-06 06:19:45 RT @DynamicWebPaige: https://t.co/GxZVeqHiB8 2021-08-05 18:16:06 The "Fathers of AI" are so 2018 2021-08-05 18:13:42 RT @MatRopert: Dear Diary, Today one of my programmers replaced our custom home made dynamic array by std::vector and got much better perf… 2021-08-05 16:23:15 Excited to hear from @Csisc1994 at the @SBiotik speaker series on "Low-Cost Biomedical Informatics: Our vision of ML & https://t.co/ooGmvmjoF9 https://t.co/5dmEqbsAnl 2021-08-05 15:27:07 RT @hadyelsahar: Y'all heard about @github #Copilot for code generation that is generally impressive but sometimes is uncompilable or irrel… 2021-08-05 12:32:07 I'm hating on my ambition right now. Past Jade dreams very big and now current Jade has to make it happen 2021-08-05 12:23:00 RT @vukosi: As we get closer to announcing our 2021 DSFSI Data Science for Society Seminar Series lineup, access the 2020 archive on YouTub… 2021-08-05 08:31:43 RT @vukosi: Dataset for this preprint is available via https://t.co/TiP6hQv1Gm https://t.co/01Y7bTQZQq 2021-08-05 08:30:06 RT @ben_golub: Every time I see this plane it has a lot of retweets so I bet this tweet will do well https://t.co/2E7f2C30zS 2021-08-05 08:15:03 RT @forealiously: @alienelf @gremblexyz update: evds isn't open and you will need to register there before going to your disco booking slot… 2021-08-05 08:07:02 @forealiously @gremblexyz evds is not open. discovery clients can book at the discovery sites though 2021-08-05 08:01:12 @gremblexyz @forealiously lol, the sms just came through! https://t.co/BkT5d1WcNZ 2021-08-05 07:54:08 @gremblexyz @forealiously where? 2021-08-05 07:51:20 @forealiously how?! 2021-08-05 07:40:35 How are some of these 30 yr olds I know getting vaccinated? 2021-08-04 12:07:22 RT @sogonsec: All source code is open source if you can read assembly. 2021-08-04 08:06:34 @LSTMeow @MonoNeon we must 2021-08-04 07:56:49 Today we're jamming @MonoNeon. That is all 2021-08-04 07:54:49 RT @forealiously: going into adult-only chatrooms and asking "someone explain taxes to me" 2021-08-03 14:14:18 RT @IanColdwater: humans could be eating fruits and fucking all day and instead we're commuting and paying taxes 2021-08-03 13:03:52 RT @wsisaac: Super excited that I've been promoted to Staff Research Scientist @DeepMind! I'm grateful to all of my teamates and collagues… 2021-08-03 10:29:17 RT @AIR_lab_MUK: "Building voice technologies in Uganda for local languages" Join us this Friday at 11:00 AM EAT where we shall be awarding… 2021-08-03 06:11:38 @timnitGebru @black_in_ai @WitsUniversity I still need to upload it! But yes 2021-08-02 17:22:03 RT @StefaniCrabtree: Friends, the moment we have been waiting for. Our textbook on agent-based models, written in blood, sweat, and tears,… 2021-08-02 17:21:08 RT @Chris_Fourie_SA: Keen to get involved at SisonkeBiotik? Visit us at [https://t.co/rckz3uHMEg] Join the SisonkeBiotik Discord [https:… 2021-08-02 16:57:28 RT @Grady_Booch: Why do I repeatedly come down on Elon for his views on AI? I’m all for dreamers with bold visions, but disinformation and… 2021-08-02 15:38:27 RT @Abebab: just to own reviewer #2 who said my paper demonizes machine learning https://t.co/uwkrHJcxAi 2021-08-02 15:34:45 RT @Chris_Fourie_SA: Interested in Machine Learning and Healthcare in Africa? Join us, SisonkeBiotik, Thursday 5th August at 18:0… 2021-08-02 14:34:48 RT @suzatweet: "On the whole, my impression is that ML and NLP have become much more accessible" @MasakhaneNLP, EleutherAI, @ml_collective… 2021-08-02 11:34:25 RT @ellle_em: Cat: ATE BUG NOW MOUTH IS ALL WEIRD Me: yeah you ate a wasp. it stung you Cat: WOW IS NOT GOOD Me: nope Cat: DO ALL WASPS DO… 2021-08-02 11:25:28 RT @anrivds: Last day (in this phase) to provide input to the @_AfricanUnion draft digital ID policy framework for Africa: do so via email… 2021-08-02 11:23:44 RT @vboykis: Everyone who thinks AI is going to take over should be forced to try to run an ML app on a Mac based on an old version of psyc… 2021-08-02 10:56:51 @garnettachieng I will create a public reading list! Good idea 2021-08-02 10:20:01 RT @utheprodigyn: Looks like this is going to be an amazingly interesting semester by Ma'am @alienelf. Very excited to learn and apply #NLP… 2021-08-02 10:14:16 Just did my first NLP lecture at @WitsUniversity Excited to have 35 students show up to the "live" lecture, instead of just watching the recording :D Very excited to have lots of participation, asking questions about NLP for African languages #NLProcWits2021 https://t.co/xOBVDO9VXO 2021-07-31 15:09:06 RT @_KarenHao: The pandemic gave AI a chance to prove itself. But after a global effort that led to the development of ~ hundreds ~ of tool… 2021-07-30 13:17:12 @vukosi Make Bloody Mary's with the Celery https://t.co/cTAq3GsPG9 2021-07-30 11:59:33 RT @lawrennd: Data Trusts Initiative call for *pilot* #DataTrusts. Expression of Interest deadline 30th September. Applicant information… 2021-07-30 11:59:23 What are your favorite demonstrations of the power of NLP? What are you favorite demonstrations on the limits of NLP? 2021-07-30 11:58:34 @igezeani @lawrennd @PJMFnd @StrathCIPIT @RIAnetwork @altadvisory As well as @Onyothi and @MasakhaneNLP more generally 2021-07-30 11:58:08 @igezeani @lawrennd @PJMFnd This is an excellent idea! I want to draw @StrathCIPIT , @RIAnetwork , @altadvisory 's attention to it also 2021-07-30 11:16:01 RT @pazunre: Look at what came in the mail! After 2 yrs of work, it is surreal to finally hold a hardcopy of my 1st book Hard copies… 2021-07-30 09:07:35 @amantlex you've just taught me about basalt! Tell me more! 2021-07-29 19:41:28 RT @alwaystheself: I guess this means I’m already working on the CRT of Star Trek book.. 2021-07-29 07:39:36 RT @adjiboussodieng: Picasso copied African cubism. Have a great rest of your day 2021-07-29 07:32:05 @RichmanRonald @WitsUniversity I will ask! :) 2021-07-28 15:15:33 @2ayasalama @IndabaxEgypt I know @hadyelsahar runs an Egyptian NLP reading group! 2021-07-28 14:30:56 RT @MasakhaneNLP: We’re delighted to host Dr. Mohohlo Tsoeu to introduce us to Automatic African Sign Language Translation at tomorrow’s (T… 2021-07-28 14:08:18 RT @m_0_a: Want to learn about Automatic African Sign Language Translation? We’re delighted to host Dr. Mohohlo Tsoeu (https://t.co/QYiRrnj… 2021-07-28 10:34:31 RT @zilevandamme: South Africa we’re getting closer to the launch of the project to monitor misinformation ahead of the election. Working w… 2021-07-28 09:54:52 RT @laurent_besacie: 2 scientist positions in NLP team @naverlabseurope. 1st one in spoken language / speech processing and 2d one in NLP (… 2021-07-28 09:15:22 Just put Data Statements in my NLP syllabus @emilymbender I have included an entire 2hr lecture on data collection, data curation and data statements They'll also be a requirement for the project submission 2021-07-28 08:59:12 @imr165 @WitsUniversity Omg @lena_voita this is magnificent! 2021-07-27 16:17:52 RT @Abebab: it's grossly understated how hostile and toxic academia is towards Black women. hostile at every fucking turn yet people preten… 2021-07-27 16:17:22 I've just become really comfortable with people seeing me with unbrushed hair, no make up and PJs It's freeing for me And they all get over the horror eventually https://t.co/d14V08aAWN https://t.co/5KB6iA5qUU 2021-07-27 14:16:59 RT @gneubig: The many faces of "ACL": Sports: https://t.co/i3yV4LFmlu Medicine: https://t.co/HxoNQnIK4L Music: https://t.co/HBtu5Zv7ba < 2021-07-27 07:36:37 @bricksdont @WitsUniversity Thank you for this 2021-07-27 05:49:32 RT @nlauchande: After participating in two @DeepIndabaX_ZA and one @DeepIndaba . I am very excited to be giving a talk on the @DeepIndabaX… 2021-07-26 15:29:14 @wimkeir @WitsUniversity I'm going to find a way to spin it that way 2021-07-26 13:55:22 @cjforms Such a great idea!!! 2021-07-26 12:05:00 @RichmanRonald @WitsUniversity What does that mean? 2021-07-26 11:38:20 RT @mcclure111: Sure becoming ungovernable is great but have you ever tried becoming impossible to commodify 2021-07-26 11:35:17 RT @compArch1: Link in this one is kaput - oops here it is https://t.co/4WhmwlzgJE 2021-07-26 11:33:31 @Abebab @sabelonow 2021-07-26 11:33:15 @sabelonow @WitsUniversity Would you be keen to do a guest lecture / conversation? 2021-07-26 11:31:17 RT @compArch1: If you’re interested in communicating data science in interdisciplinary teams, check out my new post. I’ve collected what… 2021-07-26 11:17:45 @k3170Makan @WitsUniversity Natural Language Processing 2021-07-26 11:14:01 Recommended reading for lecture 1: - Salikoko Mufwene: https://t.co/a9XmYWnX4n - @sabelonow https://t.co/mZSgspPJJv - @Abebab https://t.co/NWSEuBQ4CN 3/n - 2021-07-26 11:14:00 The course will take a decolonial approach where I start by situating NLProc in it's socio-technical context, particularly with reference the effect of colonisation on African language tech 2/n 2021-07-26 08:31:11 So, it looks like I'm teaching the honours NLP course @WitsUniversity this semester, and I have big plans! My first step is to create the course outline Please share with me your favourite NLP courses for inspiration and any tips on NLP pedagogy! 2021-07-26 08:21:39 RT @vamchale: https://t.co/zlsWZAW1jW 2021-07-26 06:17:49 #influence https://t.co/sSu5LqtZHT 2021-07-25 16:14:20 RT @Abebab: In 1770, Wolfgang von Kempelen built the Mechanical Turk, a turban wearing lifelike machine that deceived people into thinking… 2021-07-25 12:38:26 RT @Abebab: omg! love this -- it made my day! the man is a legend https://t.co/aTnsznTezH 2021-07-25 08:42:08 RT @sherrying: What’s your favorite band? https://t.co/Lbrxm9ukAx 2021-07-24 11:39:57 RT @Nanjala1: Under Belgian colonial rules, no African who had spent more than 6 months abroad was allowed to return to the Congo. 2021-07-23 19:39:20 RT @sarahkimani: https://t.co/8eBzDkKRe2 Kenya strategically wants to adapt J& 2021-07-23 19:38:04 RT @Nanjala1: "If Kenya had paid for Pfizer in February we would only have gotten 2000 doses, or enough for 1000 people because the western… 2021-07-23 14:57:30 RT @ms__chief: Ever wondered what it looks like if you keep running the same image through that AI cartoon app? https://t.co/swl5h7TsqU 2021-07-23 14:57:10 RT @EvanTachovsky: The deadline for @LacunaFund Expressions of Interest focused on health inequities has been extended to *July 27* If yo… 2021-07-23 14:55:03 RT @OlongoAfrica: "It's clear that the stories in this year's shortlist want us, readers, to examine how we interact with the world." -- @O… 2021-07-23 04:54:38 RT @QueerZoomer: Deadline for ACL is now every month y'all! Let's get this thing rolling. https://t.co/tJPEyfeDXW 2021-07-23 04:54:22 RT @suzatweet: Big thanks to @seb_ruder, @NPCollapse, @mgalle, @wgrathwohl, @SalomonKabongo and many others for sharing their open collab s… 2021-07-22 14:53:03 RT @bluebiscotti: @helenzille sharing her usual racist rhetoric under the pretense of the @Our_DA's supposed "non-racialism" ideology. -"Ma… 2021-07-22 10:52:28 RT @africasacountry: Today's Special: A Google Drive with PDF's of all of Frantz Fanon's works. https://t.co/iI6mCqkRq5 2021-07-22 09:57:52 A valid answer is "Jade, wtf are you talking about. I've never heard of data governance before" 2021-07-22 09:49:45 Some exploratory research: 1. What is your orgs approach to data governance? 2. Do they have a Data Governance practice? 3. Do they employ dedicated people to actively maintain a data catalogue? 4. Which industry is this org? 5. Org size? #datascience 2021-07-22 09:10:16 RT @Nanjala1: Looking for suggestions for Kiswahili language outlets to pitch tech pieces to. Bonus points if you can connect me to the edi… 2021-07-21 14:34:02 RT @KimTommy92: Do you have a favourite museum, and if you do, what do you love about it? Being a new museum curator has me so excited ab… 2021-07-21 12:03:39 RT @iamtrask: I'm looking for a strong python engineer to work with on PySyft. Ideally history of contributing to large codebases It's a c… 2021-07-21 11:25:51 @DesireYavro @wef @wef is just the same companies and the same consulting firms. And yes, yes and yes 2021-07-21 10:57:00 "Gartner would do well to appoint a proper historian, and perhaps a proper ethicist, in recognition of some of the truths about itself that never appear in a PowerPoint deck. The world is ready for a bit less flannel." This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while https://t.co/uJqDIBOi8W 2021-07-21 10:47:35 @uastronomer OMG YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU 2021-07-21 10:29:23 The big consulting firms have falsely created a need (where there isn't one), for a service they can provide ("STRATEGY") 2021-07-21 10:15:52 Spent the past day reading consulting firms' research on why organizations' AI investment isn't adding value They point to: AI Strategy Odd that the same consulting firms who sold the "Invest in AI" strategy in the first place, tell you to buy more "AI strategy" from them 2021-07-21 08:15:12 RT @jdorfman: I believe this @xkcd comic is the greatest non-code contribution to #opensource in the past decade. https://t.co/KSk29Nxoa9 2021-07-21 08:04:40 RT @SADiLaR_ZA: 2nd Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)  - Call for papers! Submission deadline: 13 September 202… 2021-07-21 07:15:24 RT @TaliaRinger: Billionaires are all out there bragging about going to space and shit but we ADHD folks have been space cadets for our ent… 2021-07-21 04:43:36 RT @TheGPMB: A picture says a thousand words. @OurWorldInData world map based on latest COVID data showing share of population having rec… 2021-07-21 04:39:50 RT @andrew_n_carr: Forget ML interviews, just email them the weights of your most recently trained network and call it a day 2021-07-21 04:37:02 @alwaystheself Here! 2021-07-20 16:38:32 I'm sure some @MasakhaneNLP 's would love to unpanel! https://t.co/t6HDYBiHWv 2021-07-20 11:56:11 @team_tachikoma Even in that space, there is excellent research about how KNN beats most fancy neural recommender systems. https://t.co/ADDxTmhRuq https://t.co/YcbV8AalyM 2021-07-20 10:56:01 @team_tachikoma The fact that KNN works so well is a testament to how screwed the rest of the field is. KNN for life! 2021-07-20 10:55:00 Busy doing a write up on how and why @MasakhaneNLP functions and realizing that a non-trivial amount of it is a reiteration of the Agile Manifesto 2021-07-20 09:56:42 RT @jeremyphoward: Copilot, from @github and @OpenAI, feels quite magical to use. It can auto-generate multiline functions, tests, and more… 2021-07-20 09:54:30 @team_tachikoma I don't think ML is successful at all I more mean "success of the field" - i.e. the fact it's the most turned to technique, despite many more techniques that are useful 2021-07-20 09:26:30 RT @Kiana_RL: Wits not even listing our names for these virtual graduation ceremonies https://t.co/CWOdzhXRfH 2021-07-20 09:24:09 @team_tachikoma And yet, a variant of ACO is still SoTA on TSP That's an interesting perspective - that the need for "realtime-ness" is the reason ML succeeded. Do you mean real-timeness in terms of inference? 2021-07-20 09:12:39 @team_tachikoma Can you tell me more about your job? Have you been hired as a data scientist? 2021-07-20 09:09:21 RT @asyncangel: I’ve gotten several SWE rejections phrased as “the team is looking for someone more technical but they loved your personali… 2021-07-20 08:53:22 RT @nuhaasoeker: & 2021-07-20 08:53:03 RT @nuhaasoeker: Spatial Apartheid was a deliberate attempt to make economic, social, and educational opportunities more inaccessible for B… 2021-07-20 08:49:14 Where are my operations researchers at? Y'all must be super annoyed at the constant rebranding of your field 2021-07-20 07:54:21 THIS Thank you @lynnecazaly https://t.co/bAxfyCchco 2021-07-20 07:53:30 RT @Jackstilgoe: A superb recent talk by @emilymbender at the @turinginst, hosted by @adrian_weller. She talks about this paper (https://t.… 2021-07-19 16:06:34 @TartanLlama Author & https://t.co/P56MyZjEmT 2021-07-19 15:18:26 RT @Bongeziwe: Today’s show! https://t.co/fhSAhbX1at 2021-07-19 15:16:15 RT @Rovingheights: “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti @DuksyG's 'On Attending My Own Wa… 2021-07-19 14:06:14 @gordonwells Neither of these things seem to be helping me :P 2021-07-19 14:01:13 @Brook_Flowers I speak ALOT. It's not fixing the bad habits 2021-07-19 13:42:54 I need to stop saying "Like". Listening to myself talk is unbearable... What are your strategies for overcoming your weird language twitches? 2021-07-19 13:39:33 RT @AfricanQuant: This looks like a good opportunity @MasakhaneNLP @AI6Jos @AbujaAi @AISaturdayLagos @AIR_lab_MUK @mueke__ https://t.co/AJA… 2021-07-19 12:47:57 RT @tshimalatji: i always return to this there is work, but no jobs: https://t.co/QF23cWiXr5 2021-07-19 12:46:27 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Just like that, it’s the 6th week of The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism ! @timnitGebru is g… 2021-07-19 09:25:03 RT @seb_ruder: New NLP Newsletter: GitHub Copilot, The Perceiver, Beyond the Transformer, Data augmentation, NL augmenter → , Research c… 2021-07-19 08:31:45 RT @siminyu_kat: Progress is...turning off my laptop on Friday and only putting it back on on Monday morning. Sun Salutations! H… 2021-07-19 05:41:56 RT @TrungTPhan: Never forget: WeWork once used AI to discover that people drank coffee in the morning and it had to add baristas https://t.… 2021-07-19 05:39:35 RT @QueerZoomer: Happy to announce that the @QueerInAI's diversity and inclusion guide has been accepted to appear in #WINLP2021. A threa… 2021-07-19 05:37:47 RT @vboykis: Sunday night reading: The Normcore Tech of 1971 https://t.co/rXpNhVy45S 2021-07-19 05:36:41 RT @tdietterich: We are recruiting new people to help moderate the cs.LG (machine learning) section of @arxiv. If you are interested, pleas… 2021-07-19 05:35:35 RT @julialearns: oh wow the latest @lingthusiasm was probably the first time i ever heard about nlp specifically for african languages su… 2021-07-19 05:33:18 RT @mmitchell_ai: Many tech companies use "Impact" as a measure of employee performance. This can create an environment where people who di… 2021-07-18 06:43:08 @suzatweet Cape Town, South Africa. Walk outside your door and walk up a mountain, or go surf 2021-07-18 04:56:08 RT @sarahookr: More lottery fun. How does the choice of benchmark impact what ideas succeed and which fail? https://t.co/bEntB19wJE 2021-07-17 07:59:48 RT @vukosi: We must also acknowledge the tinderbox that is our socioeconomic situation. We can ignite again anytime, we have seen that in t… 2021-07-17 05:07:18 RT @QueerZoomer: After receiving the paper rejection email, Rupaul sent me a video message saying, 'Hey Pranav, it's not over yet mama. Thi… 2021-07-16 14:54:52 RT @zilevandamme: And so it begins. Oh bawo. @UEswatini you knew this was coming. @UNHumanRights & 2021-07-16 14:54:17 RT @Maxwell_Dlamin: Breaking News: MSWATI's army and police unleashing terror and violence against unarmed citizens and peaceful protestors… 2021-07-16 14:54:10 RT @zilevandamme: Mzansi, please lend support to neighbours in their time of need. Raise awareness, support, encourage, extend kindness, pr… 2021-07-16 12:33:11 "Language is not just words. It’s a constructed self, an orientation towards the world, an attempt to make sense of external phenomena. Language is the hands with which our minds reach into the world and try to make sense of it." ~ @Nanjala1 https://t.co/jcFcGkbm37 2021-07-16 09:31:19 @nischalhp I have been taking time off! Clearly not enough 2021-07-16 08:45:05 RT @SwaziNews: NEWS AS IT HAPPENS: King Mswati unleashes soldiers and the police to shot anti-Monarchy protestors in Manzini as poltical te… 2021-07-16 08:18:03 RT @Sydonahi: I feel this today in particular https://t.co/dI1KxQt0dr 2021-07-16 08:17:43 RT @AstroSibs: Ndlozi is not only wrong but this statement is actually dangerous misinformation. https://t.co/XQfbOYunTl 2021-07-16 06:54:03 RT @zilevandamme: In a functioning security cluster this ought’a have happened. Thread: 1. Intelligence operatives hear talks of protests.… 2021-07-16 06:39:33 RT @tamati_biskit: Those looting are still people who can be kind and who want the best for their families, many of which are people in nee… 2021-07-16 06:32:09 @SanhEstPasMoi @suzatweet @BigscienceW @YJernite @mgalle @Thom_Wolf @samsontmr @mmitchell_ai @MasakhaneNLP Not gonna lie, the lack of a mention feels a little bit like erasure of our work in participatory NLP While we have to fight to get our work published, other organizations do it and are applauded for it 2021-07-16 06:24:34 @SanhEstPasMoi @suzatweet @BigscienceW @YJernite @mgalle @Thom_Wolf @samsontmr @mmitchell_ai It's odd to me that @MasakhaneNLP is not mentioned as inspiration 2021-07-16 05:43:27 So The Brother Moves On have outdone themselves Thank you for the healing @MRGOLDISME https://t.co/EdDbYYaeWK 2021-07-15 18:32:53 RT @Grady_Booch: Advice to young people entering the field of computing: If you choose to work at a company that possesses dubious ethical… 2021-07-15 18:06:35 RT @suzatweet: 10 NLP resources for the summer! Books, papers, blog posts, lectures, hands-on courses. From Linguistics to Transformers. … 2021-07-15 16:48:58 RT @kevindegila: Nouvelle Vidéo : Le MLOps et les challenges du Machine Learning en Production Le MLOps est cette nouvelle discipline qui… 2021-07-15 16:47:03 RT @infinite_scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH 2021-07-15 16:09:06 @Abebab Ashton is made up of 87% cynicism and sarcasm 2021-07-15 13:01:10 Am I okay? 2021-07-15 13:01:02 Apparently cant type either (For context, this is the 3rd time I've tried posting this tweet. I give up) 2021-07-15 13:00:25 J ust verynearly rescheduled the same meeting for tomorrow 9pm (instead of 9am) It's a miracle I'm able to achieve anything ever https://t.co/5VdvOCHlSN 2021-07-15 12:27:18 RT @Abebab: Recurrent trends in the tech world: 1) Make promises to deliver a futuristic sounding but unrealistic tech that is absurd & 2021-07-15 12:27:00 RT @siminyu_kat: Looking for linguists who have studied Kiswahili and can share knowledge on accents, dialects and variations in use of the… 2021-07-15 10:15:01 @SenYeezus Datetimes are difficult, okay 2021-07-15 10:08:55 @khusbume1 These Guptas: https://t.co/vG1rdN67b0 :) Sorry, outside of the South African context, I see how this makes no sense 2021-07-15 10:07:53 Me scheduling meetings for 12 midnight and not 12 midday 2021-07-15 07:14:02 RT @vukosi: The situation with private security and vigilantes scares me. They become mobs themselves. This takes me back to a few months b… 2021-07-15 06:30:35 RT @homostasis: Dont threaten me with a good time https://t.co/teCV2M4nN1 2021-07-14 18:48:33 RT @laurieontech: git commit -m "wtf is happening" 2021-07-14 18:48:16 RT @VumaniMkhize: Just arrived in Durban, drove through a number of checkpoints in Umhlanga manned by residents. This feels surreal. https:… 2021-07-14 12:12:52 RT @clivesimpkins: And this is what @VumaReputation Management and @janinehills were propping up, prior to being forced to resign the accou… 2021-07-14 12:05:54 RT @davlanade: Thank you @KerryMackereth and Eleanor Drage for the interview. Listen to our podcast describing the @MasakhaneNLP participat… 2021-07-14 10:38:57 RT @davlanade: Glad to announce that our paper "The Effect of Domain and Diacritics in Yorùbá-English Neural Machine Translation" got accep… 2021-07-14 10:38:44 RT @Abebab: I often hear folks in the global tech space say that they'd love to include African voices but can't find any. Of course, there… 2021-07-14 10:33:04 RT @QuinnyPig: @ShitUserStory @awscloud Yes, it’s pretty clear that a designer has never been within six miles of the AWS console, I’m afra… 2021-07-14 10:32:41 RT @bethcodes: I really mean this: every software engineer worth their salt should drop everything else and come work on the Death Star. Th… 2021-07-13 17:50:17 RT @zilevandamme: 45 people dead. People’s homes & Don’t tell us about factional ANC BS. You actively enco… 2021-07-13 12:58:04 RT @danmcquillan: AI==Apartheid Innovation 2021-07-13 12:50:39 RT @zilevandamme: Now Zuma supporters are saying @DZumaSambudla is not Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s account. Manyi spinning hard. Y’all must… 2021-07-13 11:41:29 RT @mbira_tafari: People are taking a moralistic stance and condemning violence as if exploitation of workers and poverty are not forms of… 2021-07-13 10:06:09 RT @zilevandamme: .@jack took down Donald Trump’s account for inciting the January 6 Capitol attack on Twitter. It happens in an African co… 2021-07-13 09:06:40 @mumu_mhaka @samzee_codes @vukosi Also this listtl https://t.co/mGqfQjU4Uh 2021-07-13 09:05:09 @mumu_mhaka Definitely @samzee_codes on YouTube and insta! @vukosi 's research group's newsletter is awesome: https://t.co/1aCJj8UKMj 2021-07-13 06:38:26 Somebody said what's the word Say it, have you heard From Johannesburg? https://t.co/vgzsFAhFei 2021-07-13 05:47:12 Busy pondering how the Gupta's are profiting from this civil unrest, because they probably are 2021-07-13 05:45:46 RT @MatshiqiAubrey: We who speak English must not fool ourselves into thinking we are custodians of reason and rationality. Furthermore, we… 2021-07-12 16:53:37 RT @chrisalbon: I like GitHub Copilot, I think it is a super interesting tool and am excited to see where it goes over the next few years.… 2021-07-12 14:05:36 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Hello! happy to announce the Masakhane study group currently led by @Oladipo_AF and @Shmuhammadd where we are delving int… 2021-07-12 11:01:17 Seeing what is happening in the moment in SA, I find myself thinking back to @Trevornoah 's post during the Minneapolis looting - around the break down of social contracts. https://t.co/cBVCXjixE2 2021-07-12 10:20:42 RT @Nanjala1: South Africa. 2021-07-10 07:57:41 A beautiful deep discussion on this is captured in @Abebab 's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity" https://t.co/kABDlRWBXb 2021-07-09 14:02:25 RT @wunpini_fm: Now experts are warning that this trend might lead to the extinction of indigenous languages. Renowned African writer Ngugi… 2021-07-09 14:02:14 RT @IsabelleZaugg: Ngugi wa Thiong'o says that adding additional languages to one's own is empowering, but abandoning one's own language in… 2021-07-09 13:31:05 RT @jnvinagre: @alienelf I keep having that discussion. 99% of the field is about making predictions based on a frozen snapshot of the worl… 2021-07-09 12:53:09 RT @mona_sloane: New paper out w/ @ruchowdh & 2021-07-09 12:31:32 @simeneide I don't know much about data simulators but the concept interests me. A data simulator assumes a changing environment, and are you attempting to measure an algorithms ability to adapt? 2021-07-09 12:23:01 @simeneide It highlights the futility of trying to do this in production settings 2021-07-09 12:18:38 This is almost entirely why MLOps is a field. It's an attempt to bridge this disparity 2021-07-09 12:15:38 There is a fundamental problem that most organizations doing ML fail to address. Data are Dynamic. Datasets are not. The entire field has been built around the 2nd. It's one of the many reasons the field is so messed up 2021-07-09 12:12:50 RT @chipro: The more I work in prod, the more I realize how hard it is to do prob & Splitting data is easy. Sampling data cor… 2021-07-09 09:03:14 The magnificent @in4dmatics called me yesterday after seeing this tweet to remind me that imposter syndrome is actually societal gaslighting, and screw society https://t.co/qSnLiDM8U1 2021-07-09 09:01:22 @whits_t Footsies 2021-07-09 07:23:39 RT @zilevandamme: I really need some help from South Africa side to help coordinate activist efforts. I am juggling so many balls in the ai… 2021-07-09 06:51:07 So we have almost weekly Friday tech talks at @teamretrorabbit. This week is the "tech talk" I've been waiting my entire life for. @Chief_ZA will be explaining how to do our tax returns 2021-07-08 20:31:45 @compArch1 Wat?! 2021-07-08 16:34:29 RT @sarahookr: I'll be speaking in 10 mins on "Characterizing the Generalization Trade-offs Incurred By Compression." Currently enjoying F… 2021-07-08 15:06:53 @Ridhwana_K I WANT TO SQUISH HIM 2021-07-08 14:47:31 @kolatubosun gorgeous! 2021-07-08 14:46:58 @NicolasBeuchat naughty lil face! 2021-07-08 14:46:46 @mrcapital_c LOOK AT THEM 2021-07-08 14:46:15 @Bester_Bash nawwww! 2021-07-08 14:46:03 @mpyeager fanx you 2021-07-08 14:45:46 @Darren_Everitt THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL 2021-07-08 14:45:22 @amcasari SO LOVELY 2021-07-08 14:44:59 @annstellam SHES GORGEOUS! 2021-07-08 14:44:25 @tttthomasssss You have wizards as pets? 2021-07-08 14:43:30 @QueerZoomer sending care 2021-07-08 14:42:51 @bflyblue Look at that lil face! 2021-07-08 08:49:22 @gremblexyz 2021-07-08 08:49:10 @polmoneys 2021-07-08 08:43:44 Feeling super incapable and impostery today Trying to pay as little attention to the feeling as possible and wait for it to pass Send pet photos please 2021-07-07 16:06:14 RT @LanguageCrawler: Miriam Makeba explains click sounds in Xhosa, sings 'Baxabene Oxamu'. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approxima… 2021-05-22 08:44:09 RT @Abebab: To think deconstructively is to not only call into question accepted truths, but to ask in whose interests it is that they be a… 2021-05-21 10:50:53 @shakir_za OMG YES PLEASE 2021-05-21 05:24:17 Bought myself a self-care gift @Nanjala1 It is time https://t.co/BG5M4rI6lg 2021-05-21 05:12:06 One of my life goals it to learn to write like @shakir_za 2021-05-20 20:26:29 RT @engineering_bae: Lets normalize bombing an interview. Bombing an interview isn't the desired outcome, but it happens. And when it does… 2021-05-20 20:25:22 RT @laurieontech: I bombed my interview with Stripe about 4-5 months ago? I was working on the algorithm and for some reason decided to us… 2021-05-20 20:20:07 Honoured to be on this line up https://t.co/6JW02bry97 2021-05-20 16:48:46 RT @zilevandamme: I have today tendered my resignation as a DA MP. Thank you so much, South Africa https://t.co/3Z1N1rSJD5 2021-05-20 16:47:33 RT @africaiknow: Rejoignez-nous ce Mardi 25 Mai à 16h00 GMT pour notre événement gratuit en ligne #AfricaDayWithTAIK. Nous animerons un p… 2021-05-20 16:45:12 RT @africaiknow: We will hold a panel on AI in Africa during our online event #AfricaDayWithTAIK. Meet our expert panelists! Each one of… 2021-05-20 13:13:37 RT @Lizz_S2: @alienelf Available at your local Spar. https://t.co/MjxVJ6GOHh 2021-05-20 09:19:23 RT @AB_Spice: The best https://t.co/fRti4PwJdt https://t.co/QvYkjMOq8v 2021-05-20 09:19:06 RT @settface: Remember to clear your cached image builds by invoking `docker-compose down --rmi all` and throwing your laptop away. 2021-05-20 08:45:24 RT @JoeyUchiha_: This one is worse https://t.co/vPsAJX4aMt https://t.co/3j9rZW2Obv 2021-05-20 08:00:08 @Diyyah92 @panfordkobby @MasakhaneNLP @KreutzerJulia @AIMS_Next @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue @orevaahia @SalomonKabongo @NanaYaaSally @OktemAlp @tosintwit @allahserix @categitau_ And an infinitely beautiful soul! 2021-05-20 07:59:34 Let's create a list of the stupidest gendered things I'll start. Gendered soap. "Pure Impact" for Men I cant https://t.co/aA1BUB08Bw 2021-05-20 05:43:33 @QueerZoomer Hahahaha! https://t.co/UsC7dQKQF9 2021-05-20 05:40:31 RT @panfordkobby: @MasakhaneNLP @Diyyah92 @KreutzerJulia @AIMS_Next @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue @orevaahia @alienelf @SalomonKabongo @NanaYaaS… 2021-05-19 19:33:30 RT @KreutzerJulia: @MasakhaneNLP @AIMS_Next @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue @orevaahia @alienelf @SalomonKabongo @NanaYaaSally @OktemAlp @tosintwi… 2021-05-19 14:29:18 @QueerZoomer We should have a "jollof-off" and then get the West African experts to judge our attempts 2021-05-19 14:15:36 RT @MasakhaneNLP: The brilliant @KreutzerJulia teaching Machine Translation at @AIMS_Next this week! Ending off the sessions with a fu… 2021-05-19 12:37:11 @Abebab @_dmh Sending wellness vibes 2021-05-19 12:36:11 RT @anoushnajarian: @emilymbender @timnitGebru @JeffDean “Inconsistent application of rules is a powerful weapon” - Dr. Rediet Abebe 2021-05-19 10:57:15 RT @mariofusco: When I was young I was a very bad programmer. But after decades of gaining experiences at work and attempts to learn stuff… 2021-05-19 08:45:24 @danieroux @erenbali So far the only job description I think I've ever been ENTIRELY qualified for https://t.co/VMl2OSNc3N 2021-05-19 08:17:28 I personally will be accepting deliveries of jollof rice from any participants and will take on the burden of being the judge https://t.co/efobCpYDRG 2021-05-19 07:38:56 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Excited to announce we'll be hosting a SOCIAL at @NAACLHLT on June 6 Come join us to: - dance with us to our playl… 2021-05-18 18:58:07 RT @emilymbender: And we should trust these claims of responsible development of language-model-based chatbots from @Google because, why, e… 2021-05-18 18:55:08 RT @SenYeezus: Director of Microservices??? Have we gone mad https://t.co/lJeE1YrvVo 2021-05-18 15:52:51 RT @mattmay: Okay! Experts! Particularly white and/or male ones! We need to talk. If someone interviews you on issues of inclusion and bia… 2021-05-18 14:09:14 RT @hadyelsahar: Obviously Arabic was less vulnerable to using AI in censorship and activist prosecution bec. of lack of support. Until the… 2021-05-18 14:09:11 RT @hadyelsahar: Now this reminds me of @sabelonow words in the AfricaNLP workshop about providing technology support for low-resourced lan… 2021-05-18 14:09:06 RT @hadyelsahar: We might be witnessing the first Human protests against #AI algos Following #SaveSheikhJarraj censorship of activists po… 2021-05-18 10:53:40 @vukosi @thisMabu Glad that RTX is going to good use 2021-05-18 05:29:40 Self-care for me is waking up early , making coffee writing and rewriting ideas I've been slowly pondering for years , and reading important papers I never have time to read during my days This is my public commitment to make this a regular event for myself 2021-05-18 03:25:44 RT @LucianaBenotti: #EMNLP2021 is going to be in Punta Cana, which is in Latin America. However, the EMNLP survey does neither mention Lati… 2021-05-17 14:36:36 RT @csdoctorsister: You’ve got your citations wrong @60Minutes. What are y’all doing. You’ve overlooked the seminal work of @jovialjoy @tim… 2021-05-17 13:51:22 The wrath of Christians when you don't send a Happy Easter email (the first time in 10 years, a mistake), but you sent a Eid al-Fitr email (first ever) 2021-05-17 06:37:05 RT @ShannonVallor: I’ll say it again. AI IS people. Just people. All the way down. For the foreseeable future. So if you frame it as a war… 2021-05-16 20:00:24 RT @DanCorderOnAir: Moving to Joburg from Cape Town is feeling like everyone is hitting on each other when they’re really not, it’s just fr… 2021-05-14 22:16:26 RT @emilymbender: I'm not sure what it means to rank a list like this, but it is wonderful to see @timnitGebru 's leadership and general aw… 2021-05-14 10:16:49 Fam, @bumble's BFF mode is the most wholesome thing 2021-05-14 10:14:17 Also this new track from @Ami_Faku and Kenza https://t.co/kmYUMHTMrO 2021-05-14 10:08:00 Our late king @t_allenafrobeat's posthumous release "There is No End" is getting me through this week 2021-05-14 09:31:32 @L_badikho That poor algorithm 2021-05-14 09:11:40 YouTube has learnt that I am clearly in the stage of my career where I need to evaluate different agile and DevOps tools. This is reasonable The rest of Google products still think I should probably learn to code in python sometime. 2021-05-14 09:00:55 @ashtonshudson Usually when our RDS gets low on space, we go "Awww fuck no not again, just double it" 2021-05-14 08:16:04 RT @suzatweet: The efforts and impact of organizations and communities like @paperswithcode @huggingface @MasakhaneNLP towards reproduc… 2021-05-14 07:15:54 RT @Chris_Fourie_SA: Are you a South African healthcare worker that registered online to get the vaccine but has no voucher number yet? (po… 2021-05-13 20:24:10 RT @Dixie3Flatline: I just got this at my work email after a talk. Never, ever email a speaker to hit on them. This is wildly unprofessiona… 2021-05-13 17:36:10 RT @mtlaiethics: Sometimes ethical AI means slow AI. https://t.co/JqP2vytmK8 2021-05-13 13:14:28 RT @Dr_Tempest: Attention Kenyan women in tech @WiMLDS_Nairobi @wwcodelagos @techwomenkenya @kayana_kenya please share https://t.co/HMss… 2021-05-13 11:43:21 RT @gurlcode: Confession: I’m a slow coder… I’m methodical. I break large problems into small ones, write notes & 2021-05-13 11:42:53 RT @DeepIndaba: Applications are is now open for Fully-funded PhD positions in data science at The African Institute for Mathematical Scien… 2021-05-13 08:40:30 RT @Grady_Booch: I often talk about the challenges of legacy software, but don’t forget that there is an equally ominous partner lurking in… 2021-05-13 07:31:43 RT @PMinervini: Registration to the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI, #UAI2021 @UncertaintyInAI) is *free for all… 2021-05-12 13:34:11 RT @dannimassi: Want a Microsoft-funded PhD scholarship? Applications from students at African institutions are due on 30 June! #AfricanML… 2021-05-12 13:33:09 It's days like these where I just give up being productive. Trying to be productive and failing continuously is exhausting and bad for self-esteem 2021-05-12 13:30:29 My already very limited executive function just goes down the toilet 2021-05-12 13:29:43 I've realised that there is no focus cure for a lack of sleep. Not caffeine, not ADHD meds. If I haven't slept well, its basically pointless for me to try be productive. I'd be more productive by going back to bed 2021-05-12 12:42:14 RT @vukosi: Introducing Masakhane WEB - A Machine Translation Web Platform for African Languages. This is a research tool that can showcas… 2021-05-12 12:37:46 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Excited to announce the launch of @MasakhaneNLP Translate web research tool - a tool to assist in evaluating & 2021-05-12 11:46:24 @ashtonshudson You'll be seeing yourself out? 2021-05-12 11:22:31 RT @MasakhaneNLP: One of our sister communities @AmericasNLP are hosting their first workshop at @naacl ! Check out their proceedings… 2021-05-12 11:22:30 RT @a11byte: Exciting work so far and the workshop is still yet to happen! Counting the days for June 11, see you all at the first @America… 2021-05-12 11:10:46 @hadyelsahar @TwitterSupport My follow list is wildly African-centric I think I mostly follow Nigerians tbh But the recommendations don't seem to care 2021-05-12 11:09:16 RT @hadyelsahar: @alienelf @TwitterSupport I have recently revisited my follow list to make it more balanced geographically. it is insane h… 2021-05-12 10:24:01 It's clear that AI is just a mirror of society, then it then society looks itself in the mirror and goes "yeah! I should be more like that" https://t.co/mkEwqZules 2021-05-12 10:07:17 @QueerZoomer @TwitterSupport I'm suspecting we follow similar topics (maybe only Machine Learning?) :P it's just reflecting hegemony - as do all collaborative filters :P 2021-05-12 09:54:04 Hey @TwitterSupport, why are so many of my topic suggestions US universities? (I mean, I actually know why - it's because recommender systems fundamentally work this way. Just be better. Build better, more geographically aware recsys) https://t.co/iiIqQJ3hBS 2021-05-12 08:29:54 @soldni @QueerZoomer @NanaYaaSally @IAugenstein @ErikaVaris @LucianaBenotti @multilingual_s @willie_agnew Actually @QueerZoomer did all the work describing it on our behalf and obtaining our feedback and approval 2021-05-11 19:48:56 RT @lizthegrey: good luck hiring lmao https://t.co/Kx0Ok4VN5w 2021-05-11 19:47:18 RT @ZeerakW: They say this like they’ll be able hire anyone in the space… https://t.co/2GcGxmdkXF 2021-05-11 17:42:34 RT @hack_ai: @lc0d3r @Pratik0895 @facebookai @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue @MasakhaneNLP Great things done for African languages! Thanks for doi… 2021-05-11 17:42:31 RT @hack_ai: @lc0d3r @Pratik0895 @facebookai @bonadossou @ChrisEmezue @MasakhaneNLP Next ones we have awesome @bonadossou and @ChrisEmezue… 2021-05-11 15:45:08 RT @MasakhaneNLP: The magnificent @Onyothi did a talk about her work on Khoekhoegowab at the Futures & 2021-05-11 15:27:08 RT @alienelf: @zham_rys Working for a FAANG and coming from a diverse background requires a level of patience I do not possess. I choose no… 2021-05-11 15:26:49 @_naomiza You know me too well 2021-05-11 15:24:11 @2ayasalama So, the FAANGs have internal recruiters but they seemingly do not report to the teams they recruit for but to Operations. And Marketing and Recruitment seem to be at odds with each other. The misalignment of incentives is rampant 2021-05-11 15:15:49 @zham_rys Working for a FAANG and coming from a diverse background requires a level of patience I do not possess. I choose not to put myself through that 2021-05-11 15:13:34 @zham_rys Ethical issues - Diversity Issues - Interview process issues (and how they are biased towards Silicon Valley kids) - Too big to easily make change to the org and it's values 2021-05-11 14:47:59 @2ayasalama I suspect nothing happens. I often don't even get replies from them at all. I'm amazed they still contact me year after year to be honest. Surely they've flagged me somewhere 2021-05-11 14:33:28 I get a special kind of joy putting together messages to recruiters from FAANGs to tell them why I am not interested in being on their ML teams 2021-05-11 11:54:21 @Abebab @SashaMTL It's just so tacky! eww 2021-05-11 11:34:26 RT @hardmaru: Illusions are examples of adversarial attacks on the human visual system https://t.co/82WpYDOjHi 2021-05-11 10:15:41 Madness to think that I met @gather_town crew inside Gathertown at #ICLR2020 - one of their 1st events. The team listened to people's ideas & Now almost every conference seems to be using them! Bravo! An amazing example of agile dev & 2021-05-11 07:20:33 RT @compArch1: What’s up with Green Park station having such a busy GitHub commit history #londonthings https://t.co/rSHd692xM6 2021-05-11 05:28:40 RT @mattlungrenMD: Important step for transparent open medical imaging datasets https://t.co/rPBk0Az3cv H/T @timnitGebru (brilliant) visi… 2021-05-10 22:01:19 RT @ChloeCondon: What if the noise the fans in our MacBooks make is actually just a teeny tiny crowd of fans cheering it on from the inside? 2021-05-10 21:55:37 RT @ytay017: Are pre-trained convolutions better than pre-trained Transformers? Check out our recent paper at https://t.co/iPNQhP7hjG #ACL… 2021-05-10 21:51:20 RT @gneubig: Haven't read carefully yet, but this sentence from the abstract is so it deserves a RT! "Overall, the findings outlined in… 2021-05-10 10:39:04 RT @IanColdwater: hello I am overachieving Hermione and I have read ALL of your docs 2021-05-10 09:22:22 @vukosi @pplantinga Yay! Will definitely be there 2021-05-10 09:14:00 @vukosi I'm busy reading the new proposal Data & I am unnerved when policy refers to it as oil but doesn't mention it's extractive nature (and instead buys into the hype bullshit). https://t.co/0QSPUsWlUG https://t.co/LH2O5VXCl4 2021-05-10 09:02:12 No, we should absolutely fucking not be treating "data" as "oil" 2021-05-09 07:34:27 RT @DigiAfricanLang: 2)Within @MasakhaneNLP is a wonderful network of women in NLP, courtesy of female founding and leadership. It is not l… 2021-05-09 07:34:06 RT @DigiAfricanLang: 1)Masakhane Leadership is decentralized and distributed, ensuring no one person is a blocker to progress and anyone wi… 2021-05-09 07:33:58 RT @DigiAfricanLang: “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” @MasakhaneNLP embodies the idea that it is time for the i… 2021-05-07 12:11:35 RT @Orteil42: every time i see a tweet about a neural net research paper it's some variation of this https://t.co/rEwxMqGEK4 2021-05-07 12:10:35 RT @arizeai: Aparna interviewed Abeba Birhane, George Obaido, Kehinde Aruleba, & 2021-05-07 12:10:09 RT @david8hughes: It would appear I have fucked up. https://t.co/pLeGacil8y 2021-05-07 10:59:57 RT @emilymbender: .@haldaume3 also brought forward a question about what we should do vis a vis the language communities not benefiting fro… 2021-05-07 09:35:27 RT @dirk_hovy: @alienelf @yoavgo What @alienelf said. These sections should not be an apology or mea-culpa, but a reflection. As SAC, I sa… 2021-05-07 05:57:51 RT @savvyRL: Haha, any MLP == conv with kernel of input size! EVERYTHING IS CONV https://t.co/AmyvUa2l30 2021-05-07 05:02:15 RT @timnitGebru: I don’t know how I missed this paper from one of my favorite communities: the @MasakhaneNLP community which is doing such… 2021-05-07 03:56:42 @yoavgo Disagree. There are papers that REALLY NEED the ethical considerations -ethics reviews showed that. Also, authors could cite papers discussing ethical issues in LRL in more detail. They also could report on the CO2 usage We just need to get better at writing these sections 2021-05-06 19:06:04 RT @lizthegrey: and this is what people get wrong about AIOps: they're trying to turn a complexity-embracing tool into a simplification too… 2021-05-06 19:03:45 RT @_jack_poulson: Jeff Bezos is literally building a yacht for his yacht and people are spending their Twitter energy attacking minority i… 2021-05-06 18:59:58 RT @mpd37: 99 mentoring sessions scheduled so far with #mementor. Will yours be the next one? Schedule it now: https://t.co/hkMwTDT6Us @i… 2021-05-06 18:41:42 Busy typing up an email to the @_AfricanUnion ... Alternatively, I could slide into their twitter dms 2021-05-06 18:34:51 What do I need to do to get an honorary doctorate around here? #lifegoals 2021-05-06 18:25:10 RT @alexqin: SO PROUD to share @emergentworks_ received a $1,000,000 grant from Jack Dorsey, which will allow us to continue to train and e… 2021-05-06 18:24:28 RT @suzatweet: ICLR Social Open Collaboration in ML Research, starting in a bit! https://t.co/lSAcVI600l https://t.co/w9ZGECfkBQ 2021-05-06 16:36:41 RT @safiyanoble: This is an important paper that needs to be amplified—add this to your syllabi and reading lists on AI/ML/Data/Ethics/Bias… 2021-05-06 15:13:21 Congrats @vukosi ! Well deserved!! https://t.co/wKObu0bknL 2021-05-06 15:03:47 RT @shakir_za: I have loved doing these roundtables, and the amazing conversations and questions people bring from throughout the conferenc… 2021-05-06 10:57:28 RT @Abebab: irony is lost as a white man attacking a Black women quotes Angela Davis. beware of allies that sing Black Lives Matter yet u… 2021-05-06 10:05:21 Is there a tool for shared PDF annotations? 2021-05-06 09:33:17 RT @emollick: Wicked problems are issues that are complex, uncertain, & 2021-05-05 13:17:56 RT @xsyn: To all those South Africans who suffer from imposter syndrome when hustling on the global stage: You are great, South Africa has… 2021-05-05 09:40:30 RT @type__error: colleague: let's have a discussion about URL structure me: https://t.co/1FDJS4nyJx 2021-05-05 08:06:11 RT @Explanimals: So pleased to announce that my paper, "If I Fits I Sits: A Citizen Science Investigation into Illusory Contour Susceptibil… 2021-05-05 07:21:37 Only just out of stealth and already invested in responsible use: https://t.co/XRyJqnYQUq https://t.co/VFFEqlik5D https://t.co/2wdoi5669Y With comprehensive usage guidelines, model limitations, model cards, data statements, and environmental impact statements https://t.co/EP5LxwiPbR 2021-05-05 05:20:25 RT @quantumbeans: types of scientific paper https://t.co/ABszpTJ81X 2021-05-05 05:18:21 RT @_naomiza: “Almost at the same age as your past marriage?” https://t.co/xFsfsTeIGK 2021-05-04 12:58:38 RT @savvyRL: First day of #ICLR2021 ! My fav conf and its 2nd year running virtually. Excited to share that I joined Google Brain as a res… 2021-05-04 12:30:11 RT @HornyNooting: https://t.co/seA5U8FfVG 2021-05-04 10:54:40 RT @AIMS_Next: Historical writing gives the impression that #Africa hasn't made significant contribution to #Science. Learn how Dr. Wilfred… 2021-05-04 10:52:20 RT @QueerZoomer: I usually don't care that much about social media attention or followers. However, I humbly request all of you to at least… 2021-05-04 10:28:19 RT @ctrlshifti: you don't hate coding you just hate capitalism 2021-05-04 04:58:06 RT @vinayprabhu: (1/4) Taking a break from Twitter-break to post this PSA for #NLP twitter. Thanks to recent work by @ryandcotterell 's gro… 2021-05-04 04:56:32 RT @_dataman_: @alienelf unfortunately there's too small of an understanding in our field on that novelty doesn't need to refer to methodol… 2021-05-03 19:10:08 RT @CatSwetel: Next level monetary policy: get rid of billions when counting currency. Just go straight from millions to trillions. This wo… 2021-05-03 18:14:22 RT @Abebab: please forgive me, I was forced to read papers around "AI for Africa" today https://t.co/hfImgyNRMJ 2021-05-03 18:14:18 @Abebab Oh gosh, this is gold and exactly what I needed to read today 2021-05-03 18:11:41 RT @Darren_Everitt: Cat's aren't heavy they warp spacetime with their innate magical powers. https://t.co/9KY2FaoFHp 2021-05-03 17:52:43 RT @sophaskins: you know that feeling when you’re refactoring something but it’s juuuust larger than your brain’s currently possible “curre… 2021-05-03 15:32:34 RT @mayhewsw: hello, yes, thank you, I went to a lot of effort to make this performance art piece. https://t.co/vvsfHb3ZJY 2021-05-03 13:35:43 @FredGiannetti SO FLUFFFY 2021-05-03 13:30:32 RT @timnitGebru: https://t.co/TCjv6TJOGV This resonates so much. At Google the White women in charge were offended that I had the audacit… 2021-05-03 13:22:12 @emilymbender OMG THIS IS GLORIOUS. I cant stop watching!! 2021-05-03 10:59:30 @fishnets88 Look at those toe beans! 2021-05-03 10:35:09 @tweefactor Awww! Does she/he sit on it when the Roomba is on? 2021-05-03 10:34:41 @QueerZoomer Kitty has such talent 2021-05-03 10:34:15 @ReutFarkash This 2021-05-03 07:31:30 Laughing at how my 2nd most cited paper is one that wasn't published because it wasn't "novel enough" The goal of that paper was to spur research in African NLP, by highlighting the societal problems & Impact != "Novelty" 2021-05-03 07:24:25 @anmarasovic Yes! Absolutely! I'm not good at combat, so this works out well 2021-04-30 15:52:10 This weather calls for some Don't Starve Together https://t.co/6B2n8alDGS 2021-04-30 12:26:57 @McEwanInComm @alicetiara Oh AMAZING! do you have a pre-print of it somewhere? 2021-04-30 12:17:42 RT @swardley: X : What do you think about politics at work? Me : Do you mean politics in the office? X : No, talking about politics. Me : E… 2021-04-30 12:16:33 RT @kayo_yin: my mother casually code-switching in 4 languages in the family gc... https://t.co/9Dqlo0Zmje 2021-04-30 12:16:05 RT @ccanonne_: Honestly LaTeX is not that hard to use, and once familiar with it you end up incredibly more productive. Now, excuse me for… 2021-04-30 07:51:33 RT @seb_ruder: Types of ML / NLP Papers https://t.co/mdPMGUXL70 2021-04-30 07:37:33 RT @forealiously: drag every big pharma ceo and the leaders of the countries complicit in their patent hoarding in front of the hague 2021… 2021-04-30 05:55:16 RT @natashajaques: I couldn't resist. With contributions from @maxhkw https://t.co/3J7fz6dQut 2021-04-29 13:06:38 RT @KaliTessera: If you are interested in an Industry perspective on ML and AI, don't forget to register https://t.co/eS4piT0AGM 2021-04-29 12:36:28 RT @HazemToutounji: @Sydonahi Where's "We threw this thing we don't understand at a computer program we don't understand"? 2021-04-29 12:36:22 RT @Sydonahi: Omg https://t.co/qDJ4aubtvN 2021-04-29 09:32:47 @thisMabu @MasakhaneNLP You can get the link via our website https://t.co/DO5M1JfZxu 2021-04-29 09:32:23 RT @openmrbenelux: March 24th: Under moderation of @RemiGau, @Felienne, @alienelf, @AdoraNwodo, @yoyehudi & 2021-04-29 08:15:23 RT @tkasasagi: I don't mind working hard, I just don't like working hard on stupid things. 2021-04-29 06:29:11 RT @LLopezGonzalez: BTW If you missed yesterday's 3-hour Parliament briefing on #COVID19Vaccine here's the one slide you need to know about… 2021-04-29 06:27:21 My secret to a good morning: I start by opening the @MasakhaneNLP slack and take it from there 2021-04-29 06:25:10 RT @vukosi: This is a big step in the right direction, especially as the conferences are online. https://t.co/oPLhCAbmXc 2021-04-29 06:23:36 RT @QueerZoomer: NAACL 2021 will waive registration for all authors from underrepresented developing countries and affinity groups with acc… 2021-04-28 14:35:01 RT @MasakhaneNLP: MasakhaNER We'll be ensuring that technology understands more of our names, and places and cultures by extending our… 2021-04-28 14:34:57 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Decolonising Scientific Writing We'll further the journey of decolonising scientific writing - whereby we translate… 2021-04-28 14:34:50 RT @MasakhaneNLP: We're unbelievably excited to announce that 4 of our applications were awarded grants! Thank you @LacunaFund More de… 2021-04-28 14:34:21 RT @AlvinGrissomII: I'm more and more convinced that "A.I.," especially in modern usage, has no coherent meaning. Sorting: Not AI Sorting… 2021-04-28 11:12:46 RT @ChrisCurrin: @nerv_online announcing an excellent panel discussion "Navigating the Industry of Artificial Intelligence" on Star Wars Da… 2021-04-28 11:11:45 RT @vukosi: A sign of the times. This fell back a bit, but now it is back. You can see upcoming deadlines for AI/ML/DS conferences that are… 2021-04-28 07:49:06 RT @w4nderlus7: This week the MLSys Seminar series (https://t.co/iZtaOZ55ue) will feature Erin LeDell @ledell from @h2oai who will talk abo… 2021-04-28 06:30:56 RT @indica: The world is on fire and America and Europe are double parked in front of the vaccine hydrant. 2021-04-28 06:30:28 RT @vukosi: Whoop Whoop @KirkCodes https://t.co/PwWRsHJFnw 2021-04-27 14:25:09 RT @tejuafonja: Hi everyone, I would like to invite you to participate in an anonymous, short 2-5 minutes survey with the aim of finding ou… 2021-04-27 11:04:01 @DeepIndaba @AI4Dev @africaiknow 2021-04-27 10:54:20 So @MasakhaneNLP have a new sister community for ML & They're focused on bringing health workers and ML practitioners across Africa together to solve Africa-centric ML Health problems First talk by the amazing @arakkal05 Cant wait! #Sisonke https://t.co/JTZG3Eiv3k 2021-04-27 10:32:31 @diversekhaulat @AidanNGomez It's the magnificent @kleinric of course!!! 2021-04-27 10:31:53 RT @tejuafonja: @emeka_boris @alienelf Oh yeah :) My team @AISaturdayLagos and I collected some datasets the past month: https://t.co/JcpOm… 2021-04-26 16:27:00 RT @winniethexu: I want naan, not NaN. 2021-04-26 16:21:20 RT @DeepIndaba: Are you a member of the African ML community looking for help with writing a research paper, applying for a job or turning… 2021-04-26 16:15:59 @settface We missed you 2021-04-26 16:05:10 RT @africaiknow: Invented by David Gathu and Moses Kinyua, a bio-robotic arm powered by brain signals is set to change the real lives of di… 2021-04-26 16:04:53 RT @KirkCodes: I got the 2nd dose of the vaccine and the Queen herself just replied to my tweet so this is deffo the best Monday of my enti… 2021-04-26 15:49:59 @MissyElliott @KirkCodes OMGASH 2021-04-26 15:48:16 RT @KirkCodes: Today we achieved the dream. Made a function called missyElliott that takes a data structure, flips it, and reverses it.… 2021-04-26 15:46:43 RT @WiMLworkshop: Today is the *last day* to apply for @iclr_conf virtual conference registrations sponsored by ICLR's DEI action fund and… 2021-04-26 09:50:13 RT @fhuszar: This chart is every academic, trying to make their one idea for a conference paper look like a 5-year research program when ap… 2021-04-26 08:26:29 RT @mark_riedl: Hi fellow profs. This was an easy call to make. #CovidIndia https://t.co/A8RmW56erW 2021-04-26 08:11:52 "When you start singing in my language, I'll start singing in yours" @MiriamMakebaOff to 2 Afrikaans men who were dissatisfied she didn't sing any "liedjies" in a bar in New York, during apartheid times. Learning much from editing @roxisound's essay on Mama Afrika 2021-04-26 05:42:41 RT @anas_ant: Translation Shared Task announcement Can you make your translation system adhere to a given terminology? This is very much… 2021-04-25 16:40:31 RT @WindAesthetic: legit https://t.co/rxbVGSNHWh 2021-04-25 14:59:42 RT @Abebab: why is it that all fintech and most AI start-ups in Africa are run by non-Africans (it's a rhetorical question) 2021-04-23 13:59:18 @Lizz_S2 I want to lay a charge against them. Because that's fucking bullshit 2021-04-23 13:17:28 @Lizz_S2 In this country: No. It's very unconstitutional 2021-04-23 11:43:59 RT @Abebab: "technology is neutral" says the CEO of affectiva, a company that sells "emotion recognition" AI snake oil https://t.co/wiOyOpv… 2021-04-23 10:04:28 RT @timnitGebru: I didn’t know what the term “exfiltrate” meant because the first time I saw it is after Google went to the press stating t… 2021-04-22 17:35:36 RT @timnitGebru: Like I said, our paper was the catalyst for this & 2021-04-22 14:09:51 RT @vukosi: A quotable quote https://t.co/AYdIHPsOMg 2021-04-22 13:41:16 RT @vukosi: Tokyo and the Yahoo Boys, season 2 2021-04-22 10:07:55 @nunuska Look at the parts that are not https://t.co/clCZL7PpYW 2021-04-22 08:58:28 RT @zakareeee: i'm a: man woman south african looking for: men women a party deserving of my vote in the 2021 local govern… 2021-04-22 08:50:23 Let's just MARVEL in the GIANT CONTRADICTIONS here "Here is everything that is wrong with using AI in law enforcement & "If used to detect, prevent, investigate and prosecute criminal offenses it SHOULD NOT be considered high risk" 3/n https://t.co/zHfGyKwpGn 2021-04-22 08:50:22 And systems that "detect, prevent, investigate and prosecute criminal offenses" need not be transparent that they're using AI 2/n https://t.co/pJxgekkFOT 2021-04-22 08:50:20 Holy fuck, nevermind, this is a TRASHFIRE Regulation does not apply to systems already IN place which deal with Visa & So it's okay if EU borders are using non-transparent messed up AI? 1/n https://t.co/K0h9k1soUH https://t.co/Y0soYh9XMr 2021-04-22 07:51:07 RT @databoydg: Man I really just wanted to be happy and positive on here. Maybe I should just pretend I don’t see abusive behavior when i… 2021-04-21 18:18:17 RT @mmitchell_ai: @alienelf @timnitGebru I know. I was helping when @JeffDean fired me. 2021-04-21 18:16:17 RT @timnitGebru: @alienelf @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean Its the ability to continue on in your life as if you haven't inflicted havoc on to othe… 2021-04-21 18:14:26 @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @JeffDean Yep. And he liked the tweet. And I literally cannot fucking deal https://t.co/wDW3xZKTO4 2021-04-21 15:25:11 RT @mayhewsw: At the Disaster Response plenary at #EACL2021. One common theme so far has been: don't aim for automation, but rather for *as… 2021-04-21 14:48:02 TUNE IN! So excited to be on a panel with this crew https://t.co/VnL5UVzVjp 2021-04-21 12:46:23 In fact, so have Datasheets https://t.co/786HZrkcpQ 2021-04-21 12:41:03 Particular fan of this clause! @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai looks like model cards have essentiallymade it into EU legislation https://t.co/w8FbJ6TLb5 2021-04-21 12:36:21 I'm wrong actually. Just checked the Annex! This is better https://t.co/VoUuQXhTa8 https://t.co/VUF3pSd5ov 2021-04-21 12:18:41 RT @Dr_Tempest: City of Cape Town's data science team is hiring! Apply your skills to something that matters, and work with my fellow @impe… 2021-04-21 12:18:01 @bonadossou They have maaaany specialists 2021-04-21 11:18:21 The transparency requirements so extremely minimal! Disappointed that this is all they managed https://t.co/to9mrobfdW 2021-04-21 11:04:42 This is going to be long and important read https://t.co/2D43JJBrwQ 2021-04-21 10:48:12 RT @Melissahei: The European Commission's final proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act is now out. https://t.co/rAhzeNI9l1 2021-04-21 10:09:01 RT @jennifazor: Hey everyone I will be joining @Sedjronovation @EmodeMedeiros @DiyeDia to discuss on #africanAI #AIethics #futureofAI to… 2021-04-21 09:18:15 RT @AIMS_Next: The AIMS-@BW__i #Research conference commenced today with a number of inspiring speakers on different topics. We'll take tim… 2021-04-21 07:24:21 RT @timnitGebru: I once called the police for help in San Francisco in 2007 and they ended up putting handcuffs on my friend on behalf of w… 2021-04-20 16:18:19 RT @RhiannonDauster: Us: There’s no evidence for a genetic factor in differences in IQ between racial groups. Them: OMG. You're denying g… 2021-04-20 16:12:42 RT @Nanjala1: We are still receiving submissions for the Nyabola Prize for Science and Speculative Fiction in partnership with the @Kiswahi… 2021-04-20 16:02:54 Every week it's something else. Just fix it properly this time 2021-04-20 16:01:46 I can't function like this... https://t.co/QApb0KpmVU 2021-04-20 15:54:18 RT @hypervisible: Automating that racist thing is not going to make it less racist. 2021-04-20 12:48:00 To those who know me, given my strengths and experience, what role would you hire me for? 2021-04-20 10:49:04 I'm taking a day off from working on the pile of things I'm the bottleneck for. People must wait. I'm tired 2021-04-20 10:45:54 RT @if_u_kno: A huge thanks to the #AfricaNLP2021 organisers and the @MasakhaneNLP community. I had the privilege of presenting my paper ht… 2021-04-20 06:03:07 RT @hadyelsahar: @emilymbender @NikhilKrishnasw @eaclmeeting Don't know about EACL videos but our AfricaNLP workshop videos are up already,… 2021-04-20 05:42:12 RT @NovulakuvaliweL: ...we built the first two shelves for our community library ...this one was donated by sis' Nomalizo Mguye for R8… 2021-04-19 20:49:41 @KreutzerJulia https://t.co/okva0WD5Zm 2021-04-19 20:47:19 RT @KreutzerJulia: Inclusivity and quality are not trade-offs. Quality metrics built on exclusion brought us there. https://t.co/fHiheg… 2021-04-19 20:47:08 RT @hadyelsahar: Wrong! Exclusivity is not a synonym of Quality. Inclusive open communities = more hands working on the same problem, f… 2021-04-19 20:45:48 RT @IfeAdebara: It was great to be @ #AfricaNLP @ #EACL 2021. https://t.co/usa4QX68qA https://t.co/O3P5VcPJAw A big thank you to all the… 2021-04-19 17:25:51 Drinking a glass of Amarula after the amazing 2nd #AfricaNLP with the lovely @Onyothi @hadyelsahar @KreutzerJulia @Kelechukwu_ @m_0_a wearing my @bantucontinua shirt https://t.co/3sRlKeCnac 2021-04-19 16:20:31 RT @hadyelsahar: #AfricaNLP2021 Best Paper Awards "MasakhaNER - Named Entity Recognition for African Languages" #EACL2021 https://t.c… 2021-04-19 16:19:41 RT @davlanade: Thank you. Best Paper award #AfricaNLP2021 goes to MasakhaNER @MasakhaneNLP Paper: https://t.co/HQK1zMEqEI A big thank yo… 2021-04-19 15:45:47 RT @Shreyagupta08: - had the most fun break with @alienelf and @roxisound https://t.co/C2YYgiKXVY 2021-04-19 14:21:42 RT @hadyelsahar: One more talk! @kolatubosun talking Problems and Opportunities for Linguistics in African Literature in Translation. #A… 2021-04-19 13:54:19 RT @hadyelsahar: Now for some activism! with @sabelonow is talking to us about decolonization & #AfricaNLP2021 #EACL2021 h… 2021-04-19 13:39:56 So excited to have our brother @sabelonow at #AfricaNLP2021 @eaclmeeting driving a conversation on Decoloniality and Ethics in NLP "The technology we build today will be shaped by anti-blackness" https://t.co/MsQV2SqyMJ 2021-04-19 13:32:31 Thank you @roxisound 2021-04-19 13:32:22 RT @NanaYaaSally: The very best thing today...she's so amazingggggggggg https://t.co/zxhQUW4Qng 2021-04-19 13:20:19 RT @ConstantineLig: This was unquestionably the most fun break in the history of ACL conferences/workshops! https://t.co/qyyz4WG9iq 2021-04-19 13:14:24 I bribed my sister to come play at the #AfricaNLP2021 workshop! https://t.co/UJonWEWeJm 2021-04-19 11:15:54 RT @hadyelsahar: #AfricaNLP2021 Poster Session Language Modeling, Machine Translation, ASR, Dialogue and NER tagging for Yoruba, Bemba, T… 2021-04-19 10:34:02 RT @perayson: To start the @eaclmeeting week, today I'm watching hashtags #AfricaNLP and #AfricaNLP2021 for live tweeting of the 2nd Africa… 2021-04-19 10:33:34 RT @hadyelsahar: @sarahookr Compression disproportionately affect underrepresented features. I.e. Model compression amplify error rates in… 2021-04-19 10:31:59 RT @vinayprabhu: (1/n) Our paper "Did they direct the violence or admonish it? A cautionary tale on contronomy, androcentrism and back-tran… 2021-04-19 05:35:00 Today is the day of the 2nd AfricaNLP workshop at #EACL2021 Our magnificent line-up: https://t.co/k63ihY6rJ1 Featuring live music from @roxisound & Vids of accepted papers: https://t.co/iMr71PhCiv Join us! 2021-04-19 05:26:26 RT @oscarsibabalwe: That exact building in this picture is the two-storey African Studies Library, which contains some precious archives of… 2021-04-18 17:04:26 RT @vukosi: A bit of a sneak peak as finalise the launch of the translation service based off the @MasakhaneNLP project. Access the beta he… 2021-04-18 10:33:18 @ZikodeSiphiwe @vukosi @MasakhaneNLP @SalomonKabongo Laura co-founded @MasakhaneNLP 2021-04-17 03:46:36 RT @thegautamkamath: The matrix A is invertible if and only if... https://t.co/EjfFghqb1c 2021-04-16 15:45:55 RT @OktemAlp: For AfricaNLP workshop, I’ll be presenting @TranslatorsWB’s latest work on building machine translation for the Congolese dia… 2021-04-16 15:45:32 RT @Onyothi: "Within languages lie entire worldviews. And the worldviews that are most in danger of extinction could help show the way out… 2021-04-16 15:44:53 RT @Onyothi: Usually around this season, I still wish to spot gentle giants dancing under our Marula tree from one too many marula Ho… 2021-04-16 15:44:27 RT @TartanLlama: "Just get rid of all distractions so you can focus", buddy, I am the distractions 2021-04-16 15:43:52 @forealiously It's always insufferable 2021-04-16 10:43:24 RT @indica: I read the @mailandguardian, which talks a lot about corruption in South Africa. This is actually a sign of health. I worry muc… 2021-04-16 10:42:48 There are so many good things happening that my face is always wet with tears these days 2021-04-16 08:33:04 Congratulations @ChrisEmezue Well deserved and so excited for you! https://t.co/0ixOnv9dq7 2021-04-16 04:51:39 My laptop does not respond to food https://t.co/NdvXk9o8RQ 2021-04-15 12:40:30 RT @pypmannetjies: Fuck printers https://t.co/6dC3YCpYrP 2021-04-15 12:40:04 RT @Onyothi: " It's about 'we' working together as one." Congratulations to the @MasakhaneNLP Family Diphororo - Waterfalls of te… 2021-04-15 07:40:36 RT @KreutzerJulia: @MasakhaneNLP composed a playlist of the #AfricaNLP2021 paper presentations: https://t.co/XU8n6kZFKT - they'll all be… 2021-04-15 07:40:30 RT @MasakhaneNLP: This work is more than a paper. It's a statement for what we stand for & And so we're h… 2021-04-14 19:51:14 There is nothing more fulfilling in my life than @MasakhaneNLP 2021-04-14 19:14:03 RT @hadyelsahar: Read the paper here: https://t.co/0v87skWlRE Join Masakhane: https://t.co/hkkdmStbo1 Our next AfricaNLP workshop @eaclme… 2021-04-14 19:13:30 RT @hadyelsahar: This is HUGE !! our @MasakhaneNLP paper "Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation" Has been awa… 2021-04-14 13:14:49 Just installed the SynthWave vscode theme while blasting a Pertubator album, because that's the sort of day I am having https://t.co/ob1ZKHMaFj 2021-04-14 12:41:54 RT @vukosi: We will now start collecting vaccination numbers. If you would like to help to backfill (get prior vaccination numbers with d… 2021-04-14 12:41:41 RT @vboykis: I love this explanation of how humans make decisions a whole lot. https://t.co/gKwkJXQBCn https://t.co/jhzF3FYHdw 2021-04-14 11:20:55 RT @tejuafonja: Aww @LeboMadise just gave a shout out to me on #GTC2021 Thank you 2021-04-14 11:02:45 @gremblexyz Which info sci did she do? BIS Multimedia there should be lots of roles. I sadly don't know any other entry level BIS roles... But that's because the world is wrong 2021-04-14 10:06:44 All enterprises should hire librarians to do their data governance. For real. Please hire dedicated Information Science folk to maintain your data catalogue https://t.co/p8m5zmFXCO 2021-04-14 10:04:56 I'm actually deceased Thank you @ashtonshudson, I needed that https://t.co/QRH5zI3IYo https://t.co/RDXz67s2ev 2021-04-14 10:02:24 RT @ashtonshudson: @alienelf Oh lawd, don't get me started. The best part of all of this, is enterprises look at their steaming pile of k… 2021-04-14 09:38:57 I laugh/cry at how enterprises don't even know what the columns in their data warehouses means, and now they've migrated to a data lake and they somehow think this flat file storage will solve their problems 2021-04-14 08:55:56 RT @swardley: X : You're not a fan of Kubernetes? Me : Build your own Kubernetes in a time of serverless? No. Managed Kubernetes as a servi… 2021-04-14 08:55:47 RT @swardley: Me : one type of inertia is political capital and it's connected to personal power. X : ... and Kubernetes? Me : Many a CIO w… 2021-04-14 08:55:43 RT @swardley: Me : A trillion dollars has probably been spent building "private clouds" ... that's a lot of political capital wasted on st… 2021-04-14 08:12:22 RT @IndoniDevs: Please join us for our next meet up coming up tomorrow on the 15th of April 2021. We have a special guest Tebogo Mokwena wh… 2021-04-14 08:05:58 This is true! The internet was a very different place back then https://t.co/mwKQgOcCjw 2021-04-14 07:32:14 I also think playing in a band and doing dance, instead of doing sports, depressed the focus on competition, and increased the focus on collaboration 2021-04-14 07:29:07 RT @alienelf: I also didn't play team sport (I was bad at it & 2021-04-14 07:28:55 In fact, playing in a band helped my career more than I think any toxic sport team would have. I learnt the art of entertainment which has helped my public speaking 2021-04-14 07:25:44 I also didn't play team sport (I was bad at it & Grateful that @Dad_a_bot and @LiquiSue didn't care, & 2021-04-14 07:20:25 Likewise! I'd play on my PC into the night- exploring the web, playing games, editing the registry 20 years later: I have an MSc in CS, lead ML teams & Make of this what you will #correlation https://t.co/r9KTip2Ovd 2021-04-14 06:00:30 @PrakamyaMishra That is actually a very very interesting definition 2021-04-14 05:59:53 @nischalhp That's the exact question I'm posing :) How are YOU defining "functioning correctly"? 2021-04-13 19:51:55 @terrible_coder I would say it only "functions" at inference :) 2021-04-13 19:01:58 When would you say a contextual word embedding model is "functioning correctly"? 2021-04-13 18:54:12 RT @_KarenHao: After spending a few years cutting through Big Tech's B.S. about AI ethics, I've created a glossary to help you decode what… 2021-04-13 18:53:01 RT @Abebab: once again, I have eugenicist and racist evolutionary psychologists with over 50k followers sending their army of trolls at me.… 2021-04-13 14:49:18 RT @sarahookr: Moving beyond "algorithmic bias is a data problem" An extended perspective piece in @Patterns_CP How do our model design… 2021-04-13 14:03:32 RT @DivineOps: I don't want to have any distractions, but also, I do 2021-04-13 13:33:05 RT @BBCAfrica: Burkina Faso's exiled ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara,… 2021-04-13 13:26:55 @SalomonKabongo @MarcelloTunasi Congratulations 2021-04-13 12:39:03 RT @DigiAfricanLang: This week I will be sharing a bit about Shona and its current context online and offline. The current state of represe… 2021-04-13 12:35:50 @PGabbyPrecious So why a Ghana and not a Nigerian office? 2021-04-13 10:33:48 Anyone else notice they feel braver and more assertive when they're PMSing? I do. In fact, I believe society has been dismissing women's experience of bravery and assertiveness during PMS as "irrational" or "overly emotional" i.e. "ignore her. It's that time of the month" 2021-04-13 08:45:56 How I imagine the conversation went: @jack : "We need an African presence. I propose Nigeria, due to how large our Nigerian user base is" Board: Nigeria is too unstable. We should open Ghana because Google has an office their too. 2021-04-13 08:43:22 I suspect they want the office in Ghana as it seems more "politically & I don't like this one bit https://t.co/I1LZViX1Iz 2021-04-13 04:44:00 RT @AriTheDarkskin: the "slutshamewalk'21" - a thread of moments captured by me. https://t.co/qdJFDemxZ7 2021-04-13 04:36:49 RT @Abebab: "Just as he did following the rollout of the WHO’s C-TAP, Gates has chosen to stand with the drug companies and their governmen… 2021-04-13 04:35:32 RT @ZeerakW: Literally https://t.co/UCbA1f39u2 https://t.co/EFDla1mhnG 2021-04-13 04:33:32 RT @bonadossou: 1/ We (@ChrisEmezue and I) are delighted to officially introduce you, the FFRTranslate: the first Neural Machine Translatio… 2021-04-13 04:32:19 RT @vukosi: Huge < 2021-04-13 04:31:36 RT @KreutzerJulia: Looking forward to the discussion thanks for the invitation! https://t.co/DPhIF0gGBJ 2021-04-13 04:27:57 RT @timnitGebru: Corporate DEI departments should be abolished. They are very harmful. At google they report up through HR & 2021-04-12 20:44:07 RT @Iwillleavenow: I am just sending this image to people from now on when they ask me about NFTs. https://t.co/xhOa15W4mD 2021-04-12 20:42:15 RT @alexhanna: A fascinating, subtler point here: AI-colorization is probably coloring historical images using a Western and/or modernist l… 2021-04-12 08:32:36 The "Transformation" indicator is pure ungrounded science-fiction https://t.co/Ewec1RE7DO 2021-04-12 08:26:56 I think I'm going to put together a talk solely about how this stupid maturity model has encouraged widespread data science anti-patterns in multiple enterprises 2021-04-12 08:23:31 Busy reading the Gartner AI Maturity Model report. No wonder all enterprise AI-adoption is a TOTAL TRASHFIRE & Who wrote this has never tried to actually worked anyone trying to implement AI in their organization 2021-04-12 08:04:42 RT @cipesaug: Don't miss out on these strategic roundtable discussions on the relationship between the #internet & 2021-04-12 07:40:53 How can @davlanade be so efficient AND reply to his emails immediately? Dude, tell us your secrets! 2021-04-12 07:36:09 RT @WiMLDS_Dakar: We are Glad to announce our second event,"Natural Language processing dataset for Africa: Availability , collection and c… 2021-04-11 12:31:21 RT @shakir_za: Took this last week off to rest and disconnect. Spent lots of my week reading these great books Not sure how i'll face my… 2021-04-11 08:29:47 RT @CoreyMiles__: Universities responded to critiques of having no diversity on panels by putting one POC on a panel to fend for their self… 2021-04-11 08:25:31 RT @j_lanier: The plot thickens... https://t.co/noGnKTBlIi 2021-04-11 08:25:19 RT @AstroKatie: SCIENCE: Exercising is good for you, you should do more of that ME: That seems like a lot of effort SCIENCE: … ME: Isn’t th… 2021-04-10 06:47:57 @mmitchell_ai What counts as "massive breakthrough"? Because even the definition of what that is is defined by hegemony 2021-04-10 06:45:58 RT @timnitGebru: Correct. Jeff Dean & 2021-04-10 06:42:55 RT @niloufar_s: If you are a Computer Scientist who's mad at the ACM right now, can I suggest channeling some of that energy to waiving app… 2021-04-09 21:24:18 RT @mmitchell_ai: Fwiw @ journalists: I worked hard for years to motivate and create the Ethical AI team and the ML Fairness focus at Googl… 2021-04-09 16:25:35 RT @vukosi: The livestream is available here https://t.co/l0h2gi31Gr https://t.co/L64aYCvz5v 2021-04-09 16:25:27 RT @vboykis: Being vaccinated doesn't mean you can stop writing unit tests 2021-04-09 11:18:49 RT @nunuska: I have heard from previous presenters how wonderful it is to be in conversation with this seminar attendees. I am really looki… 2021-04-09 10:43:07 RT @MelMitchell1: "Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions" https://t.co/sAMwcHzXWB 2021-04-09 06:47:18 RT @TartanLlama: I am a: man woman compiler Looking for a: man woman '}' on line 69 2021-04-09 05:53:47 RT @ctrlshifti: during the last year, it's okay if you: - didn't learn any new hobbies - got burned out at work - let some of your friendsh… 2021-04-08 17:57:36 RT @bagder: This week's best email. I don't think I can add anything else to that. https://t.co/UIfgtZFfsz 2021-04-08 17:52:53 RT @niloufar_s: @TheOfficialACM So you knew about the "statements" (it's on his Wikipedia page) but JUST learned that some people have conc… 2021-04-08 17:52:29 RT @L_badikho: @TheOfficialACM @JeffDean Perfectly fine. Just remove the "code of conduct" and the hypocrite political correctness ACM does… 2021-04-08 17:50:26 RT @mayhewsw: Just because you’re vaccinated does NOT mean you don’t have to sanitize your data before training. I can’t believe I have to… 2021-04-08 17:49:38 RT @emilymbender: 3. Keep in mind no one "has to" get any award. "Dr. XYZ is renowned for their work on (whatevs) but did far too much dama… 2021-04-08 17:49:03 RT @emilymbender: Third, it's worth grounding any discussion in what the purpose of the award is. /11 2021-04-08 17:48:52 RT @emilymbender: Someone who has systematically made the field hostile to a whole group of people has thereby harmed the advancement of th… 2021-04-08 10:49:15 RT @swardley: X : You don't like bitcoin? Me : It's evil. X : Why? Me : Embedding and accelerating inequality permanently into society whi… 2021-04-08 08:49:55 Likewise, with this one: "I will briefly summarize the plot of Back to the Future II for you" 2021-04-08 08:47:38 "You're looking good today. Want snacks?" GPT-3 just successfully picked me up https://t.co/hoVffjjDdt 2021-04-08 08:30:47 RT @vukosi: @alienelf Thanks for the shout out. We use both Data Cards and model/data cards more widely in the research group now with requ… 2021-04-08 06:49:03 ML conferences should require one to submit a data statement/sheet for new datasets and model cards for new models How is this not the norm yet? @vukosi requires that his students submit them for their projects. More of this please! 2021-04-08 03:56:19 RT @ArneKoehn: My favorite #NLProc track: Resources& - interesting, diverse papers to review - great discussions with co-revie… 2021-04-08 03:48:35 RT @TheWrongtom: Seeing as everyone's banging on about Alien, let's take a moment to remember Bolaji Badejo, the 6'10" graphic design stude… 2021-04-08 03:48:00 RT @adjiboussodieng: I just wanted to say that Samy Bengio is one of the best researchers/leaders in ML/AI who happens to be extremely kind… 2021-04-08 03:39:08 RT @Abebab: the irony is lost https://t.co/tmjN4uUdeZ 2021-04-08 03:39:07 RT @alicegoldfuss: computers kicked my butt today, absolute massacre 2021-04-08 03:38:01 RT @emilymbender: I am both heartened and saddened to see these developments wrt to Google: 2021-04-08 03:37:17 RT @tejuafonja: Recently (officially) concluded this project but so very excited for the bigger picture and hope to share it with the broad… 2021-04-08 03:36:26 And led by Queen @siminyu_kat ! https://t.co/XwAWgyWQwT 2021-04-07 15:25:15 RT @Abebab: you think you've heard it all but no... https://t.co/HYmZp4tweO 2021-04-07 12:40:28 RT @AI4Dev: ANNOUNCING THE FIRST GROUP OF GRANT RECIPIENTS This week's newsletter shares a breakdown of some of the first grant recipient… 2021-04-07 12:27:33 RT @ReviewAcl: Would you like to be a reviewer for ARR? Our reviewer invitation survey is here: https://t.co/p4gJKQhV0I 2021-04-07 12:06:11 RT @o_guest: Can you ever have too much pink? https://t.co/gfuGq6nZhs 2021-04-07 08:57:39 RT @hadyelsahar: Recent #NLProc systems have become really impressive! However their encoded biases could yield harmful and unjust behavi… 2021-04-07 04:12:21 RT @timnitGebru: This news of Samy’s resignation just reminds me of how easy it is to destroy something & 2021-04-07 04:12:03 RT @ConstantineLig: Thanks for tweeting about this! Our code and data are coming soon (before the AfricaNLP Workshop at EACL). As we say in… 2021-04-06 20:13:13 Context (not that it'll help much): @Chris_Fourie_SA and I are discussing whether human processes are a form of computation. 2021-04-06 19:57:17 Is human society Turing Complete? 2021-04-06 19:43:06 RT @josheidelson: Scoop w/ @NicoAGrant & 2021-04-06 13:34:48 RT @ignatiusmabasa: My PhD thesis is now available on the Rhodes University repository at the following address: https://t.co/3jLhXB9mzk. P… 2021-04-05 15:48:04 RT @sabelonow: Zoom Link: https://t.co/84P6n2Aa0x Starts today 12pm EST! https://t.co/Fchq4Q3GmN 2021-04-05 15:48:00 RT @atg_abhishek: Offering my time and experience to those interested in discussing real, on-the-ground challenges in our work in #aiethics… 2021-04-05 08:19:02 @bluebiscotti Can she not? 2021-04-05 04:40:08 RT @mmitchell_ai: Some days are better than other days processing what our former employer did to me and @timnitGebru. Today, I am seething… 2021-04-05 04:38:01 RT @CatSwetel: We in the tech space are well positioned to disrupt the acceleration that is degrading our social fabric and destroying our… 2021-04-05 04:37:21 RT @vukosi: Closing date, Mid May 2021. A program close to my heart, I was a Fulbright Science and Technology Fellow during my PhD @Rutge… 2021-04-04 15:41:18 RT @Abebab: "aligning AI with human values" often amounts to "aligning AI with the values of the status quo" (certainly not with the values… 2021-04-04 08:46:44 RT @kibblesmith: Guys. The vaccine funded by Dolly Parton is working ninety-five. As a way to keep us living. https://t.co/dbscKENsnO 2021-04-04 05:52:07 RT @IanColdwater: vi/vim it is then https://t.co/D0O2qnocTc 2021-04-03 16:14:16 RT @daanvanesch: Thinking about how much of a pleasure it has been to read/review great submissions to the #AfricaNLP workshop, the @Americ… 2021-04-02 09:39:38 RT @LitMoose: Oh, you thought we were done here? https://t.co/gsjHwIZ7hx 2021-04-02 09:38:31 @mbalimcdust Let's start one https://t.co/aQhy4OEr3c 2021-04-02 09:36:31 RT @ShitUserStory: As a... – user I want to... – prove that I am a human So that... – I can continue https://t.co/eX9CTsENb6 2021-04-02 09:33:11 @mbalimcdust I genuinely would love you to start a political party. Then I'd have someone to vote for 2021-04-02 09:04:17 RT @hadyelsahar: When you spend a week writing some regex. https://t.co/zgfDAJcTPB 2021-04-02 05:25:03 RT @gneubig: The Association for Computational Heresy is presenting #SIGBOVIK2021 NOW online https://t.co/xvfRgIRbXl With a proceedings li… 2021-04-01 18:01:42 April Fools? https://t.co/EFbwzmulhj 2021-04-01 14:00:32 RT @WangariMaathai: Today, Professor Wangari Maathai would be turning 81 years old. Happy 81st birthday Wangari Maathai.This marks the end… 2021-04-01 13:59:49 RT @StackOverflow: The reviews are in. The Key is flawless. #GreatArtistsCopy #TheKey https://t.co/SIoaHWK4aK 2021-04-01 10:54:58 @StuartReid1929 Why async? 2021-04-01 08:47:08 RT @GhanaNLP: A year after our group was formed with the goal of increasing research into NLP for Ghanaian languages, we are happy to be pr… 2021-03-31 14:46:50 RT @voxdotcom: Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9), author of Race After Technology, explains why AI often fails people of color: "It’s a systemic iss… 2021-03-31 14:15:38 RT @black_in_ai: We are excited to announce the launch of the BlackAIR Summer Research Grant Program providing support for AI Research pro… 2021-03-30 13:29:52 RT @TartanLlama: I can't anymore https://t.co/Ql0GYUkNAg 2021-03-30 07:52:48 RT @jasonbaldridge: Put aside the standardly analyzed languages and datasets for a while and try these out! https://t.co/wYPzInQUQY 2021-03-30 04:38:37 RT @IanColdwater: Anything this FSF statement says about condemning bigotry is immediately negated by the clause immediately following it,… 2021-03-30 04:38:33 RT @IanColdwater: This is bad and the FSF should feel bad. But they don't, and they won't, and they're telling you they don't intend to. h… 2021-03-30 04:37:14 RT @shanselman: Reproducing a bug locally. https://t.co/RmcfPaQUrb 2021-03-29 18:29:55 RT @Nnedi: We need new stories. 2021-03-29 14:48:37 Was driving through Sandton-neighbourhood this weekend looking at empty bike lanes wondering what the fuck the DA thought they were going to achieve by spending tax payer money on that instead of housing 2021-03-29 13:39:33 Excited to be paneling at the @ircai_unesco launch about African grassroots AI communities with @jadalawa @BenjaminRosman @Akinsande1 in moments, hosted by @Melissahei ! https://t.co/7FS7z40aq1 2021-03-29 10:52:31 @alex_conneau Hey @seyyaw and @surafelml - do y'all know? 2021-03-29 07:03:34 RT @MattDoogue: Cuttlefish = not fish Starfish = not fish Jellyfish = not fish Silverfish = not fish Shellfish = not fish Seahorse = fish 2021-03-28 12:44:01 RT @dinoman_j: https://t.co/px1Apzk7T5 2021-03-27 07:12:03 App idea: Tinder, except solely to find people nearby who want to go have brunch 2021-03-26 23:25:18 RT @mmitchell_ai: "...authors should be rewarded, rather than punished, for being up front about the limitations and potential negative soc… 2021-03-26 10:19:38 RT @Q3w3e3: if I were a traveling salesman I would simply not have problems 2021-03-26 08:37:34 @abdallah197_ Y'all think I'm joking https://t.co/qVix18YdWS 2021-03-26 07:09:29 RT @Kirstmath: This basically sums up the huge global inequalities in access to #COVID19 vaccines. We need urgent action (not empty words)… 2021-03-26 07:04:25 I'm awaiting the movie. Imagine. Captain standing on the deck shouting "Go around" "What, via the fucking Cape of Good Hope?" I'm actually deceased. I'm gonna have to take the day off because I'm dying of laughter https://t.co/2U0ipCtJAs 2021-03-26 06:36:42 @_______Francois I'm deceased 2021-03-26 06:09:44 RT @nameshiv: "Hello Amazon where is my game I ordered express 24 hour delivery" "It's wIth the rest of the world economy, dying on a ship… 2021-03-25 21:23:12 Where'd these ship memes come from? 2021-03-25 21:20:53 RT @bonadossou: Tomorrow, 2pm EST, I and @davlanade will be giving talks for @MasakhaneNLP at @LTIatCMU. You all invited to join https:/… 2021-03-25 16:52:07 RT @diversekhaulat: This Fridays' DiverseK LIVE is with Ravi Rajani, a professional speaking coach, and we'll be talking about how to speak… 2021-03-25 14:56:28 RT @hadyelsahar: @gneubig 3/ Ease the donation infrastructure, we still operate with purchase order and invoices. Many people are willing t… 2021-03-25 14:56:22 RT @hadyelsahar: @gneubig Thanks, Graham for the support! here are some suggestions & Affinity groups have good capa… 2021-03-25 12:59:02 @gneubig @hadyelsahar @FAccTConference So @FAccTConference used the @TheOfficialACM 's list: https://t.co/OJkE4j6qVj 2021-03-25 12:56:36 RT @balazskegl: I feel angry that it is so hard to publish machine learning contributions on small data. Most problems are not images and N… 2021-03-25 12:53:19 @gneubig @hadyelsahar The @FAccTConference conference did **HEAVILY** discounted fees for individuals from developing nations and I think this should be the standard for virtual conferences going forward 2021-03-25 12:51:46 @gneubig @hadyelsahar My challenge: Online conferences scale differently to in-person ones. i.e. the cost of an extra person is FAR less. In our case, attendees would not be able to attend WITHOUT discounts. The options: DONT have them participate AT ALL OR have them participate at a lower cost 2021-03-25 12:34:47 RT @hadyelsahar: How sanctions affect science. "The organizers had been told they risked violating sanctions set by the US Office of Forei… 2021-03-25 11:53:44 What problem are you trying to solve? 2021-03-25 09:11:13 RT @kefimochi: Speaking poorly of your former employers is impolite? You know what else is impolite? Having a toxic culture that leaves yo… 2021-03-24 16:03:52 @fmrwhy @openmrbenelux @RemiGau @Felienne @AdoraNwodo @yoyehudi @patrickmineault Thanks for having us 2021-03-24 16:03:24 And yet still no decent moderation tools? I hate it. https://t.co/ThUUexEPbD 2021-03-24 16:00:43 RT @IanColdwater: this is a good reminder that Slack is not private, admins can read your DMs, and you don't have the right to unionize on… 2021-03-24 15:56:15 RT @KreutzerJulia: @ani_nenkova @hadyelsahar @SeeTedTalk That would be nice but it's 1) not the reality, and 2) not a systematic solution,… 2021-03-24 15:11:50 @AdoraNwodo 2021-03-24 15:07:41 RT @openmrbenelux: Sooooo, another format again (YES!!) to end day 1 of #OpenMR2021 -- a panel discussion on what constitutes clean, scient… 2021-03-24 14:59:53 So priveleged to be paneling with @AdoraNwodo @yoyehudi @patrickmineault & @Felienne advocating for comments that explains *Why is this code the way it is* #wisdom 2021-03-24 14:15:04 DE& This is especially ridiculous when we are VIRTUAL. You want DE& 2021-03-24 14:11:19 RT @hadyelsahar: @ani_nenkova @SeeTedTalk They waive some, but now D& 2021-03-24 14:10:26 RT @hadyelsahar: A student in Africa who wishes to start a career in Research does their best, self-learn, submit to a workshop, get accept… 2021-03-24 08:23:44 When @davlanade finishes his PhD, y'all gonna be scrambling to hire this human. 2021-03-23 13:39:00 RT @huggingface: @MasakhaneNLP keeps doing such amazing work and being an example of how to build NLP resources with and for your community… 2021-03-23 13:24:03 RT @aussiastronomer: TODO - Make TODO list - Panic over TODO list - Scroll Twitter instead Success! 2021-03-23 13:23:28 RT @DrSyedMustafaA1: "A disinvestment in whiteness would entail disinvesting in AI and its epistemic forgeries, as well as the expert indus… 2021-03-23 12:41:14 @old_sound @jacoporomei Thank you! :D 2021-03-22 13:41:11 RT @linnetelwin: reading the excellent 'Data sharing in Africa' paper from @FAccTConference by @red_abebe @arulebak @Abebab @Geobaido et… 2021-03-22 13:40:36 RT @tamati_biskit: A lot of effort and well done for that. But I am very much looking forward to the day when language models do not requ… 2021-03-22 13:39:54 RT @ShitUserStory: As an... – article reader I want to... – have news articles split across multiple pages So that... – I have more opportu… 2021-03-22 13:37:13 @IanColdwater "Look it up baby, it has my name on it" has inspired me regularly. On days when I'm feeling impostery or unconfident, I channel the energy of that tweet and it helps me through it 2021-03-21 15:14:23 RT @d_feldman: If you've ever installed a program using "curl XYZ | sh" don't worry about what's in the vaccine 2021-03-21 15:12:06 RT @PicardTips: Picard management tip: A visit to a less pleasant organization can remind you how much you value your current job. https://… 2021-03-21 15:11:28 RT @ChloeCondon: Returning to my weekend side project like https://t.co/2sAdMQcXAz 2021-03-21 14:36:16 RT @shakir_za: Its the day of the UK #Census2021. It’s important for us to collect ethnicity data. But the ordering of ethnicity categories… 2021-03-21 14:35:18 RT @adjiboussodieng: Let’s call this the “simplicity tax.” It’s huge in ML/AI right now. https://t.co/sOnKVN1JN0 2021-03-21 12:26:17 RT @histoftech: My Women in Computing History class students are improving some history of computing pages this week. And so many of their… 2021-03-21 12:24:02 RT @vboykis: I love how the LinkedIn crowd is like, “Get fifteen hours of sleep, create space for your meditation. Truly focus on your succ… 2021-03-20 20:20:59 RT @hadyelsahar: @stjaco We have ∀ in @MasakhaneNLP ! https://t.co/4uECMKgUdL 2021-03-20 20:20:13 RT @luke_stark: Last week I found out I'd been selected for a Google Research Scholar award. Today I declined it. https://t.co/7LDmGKlwy8 2021-03-20 20:20:00 RT @laurieontech: It’s pretty damning that most programmers I talk to say they’re bad at tech interviews. These are people I’ve seen code… 2021-03-20 20:18:38 RT @Abebab: A "global perspective" yet heavily dominated by the US & A "global event" yet no Africans on sight *sigh* either g… 2021-03-20 06:02:05 RT @ZeerakW: DE& 2021-03-19 14:27:43 RT @andre_niyongabo: It seems gender bias is still real in MT systems and applications for African morphologically rich low-resource langua… 2021-03-19 13:55:54 Feeling extra "fuck you" to D& D& Don't @ me 2021-03-19 09:37:33 RT @Onyothi: "Poverty should not mean you can't get an education" - @FabAcademic https://t.co/lNaLpxfnxL 2021-03-19 05:29:19 Still super impressed how @FAccTConference had **heavily** discounted rates for individuals from developing countries. This is key for D& 2021-03-19 05:18:08 RT @Abebab: African research cannot rely on funding structures that are fundamentally colonialist that just yank away funding on a whim lea… 2021-03-19 05:17:48 RT @nkquakyi: When you see foreign missions celebrating "global solidarity" in the delivery of #COVID19 vaccines for < 2021-03-19 04:57:26 RT @jathansadowski: H& 2021-03-18 13:20:43 @2ayasalama @tamati_biskit The comfortable chair of hegemony! 2021-03-18 10:52:37 "We can't keep centering the people for whom the chair is comfortable for" ~ @tamati_biskit https://t.co/vF6xt9Tw6X 2021-03-18 10:18:57 "Metrics are proxies to unmeasurable things" ~ @tamati_biskit https://t.co/p0iEs3OW1e 2021-03-18 10:16:25 Queen @tamati_biskit talking " The importance of AI Ethics: Machines *aren't* out to get us" "Who is really out to get us?" "It is us, the machine creators who are at fault" https://t.co/TmGbxiwq2s https://t.co/ctEej3PoxG 2021-03-18 10:13:29 RT @finchatbot: Join us for an insightful talk on AI #ethics with @tamati_biskit. Click here to book your spot: https://t.co/0TR6H4jEZe … 2021-03-18 08:44:21 RT @plzchair: As a data scientist, I can confidently say that we have gone too far and AI needs to be stopped ASAP https:/… 2021-03-18 07:52:07 DED https://t.co/dfBDYo2Lpz 2021-03-18 06:35:07 RT @timnitGebru: This is one of the many reasons I appreciate my family + long time friends. They do not give a damn what I do, what my tit… 2021-03-17 12:41:13 RT @Onyothi: Thank you @lebomashile for that lovely introduction today. #futuresandbeyond @AndaniAfrica https://t.co/ibEGuxbODe 2021-03-17 12:17:18 RT @Lauren9Dudley: Do we want to talk about the contraceptive pill having a higher potential blood clot rate than the AstraZeneca vaccine?… 2021-03-17 11:13:35 "Without the involvement of [African] creatives, #4IR will erase our culture" @Onyothi 2021-03-17 10:58:02 "My name is a representation of my culture. My name is data" @Onyothi at @AndaniAfrica https://t.co/OoytjBnPU7 2021-03-17 10:46:09 Absolutely loved @ChaoTayiana's talk on "Visualizing suppressed histories" at @AndaniAfrica today "Digital work should be participatory and community oriented" 2021-03-17 10:41:37 RT @laurent_besacie: An informal collab. during 2020 African Master of Machine Intelligence (AMMI) lead to this paper on ASR for Wolof, Ga,… 2021-03-17 10:02:08 RT @LamontLilly: capitalism will even sell you the revolution 2021-03-17 07:43:19 RT @Abebab: Last Wednesday, on the 10th of March-2021, @vinayprabhu & 2021-03-17 07:34:59 RT @Onyothi: Title: Culture in Data Nerves are on excitement on looking forward to today. to the amazing women who saw this through,… 2021-03-17 07:14:52 So excited to watch @Onyothi and @sabelonow 's talks today! @Onyothi is talking about "Culture in Data" @sabelonow is talking on "Ubuntu Ethics for AI" https://t.co/pbN8zJkPqM 2021-03-17 05:58:39 RT @NLucky_Nkosi: @txm1971 To answer your question: yes, absolutely. Engineering schools have barely evolved. They have archaic methods and… 2021-03-17 04:07:59 RT @deltanalytics: Interested in partnering with Delta Analytics to help bring ML content to your country? T-4 days until applicatio… 2021-03-16 14:56:22 RT @mmarkini: TypeScript is a lie! 2021-03-16 08:38:07 My nightmares don't need more fuel. https://t.co/5P3SWI0nVs 2021-03-16 04:34:51 RT @bonadossou: Okwugbé, first ASR initiative for Fon and Igbo is now available. Such a nice work with @ChrisEmezue. We open-source codes… 2021-03-15 19:21:04 RT @OdedRechavi: The abstract is limited to 150 words https://t.co/xrnBTFU6VJ 2021-03-15 19:18:16 RT @mmitchell_ai: @timnitGebru It's a good thing Jeff has never broken any code of conduct nor security policy, or else this statement woul… 2021-03-15 18:33:59 RT @vukosi: Feel so seen https://t.co/eNHpGdsjjF 2021-03-15 17:05:50 RT @iclr_conf: It’s time for a big drum-roll … today we are announcing our invited speakers for #ICLR2021! Read about our amazing speake… 2021-03-15 17:05:00 RT @mathbabedotorg: Amazing article today with Timnit, Meg, and Deb prominently featured! https://t.co/V2J9WzOYnx @rajiinio 2021-03-15 17:03:51 RT @ZeerakW: Okay, I really can’t think of what paper this was. Anyone in the abuse detection/content moderation crowd know what paper I re… 2021-03-15 17:00:16 RT @coqui_ai: Hi, we're Coqui :) Open speech tech is our mission Join the community Use the tech Share the power Leave a… 2021-03-15 13:47:48 RT @BantuLanguages: How do you say 1000 in your Bantu language? 2021-03-15 13:41:27 RT @mayhewsw: is this.... recursion? https://t.co/jMdXizCXOD 2021-03-15 07:23:53 RT @DeepIndaba: The call for hosts for IndabaX is now open! Our last edition included 27 countries across our continent. Send us your propo… 2021-03-15 06:58:41 RT @pypmannetjies: Why was school so traumatic that I still have this dream 14 years later? https://t.co/h1k2orLdIS 2021-03-13 06:33:29 RT @YinkaWrites: Rest of World is hiring our first full time Africa reporter. You: A sharp, digitally savvy reporter obsessed with the im… 2021-03-13 06:28:47 RT @Thinkwert: Every raccoon is either planning a heist or in the middle of a heist. https://t.co/g858cdKKGm 2021-03-13 06:24:56 RT @VikSoho: Twitter is apartheid live. Endless tweets of folks in the west getting vaccinated while their countries have rejected, again,… 2021-03-13 06:23:33 RT @RikerGoogling: why were so many 21st century babies named vaccine 2021-03-12 17:20:33 RT @swardley: What's your Meyers Briggs personality type? I'm Sagittarius. 2021-03-12 04:30:00 RT @AishatuGwadabe: My latest #AI #Art pieces called "African Epistemology" (2021) depicting #Black consciousness #bwiai #BlackinAI #BlackT… 2021-03-11 21:27:38 @vukosi @paulyberk Would absolutely pay for this service 2021-03-11 20:14:16 @ZeerakW You know, I'm not sure I am... 2021-03-11 18:43:33 Busy challenging myself to try write a Data Statement for the Common Crawl Here be dragons... (and parrots ) 2021-03-11 16:36:38 RT @CatSwetel: *Man writes a book.* Cfp reviewers: you can tell he's credible bc he is a published author. *Woman writes a book.* Cfp re… 2021-03-11 07:26:31 *Yesterday 2021-03-11 05:58:46 When you're fighting for isiZulu at @UKZN, or Sepedi at @UPTuks or isiXhosa at NMMU then I'll start paying attention Afrikaans is the only "mother tongue" you're willing to fight for and it shows Today someone was shot dead at #witsprotest and this is your message https://t.co/8VRZiwa2mL 2021-03-10 15:33:57 RT @masentle_mo: This gentlemen here is absolutely correct #witsprotest https://t.co/lLPEdOh5hf 2021-03-10 15:31:13 RT @WitsEFF: A civilian has been shot dead by the police in the current demonstration that are happening. Students continue to get arrested… 2021-03-10 15:29:33 RT @adjiboussodieng: #FreeSenegal c'est un marathon et pas un sprint. Ce qu'on doit faire d'ici 2024: Maintenir https://t.co/kEO0ZQk9KU… 2021-03-10 14:05:31 https://t.co/xQIRL0wh9E 2021-03-10 13:56:17 RT @LauraC_rter: "Educate students on frameworks of interventions based on existing problems, not anchored to the existing skills of those… 2021-03-10 13:53:20 https://t.co/81DE6mj0ou https://t.co/OTnfHpaWZR 2021-03-10 10:01:34 RT @DeepIndaba: Attention African AI researchers! Are you planning to write a research paper, proposal or create a presentation or poster?… 2021-03-10 07:39:21 RT @Microsoft: *unmutes mic* “Thanks, everyone.” *mutes mic* *signs off* *lays on floor* 2021-03-10 06:31:23 Omg Yay @StuartReid1929 ! This is so so exciting! Congratulations! The product looks amazing! When does it get released into the wild?! https://t.co/RJqZAY0ew7 2021-03-10 06:04:19 RT @bonadossou: "AfriVec: Word Embeddings for African Languages. Case study of Fon and Nobiin" — with @M___Sabry is now available . The of… 2021-03-10 06:03:28 RT @ninaturner: Solidarity to every single Amazon warehouse worker in Alabama fighting for their dignity and right to unionize 2021-03-09 21:51:38 ... seems accurate https://t.co/eZzOPlJ2tn 2021-03-09 20:20:23 RT @TessaDarbyshire: Ligett preaching to the masses @FAccTConference! "Find yourself a conversation partner. Someone who cares about the sa… 2021-03-09 18:34:48 RT @ziebrah: Mathematical models can be a fig leaf, hiding or excusing bad behavior - Ligett #FAccT21 2021-03-09 18:16:45 RT @TessaDarbyshire: "The role of mathematical models is not to determine what should be done, but to illuminate fundamental tensions and p… 2021-03-09 17:31:40 RT @wiebketous: Love listening to @siminyu_kat share her journey, her passion for & 2021-03-09 17:31:21 RT @siminyu_kat: I really did name my first laptop Faith so I could say to myself, 'Have a little faith Kathleen', and then remind myself I… 2021-03-09 16:21:40 RT @siminyu_kat: Join us if you can! https://t.co/Md1Mbn6Oz2 2021-03-09 15:38:58 @red_abebe @TessaDarbyshire @Abebab @luke_stark @maxkasy @FAccTConference 2021-03-09 14:27:18 RT @niallfirth: I'm looking for pitches on the topic of "the mind" for an upcoming print issue. Could be latest breakthroughs in neuroscien… 2021-03-09 14:15:52 Thanks to all the authors - was delightful to meet everyone & Thanks to our session volunteer @AnamZahid89 for making sure I got to the right place, explaining to me how things work & 2021-03-09 14:12:06 RT @TessaDarbyshire: Thank you for an excellent Q& 2021-03-09 11:54:48 @KimTommy92 YAAASSSS!!! https://t.co/RyYokvQvOm 2021-03-09 08:48:24 As an additional #IWD gift to myself, I will be moderating the #FAccT21 session Q& Hope to see everyone later for an excellent conversation. Tune in to Session #11, at 12pm UTC https://t.co/PwpMiRnfO4 2021-03-08 17:48:11 Fam, if you invite me to speak at a thing and don't send me a calendar invite, I'm probably going to fail to arrive. I'm very good at triple booking myself 2021-03-08 17:45:44 @jennifazor @OluwaYettie @tejuafonja @Chiamaka2Emelda @orevaahia @adjiboussodieng @NanaYaaSally @Chi_Phoenix @reshamas @KanubalaD @ledell @AyoolaOlafenwa @sharonibejih @MrsCaroline_C @claudiavolpetti We celebrate you! 2021-03-08 17:45:06 RT @yetudada: I'm tagging @alienelf @plzchair @LeboMadise @charlenephunter @tolulopero @AnalyticsPanda @lais_bsc @cheukting_ho for this eve… 2021-03-08 17:44:45 @vukosi I missed it! Was this today's episode? 2021-03-08 07:48:44 RT @AI4Dev: REMINDER We are hosting an interactive session tomorrow to answer all your questions on the application process for setting… 2021-03-08 06:58:10 RT @daddyhope: A legendary Guyanese singer @Eddy_Grant produced a massive hit called Joanna in the 80s. Many thought that it was a love so… 2021-03-08 05:51:56 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Nu ngi ànd ak sunu xarit yi nekk Senegaal Nu ngi xalaat ak a xalam seen kaaraange ak seen péexte #FreeSenegal 2021-03-07 06:30:21 @protonish_ @eaclmeeting @KreutzerJulia Thank you so much for your reviews 2021-03-07 06:01:04 RT @NanaYaaSally: 5 papers at #AfricanNLP, EACL 2021. Bd:1-3 lead by me w/@GhanaNLP, 4& 1. Eng-Twi Parallel Corpus for M… 2021-03-06 11:15:38 Looking for an example of allyship? See @KreutzerJulia She: - Mentors countless @MasakhaneNLP researchers - Loudly fights her orgs hiring policy - Literally schools orgs on ethical engagement with African researchers. - Drives the AfricaNLP workshop planning 2021-03-06 10:15:16 RT @TartanLlama: addressing a group as "guys" cause you consider it gender neutral addressing a group as "guys" cause you're about to… 2021-03-06 08:36:41 @red_abebe @MasakhaneNLP That means a lot coming from you 2021-03-05 15:30:51 The sheer number of requests for Masters, PhD & Slow, consistent, considerate grassroots efforts result in slow but real societal change #WeBuildTogether 2021-03-05 14:17:54 RT @wsisaac: Great News! If you missed the amazing @FAccTConference tutorials yesterday, the full recorded sessions are now available on t… 2021-03-05 13:19:50 RT @Raremaester: As a therapist I can say confidently, that while therapy is helpful, what most people really need is money 2021-03-05 13:19:10 RT @OkayAfrica: One protestor has been killed in demonstrations taking place in Senegal following opposition leader Ousmane Sonko's recent… 2021-03-05 12:26:24 RT @tetisheri: Our FAccT tutorial was AI on the ground. While it did feature all speakers from the global south, it was not about doing res… 2021-03-05 12:26:10 RT @yemialadee: #Senegal 2021-03-05 12:22:49 I've scheduled this date with myself in my calendar. For anyone wondering which paper, it is this one https://t.co/nK9C4zpQwL 2021-03-05 12:03:58 For this international women's day, I am treating myself by refusing to be on any panels and giving any talks about diversity or tech or otherwise Instead I'm going to read a paper I really want to read 2021-03-05 11:45:06 This woman https://t.co/HkeRVRNv20 2021-03-05 11:16:56 RT @vukosi: On this day I would like to recognise all of the volunteers who worked over the last year to make sure South Africa had an open… 2021-03-05 11:10:32 RT @NattySeydi: I would nevah imagine that one day I will quote Netblocks alert bout social media restriction for my country #Senegal on tw… 2021-03-05 11:10:12 RT @adjiboussodieng: Orange is a French company. Internet services that are restricted in Senegal are the ones using Orange. The Presid… 2021-03-05 11:09:53 RT @adjiboussodieng: If you are a Senegalese in the diaspora and you are not saying anything about the current situation in the country bec… 2021-03-05 11:07:40 RT @vukosi: Finally updated my NLP class website with the 2020 Student Project titles. It was a great pleasure reading all the reports from… 2021-03-04 12:00:14 RT @_KarenHao: I love when AI talks are really just thinly veiled history & 2021-03-04 12:00:05 RT @vukosi: I wish someone could create annotations for each of the #StateCaptureCommission. Like summaries of which section of the video d… 2021-03-04 09:01:09 RT @SultanReina: https://t.co/hANRnhD8aD 2021-03-04 09:00:20 @MphoMphego Thank you for this recommendation! definitely on my reading list! 2021-03-04 08:59:25 @mpyeager So, the problem for me is that there is always time and never time. And so drawing boundaries on how much time I spend for non-work activities has been a massive struggle for me 2021-03-04 08:10:29 @Warpgate9 So, I do that as often as possible. But so often no one else is available. 2021-03-04 07:55:15 How to say "No" to things you believe in, but don't have time for? 2021-03-04 04:19:00 RT @Abebab: "The decision followed days of questions about whether FAccT would continue its relationship with Google following the company’… 2021-03-03 17:08:52 RT @hadyelsahar: How Controlled NLG became a timely problem after being a niche for a long time. Teaser from my slides of today. The reas… 2021-03-03 17:08:31 RT @vukosi: On the pursuit of addressing the challenges with Machine Learning and Data Science in Education, data. Presented at SACAIR conf… 2021-03-03 17:08:11 RT @Abebab: FFS! Do NOT research, theorise, write, about Africa without Africans! 2021-03-03 04:55:39 RT @ChloeCondon: I DO NOT RUN THIS ACCOUNT- I TOOK THE DAY OFF TODAY, I SWEAR!! https://t.co/95FLJHA4C0 2021-03-02 17:56:55 Been waiting for this paper!!! https://t.co/nK9C4zpQwL 2021-03-02 17:56:25 RT @Abebab: Our paper on Narratives and Counternarratives on Data Sharing in Africa’ is out! ACM library: https://t.co/D8ArbcIzEZ ArX… 2021-03-02 17:55:28 RT @vukosi: Appreciation (not) for the printer companies that make sure you cannot scan if you have low ink. I don't know how ink has anyth… 2021-03-02 16:51:15 RT @adjiboussodieng: I’m looking for African software engineers. Great plus if you’re a team in a startup based in Africa. Email diengadji… 2021-03-02 16:00:46 @thesummitdan How does Bitcoin do that though? 2021-03-02 07:31:02 @Adrian_H We won't get tax policy because capitalism doesn't want tax policy 2021-03-01 15:04:51 RT @u_tegin: How I read papers https://t.co/YHRq30gPRu 2021-03-01 15:03:51 RT @Domeniquex: New research into what blocks women's careers found an issue called The Entitlement Gap. It’s the way women are conditioned… 2021-03-01 15:02:24 @SebastianBujwid Because capitalism doesn't like wealth tax 2021-03-01 13:46:40 @fhuszar ACTUALLY CRYING https://t.co/tBGdkzJiai 2021-03-01 13:44:29 RT @hadyelsahar: Come by on Wednesday, we will present methods to control Large pretrained Language Models, including our #ICLR2021 work (w… 2021-03-01 12:44:50 @avishkar58 I don't know I've had people rewrite my beautiful dependency injected code to be more "pythonic" which did nothing but made it worse, and made me sad 2021-03-01 12:30:34 @avashlin Just snorted my tea everywhere. https://t.co/J6v3pi8fmg 2021-03-01 12:27:58 @QueerZoomer apologies for causing that 2021-03-01 12:24:44 Monday musings: How we can trick capitalism into minimising a global Gini coefficient? 2021-03-01 12:22:57 @BelkheirMahamed Sadly machine learning is mostly in python. Else I probably would use it for for verryyyy little 2021-03-01 12:13:17 I use dependency injection in Python because it feels less dirty and more readable than monkey-patching Don't @ me 2021-03-01 10:55:02 RT @allanibutiti: "In Kenya, whiteness remains an organizing philosophy, an epistemological tool, and a way of being in the world, normaliz… 2021-03-01 10:53:00 RT @Melissahei: I called @siminyu_kat in Nairobi to hear about Africa's AI ecosystem. She's using machine learning to translate African lan… 2021-03-01 10:52:24 RT @siminyu_kat: I spoke with @Melissahei of @POLITICOEurope about some AI projects I'm excited about and the importance of proper policy a… 2021-03-01 10:51:31 RT @timnitGebru: The audacity of Google leaders to be angry about leaks cause they want to have "honest conversations." Hilarious. Bruh y… 2021-03-01 07:56:37 RT @vukosi: New year, new newsletter edition. Its been a while, but its back. DS@UP #23: New year, who dis? https://t.co/mfsxpHImBC So… 2021-03-01 07:55:15 https://t.co/UhIubeRinP 2021-03-01 07:05:19 RT @mmitchell_ai: I abruptly lost my job 9 days ago. Tomorrow I lose my healthcare. This is the "view from the top" for a successful female… 2021-03-01 06:32:36 RT @chrisalbon: So cool! Some day this scrappy "Wikipedia" site will be going places. https://t.co/UnajZsEz5q 2021-02-27 18:35:32 RT @Onyothi: OS @youngish_human says I resemble a freedom fighterSo I am definitely framing this poster for my parents, after I present… 2021-02-27 03:30:59 RT @Abebab: okay here's some advice as it looks like some people need it: "we invite you to x because you are from an underrepresented grou… 2021-02-26 16:52:22 RT @kschwabable: I've been working on this story about Google pushing out @timnitGebru for the last 3 months. I spoke to 25 people involved… 2021-02-26 16:49:32 @siminyu_kat It's the pan! 2021-02-26 16:48:09 RT @vukosi: @alienelf @siminyu_kat @tamati_biskit @KreutzerJulia @Chris_Fourie_SA @plzchair @compArch1 @davlanade @Onyothi @hadyelsahar Lig… 2021-02-26 14:16:21 @ZindiAfrica @__DigitalAfrica @Davis_McDavid @ailabtz @AI4Dev @MasakhaneNLP @DeepIndaba @dLabTz @GDGDarEsSalaam @DMachuve We can ask @AT_poly_AI to share :) 2021-02-26 12:56:47 @plzchair @tamati_biskit THIS https://t.co/tpyC5NttQb 2021-02-26 12:49:52 RT @AstroKirsten: Is Dark Matter okay?! https://t.co/j7oyjGKLUA 2021-02-26 12:45:36 @tamati_biskit @siminyu_kat @KreutzerJulia @Chris_Fourie_SA @vukosi @plzchair @compArch1 @davlanade @Onyothi @hadyelsahar Who's party?! 2021-02-26 08:53:36 APPRECIATION POST I'm surrounded by a series of magic beings that make my life as warm & @siminyu_kat @tamati_biskit @KreutzerJulia @Chris_Fourie_SA @vukosi @plzchair @compArch1 @davlanade @Onyothi @hadyelsahar to name a few 2021-02-26 07:17:09 RT @Davis_McDavid: The AI4D Swahili News Classification Challenge has been launched. If you are still interested to participate, you can r… 2021-02-26 07:11:48 RT @siminyu_kat: There's a fellowship opportunity for African #policy professionals to further develop their competencies and skills in an… 2021-02-25 16:57:13 RT @timnitGebru: “Ok Google turnoff corporate propaganda mode.” I love this video so much. https://t.co/WsXtk8XjKy 2021-02-25 10:45:25 RT @L_badikho: @timnitGebru Equally symbolic is that the rare/only AI YouTuber who understood what's at stake now for society, beyond the n… 2021-02-25 05:47:42 RT @ParissAthena: Dead ass https://t.co/hudd5D5q6d 2021-02-25 05:05:54 Shout out to the lovely woman who just bought me coffee because none of my payment methods were working You saved a life today 2021-02-24 19:51:55 RT @seb_ruder: Recent Advances in Language Model Fine-tuning New blog post that takes a closer look at fine-tuning, the most common way la… 2021-02-24 19:50:40 RT @emilymbender: Fun to relisten (hi @rctatman !) my two favorite moments: 1. App developers have a super-power! (Listen to find out what… 2021-02-24 19:48:50 RT @cephaloponderer: As I process the abrupt firing of my manager @mmitchell_ai, in the wake of @timnitGebru’s firing, I keep coming back t… 2021-02-24 13:47:38 RT @wsisaac: A thought experiment on the influence of algorithms on human behavior: How often do you override autocorrect on your smart pho… 2021-02-24 11:03:30 RT @EricMedvetTs: Are you breeding/evolving/teaching to modular robots? Submit your excellent research to the special session… 2021-02-24 07:16:41 RT @timnitGebru: I’ve heard people trying to scapegoat Samy a few times & 2021-02-24 07:12:22 @Pr06lemChild Oh gosh, I wish I worked on ML libraries that often. Instead I write many many event processors in golang :P 2021-02-24 04:41:59 if err != nil { } https://t.co/uohqGN9690 2021-02-24 04:40:48 RT @emilypahn: Gina Levow, @emilymbender and I are presenting "Developing a Shared Task for Speech Processing on Endangered Languages" at @… 2021-02-23 21:48:21 Yes. Also @spacy_io https://t.co/sek2HbWDjT 2021-02-23 21:45:48 RT @yetudada: I’ve moved from Google Chrome and Android to DuckDuckGo and Apple. Next to go is either Google Maps or Gmail. Does anyone hav… 2021-02-23 21:26:32 @emilymbender But, I do feel like I'm honing a valuable critical skill by performing the ethics reviews, and I'm actually enjoying them. I also end up having to go read up on important papers along the way So thank you for the opportunity 2021-02-23 21:23:53 @wsisaac The thing I said yes to for you requires me to read papers I want to read (going through that list I realised how many more I want to read) 2021-02-23 21:22:42 @emilymbender The things I say yes to for you require me to read papers 2021-02-23 19:26:13 I need to stop saying yes to things so that I have more time to read these papers I really really want to read 2021-02-23 19:24:44 RT @cynduja: .@safiyanoble “we teach our kids that our voice isn’t the normative voice, that they have to be something else in order to eng… 2021-02-23 19:24:21 RT @cynduja: @Halcyon_L said,“If I am going to use this technology then I must assimilate. I must code-switch,” Lawrence said. “I find ther… 2021-02-23 19:23:01 RT @timnitGebru: "we need stronger legal frameworks to combat racial discrimination in the workplace...Thus, rather than merely relying on… 2021-02-23 18:48:35 RT @swardley: X : We've built a data lake. Me : Good on you. X : How do we get the best ROI? Me : Have you tried asking for a refund or ret… 2021-02-23 17:55:44 @athundt @DiverseInAI Good point! Thank you for the knowledge 2021-02-23 06:15:51 RT @ayeemach: I'm willing to do anything to finish my dissertation except sit down everyday and write my dissertation. 2021-02-23 06:06:18 RT @visenger: We can contribute so much to the transparency of #MachineLearning just by establishing the documentation culture. The “Model… 2021-02-22 18:48:59 RT @vukosi: This has many consequences for automated translation by machines. In AI and Machine Learning this is even harder for our local… 2021-02-22 18:22:24 RT @RyanEloff: InstaDeep is hiring in Cape Town! We are looking for Research Engineers (applied and in RL research) as well as a Senior Com… 2021-02-22 18:01:28 RT @ZindiAfrica: Don’t miss our panel discussion on African Digital Renaissance: how @ZindiAfrica, @MasakhaneNLP and @AI4Dev are creating d… 2021-02-22 18:01:06 Society has spent billions on creating "Artificial Dumb". And still we insist on using it in places where it's dumbness can and will wreak societal havoc I guess it's just a reflection of our own dumb https://t.co/bqtd9JVr6I 2021-02-22 17:53:36 RT @wsisaac: If you can watch one thing today, make it this. Learning about about plight of the Roma gave me a much deeper understanding an… 2021-02-22 09:12:23 RT @Sydonahi: You daily reminder that Feynman was misogynistic as fuck. Enjoy the physics, condemn the man. Yup I know that's a lot of co… 2021-02-22 09:12:03 RT @rharang: In retrospect, it's *amazing* how badly Google bungled it's handling of @timnitGebru and her team. There's an alternate worl… 2021-02-22 08:53:01 RT @deltanalytics: applications for the 2021 global teaching fellowship is now open! please apply by 3/20: https://t.co/jC1ugo1jlf 2021-02-22 08:46:45 @mmitchell_ai Y'all are my heroes Thank you for all the energy and fight you've put into the struggle. 2021-02-20 12:39:18 RT @timnitGebru: Meg Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team has been fired. She got an email to her personal email. After locking her out fo… 2021-02-18 19:41:20 RT @alvarombedoya: Dear world, Dr. @TimnitGebru is a luminary. Her work has changed critical policy debates and will do so for decades to c… 2021-02-18 07:24:45 RT @Grady_Booch: I am not alone. https://t.co/ViwGy6a5C9 https://t.co/ac9xwX2Mxc 2021-02-18 06:52:12 @JoeyUchiha_ That reminds me - it's Thursday and I need to prepare 2021-02-18 06:51:21 @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai I'm going to go smash my head against a wall until I don't know what Google is anymore. brb 2021-02-18 06:15:12 RT @iamscicomm: @KimTommy92 an #AfricansInSTEM PhD candidate in bio-antropology. She's a exceptional freelance #scicommer. She's worked for… 2021-02-18 06:11:58 RT @hardmaru: I’m not the biggest fan of #Bitcoin but I’m looking forward to the day when decentralized social media platforms gain widespr… 2021-02-18 04:33:16 @Abebab Sending energy & 2021-02-17 21:11:46 RT @timnitGebru: Whoa thanks for taking the time to discuss the paper and writing up these reflections. https://t.co/DfIACOpDZp 2021-02-17 17:10:39 RT @ruha9: “Lack of empathy” is not the problem. Hoarding empathy is... The problem is not that “you don’t see your children in those cag… 2021-02-17 12:04:58 RT @fhuszar: I am looking for a paper I once read which illustrated the existence of bad local minima in deep learning: local minima that h… 2021-02-17 05:25:45 RT @dinoman_j: https://t.co/odOhqYSt4x 2021-02-17 05:12:35 RT @m_c_elish: Please help spread the word far and wide! The ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learn… 2021-02-17 04:56:22 RT @canIjustbeLaura: @sibinmohan @timnitGebru I’m confused, does Michael Lissack work for Google or is he just going out of his way to atta… 2021-02-17 04:54:51 RT @timnitGebru: Apparently the distinguished Emily M. Bender is "mediocre and mostly ignored." I didn't know what "AI" was when Emily fi… 2021-02-17 04:53:12 RT @EricaJoy: @tiffani they *stay* telling Black people they aren't good enough. i will never get over the unmitigated gaul they had to te… 2021-02-17 04:52:41 RT @tiffani: I know some folks will be helped, but I’m tired of people always thinking Black folks need “skills training”. There are appre… 2021-02-16 17:02:40 RT @FAccTConference: ACM FAccT 2021 was slated to take place in Toronto, Canada. However, due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, it will be hel… 2021-02-16 14:20:28 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Thanks @davegershgorn for bringing attention to such an important topic. And thanks for the shout-out https://t.co… 2021-02-16 12:41:54 RT @wiebketous: Just rewatched @shakir_za's NeurIPS 2020 presentation on surveys and writing in ML. Thank you for emphasising and expressin… 2021-02-16 12:41:24 RT @onucharlesc: We have internship positions available at @ubenwa_ai for people interested in using machine learning to tackle infant heal… 2021-02-16 10:26:43 @froztbyte I chose happiness and took the canned EF 2021-02-16 10:18:10 @froztbyte you definitely should. I wouldn't be functioning otherwise 2021-02-16 10:11:13 RT @yetudada: It's called accountability culture, and this will happen as long as racism persists. If you want to stop it, then stop the ra… 2021-02-16 10:08:15 RT @maiheurem: Very excited to share that the project I worked on during my internship @DeepMind got awarded a Distinguished Paper Award @R… 2021-02-16 08:30:05 RT @sarahookr: Yesterday, I ended up in a debate where the position was "algorithmic bias is a data problem". I thought this had already b… 2021-02-16 08:04:27 @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru Sending endless energy & You're both my heroes. Thank you for fighting systems. It feels like the needle doesn't move, but I promise it's moved in strides 2021-02-16 08:00:29 RT @mmitchell_ai: Gday world. Entering week 5 of being locked out of work after witnessing something very wrong, wrought by my superiors,… 2021-02-16 07:57:05 RT @riggaroo: We are still hiring for a few open Android positions at @Over. The work is challenging and fun and I'd love it if you conside… 2021-02-16 06:26:40 RT @ebelee_: Me: *Does research, buys expensive skin care products, establish a routine...” Hormones: lol that’s cute, anyway as I was say… 2021-02-15 21:00:56 RT @shituserstories: As a... – Twitter user I want to... – have the timeline refresh a couple of seconds after opening the app So that... –… 2021-02-15 19:34:57 RT @GalaxyKate: One of my students thanked me for teaching them to debug. omg can we fix the traditional CS curriculum now 2021-02-15 16:23:26 This. This a thousand times over https://t.co/qJi9eSe95N 2021-02-15 16:22:22 RT @GeePawHill: @QuinnyPig All 17 users will be happy with how scalable the app is, tho, as it smoothly handles their 3 transactions a wee… 2021-02-15 16:22:20 RT @QuinnyPig: The water isn’t fine. https://t.co/sxUUZsDxjn 2021-02-15 16:16:27 RT @emilymbender: Co-authoring with @timnitGebru has been an amazing experience, first and foremost because she is such an excellent schola… 2021-02-15 16:15:56 RT @gneubig: 2021 version of CMU "Neural Networks for NLP" slides (https://t.co/X2rd0eHNiW) and videos (https://t.co/6Yi2cZmOLE) are being… 2021-02-15 09:05:10 RT @buildsghost: Cryptocurrencies in the bio is an instant block I guess you could call a whole thread of them a block chain 2021-02-15 07:56:23 @AlvinGrissomII Was struggling to concentrate today. This got me into flow state. Thank you Enjoyed it thoroughly. Want more! 2021-02-15 05:52:47 RT @black_in_ai: Thanks to everyone who shared and responded to this in-depth, 20 minutes survey! We already have 80 responses with at le… 2021-02-15 05:22:05 RT @siminyu_kat: It's been 1.25 years since we kicked off this African Language Dataset program, which to be honest did not start as someth… 2021-02-15 05:15:50 RT @JulianKuehnert: Internship opportunity @IBMResearch Please apply ASAP if you are excited about climate models and AI https:/… 2021-02-15 05:14:45 RT @onucharlesc: It is well known that the cry of a newborn is one of its first signs of life. What is not common knowledge is that the c… 2021-02-14 12:46:31 RT @seb_ruder: If you are looking for African language datasets for tasks such as MT, sentiment analysis, news classification, TTS, etc the… 2021-02-14 07:33:19 RT @ian_goldin: Excellent talk by @ruha9 at @DeepIndaba On #AI #bigdata and #bias Keynote: Beyond Buzzwords: Innovation, Imagination, and I… 2021-02-13 10:46:04 RT @ChloeCondon: What she said https://t.co/gqLoB0q0Qd 2021-02-13 10:45:41 RT @ChloeCondon: Me: Why am I suddenly getting so many inbound speaker/keynote requests? [sees international women's day is approaching]… 2021-02-12 15:08:08 @QueerZoomer @teamretrorabbit @phlippieb I think you're the only person I know who fits in the intersection of ML twitter and shoegaze 2021-02-12 14:02:06 RT @atg_abhishek: So sometimes working on #responsibleAI can feel overwhelming! There are so many things to do and it is not clear on how a… 2021-02-12 11:41:00 So @teamretrorabbit has a radio station on Fridays where we all request songs. The theme this week is "Love". Between @phlippieb and myself, we've requested the entire of "Loveless" The rabbits weren't expecting such important education today. https://t.co/5d8fThGsfN 2021-02-12 06:26:46 RT @Sne__Khumalo: Results are finally out. I secured a whole BSc Eng (honours) in Chemical Engineering from Wits!!!!!! A whole me?? A… 2021-02-12 06:26:23 RT @lucy3_li: a little reprioritization https://t.co/GydAEqtc6m 2021-02-11 12:08:47 @2ayasalama @avishkar58 @MasakhaneNLP Please do join for vibes 2021-02-11 10:40:54 Most slack groups are places where community interaction goes to die. Except the @MasakhaneNLP slack. I've never seen such a thriving and vibrant slack group Brings me such joy 2021-02-11 10:38:49 RT @diversekhaulat: @RoshnaOmer I recently had this interesting conversation on integrating African languages into technology with @kolatub… 2021-02-11 10:27:25 RT @ctrlshifti: dev pro tip: if you name your javascript variables after x86 registers your scripts will run faster 2021-02-11 09:41:40 @RoshnaOmer @cainesap @MasakhaneNLP @AmericasNLP @til_nlp @Roprajo And almost anything by @gneubig 's research group 2021-02-11 09:41:13 @RoshnaOmer @cainesap @MasakhaneNLP @AmericasNLP @til_nlp @Roprajo et al https://t.co/PdDcBC80uL 2021-02-11 09:39:45 @RoshnaOmer @cainesap Then the @MasakhaneNLP @AmericasNLP @til_nlp groups! 2021-02-11 09:39:00 @RoshnaOmer @cainesap wrote https://t.co/ynTo7qnAj4 2021-02-11 09:20:43 @StuartReid1929 @SenYeezus For example, I spent 2 hours this morning trying to fix a migration. The fix took < 2021-02-11 09:17:40 @StuartReid1929 @SenYeezus Awww But also, the reality is that some things on my giant list are compromised at any point. I have many things on-going, and they all move slowly :P 2021-02-11 06:33:10 RT @JenMsft: If you've never seen a maine coon before: https://t.co/LMUhurHxcm 2021-02-10 16:23:41 RT @FAccTConference: Registration is now **OPEN** for ACM FAccT 2021! The conference will be held March 3-10. Early bird pricing is availa… 2021-02-10 16:23:28 RT @sabelonow: Data Justice without Economic justice is farce, wholly absurd. An Ethics AI without a reparations/restoration framework is i… 2021-02-10 10:44:20 RT @andre_niyongabo: "For Africa to realize the potential of AI in solving economic and social problems, the advancement and deployment of… 2021-02-10 10:21:45 RT @hanligeyser: Much needed research. If you can, please support Larry. https://t.co/8fOOkqwIug 2021-02-10 10:19:00 RT @tamati_biskit: Whaaaaaaaaaat. As exciting as this is (and up my ally as far as my visceral attraction to AI+Neurology) HUMANS NEED TO G… 2021-02-10 10:16:08 RT @aclmeeting: First-time reviewers can signup for one-to-one mentoring on a voluntarily basis at: https://t.co/JYMwT6HEWB #ACL2021NLP #N… 2021-02-10 09:55:44 RT @ctrlshifti: programmers on this app will learn "functional" languages but won't manage to have "functional" lives 2021-02-10 08:30:01 RT @MikaelThalen: A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter https://t.c… 2021-02-09 21:17:41 RT @timnitGebru: Not surprised. Lots to say including how ppl I know were told not to investigate @YouTube issues cause they might have to… 2021-02-09 20:38:54 RT @L_badikho: @mmitchell_ai excellent article by @kharijohnson, a good thing to see @OpenAI release this statement given their past. Now… 2021-02-09 20:38:17 RT @timnitGebru: I wouldn't be surprised if Google VPs like @JeffDean @earnmyturns & 2021-02-09 18:37:43 @mcgenergy @alt227Joydeep @seb_ruder @sleepinyourhat @gneubig Not in the XTREME benchmark I don't think, but I might suggest isiZulu and Igbo? Swahili is far far simpler than the other Niger-Congo languages 2021-02-09 18:34:25 @emilymbender I've ask the same question about whether author names should count towards page limit :P 2021-02-09 17:58:13 RT @rorypreddy: Today is a momentous day for #SouthAfrica and @Microsoft!! Afrikaans and Zulu added as languages for Azure OCR!!! Learn m… 2021-02-09 12:15:23 RT @timnitGebru: I realize that ppl don't know that probably 40%+ of papers that go through Google's pubapprove process get rejected from c… 2021-02-09 11:06:33 RT @Abebab: Me and @o_guest's paper 'Towards Decolonising Computational Sciences' is out today with 'Women, Gender & 2021-02-09 05:36:19 RT @daddyhope: A cartoon in a South African newspaper today, the @dailymaverick, showing the struggles that journalists are facing in Mnang… 2021-02-09 05:02:45 RT @ASpittel: Tech interviews are broken, but so is the industry that's popped up around them. 2021-02-08 18:34:59 RT @rust_foundation: Hello World! https://t.co/LzDgeqacZx 2021-02-08 18:03:27 RT @mayhewsw: new podcast just dropped! It's an entirely new format inspired by John Cage's 4'33'' there is no host, and no discussion 2021-02-08 16:14:34 RT @DeepIndaba: Are you a member of the African ML community looking for help with writing a research paper, applying for a job or turning… 2021-02-08 11:56:16 RT @KimTommy92: As a proud @Inspiring50SA winner, I'm excited to work with the incredible @SciSuperheroes team! You can help us get science… 2021-02-08 11:55:56 RT @ctrlshifti: debugging is like an onion. there's multiple layers, and the more you peel back the more you realize that workers are alien… 2021-02-08 11:53:55 RT @anmarasovic: Returning to experiments I ran on Friday https://t.co/1hDA7nMo9j 2021-02-08 10:22:35 RT @red_abebe: First year faculty life is really hard. BUT it's been so affirming to see that there was a very good reason why I fought so… 2021-02-08 09:13:54 RT @sabelonow: terms like "data colonialism" or "surveillance capitalism" don't readily describe who's doing the colonizing or the surveill… 2021-02-08 05:41:54 #NLProc community! The #AfricaNLP workshop at #EACL2021 has received FAR more submissions than expected So we're in dire need of more reviewers. far Review deadline is Feb 25 Keen to assist? Please email: africanlp-workshop-org@googlegroups.com or DM me ur deets 2021-02-08 05:23:28 RT @emilymbender: Without looking up the answer, how many distinct individuals do you think have published papers related to AI (ML, DL, RL… 2021-02-08 04:30:35 RT @sabelonow: I'm going to start calling "surveillance-capitalism", "white-gaze capitalism". The white gaze is surveillance, well establis… 2021-02-06 16:06:48 RT @QueerZoomer: BERT embeddings are just TLDR of a sentence. 2021-02-06 16:06:36 RT @tejuafonja: First paper submitted to ICML, a major milestone. It's surreal since I've been working on it for months. I'm going to take… 2021-02-05 10:44:32 I am absolutely, 100%, not on top of my emails. 2021-02-05 10:11:58 The AfricaNLP workshop submission deadline for #EACL2021 has been extended by 24h! (6th Feb) ⏰Happy writing everyone! It's been very exciting to watch the submissions come in 2021-02-05 09:45:47 RT @aclmeeting: First-time reviewers for #ACL2021NLP are automatically enrolled in the reviewers mentoring program: https://t.co/ZXizqmy9Ie… 2021-02-05 08:10:42 @pamelaahill @StuartReid1929 @MichaelJordaan @Fredericklutz @VoxCroft @Sewagodimo_M @mikegeyser @Vel12171 You deserve it NOW. No need to be humble honey! https://t.co/smghEFIssk 2021-02-05 07:57:51 @rorypreddy @Fredericklutz @StuartReid1929 @MichaelJordaan @VoxCroft @Sewagodimo_M @mikegeyser @Vel12171 @pamelaahill @GerybBg The analysis picked up @riggaroo but not sure how she is only at #110 2021-02-05 07:55:13 @rorypreddy @Fredericklutz @StuartReid1929 @MichaelJordaan @VoxCroft @Sewagodimo_M @mikegeyser @Vel12171 @pamelaahill And @GerybBg isn't on this list either The analysis missed Joburg tech scene 2021-02-05 07:49:14 @Fredericklutz @StuartReid1929 @MichaelJordaan @VoxCroft @Sewagodimo_M @mikegeyser @Vel12171 @pamelaahill OMW @rorypreddy is also not here! I think you're missing links to the Joburg tech scene. I see LOTS of Cape Town and very little Joburg! 2021-02-05 07:24:17 RT @McSpaffin: How Koalas are weighed. You are welcome. https://t.co/8OMIcTXX8m 2021-02-05 07:18:27 @StuartReid1929 @MichaelJordaan @Fredericklutz @VoxCroft Oh, I'm probs too global Also, the choice of seed contains bias and isn't necessarily representative of tech in ZA. There are many distinct tech communities. HUGE names that are missing (off top of my head): - @Sewagodimo_M - @mikegeyser - @Vel12171 - @pamelaahill 2021-02-05 06:29:39 RT @OdedRechavi: Interdisciplinary consortium grant https://t.co/Z0pUnGMKD2 2021-02-05 06:25:06 RT @josheidelson: Exclusive: Google contract workers were forbidden to discuss pay and one of them was suspended over a pro-union Facebook… 2021-02-04 19:34:45 @TartanLlama I feel so seen 2021-02-04 19:34:17 RT @TartanLlama: Yeah the pomodoro technique is pretty cool, but have you tried the noneodoro technique where you break up periods of doing… 2021-02-04 14:45:31 RT @chipro: So I wrote a 5400-word lecture note on the basics of data engineering for my students, covering: * data formats (row- vs. colu… 2021-02-04 11:01:21 @pickledbean @KayliVee @areyou_jazz @toasterovensnod *insulin resistance rather 2021-02-04 11:01:07 @pickledbean @KayliVee @areyou_jazz @toasterovensnod Yeah, so I seem to have insulin sensitivity so the fasting really helps with that. And on weekends I eat whenever. I think it helps remind my body it's not starving 2021-02-04 10:52:15 RT @fhuszar: https://t.co/Bn1SeZQ4Fn 2021-02-04 09:53:04 @areyou_jazz Intermittent fasting. I do one meal a day. - Takes 3 days to get over the initial hunger pangs, then it becomes SOOO much easier. No constant motivation required. - Decentralizes food as a means to function. - You can eat a bunch when you DO eat. - I lost 16 kg in 12 months. 2021-02-04 09:34:18 RT @shanselman: My Teams meetings always end SO awkwardly and it's not clear when to leave. So I made live end credits. (no post credit… 2021-02-04 08:26:14 How researchers think industry use their pretrained models: "Let's use the SoTA model on SuperGLUE" How industry ACTUALLY works: "Let's finetune all @huggingface models to figure out which one is actually SoTA for our problem" When someone says SoTA we should ask "for whom?" 2021-02-04 08:21:06 Literally can't stop listening to @TomMisch and @YussefDayes's "What Kinda Music" 2021-02-04 07:51:40 RT @MmakiJ: Hey STEM family, please join the conversation below. Also share widely with young people considering to join the technology se… 2021-02-03 16:54:29 RT @emilymbender: Now waiting for the first journalist to actually include the . It's part of the title, you cowards! 2021-02-03 15:27:30 RT @vboykis: If you interview for a job in the crow's nest on a whaling ship, do they ask you about depth-first search 2021-02-03 13:04:30 @yetudada @_WaylonWalker @Minyus86 @kaftoot @St_Hakky @amagaeru1123 @sauravD @honyamorake @noko_twt @plzchair want things! 2021-02-03 11:31:46 RT @NandoDF: Thank you @avishkar58 and colleagues for all the amazing hard work to make these mentoring programs for AI in Africa a reality… 2021-02-02 12:46:11 RT @haydenfield: A hot-button research paper—the one that made headlines in connection w/Google's Ethical AI team—was just accepted into an… 2021-02-02 12:09:11 RT @rajiinio: @Abebab There's a good critique paper from our ICML workshop (https://t.co/FLeJhnI2ag) - one of my fave contributions, "Parti… 2021-02-02 11:36:19 RT @spacy_io: Today we're releasing spaCy v3.0! Transformer-based pipelines for SOTA models New training and config system Models u… 2021-02-02 11:15:41 RT @said_mitch: researchers have discovered kale that would like to join my professional network 2021-02-02 11:01:45 RT @ElohoGM: Please don’t ever invite me to moderate an all-male panel. Thank you. 2021-02-02 10:31:28 @KimTommy92 Congratulations!!!!! Celebrations are in order! 2021-02-02 10:11:50 RT @TartanLlama: I want to email the spinach and tell it it's doing a great job https://t.co/HJBBb3gKCF 2021-02-02 10:09:31 RT @dannimassi: African ML community: if you're > 2021-02-02 09:34:05 RT @Abebab: hit me up with links to critical work on participatory design/methods. bonus point if the focus is AI/ML. 2021-02-02 05:53:47 @WaleAkinfaderin I need this book 2021-02-01 13:37:12 RT @autopoietic: மகிழ்ச்சி! Our pre-print of "Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond", upcoming at FaccT 2021 is at https://… 2021-02-01 12:40:10 RT @hadyelsahar: If you are reviewing your first paper at the #AfricaNLP workshop or other #NLProc venues and would like some guidance.… 2021-02-01 10:47:54 RT @NLPwithFriends: Reminder -- this is this Wednesday! Join us, and don't forget to register https://t.co/qq6Nl8vINv 2021-02-01 07:59:57 @deFractal @IanColdwater Bookmarking this tweet because I actually never knew that and people always ask 2021-02-01 05:23:24 RT @IanColdwater: This is the best burn I have seen in ages https://t.co/ciWKiKE5Vb 2021-02-01 05:21:23 RT @siminyu_kat: Ever stare at a piece of code so long, searching for a bug, that you start to question your ability to spell really simple… 2021-02-01 05:20:52 @IanColdwater I assume the next question will be "Why is it called JavaScript when it's nothing like Java?" 2021-02-01 05:08:50 RT @the_ayeminthant: The latest rumor is that all internet access will be cut of at noon. So if you stop hearing from us, that's probably w… 2021-02-01 03:49:55 RT @mimismash: She is allowed to speak up and draw attention to his bad behavior. Get used to it. Your comfort abusing Black women is comi… 2021-02-01 03:25:46 RT @dailymaverick: Newsdeck: Myanmar’s army seizes power, detains Aung San Suu Kyi https://t.co/9kIIx2u2HQ 2021-02-01 03:20:30 @rajiinio @timnitGebru @emilymbender Everytime he said something condescending I'd say "I'm sorry, I'm obviously very very stupid. I'm going to need you to explain it to me in detail" it went on for hours. He had to get the last word. So glad I wasted his time 2021-02-01 03:17:23 RT @chris__sev: junior dev: we can do that today senior dev: next sprint. and it'll take 2 weeks 2021-02-01 03:15:34 @rajiinio @timnitGebru @emilymbender So I purposely trolled him until he blocked me. I've never trolled anyone before. I figured it was warranted with this piece of garbage. I felt better for a while 2021-02-01 03:11:50 RT @CatSwetel: "we're not trying to be tidy, we're not trying to be perfect -- we're trying to learn how to change the world." @cvharquail… 2021-01-31 13:51:47 RT @dannimassi: Applications for mentorship are now open! Let the matching begin https://t.co/polleY8uai 2021-01-31 13:51:43 RT @avishkar58: The Indaba Mentorship Programme is now open for mentees!! Thank you to all the mentors who've signed up already :) https://… 2021-01-31 09:05:47 @KimTommy92 YAAAAAASSSS! 2021-01-31 04:02:29 I hate management consultants https://t.co/ezY2UxwRT0 2021-01-30 19:16:55 RT @mtlaiethics: Pictured: Google's Ethical AI team, 2022. https://t.co/Mtmdvy7esF 2021-01-30 19:16:01 In case y'all didn't know it enough, @ledell is a serious rebel badass. One day when I grow up, I wanna be as cool as her 2021-01-30 11:01:22 RT @NandoDF: Please sign up as a mentor to help students in Africa with research in machine learning and AI. This is your chance to use you… 2021-01-30 05:10:55 @julien_c @teamretrorabbit Office tour: https://t.co/PSlaBXtI5C 2021-01-30 04:59:35 @julien_c @teamretrorabbit It's BEAUTIFUL. Various views from the office: https://t.co/pIQ13IosPA 2021-01-29 08:25:16 Teaching the new baby rabbits about data today! @teamretrorabbit https://t.co/97SjkQemBQ 2021-01-29 05:22:11 RT @DUmuganda: Today in Rwanda we celebrate 1700 validated hours of Kinyarwanda voices on the #commonvoice platform by @mozilla Kinyarwan… 2021-01-29 04:31:53 RT @timnitGebru: Very interesting. Let me share a post talking about how a Black woman gets treated in a place called Google research. Funn… 2021-01-29 04:30:34 @JeffDean The sheer audacity is astounding 2021-01-28 22:08:15 @julien_c Thank you for this 2021-01-28 22:07:03 RT @timnitGebru: At Davos @sundarpichai gets a question about me & 2021-01-28 20:37:51 RT @forealiously: why don't fremen care about instagram? still suits make them immune to thirst traps. 2021-01-28 15:49:38 RT @TheAllyance_One: When it comes to #hiring, defining the right process is instrumental! @gitlab is one of the key references on the m… 2021-01-28 14:15:16 RT @angela_tabiri: Are you an African employed in Africa who wants to travel to an internationally known mathematical centre of excellence… 2021-01-28 12:09:00 @emeka_boris @AfroRoboticist @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas But you can't know quality? Do you mean model uncertainty? 2021-01-28 11:24:36 RT @tacobtc: @AOC They are seizing the memes of production 2021-01-28 10:40:41 RT @swardley: Looking at what's happening - https://t.co/vKT0WkGzeM - I suspect that regulation will happen faster than you can say "where'… 2021-01-28 10:16:52 @emeka_boris @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas In NLP, you could more specifically measure "robustness to spelling errors" or "robustness to synonym substitution" or "robustness to grammar errors" 2021-01-28 10:16:12 @emeka_boris @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas So, suppose I have an image, and I add a small amount of noise, the machine learning model should still be able to classify it, if it's robust. However, if the prediction varies lots when adding a bit of noise, then we might say it's not very robust model 2021-01-28 09:52:30 @emeka_boris @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas Okay, so none of those are robustness in the traditional sense. Robustness is more concerned about how robust a prediction is to minor changes. (i.e. if I switch out 1 unimportant word, does it wildly affect the prediction or not) 2021-01-28 09:34:37 @emeka_boris @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas You'll need to be more precise. What does "health" mean? 2021-01-28 09:23:21 @emeka_boris @WaleAkinfaderin @robert_thas If only it were so simple. Robustness is not a formula one can easily calculate. First, what definition of robustness are you using? 2021-01-28 08:50:18 RT @galaxygarden23: Call for papers We are accepting submissions for our @iclr_conf workshop, Distributed and Private ML (DP-ML). The scop… 2021-01-28 08:38:18 RT @mikegeyser: @alienelf We had it all. Everything we needed. All the freedom and privacy, and we gave it away... For what? 2021-01-28 08:18:05 XMMP was ahead of it's time 2021-01-28 06:59:34 RT @banditelli: Bernie Sanders became a meme, put the meme of himself on a sweatshirt, sold out, sold tshirts and stickers, raised $1.8 mil… 2021-01-28 06:20:03 RT @_AfricanHippie: https://t.co/RO6CgYxbXP https://t.co/kYENVDGMVw 2021-01-28 06:18:40 RT @HStvNews: A note from @daddyhope hours before he was granted bail. He is due to be released from prison in the next few hours after 15… 2021-01-28 06:03:59 RT @rajiinio: lol seriously! I even recently quoted his words in a paper. Him & 2021-01-28 05:35:06 RT @zacharylipton: The dominant practice of the applied machine learnist has shifted from ad-hoc feature hacking (2000s) to ad-hoc architec… 2021-01-28 04:31:30 It's an hour and a half and absolutely worth it! Thanks @ContraPoints https://t.co/j27axj3D5p 2021-01-28 03:55:27 @yoavgo @emilymbender It's absolutely how it comes across to me 2021-01-28 03:26:04 RT @DanPriceSeattle: Financial industry wrecks entire economy "we must bail them out" Senators do insider trading "nothing we can do" Cov… 2021-01-28 03:25:38 RT @BethLynch2020: assholes: just put your stimulus in the stock market us: k assholes: noooo not like that. 2021-01-28 03:23:58 RT @LeavittAlone: If stabbing one hedge fund lead to these gains imagine if we killed them all https://t.co/IEoiVx3nUI 2021-01-28 03:22:56 RT @alicegoldfuss: Millennials are killing the industry industry https://t.co/5oPUDGUuqt 2021-01-28 03:19:45 RT @Kantrowitz: This is good TV https://t.co/mSnTIWfT5p 2021-01-28 03:11:21 RT @IanColdwater: if I were a hedge fund facing insolvency, I would simply eat less avocado toast 2021-01-28 03:09:38 @QueerZoomer @gneubig ? 2021-01-28 02:46:51 RT @rajiinio: The most tragic lesson I've learnt doing any kind of algorithmic auditing is that companies will not bother to make their pro… 2021-01-28 02:45:18 RT @sabelonow: If I had more to say it would be that our African countries, leaders & 2021-01-28 02:43:52 RT @timnitGebru: Its kind of funny. Basically, they're telling us that our views are so different from the "mainstream" views held by "regu… 2021-01-28 02:43:34 RT @L_badikho: I keep repeating this but talking about justice in computing is not "activism", it's just an overdue back to the original in… 2021-01-27 19:23:49 Everything is a bubble 2021-01-27 13:07:06 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I imagine Google will release articles like these as periodic litmus tests, iterating the design of a false narrative… 2021-01-27 10:52:55 @gremblexyz The pink sweet Took me a while but I got it. And yes, definitely a minority 2021-01-27 10:30:17 @darb 2021-01-27 10:05:23 Aw, I'll give y'all a break. I do love Space. 2021-01-27 10:03:38 Twitter, you clearly don't get me https://t.co/YXVgGXDJYh 2021-01-27 09:39:52 RT @MLimericks: @alienelf @fhuszar Leaders who are most effective Take feedback and are self-reflective But in Jade's DM She witnes… 2021-01-27 09:33:36 @yoavgo I'm a big fan of you and your students research. But, the statement above assumes that the "other side" aren't getting the same DMs. I can assure you, they're getting similar ones for standing up for their perspectives that take on big tech 2021-01-27 09:18:08 @fhuszar It's cause it rhymed right? I feel like I need to write a hip-hop track now 2021-01-27 09:13:49 And don't get me wrong, there exist non-grassroots leaders who can do the same as grassroots leaders. But remember societal structures self-select leaders that maintain status quo... especially in ML 2021-01-27 09:10:10 - Grassroots leaders are open to criticism and are self-reflective - Non-grassroots leaders get quite defensive 2021-01-27 09:08:55 - Grassroots leaders maintain long term interaction - Non-grassroots leaders lose interest and go quiet - Grassroots leaders are unapologetic - Non-grassroots leaders are too afraid of PR implications so instead keep quiet. 2021-01-27 09:08:54 Some observations: - Grassroots leaders are action-oriented - Non-grassroots leaders prefer lip-service - Grassroots leaders seek collaboration as a means to improve - Non-grassroots leaders are prescriptive on actions that should be taken 2021-01-27 09:04:32 I'm part of a Twitter DM group that I could actually write an entire thesis about: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Grassroots Leaders in Diversity Initiatives" or conversely "The Unreasonable INeffectiveness of NON-grassroots Leaders in Diversity Initiatives" 2021-01-27 08:19:53 RT @savvyRL: New paradigm of collaborative science and publishing! Instead of "abstract due" "full paper due" it is now "PR must be opened… 2021-01-27 08:19:37 RT @_naomiza: Where are my Black UX Designers at? There’s job opportunity I’d like to talk to y’all about!! 2021-01-27 07:01:48 RT @divyasiddarth: 1/In the midst of 195+ strategies for COVID-19, Taiwan has captured headlines for its speedy, effective response (< 2021-01-27 05:20:53 RT @steveklabnik: if they're such experts at distributed systems, why are they all in san francisco? 2021-01-27 05:13:49 RT @Al_Grigor: Data engineering: Moving data from one place to another Sounds easy, but it's not 2021-01-27 04:16:41 RT @lena_voita: Speaking of NLP Course For You, don't forget that (in addition to lectures, research exercises and paper summaries) you can… 2021-01-27 04:06:18 RT @nlp4d: Fun and candid thread from @alienelf: a model that conflated doctors and dealers and another that conflated marriage counselors… 2021-01-27 04:04:21 RT @mtlaiethics: Here's our State of AI Ethics Report (Jan 2021), summarizing last quarter's AI ethics research & Exclusive con… 2021-01-26 20:46:02 RT @rajiinio: Well, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. @Abebab & 2021-01-26 20:45:48 RT @rajiinio: Wow, the results here are genuinely alarming. Just like with auto-generated text, auto-generated images will encode harmful… 2021-01-26 20:43:34 RT @TwitterDev: Academics are one of the biggest groups using the #TwitterAPI to research what’s happening. Their work helps make the world… 2021-01-26 19:53:51 RT @sjmielke: tired: KN95 n-gram language modeling wired: KN95 masked language modeling 2021-01-26 19:44:40 *the amount of effort that goes into assembling it must be insane! Well done! (it's been a day) 2021-01-26 19:37:53 Thank you @atg_abhishek for inviting me to write the opening remarks to the 'Outside the boxes" chapter of the @mtlaiethics AI Ethics Report This report is so comprehensive, and the amount of effort that goes into assembling it. I highly recommend! https://t.co/IR8NOw06Hx 2021-01-26 18:17:26 RT @L_badikho: Thanks to the Revue Médecine et Philosophie for publishing our paper "Recommendation Algorithms, a Neglected Opportunity fo… 2021-01-26 12:53:29 # COVID Cases vs # Vaccines administered Couple of glaring problems come to mind... https://t.co/nonbhD2nuk 2021-01-26 12:50:12 It's amazing how many maps look like this... https://t.co/n8Myj9UaOE https://t.co/Dmobwd4gUV 2021-01-26 12:16:40 RT @timnitGebru: Other books (in Q& Algorithms of Oppression by @safiyanoble Artificial Unintelligence by @merbroussard Programmed Ine… 2021-01-26 11:02:06 RT @TheReal_Nomagee: My school is looking for a primary school computer teacher. Any black female computer teachers? We need to put each ot… 2021-01-26 10:23:28 RT @Thom_Wolf: A few stuff not a lot of people know about HuggingFace: -is a very small team less than 30 -transformers GH stars are grow… 2021-01-26 09:26:28 @nunuska I'm like this right now, except the bottle is empty (and has been for a while) https://t.co/WSu4yFW813 2021-01-26 07:51:51 @PMinervini To this day, I'm the only person I've met who deployed Theano to production 2021-01-26 06:30:39 RT @swabhz: Writing an EACL camera-ready, where we are taking a stance on an age-old, problematic norm in linguistics. So proud of my co-a… 2021-01-26 06:22:09 RT @AiBlindspot: GPT-3 has ‘consistent and creative’ anti-Muslim bias, study finds https://t.co/XQVPQjFcm0 by @abidlabs Maheen Farooqi and… 2021-01-26 06:02:36 @StuartReid1929 GCP is very very good in comparison. But I still don't trust the PR at all. This was written before I'd tried GCP - by the time I'd gotten to GCP my tech-PR-scepticism was a baked-in habit 2021-01-26 05:14:27 Those glossy blog posts burned us so many times that 3 years ago I wrote a blog post about them There was a stage our team vowed to never use Google tech again. (Wish we'd stuck by that) https://t.co/UtJVnkrYAz https://t.co/uftO3rWc0d https://t.co/DACOJWDtWT 2021-01-25 23:35:51 @gdb @ceobillionaire This has so many words in it that I dislike 2021-01-25 23:33:30 Okay, Imma go sleep. Done with the #notalllanguagemodels crowd. Y'all should go to sleep to 2021-01-25 23:31:52 RT @Grady_Booch: https://t.co/8Ts4Rxth98 2021-01-25 23:31:43 RT @SalomonKabongo: Here we go https://t.co/NW7TXfVu41 2021-01-25 23:22:13 RT @alienelf: These models are SO sensitive to what you feed them. I'm flabbergasted that so much of the ML research world is THIS insecure… 2021-01-25 23:21:49 These models are SO sensitive to what you feed them. I'm flabbergasted that so much of the ML research world is THIS insecure that it can't even acknowledge the problems without going "but what about this nice thing - it's good, please validate me! #notalllanguagemodels". /5 2021-01-25 23:16:30 It also connected people who were looking for marriage counseling with divorce lawyers. I mean, same same but different? Right? /4 2021-01-25 23:16:29 This rant is coming from someone who's been deploying various language models for 5 years now. First one was written in Theano (revealing my age here!). Since then it's been a fun ride down Sesame Street. /2 2021-01-25 23:03:37 Dunno why everyone is so butthurt about looking at the dangers of LLMs. Like, researchers seem to be taking it personally. I mean, is this all news to them? They should try deploy them to production sometime 2021-01-25 22:33:28 RT @rajiinio: An often ignored aspect of large language models is the security threat of input data leakage. It's no joke. It's not just… 2021-01-25 22:23:59 RT @babybabypluto: My mental health surviving a really tough day but then my keys drop when I try to unlock my front door https://t.co/YZnC… 2021-01-25 22:13:22 RT @HypnInfoSec: The custom browser that South Africa's tax revenue services, "SARS", released to deal with Flash no longer being supported… 2021-01-25 22:12:54 RT @HypnInfoSec: "ignore-certificate-errors" is two slashes away from being enabled "PapperFlash" in use (on Windows at least) - path "S… 2021-01-25 22:11:06 RT @froztbyte: I took a very quick poke at this. You need to provide a bunch of details before it'll offer you a download (not clear why y… 2021-01-25 21:09:12 The world: **discontinues Flash because it's insecure af* SARS: hold my beer https://t.co/a2rZtZDtE6 2021-01-25 20:49:33 RT @dirk_hovy: Looks like the same day for ACL submissions + NAACL rebuttals + EACL camera-ready is a tall order not just for #NLProc resea… 2021-01-25 20:13:11 RT @DynamicWebPaige: For anyone who is getting started with user experience or product management in the machine learning space: the PAIR… 2021-01-25 20:01:29 RT @ElohoGM: There’s a massive overlooked opportunity in funding African women. FirstCheck Africa is looking for: Smart, audacio… 2021-01-25 20:01:13 RT @ElohoGM: In October 2020, @OdunEweniyi and I bonded over our frustration with female under-representation in African tech. The system… 2021-01-25 17:03:55 RT @Microsoft: No, that wasn't thunder. It was just someone typing while unmuted on a Microsoft Teams call. 2021-01-25 16:18:37 RT @QueerZoomer: These are my following reforms, once I become the president of ACL: - Tiktok videos instead of slideslive - Instagram live… 2021-01-25 12:24:43 Hey Tech community The delightful @PaigeVerpoort is doing her Master's in Human Resources on "Innovation & Let's help her out by participating in her research : https://t.co/eIG3fqt2HT 2021-01-25 11:22:02 Oh hello existential crisis. I didn't see you lurking there https://t.co/RQST1JoPRy 2021-01-25 10:10:05 RT @rajiinio: This is quite literally the thesis of our paper "Data and its (dis)contents: A survey of dataset development and use in machi… 2021-01-25 08:09:39 RT @siminyu_kat: After reading 'Small Country' by Gael Faye this past weekend, and weeping, I'd like to add more books chronicling African… 2021-01-25 04:54:04 I detest how the white male default in academia fail to realise that focusing on publishing SoTA results IS an unbalanced political take 2021-01-25 04:46:46 RT @emilymbender: As for the claim that our paper is one-sided, this is exhausting. All of ML gets to write papers that talk up the benefit… 2021-01-24 21:00:37 RT @emilymbender: No, I will not make any such change, for two reasons: https://t.co/jCk6UvT2hA 2021-01-24 20:51:29 RT @Onyothi: 2.5hrs in and learning a great deal from @KreutzerJulia ... hands-on overleaf session, reviewer 2and Empirical Results - The… 2021-01-24 18:30:23 RT @emilymbender: @ani_nenkova From recent experience: If you're writing a paper that turns out to be widely discussed (for... reasons), it… 2021-01-24 18:27:10 @nunuska 2021-01-24 16:15:22 @nunuska I ate too much. I felt very ill. Like a child who are too much chocolate and has a sore stomach Basically, I'm a child 2021-01-24 16:09:59 RT @pcastr: Just signed up as a mentor for this great program, I'd encourage you to do the same! https://t.co/2qQDGW8D7P 2021-01-24 13:30:48 Thank you for listening to my Ted talk 2021-01-24 13:30:06 I have regrets. Peanut butter is the most 2021-01-24 13:28:29 @Lizz_S2 So good 2021-01-24 13:03:50 RT @africaiknow: The power of narrative. The stereotypical negative portrayal of #Africa throughout history & 2021-01-24 12:55:44 Instead I've decided to eat peanut butter with a spoon while watching Ru Paul. Fucking glamorous ain't it 2021-01-24 12:53:50 RT @sech_mundo: All these events have passed but does not stop me from doing a @nunuska appreciation post. I am forever inspired when I loo… 2021-01-24 12:27:32 RT @jennmabuka: Looking for African experts in microbiome research. Please let me know your networks. @aphrc @H3Africa @AASciences #microb… 2021-01-24 11:51:59 RT @JordanSumbu: “Many Africans were grouped with the understanding that they are naturally suited for certain jobs. Slaves were sorted by… 2021-01-24 11:50:50 Craving Amarula 2021-01-24 08:54:51 RT @NanaYaaSally: Reminder that this event will happen today at 5pm GMT @GhanaNLP @MasakhaneNLP https://t.co/hda4xoxQTi 2021-01-24 08:35:34 This. This, again and again https://t.co/HdxCIheBVt 2021-01-24 08:32:51 RT @ZeerakW: @yoavgo Your 2nd I think is messy. It assumes that status-quo LMs aren’t inherently political and promoting a specific positio… 2021-01-24 07:50:13 Da fuck is clubhouse? 2021-01-24 06:28:33 RT @ChloeCondon: I own the hardcover https://t.co/av5DBkqhaO 2021-01-23 23:33:21 RT @L_badikho: Those who doubt that AI could control humans never witnessed how smart scientists and entrepreneurs are controlled by a dumb… 2021-01-23 16:26:19 RT @blahtino: Wish I could have contributed to this awesome paper. I probably would have written something about social movements and publi… 2021-01-23 05:57:09 RT @emilymbender: Camera ready complete & On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? https://t.co… 2021-01-22 19:51:49 RT @KreutzerJulia: Senior writers out there, what's the best advice you've gotten about the writing process? #NLProc #AcademicTwitter 2021-01-22 19:51:09 RT @KreutzerJulia: Come join me on Sunday for a mentoring session on [NLP] paper writing https://t.co/BsE3V2NX81 this is tailored toward… 2021-01-22 16:35:02 RT @sabelonow: tldr of next talks: rationality is not neutral, therefore AI isn't. If a tool/ideology is rational for Euro/US markets it do… 2021-01-22 16:19:03 RT @hardmaru: Can train a very large Transformer! https://t.co/hmhvRidPjB 2021-01-22 15:10:30 RT @Abebab: the story of my life most academics don't like actual interdisciplinary work, just the idea of it https://t.co/M3ow8zYm45 2021-01-22 13:44:36 RT @alexhanna: It's not enough to have companies and researchers document their datasets. Datasets are ontological, rules for world-buildin… 2021-01-22 13:44:27 RT @alexhanna: You can built a trillion parameter model, but at the end of the day 100s of decisions about data go into the creation of a m… 2021-01-22 13:44:16 RT @laurieontech: Code review is a skill. And it absolutely takes practice. 2021-01-22 12:59:47 This magnificent human https://t.co/SG8Nu2gGfi 2021-01-22 12:59:17 @MmakiJ @Inspiring50SA Happiest of Birthdays 2021-01-22 12:58:54 RT @sabelonow: Siyabonga kakhulu! In our user interviews we found that many people did not even realize this was missing. Too often African… 2021-01-22 12:58:28 Are you an ML researcher or industry professional who cares about diversity? Well, here is an amazing opportunity to make direct change! Become DL Indaba Mentor! The programme is light-weight and specific and caters to all types of availability #DLIndaba https://t.co/HsQkxmTRRQ 2021-01-22 12:24:38 RT @DeepIndaba: Today we launch the Indaba Mentorship Programme which will connect the African ML community with mentors to further thei… 2021-01-22 12:24:35 RT @avishkar58: SO EXCITED to launch this programme! Many months in the making by an amazing team! Thank you to @smhall94 @KaliTessera for… 2021-01-22 12:24:31 @avishkar58 @smhall94 @KaliTessera @dannimassi Omg omg omg omg!!!! Yeeesssssssss!!!! 2021-01-22 11:43:44 RT @shakir_za: Speaking the truth we've all been thinking https://t.co/vhhlxOVe4G 2021-01-22 10:20:18 @hadyelsahar @chgravier @aclmeeting @ABosselut Amazing idea! 2021-01-22 10:07:28 RT @siminyu_kat: How stoked am I that a generation of Kenyan pre-schoolers and school-aged children will know Elsa(@ElsaAngel19) rather tha… 2021-01-22 10:06:46 @aventer7 I can't! 2021-01-22 09:09:38 RT @thegautamkamath: The complete Volume 4 of Don Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. https://t.co/V6mTil5CMR 2021-01-22 09:08:39 RT @afrolabs: Kicking off Open-Space @afrolabs with @davidcampey sharing the purpose as sponsor: "We create the world. Open-Space creates t… 2021-01-22 08:36:04 RT @timnitGebru: People in the ethical AI team are currently anxious, terrorized, stressed, and can't get any work done. Congrats @JeffDean… 2021-01-22 08:23:54 RT @UrbanVillageFam: Dindi' more accurately put Dark-Dindi was a colloquial term, which describes people who are dark skinned. This song is… 2021-01-22 08:02:29 RT @shanselman: https://t.co/Dwk1kFe9wR https://t.co/c8UMZd7xa6 2021-01-22 05:53:06 @UrbanVillageFam I will pass on the love Lots of love in return 2021-01-22 05:29:21 @UrbanVillageFam Miss y'all! Hope we can gig again together one day soon Incredible work on the album 2021-01-22 05:15:31 This band https://t.co/zd3SosKkp3 2021-01-21 22:51:45 RT @ctrlshifti: unix for beginners, pocket edition https://t.co/yRaNb9I1W3 2021-01-21 20:29:57 RT @mmitchell_ai: TFW "oh crap, she programs and masterfully processes very specific phenomena in text" can really hit ya. https://t.co/6io… 2021-01-21 20:00:58 RT @emilymbender: Further evidence that there are absolute gems buried in Findings of EMNLP: Just got around to reading the @MasakhaneNLP p… 2021-01-21 20:00:50 @emilymbender @MasakhaneNLP When we were figuring out how to construct this paper, we used your Data Statements for NLP paper as inspiration 2021-01-21 19:42:14 RT @PDLComics: faking https://t.co/fhjen1WIHG 2021-01-21 16:18:02 RT @Nanjala1: Did you know that there is an African Centre for the Study of the United States at Wits University in South Africa? Well, now… 2021-01-21 15:51:07 Hey African #SciComm friends. In your opinion, what's the most valuable scientific topic/concept/subject to communicate in your respective African contexts and why? 2021-01-21 15:27:32 RT @NRF_News: Did you know? Galaxies do not evolve in isolation. Thanks to South African-based telescopes such as SALT and MeerKAT, local a… 2021-01-21 14:24:56 RT @nick_sawhney: I made a website where you can put bernie in places using google maps street view. Enjoy! https://t.co/UfY5g9xU2k https:… 2021-01-21 13:27:01 I mean..... https://t.co/m8MS0pYQIx 2021-01-21 13:21:54 My other 2021 fitness idol is Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica https://t.co/eT1z2RYgXv 2021-01-21 13:16:05 My 2021 fitness plan is to get "Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby" RIPPED https://t.co/qo1ACsjXjO 2021-01-21 12:35:47 RT @AshleyKSmalls: “This could’ve been an email” https://t.co/kn68z6eDhY 2021-01-21 12:35:40 RT @adhd_al: Poll: what adhd subtype are you and how well did you do in school, for your standards? If combined then do the poll in the n… 2021-01-21 12:35:07 RT @o_guest: When right-wing people say something is doublespeak [Orwell never used this term, but whatever] because left-wing people propo… 2021-01-21 11:57:26 RT @_dmh: A (NA|E|A)*ACL paper proposes a new task, provides a dataset for that task, and a thorough analysis of how that dataset compares… 2021-01-21 11:45:56 RT @SenYeezus: The ungovernable governor https://t.co/oxvzH6sE5b 2021-01-21 11:44:58 RT @heyarinze: It's such a surreal feeling to look at your friends & 2021-01-21 10:54:23 RT @OdunEweniyi: Nigerians!! https://t.co/j8NV6Mv4UJ https://t.co/Hwz6SaVkUj 2021-01-21 10:38:12 @wiebketous AMAZING! Where did you find the paint? It was super expensive last time I checked!! 2021-01-21 10:07:42 RT @_kiranxx: “Once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “When I win the lottery.” 2021-01-21 09:21:25 RT @sabelonow: The right to one's culture, language, customs is a fundamental human right. The benefits of AI technology must be made avail… 2021-01-21 09:21:17 RT @sabelonow: So why? In 2021 there still aren't spellcheckers online or other online writing tools for Africa's major languages let alone… 2021-01-21 09:12:59 RT @hackSultan: If you’re having or know anyone having a conference and interested in having cloud engineering speakers (AWS & Yo… 2021-01-21 07:47:30 RT @ankurhandos: Transformers are all you need. From @paperswithcode newsletter today https://t.co/xQm9lERSl4 https://t.co/g8kpIYqWD7 2021-01-21 07:46:31 @JessKa_F I'M EMAILING THEM NOW 2021-01-21 07:11:45 @paul_rietschka Apologies! I hear the DMV ain't great in the US either :P 2021-01-21 07:07:07 @igezeani @MasakhaneNLP @overleaf constructive chaos https://t.co/yZqO3b6wXd 2021-01-21 07:05:49 Fam, how on EARTH do y'all book your driver's license card renewal/get new one in JHB? There are never slots, NaTIS Online is so often half broken. Someone splain plz! 2021-01-21 06:10:37 RT @ZoeSchiffer: Sources inside Google say @mmitchell_ai was using an automated script to look through her own email for information releva… 2021-01-21 06:04:07 RT @KreutzerJulia: @MasakhaneNLP paper writing time is my favorite season of the academic year https://t.co/HFUUsyhmpS 2021-01-20 22:40:33 RT @sabelonow: I'm happy to announce the very first Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele, Shona, and Swahili spellchecker(s) (and an Android keyboar… 2021-01-20 22:05:40 @Telaro_01 2021-01-20 21:09:20 RT @zachsilberberg: biden being inaugurated with bernie on the sidelines feels like if they were going to make grizabella the jellicle choi… 2021-01-20 21:00:15 RT @MeganRisdal: My husband says I'm "working remotely" today since I'm working from our living room instead of my office. 2021-01-20 20:56:56 @DanielMallory3 @MasakhaneNLP @overleaf It's definitely A LOT, but honestly, I don't think I could write papers any other way anymore. I feed off the energetic frenzy 2021-01-20 20:54:31 I highly recommend attending this! Rebuttals are an unusual and complex art-form that I had to learn from @hadyelsahar and @KreutzerJulia https://t.co/KL7GetXcxx 2021-01-20 20:29:37 There is NOTHING like writing a paper with @MasakhaneNLP. The beautiful chaos of like 8+ people simultaneously editing an @overleaf document I'm sure there are way more efficient ways to write a paper, but the anarchist style of paper writing is the MOST FUN 2021-01-20 15:59:55 Fam, the inauguration band just played the theme song to @montypython's Flying Circus So appropriate... 2021-01-20 15:51:03 RT @TheDailyShow: INAUGURATION FUN FACT: The President does not receive the White House Wi-Fi password until the oath of office is completed 2021-01-20 15:50:55 RT @haymarketbooks: The Fight for the Future Join @timnitGebru, @mer__edith, @safiyanoble, @adrienneandgp, @cmcilwain, and @alexhanna for… 2021-01-20 15:44:16 Watching this to see Gaga 2021-01-20 14:23:36 I'm so excited to see how @LenkaBula is going to transform @unisa This level of communication and leadership is already a huge improvement! https://t.co/NMlIgNt6nP 2021-01-20 13:35:44 RT @DevEngBerkeley: A warm welcome to Rediet Abebe, co-founder of MD4SG and Black in AI, who joins the Blum Center this month as Assistant… 2021-01-20 09:04:17 RT @timnitGebru: Did this go through sensitive topics review @earnmyturns @JeffDean @edchi? I assume excluding the queer community is not g… 2021-01-20 07:23:01 RT @mikegeyser: Hey. I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but if you're currently struggling with anxiety, depression or just feel flat and… 2021-01-20 06:52:43 RT @inafried: Breaking: Google alleges the email account belonging to @mmitchell_ai downloaded thousands of documents and shared them with… 2021-01-20 04:33:23 @CSkrishna @pmddomingos @timnitGebru They literally recommend this in the stochastic parrot paper. 2021-01-20 04:29:58 @pmddomingos @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai Get a hobby. Go hug a puppy. Maybe do some painting. Find something else to do. Be better 2021-01-20 04:26:59 RT @timnitGebru: She's not fired **yet**. But apparently they've told her she will be locked out for at least a few days. https://t.co/H1ib… 2021-01-19 16:47:10 @NanaYaaSally https://t.co/YZ8wUGuF6J 2021-01-19 16:43:10 *in 2021-01-19 16:42:52 RT @hypervisible: “Hear me out...what if we made banking and credit scoring even *more* racist.” https://t.co/TiXDkDOjOX 2021-01-19 16:42:23 My life has been entirely transformed by magnificent friendships with other Women in STEM over the past few years We're few and far between on the field and I'm so grateful we have found each other. Y'all light up my life 2021-01-19 16:28:21 RT @TartanLlama: Executive function would be nice, but I'd settle for even junior function tbh 2021-01-19 13:45:15 RT @aalkermd: This is how my life is going right now... https://t.co/4H9a4XWGrd 2021-01-19 10:39:04 RT @smdiehl: Bitcoin has no structure or future cashflows. It is simply a greater fool investment, you only buy them to sell them to someon… 2021-01-19 10:31:27 RT @kwuchu: The more I write a CLI, the greater appreciation I have for good CLIs because making a good CLI is hard as fuck. 2021-01-19 10:31:06 RT @yoavgo: Since @asaf_amr defended his masters yesterday, we decided its a good time to arxiv this ICLR 2020 reject. It presents a *simp… 2021-01-19 08:55:17 @Alexander_za @RuPaulsDragRace You should have gone to see Bianca Del Rio when she was here! 2021-01-19 08:37:02 Started a @RuPaulsDragRace Ru-preciation channel on our office chat. 2 cis Afrikaans guys joined. I asked them who their Season 13 faves are They said they just joined the group because the name sounded cool. So now it's education time Anyways, they're starting on Season 6 https://t.co/fjDxrFSBkc 2021-01-19 07:34:23 If you're thinking of doing a PhD, and want to focus on a topic that benefits society, I cannot recommend @vukosi and DSFSI enough! https://t.co/OMcF9ULPtf 2021-01-19 04:23:51 RT @geologiststephy: yes lets drill into a block of swiss cheese, that'll def work. https://t.co/ryUUbPQtKw 2021-01-19 04:10:08 RT @Twotafkap: The best feature about Twitter is when you briefly catch sight of a tweet that piques your interest and the page refreshes w… 2021-01-19 04:07:37 RT @IanColdwater: CONTAINERS FOR EVERYONE https://t.co/pwG0jwUcxP 2021-01-19 04:06:26 RT @Abebab: you cause Black women so much harm when you tag us with toxic white men that are known for trolling and harassing us. please ju… 2021-01-18 18:39:42 RT @fbk_mt: Our pick of the week: Kreutzer et al. paper "Learning from Human Feedback: Challenges for Real-World Reinforcement Learning in… 2021-01-18 18:36:52 RT @EmtiyazKhan: Happy to introduce https://t.co/vJkzSp60BE, a portal to easily connect mentors and mentees. Designed and created by @hen_s… 2021-01-18 15:43:31 @CarlaNotarobot @midori_san_ 2021-01-18 08:37:53 @QueerZoomer I mean, I trolled him back :P Was sorta fun I'm more worried about my own anger levels generally 2021-01-18 06:26:59 I definitely have some anger I need to work through. Glad I have some therapy sessions coming up. I'll start right now with more regular Twitter detoxes. Logging OUT 2021-01-17 22:29:39 RT @willie_agnew: Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that co… 2021-01-17 22:29:37 RT @willie_agnew: 18 people, software engineers from what I can tell, assembled this list with little or no public discussion, and now its… 2021-01-17 22:26:23 In 2021, I don't have time to help professors articulate themselves. No time to navigate their gaslighting, listen to their brags, or point out ad hominems. Be prepared for me to start wasting YOUR time instead for a change. I will not let y'all drain me this year https://t.co/FgkQHSATxZ 2021-01-17 22:17:34 @LissackMichael If you were wondering, my goal was to waste your time since I find you reprehensible. It brought me a little bit of joy. I can see the way you've been communicating with others. You're not a nice man. People who communicate like you make me sad. However, today, I had a laugh. 2021-01-17 22:09:43 @LissackMichael https://t.co/iG9vwSGx0Q 2021-01-17 22:08:58 @LissackMichael I do have a desire to engage. But you've already inferred that I don't, so we'll trust your judgement then 2021-01-17 22:04:46 @LissackMichael I'm not following. I'm going to need you to explain it to me (as I said, I'm very stupid) 2021-01-17 22:01:07 @LissackMichael And your statements to me were completely innocent were they? 2021-01-17 21:59:55 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Because it's popular, it must be valid? No need to boast 2021-01-17 21:58:48 @LissackMichael Is the way you tweet an example of actual dialogue? Fascinating 2021-01-17 21:58:19 @LissackMichael Is that what you've been doing? 2021-01-17 21:18:25 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Let's rather not infer the state of my mind since you don't know what's going on inside of it. Okay, sweetie? 2021-01-17 21:17:10 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Oh really? 21 reviewers you selected? Oh honey, please. Dude, you do not know the contents of the reviews for that paper So even if conference review system is worse, it ain't even necessarily applicable here 2021-01-17 21:13:29 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Yes, please explain to me how science works. I have no idea. I'm obviously too stupid to understand 2021-01-17 21:12:16 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @timnitGebru So, we should just trust that you somehow achieved double-blind peer review for your own work? Do you hear what you're saying? 2021-01-17 21:03:15 @pmddomingos @timnitGebru @LissackMichael And unlike this critique, Stochastic Parrots actually went through peer review 2021-01-17 20:57:27 RT @WellsLucasSanto: *Papers using AI for phrenology, a real and harmful pseudoscience get published* Domingos and Lissack: *crickets* *P… 2021-01-17 20:51:33 @pmddomingos @timnitGebru @LissackMichael Devastating? Ugh, please Bro, the paper ain't even published yet. He even says he didnt read the full paper since, you know, it wasn't available... 2021-01-17 20:47:07 RT @mmitchell_ai: This is great to see. @JeffDean @GoogleAI -- you know we can do the right thing too about @timnitGebru . https://t.co/EwB… 2021-01-17 16:14:03 RT @nischalhp: Building a psychological safety net in your teams is the most crucial element. We all deal with insecurities, imposter syndr… 2021-01-17 11:46:52 RT @AllisonReichel: I will let the data speak for itself when it cleans itself 2021-01-17 11:03:07 @LeboMadise @sethrosen @tejuafonja Yes 2021-01-17 08:05:17 RT @shanselman: She’s a backend cloud architect. He’s a front end JavaScript and CSS expert. Together they’re responsible for the worlds la… 2021-01-17 08:04:40 RT @DougColtart: Hopewell Chin’ono, Job Sikhala and Fadzayi Mahere are being denied access to their lawyers and to their own food (to which… 2021-01-17 04:03:00 RT @RanuDhillon: We're deploying vaccines like we do annual flu shots rather than the mass vaccinations done in Africa & 2021-01-17 03:50:50 RT @larryau: Such powerful words from @alondra “Science at its core is a social phenomenon. It reflects people, our relationships, and… 2021-01-16 23:39:18 RT @VentureBeat: Incoming White House science and technology leader on AI, diversity, and society https://t.co/5rNORZGS2z by @kharijohnson 2021-01-16 14:22:04 Can we not do this again? 2020 was enough for this sorta nonsense. Who on earth is in their reviewer pool? https://t.co/MKo3FbNYQ5 2021-01-16 08:33:25 RT @IndigenousAI: time: its night now, everyone normal sleep my brain: LETS CODE BRO 2021-01-16 06:20:19 RT @_alialkhatib: it's okay if you have a VAGUE sense of why people are so excited that Dr @Alondra Nelson is going to be the deputy direct… 2021-01-16 06:18:48 @avishkar58 @2ayasalama @NandoDF So excited!!! 2021-01-16 06:00:26 RT @ramabulanamk: Mipower Electric Bus city to city road test completed , Polokwane to Johannesburg on single charge , 324 km covered , tri… 2021-01-16 05:43:58 RT @Pandamoanimum: Prince as birds. A thread. https://t.co/XEDIZv7Nbc 2021-01-16 05:38:52 @NandoDF @MasakhaneNLP And some of my thoughts around it: https://t.co/KPsOQvwlim 2021-01-16 05:30:46 @NandoDF Come hang out at @MasakhaneNLP events or on our slack! We've found community peer mentorship to be extremely effective 2021-01-16 05:27:45 RT @L_badikho: . @signalapp seems to be struggling with the influx of new users after @elonmusk's tweet and WhatsApp's news. Please conside… 2021-01-16 04:20:51 RT @splendidland: bitcoin mining rigs are incredible, a huge supercomputer factory that eats up the resources of our world to produce extre… 2021-01-16 04:10:01 RT @SpiritofLenin: Is that insect called 'Europe?' https://t.co/qnrtR3nGyU 2021-01-15 21:51:19 RT @L_badikho: @timnitGebru @gvwilson I hate doing bean counting but @timnitGebru you are, by every reasonable metric, among the top produc… 2021-01-15 19:28:26 RT @_alternatewolf: Would be really nice if @signalapp wrote up a postmortem on their recent system failure. They are in such a unique sit… 2021-01-15 16:01:33 RT @timnitGebru: People at Google are telling me how absurd it is to get DEI OKRs and “responsible AI OKR” emails from @JeffDean and Megan… 2021-01-15 15:26:15 South Africans have seemingly forgotten about Bell Pottinger and #whitemonopolycapital where race tensions were stirred to distract us from #StateCapture. Let's not forget how social media can be abused by rogue actors to influence our political perspectives 2021-01-15 06:56:34 Using @github notifications properly is the productivity hack I needed this year 2021-01-15 06:38:53 RT @sabelonow: There’s now much funding for open African datasets for “AI use”, framed as “AI for good”! But are we unwittingly self-report… 2021-01-15 04:41:22 @AINowInstitute @tetisheri @ambaonadventure I feel like @sabelonow 's work on how redefining personhood as Ubuntu redefines what AI means, is hyper relevant here: https://t.co/mZSgspPJJv 2021-01-15 04:34:43 RT @abhi1thakur: :P https://t.co/7RaJKdKIuo 2021-01-15 04:28:38 RT @signalapp: We are so grateful for the outpouring of support from everyone who is contributing to Signal's ongoing operation and develop… 2021-01-15 04:24:44 RT @keavy: Someone started explaining to me how this really cool approach to permissions and auth for apps at GitHub works, and I had to in… 2021-01-14 21:28:45 RT @mountain_ghosts: guy who's currently deploying a schema migration to change the type of `presidents.impeached` from bool to int 2021-01-14 21:10:45 Do yourself a favour and go listen to one of my favourite spoken word artists. Flex of He & Also, if you get the opportunity to go watch em, do so https://t.co/wBzNB5bdCP 2021-01-14 21:02:49 RT @Kenyanpoet: @Abantu_ I am one of those. Am tired of my kids going gaga about Dr. Seuss and I can't seem to find poetic picture storyboo… 2021-01-14 21:02:36 RT @uVuyoS: @Abantu_ CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN OUR INDIGENOUS LANGUANGES. Take it a step further, children's content(TV and othe platforms) l… 2021-01-14 20:53:48 RT @timnitGebru: The fact that tech is made based on whatever the tech tycoons feel is ok is concerning for a number of reasons but one of… 2021-01-14 19:17:41 RT @ChloeCondon: issa bop https://t.co/PnOEUXvP4b 2021-01-14 19:16:41 @DanielMallory3 I've been coding for 15 years and still have no idea what I'm doing. And apparently YouTube knows it 2021-01-14 19:16:07 RT @L_badikho: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru to name one (among many) common points between the two media devices: top-down misinformation. It… 2021-01-14 14:06:27 RT @africaiknow: Join us in welcoming Roy Eyono (@RoyEyono) to the TAIK family! Roy is, as he puts it, a Cameroonian at heart and a Sout… 2021-01-14 11:06:40 Yann is very good at pushing ethical responsibility to be anyone else's problem but his or people like him https://t.co/xdiFDAxOph 2021-01-14 10:20:14 RT @Runningflyhalf: Have we named the Fourways Hippo yet? If not, I’ll start the bidding with Hippoboetamus. 2021-01-14 10:19:25 @ggdupont @sina_lana @Google Would certainly be more transparent 2021-01-14 10:07:13 RT @sina_lana: @alienelf @Google The parallel internet, where for the same words "free" information is different depending what Google thin… 2021-01-14 09:58:30 @sina_lana @Google So far, all South African's are getting the same result as me. Definitely IP 2021-01-14 09:57:42 FYI for non-South Africans: you won't get this result. But so far all South Africans I know who've tried it have This joke has been saved exclusively for us 2021-01-13 15:26:07 RT @_KarenHao: November: @timnit and her co-authors submit a paper to @FAccTConference about the risks of large language models. December:… 2021-01-13 14:01:09 RT @rickhanlonii: A large group of developers is called a “no decision” 2021-01-13 11:32:44 RT @bluebiscotti: Help for the serious ML folks. "How do we find these eigen things?" https://t.co/KykVTQ05CI 2021-01-13 10:35:37 RT @L_badikho: Robustness is important for systems that shape the lives of billions while not all the data is reliable. Data cleaning does… 2021-01-13 10:14:52 RT @swardley: X : You don't like McKinsey? Me : Gosh, that's astute of you. I thought my venom was a well kept secret. X : Why McKinsey? Me… 2021-01-13 07:30:44 RT @ChristoThurston: I repeat... There is nothing special about umlungu who speaks African languages. In fact, it should be the norm that… 2021-01-13 07:05:41 RT @AfrikaResearch: @AI4Dev is has a 12-months paid program of #research focusing on responsible #AI for development in #Africa. This call… 2021-01-13 07:05:24 RT @math_rachel: @JeffDean @GoogleAI The inconsistency between how you treated Dr. Timnit Gebru (firing her &amp 2021-01-13 06:48:54 RT @math_rachel: Here are the links so you can skip Jeff's post: Model Cards for Model Reporting https://t.co/cjlh0sVkiT Saving Face: Inv… 2021-01-13 04:59:07 RT @math_rachel: Google's pipeline for Black women: "You put a machete at the beginning of your pipeline, you put a machete at the end of y… 2021-01-12 19:56:15 RT @africaiknow: Did you know about #Yennayer? It's the Amazigh new year, which is celebrated across North Africa. This celebration dates b… 2021-01-12 19:10:01 RT @hadyelsahar: Our paper "A Distributional Approach to Controlled Text" Generation has been accepted (Oral) to #ICLR2021 with great score… 2021-01-12 19:09:00 @hadyelsahar @MKhalifaaaa Congratulations! Excited to read it! 2021-01-12 18:28:15 RT @Chris_Fourie_SA: It is OK to ask your @WhatsApp group(s) to change to Signal (@signalapp) yes... this is an OK thing to do 2021-01-12 12:53:57 My bosses are fantastic. They empower and support me Shout out to Francois, Theo, Theo and @Chief_ZA ! 2021-01-12 12:04:08 @bulele_bytes *think. Sorry, drunk 2021-01-12 12:03:52 @bulele_bytes You'd thought so right? I think I'm funny 2021-01-12 11:56:49 To clarify: This is a joke. No need to splain what data engineering is. This may or may not be my career 2021-01-12 11:42:21 @BundeAmoh It's a joke dear. No need to explain this 2021-01-12 11:05:07 @froztbyte Definitely the evolution. Tweet is largely in jest 2021-01-12 10:28:28 Remembering when "Data Engineering" was called "ETL" 2021-01-11 05:15:09 RT @dailymaverick: Daily Maverick 168: Bobi Wine calls for the international community to bring stability to Uganda https://t.co/AEQAsAYAzD 2021-01-11 05:11:11 RT @TheLitDoctors: Me seeing my Twitter friends that I’ve never met in person succeed. https://t.co/1hr015lFIZ 2021-01-10 22:40:17 RT @IanColdwater: @TinkerFairy_Net @d_feldman Oh, you think cloud native is your stack. But you merely adopted the cloud 2021-01-10 19:47:49 RT @alicegoldfuss: congrats to parler on their new serverless platform 2021-01-10 16:02:37 RT @jQueery_Queen: America is throwing so many errors right now. I'm just like.... https://t.co/guC6CyxtJR 2021-01-10 14:38:47 @chipro 5. Ensure business understands the metrics you're using - in fact, cose and report on a metric that allows them to make trade offs. E.g. ROC curves over accuracy give business more control (3/n) 2021-01-10 14:36:13 RT @chipro: Making slides for my course. Trying my best to prepare students for their machine learning job in the industry. What did you wi… 2021-01-10 14:35:47 @chipro 3. Benchmark your models inference speed (training speed != Inf speed and most places report training speed) 4. Talk to your UX team about model failures and how that impact user experience and how can design and good copy help with that 2021-01-10 14:34:55 @chipro 1. Ensure you can trace the deployed model back to the data that trained it. Model &amp 2. Discuss with the team how solving a "model bug" is different from solving normal software bugs. Usually more effort (1/n) 2021-01-10 14:29:06 RT @adjiboussodieng: To all the faculty who've taught at least once, what would you say is your best practice for effective teaching? What… 2021-01-10 12:31:51 RT @swardley: In the case of Parler, I would suggest they build a data centre, buy several very large mainframes, put lots of engineering e… 2021-01-10 11:28:05 I wish they'd do it more consistently though, as opposed to when it affects their finances only https://t.co/IFejrn1F5e 2021-01-10 08:24:22 RT @forealiously: nothing shows that these tech companies have just realized that it's not financially wise to support these groups, as opp… 2021-01-10 07:14:15 RT @Ayliean: I spend my life trying to *show* people Maths. Here are some of my art highlights from the past 4 years (in one minute) Nerd… 2021-01-10 07:10:11 RT @QuinnyPig: So there's a lot of confusion about what Parler being kicked off of Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) means. Let me do a quick… 2021-01-10 07:03:44 RT @Kschwenky: I can’t stop watching this https://t.co/tRebpQaorQ 2021-01-09 20:10:23 RT @ZackBornstein: Love how Pinterest snuck in here like Trump was radicalizing terrorists with rustic kitchen designs https://t.co/pGWt31P… 2021-01-09 20:09:12 I nearly engaged with Yann LeCunn on Twitter again, then I decided that I'd rather smash my head into a brick wall for a while instead. I think it would achieve more 2021-01-09 18:42:37 RT @TartanLlama: It comforts me sometimes that twitter's data on me is inaccurate enough that it think I'm a royalist https://t.co/44K2EXsD… 2021-01-09 18:12:50 RT @NovallSwift: This is now my default response when a Google recruiter emails me. @timnitGebru https://t.co/PgsGnsXj9P 2021-01-09 18:12:28 RT @wea_su: Diversity Funding To increase diversity, #WeaSuL2021 will offer subsidies to researchers from underrepresented groups to faci… 2021-01-09 16:19:29 RT @adjiboussodieng: "As I immersed myself in this Senegalese way of being, my Western walls melted away. Openness, generosity, warmth and… 2021-01-09 15:29:35 RT @Microsoft: It’s now safe to turn off your computer. 2021-01-09 13:05:42 RT @banQomania: Looking for volunteers to help annotate a Shona NER dataset for @MasakhaneNLP. No special skills required except being flue… 2021-01-09 06:34:21 In apartheid South Africa nogal. https://t.co/iLIW259N1b 2021-01-09 06:28:33 @medus4_cdc @Nanjala1, @africasacountry , @africaarguments, @africaiknow, @thecontinent_ 2021-01-09 06:21:05 RT @timnitGebru: Also I must have shared this paper before but while we're on the topic. I love this community and what they've been doing.… 2021-01-09 04:30:59 RT @QuinnyPig: I don't know that I can do @iancoldwater's response justice, but I'm going to assume that @peterskillman's question was sinc… 2021-01-09 04:23:59 @peterskillman Hah! How much time do you have? I'll fetch my binder 2021-01-09 04:18:13 RT @IanColdwater: @peterskillman @QuinnyPig Your console is designed using the Microsoft Outlook school of design, your documentation is a… 2021-01-09 04:17:10 RT @JenMsft: I can't stop laughing at not wanting to install a PWA cuz it is "Progressive" 2021-01-09 04:02:50 @Salem_Solomon @timnitGebru @MasakhaneNLP @ethionlp @meressa_musie Thank you Salem for the correction! We have something similar with languages. Zulu is the people, isiZulu is the language. Tswana is the people and Setswana is the language :) 2021-01-08 22:20:31 @timnitGebru @MasakhaneNLP @ethionlp @meressa_musie Got a grant hopefully in the pipeline to develop an Oromo dataset for translation! 2021-01-08 20:50:16 @timnitGebru @ethionlp @MasakhaneNLP So, I know the @ethionlp crew were working on Ge'ez and a number of other languages 2021-01-08 20:48:08 RT @timnitGebru: I would love to see this for more Ethiopian &amp 2021-01-08 14:03:35 RT @daddyhope: They say they are charging me with communicating falsehoods for tweeting that a child had been beaten up and died by a polic… 2021-01-08 14:03:00 Again?!?!? https://t.co/rezaxkDYf5 2021-01-08 12:37:45 RT @africaarguments: "The article’s premise is astounding. The piece is neither reporting nor analysis...The title is outlandish, lampoonin… 2021-01-08 10:43:11 RT @sjmgarnier: We're hiring a postdoc to study self-assemblages in army ants &amp + Funde… 2021-01-08 10:16:28 RT @DataScienceNIG: We are LIVE at the @IJCAIconf, the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Japan. We are prese… 2021-01-08 10:16:02 Unsure how I have survived this long without having listened to @YvesTumor So. Goddamn. Beautiful 2021-01-08 09:15:13 @JoziJs @midori_san_ sign up to speak at the thing 2021-01-08 09:11:52 RT @mikegeyser: If you wouldn't mind, pretty please retweet the quoted tweet for reach? https://t.co/LdqGukKyk2 2021-01-08 09:07:16 @StuartReid1929 @chrisinsilico @brave @firefox @QwantCom @DuckDuckGo @signalapp Hey @LiquiSue @roxisound and @Dad_a_bot - the time is now: https://t.co/SS2uaNdtvz Install @signalapp 2021-01-08 09:03:40 RT @StuartReid1929: In 2020 I badgered everyone incl. my 65yo Dad and 60yo father-in-law to read Mindf*ck by @chrisinsilico. Many switched… 2021-01-08 08:22:21 RT @DynamicWebPaige: What in the world... @ProjectJupyter notebooks in @MSExcel: https://t.co/YhhfulNB1O "Use #Excel as an interactiv… 2021-01-08 08:19:53 RT @crk5: Kookaburra refusing to budge.. https://t.co/zugpWzQXH8 2021-01-07 22:03:29 RT @gregslists1: @alienelf Awesome! Just heard another delightful quip on why this wasn't a coup: "It's not actually a coup unless it come… 2021-01-07 20:48:08 @fhuszar I mean, an anarchist who happens to be an architect would actually be the ideal individual 2021-01-07 20:32:55 Any architects or town planners who have really engaged with how working from home &amp 2021-01-07 17:58:44 RT @Abebab: after attending many session from THE computer vision conference I am convinced that computer vision is the most trashy, unsalv… 2021-01-07 16:53:12 RT @terrible_coder: me: oh hey u guys are done building early continuous integration: envvar's haunted me: what? continuous integratio… 2021-01-07 16:52:17 RT @Abebab: "There's a collective amnesia among computer vision researchers about how deeply horrific the dataset curation process is." "A… 2021-01-07 15:16:14 RT @ageoflui: https://t.co/lgbFYhgQpV https://t.co/MiQk5617cU 2021-01-07 13:21:07 RT @KimTommy92: Congratulations to my incredible friend @pamakuku who is a co-author on this new publication in @NatureComms! I had to catc… 2021-01-07 11:25:44 RT @julien_c: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 There's no time like 1.07.2021 2021-01-07 10:41:00 Actually DED https://t.co/JzyxnDX4ZA 2021-01-07 09:41:11 I've decided America doesn't really exist. I think it's actually all just Hollywood 2021-01-07 09:29:14 RT @Davis_McDavid: I'm happy to let you know that for anyone doing data science or #MachineLearning in #NLP. The Swahili news dataset is n… 2021-01-07 06:21:30 RT @nlp4d: Looking forward to the #AfricaNLP workshop at @eaclmeeting! https://t.co/2hViQCGLEN 2021-01-07 05:23:20 RT @gabrieloguda: Africans are increasingly getting worried about the violence currently going on in the United States, and would love to a… 2021-01-07 05:22:44 RT @rainnwilson: When the looting starts the ABSOLUTELY NOTHING starts. 2021-01-07 05:14:21 RT @MightiJamie: Let’s be clear. The party of Trump in South Africa is the @Our_DA and they get help from @Afriforum which used to go aro… 2021-01-07 05:06:06 RT @AI4Dev: We are looking for a researcher to undertake a 12 month paid Professional Development Award. They will be based in Nairobi and… 2021-01-07 04:57:29 RT @tamaranopper: During the entire time the mob held the city in its hands...the police and the legally constituted authorities showed pla… 2021-01-07 04:54:00 Shithole country https://t.co/WO6LdQKuiZ 2021-01-07 04:52:35 RT @JNalv: https://t.co/nSKz5iavCm 2021-01-07 04:51:58 RT @Mrhflrs: this is a really strange way to find out that cops know how to not use deadly force 2021-01-07 04:50:16 And yes, I think most democrats continue to under estimate the threat of their opponents. Y'all gotta stop making the same mistake 2021-01-07 04:48:16 RT @ChelseaHerps: Leaders of African countries saying "pray for America" is really doing it for me rn. 2021-01-07 04:48:02 RT @sciencewithtyus: Currently in my head rn watching the Capitol be stormed by Trump radicals: https://t.co/kpcBcLmlaz 2021-01-07 04:44:39 How is anyone at all "shocked" this is happening? It's in no way surprising Trump has been systematically undermining trust in democracy in the US for months now. That distrust won't end at the inauguration. It's as if people think ideas just die out &amp 2021-01-07 04:37:50 I been tryna tell people this for months. Your democracy has been undermined and it's not a joke. It's not going to be okay https://t.co/LP2QAQ0UfZ 2021-01-07 04:28:30 RT @lanceallred41: So is Kaepernick taking a knee still an inappropriate way to protest? 2021-01-07 04:27:46 RT @KimTommy92: White supremacists are terrorists and the fact that they are not branded as such is directly attributed to white privilege. 2021-01-06 22:09:00 RT @timnitGebru: @pmddomingos You can go fuck yourself. 2021-01-06 20:45:38 It looks like the trump supporters never planned for what they'd do once they got inside the Capitol 2021-01-06 20:42:43 Imma say this again. https://t.co/RyOC1YJ3SQ 2021-01-06 20:41:20 Imagine the police if it were black people storming Capitol Hill 2021-01-06 16:58:23 @alexthotse I'm on ubuntu :) 2021-01-06 15:18:39 RT @DataUmbrella: Join us for our #ScikitLearnSprint with a focus on Africa &amp 06-Feb-2021 10am to 2pm EAT Onli… 2021-01-06 15:17:27 @alexthotse I'm trying to diversify somewhat - even if it's not ENTIRELY moving away from Google. 2021-01-06 14:03:32 I mean, is that a thing organisations would even report on? Likely not. But it's genuinely something I want to know. Like, I don't want to be indirectly paying some of these companies money. 2021-01-06 13:54:42 @patkayongo That said, they're a lesser evil. I pay for service, I get it - it's transactional. Google I'm paying for in something other than my money 2021-01-06 13:53:26 @patkayongo Yeah, so I'm considering them for docs replacement. I don't wanna be bound into the Microsoft ecosystem entirely either 2021-01-06 13:46:58 Additional points if they're not hosted on GCloud or AWS. 2021-01-06 13:37:33 Name your fave alternatives to following google products: - Google Drive - Google Docs - Gmail - Google Calendar - Google Maps Looking to diversify 2021-01-06 13:35:09 RT @annargrs: Desperate SAC call! If you have published work on NLP interpretability/model analysis, and have NOT signed up to review for A… 2021-01-06 13:18:26 RT @Nanjala1: I'm looking to connect with folks from Asia and Latin America who are thinking about some of the stuff I'm working on in rela… 2021-01-06 13:17:34 RT @fionntan_tech: Have re-read and referred to this paper so many times in the past year. Also I think a great example of an "open audit"… 2021-01-06 13:17:18 RT @Abebab: Our paper 'Large Image Datasets: A Pyrrhic Win for Computer Vision?' is now live in the WACV 2021 proceedings! cc. @vinaypr… 2021-01-06 13:01:54 RT @RameezKhanSA: When you try to write a test in 2021 when you didn't TDD in 2020. https://t.co/NJhpf9DyBH 2021-01-06 12:58:54 RT @EmtiyazKhan: I will hold a mentoring session on Jan 12 at 5pm JST. @mpd37 is holding another one on Jan 11. Our hope is that many other… 2021-01-06 09:54:55 RT @Zamantungwa_K: Single women continue to dominate the first-time home buyers market! Last year, they purchased more property than any o… 2021-01-06 09:30:00 RT @Abebab: Bravo https://t.co/MCJnKOqK9N 2021-01-06 07:06:19 @MRGOLDISME I don't even have a vinyl player yet but I WANT ONE 2021-01-06 05:53:07 @irshaadv @shakir_za Yes, I'm hoping someone wiser will point me in the direction of the lit myself 2021-01-06 05:52:33 @irshaadv @shakir_za I feel like it falls under 2? I'm also trying to figure out where election manipulation goes 2021-01-06 04:41:53 RT @seb_ruder: The new version of the datasets library covers 467 (!) languages and dialects. That's a step change for the accessibility… 2021-01-06 04:38:09 There seem to be 2 mechanisms for social change in the world 1. Global disaster events causing large "paradigm shift"s in the way the world works 2. The slow steady grind of networks of grassroots movements The "critical yeast" as @shakir_za calls it 2021-01-05 21:27:37 @WaleAkinfaderin @busolaOsanusi Congratulations @busolaOsanusi !!!! 2021-01-05 21:27:09 RT @WaleAkinfaderin: 2. Also, @busolaOsanusi defended her PhD thesis yesterday. Her work is on Statistical methods for marked survival data… 2021-01-05 14:56:44 RT @lizthegrey: This is why corpcomm's job is inherently antithetical to worker organizing and is a form of union-busting -- because it cha… 2021-01-05 11:24:22 RT @Jen_Thorpe: Fellow researchers - where can I find gender disaggregated stats on the healthcare workforce in South Africa? 2021-01-05 10:51:40 @emeka_boris @Kelechukwu_ @WaleAkinfaderin Any GPU would help significantly. V100s are the best but very pricey 2021-01-05 10:37:36 @emeka_boris @Kelechukwu_ @WaleAkinfaderin So, no GPU? If you don't have a GPU on the machine, you're gonna struggle to get the latency down. Check your memory usage - the models themselves take up gigabytes of memory - so your machine will need to be BEEFY 2021-01-05 10:12:43 @emeka_boris @Kelechukwu_ @WaleAkinfaderin - Faster GPU - Distillation helps - How are you deploying/using it? Some TF tools help batch things 2021-01-05 07:43:06 RT @brittlepaper: "Choose a language, African I hope. Write. Write again. Write again and again. You will get it right." It's Ngũgĩ wa Thi… 2021-01-05 06:25:39 RT @forealiously: you could grind a company to a halt by having five strategically chosen tech employees go on a union strike. imagine if t… 2021-01-04 18:29:52 RT @chrisalbon: follow for hot vector on vector action https://t.co/1bT3Ygq8iU 2021-01-04 18:22:31 RT @mcmillen: In October 2017, I changed my Google corp profile photo to an upside-down-face smiley. My ex-colleagues at Google probably re… 2021-01-04 18:19:50 RT @alexhanna: This right here. Legal, HR, and Comms try to pick off workers, putting them in one on one meetings and derailing their conce… 2021-01-04 17:35:11 @WaleAkinfaderin Happy Birthday I hope this year is magnificent 2021-01-04 14:57:06 RT @chipro: The right tools can make you much more productive. Some of the favorite OSS tools I discovered recently. 1. JAX 2. jupytext 3.… 2021-01-04 14:09:46 @Abebab Congratulations! They're so lucky to have you 2021-01-04 12:06:21 RT @mer__edith: An all-Google union has been a LONG time in the making...and here it is! This is an incredible next step in building w… 2021-01-04 11:08:08 @Sewagodimo_M Congratulations! Tell us more! 2021-01-04 11:06:10 RT @derguene: @MasakhaneNLP («Nous construisons ensemble» en isiZulu) est une organisation dont la mission est de renforcer et de stimuler… 2021-01-04 11:01:58 RT @PfeiffJo: Check out our new paper: "UNKs Everywhere: Adapting Multilingual Language Models to New Scripts" We propose a series of meth… 2021-01-04 09:50:03 I have no idea what planning means anymore. 2021-01-04 09:32:42 RT @shanselman: Mute your microphone 2021 2021-01-03 15:29:03 RT @chipro: Things I keep telling myself I want to learn to be proficient but probably will just keep googling the same questions for the r… 2021-01-02 11:28:58 @SalomonKabongo @zoom_us Congratulations!!! 2021-01-02 08:06:21 RT @ctrlshifti: https://t.co/bKLTIedfwr 2021-01-01 09:04:51 RT @math_rachel: What was your favorite paper/article/essay you read in 2020? 2021-01-01 09:04:23 RT @timnitGebru: May those of us who survived 2020 &amp 2021-01-01 08:54:26 RT @mmitchell_ai: On the ICLR ethics board, realizing that the presumable changes @JeffDean and others wanted on The Paper with @timnitGebr… 2020-12-31 14:30:27 RT @alexhanna: In @WIRED today, @mer__edith and I write on how the firing of @timnitGebru exposes the dual crisis of AI research: failures… 2020-12-30 05:54:50 RT @NirantK: Prof. @emilymbender, @seb_ruder, @alienelf -- would you help them reach non-English NLP communities as well please? E.g. by s… 2020-12-29 13:53:29 RT @natschluter: This is incredibly sad. Nobody should feel any degree of security under such conditions. https://t.co/7fdLFTdpzM 2020-12-29 05:58:32 @ruohoruotsi @MasakhaneNLP 2020-12-28 21:19:32 RT @timnitGebru: This chat is how I found out I was resignated. From my direct report in shock who was trying to reach me. I then informed… 2020-12-28 14:18:58 RT @alexhanna: AI darling Andrew Ng doing some mighty wild rewriting of facts in his weekly newsletter. "Gebru and Google subsequently par… 2020-12-28 09:10:34 I've noticed how discourse around algorithmic decision making seems largely driven by AI ethics discussions and research But tech has been doing algorithmic decision making for a very very long time. What are some pre-ML-hype readings on algorithmic decision making? 2020-12-28 08:36:25 Of all the pain that 2020 has brought, I was enriched by being able to connect with so many people virtually. Many various networks of underrepresented ppl in tech I am present in have become denser, more well connected, more robust - leaping beyond geographic barriers 2020-12-28 08:05:49 @SalomonKabongo @froztbyte Same here! 2020-12-28 07:23:24 @SalomonKabongo @froztbyte Keen to go surfing sometime! Hopefully next in person conference has a great surf spot 2020-12-28 07:22:21 @OMAwoleye @siminyu_kat @iclr_conf Virtual :) and there is sponsorship 2020-12-27 16:35:17 RT @RealAbril: Can confirm... It's one of their 4 hiring metrics "Googlyness"... My hbcu kids were routinely given lower scores here in fe… 2020-12-27 14:49:36 RT @QueerZoomer: Just signed up to be a mentor! I encourage other folks to sign up as well. https://t.co/cLdd3iSa77 2020-12-27 12:20:54 RT @svpino: An introduction to one of the the most basic structures used in machine learning: a tensor. 2020-12-27 12:14:54 RT @bonadossou: Get ready to submit at AfricanNLP at EACL 2021. I'm also open to research ideas and collaborations https://t.co/UojYoTRc… 2020-12-27 11:23:12 What's your superpower? 2020-12-27 11:13:41 Start readying your submissions for #AfricaNLP workshop at @eaclmeeting 2021!!! Submit your papers by Feb. 5 https://t.co/k63ihXOQRt Peer Mentorship (new!) https://t.co/g82n4hgRWA Join us on slack for Q&amp https://t.co/VmwrRYKJhj #SautiYetu https://t.co/6YVBmtVFCJ 2020-12-27 04:53:28 RT @walfieee: escape room concept: - you are a software engineeer - there is a production issue related to a legacy codebase - no one knows… 2020-12-26 17:19:47 @froztbyte (muizenberg, ps: in CT,very last minute. Let me know if we should grab a coffee) 2020-12-26 16:09:57 Went surfing for the first time today. 2020-12-23 11:06:26 RT @tamati_biskit: Lol, just got out of a meeting. “You need to speak to the technical person developing this”. To which I had to respond,… 2020-12-23 10:54:19 RT @seb_ruder: I hope that this year was an extreme outlier and that 2021 will be again more in-distribution. With that, the last NLP News… 2020-12-23 08:17:47 Starting to wonder if the right space for me to be in is tech policy 2020-12-23 08:13:12 @abdallah197_ I was jamming with Indaba folk last night @tamati_biskit @plzchair and @gemmadawsonza I think we were channeling that Indaba energy 2020-12-23 07:51:34 @hanligeyser @mikegeyser Excited! https://t.co/gmLijKX7PC 2020-12-23 07:29:32 I'm looking for someone to blame for this hangover. I'm pretty sure it's @KimTommy92 because she's so fantastic and wins so many awards that we need to celebrate. 2020-12-23 07:21:57 @iamukasa A perfect one has been mixed. So far so good https://t.co/2DM6zkn2l5 2020-12-23 07:14:55 @iamukasa Attempting a bloody mary 2020-12-23 07:00:45 @iamukasa I'm here https://t.co/xnnwm4Sszy 2020-12-23 06:55:55 @iamukasa The wrong part was the multiple bottles of wine that those plastic glasses helped me finish 2020-12-23 06:52:22 @iamukasa I'm not sure epic is the correct word for what is happening to me at the moment 2020-12-23 06:34:23 Fam, I'm going through the most right now, so y'all just gonna have to unfollow me if live-tweeted breakdowns is not your sort of content 2020-12-23 06:29:50 I have regrets. https://t.co/kkk6oM3Lz7 2020-12-23 05:32:59 Waking up after a night of drinking wine is like a surprise scavenger hunt where I slowly discover all the random voice notes I sent, people I called, conversations I had. Throughout my day these little gems will pop up 2020-12-23 05:28:32 RT @chipro: Is your model fast? No Is it cheap? No Does it at least solve our problem? No … But it’s StAtE oF tHe ArT 2020-12-23 04:10:19 RT @hadyelsahar: All you need to know about #AfricaNLP workshop at @eaclmeeting 2021 Submit your papers by Feb. 5 https://t.co/KeUB6M… 2020-12-23 03:50:06 RT @itskristofer: bless his sweet cishet heart https://t.co/IQDk8EPtN2 2020-12-23 03:33:46 RT @emilymbender: I'm happy to announce that our paper (with @timnitgebru &amp 2020-12-22 12:00:06 Got some plastic wine glasses this time. Clumsy &amp 2020-12-22 11:51:19 RT @shakir_za: Related to this paper, I gave a talk recently about writing technique and the tools we had in mind when writing this paper.… 2020-12-22 11:49:52 RT @IndigenousAI: google's unofficial motto used to be "don't be evil" then it was "at least we're not facebook lol" now it's prob just an… 2020-12-22 11:46:41 @mikegeyser Exactly! You and @hanligeyser should come for a wine in the new year when things are less scary 2020-12-22 11:08:10 Current shopping list: - Ice - Moar wine - Most wine glasses 2020-12-22 09:38:00 RT @forealiously: HR might sometimes help you deal with a bad coworker, but HR will never help you deal with a bad company. Do not trust th… 2020-12-22 08:21:31 RT @DeepIndaba: Congratulations to the 1st #IndabaXTogo Amazing pictures and so much effort to make this happen, especially in these… 2020-12-22 08:21:16 RT @Abebab: These images of the ancient Nubian kingdom look like something out of a scene from a sci-fi movie https://t.co/7ndzlBpZ36 2020-12-22 06:17:21 RT @AlaricPrins: Tell me again how this system isn’t highly engineered to function at the detriment of its citizens https://t.co/HhZdz7xBaq 2020-12-22 05:50:52 RT @daanvanesch: "We are seeking a cohort of scholars working with diverse languages that currently lack NLP resources. No technical experi… 2020-12-22 05:23:28 RT @RealAbril: Be very clear, I have 2 degrees including a master's from Johns Hopkins. I'm a brilliant orator and an even better writer. I… 2020-12-22 05:04:53 RT @EricaJoy: i mean idk how many more receipts about overt racism at google y’all need at this point, but here’s more. https://t.co/HPT9mj… 2020-12-22 05:02:58 There is one tiny silver lining to this disgusting saga: Google's PR team (who I've detested for a long time for many reasons) have been hurt by this. Complete backfire! They SEVERELY underestimated Timnit's support from the press, from government, from the community https://t.co/xXdHJmdJ2L 2020-12-22 04:52:34 RT @nijfranck: I interned @Google my freshman year and this wouldn’t have been possible without April and her advocacy and support. Thanks… 2020-12-22 04:41:03 The bar is measured in how similar to the Stanford curriculum the syllabus is, not on quality or diversity It's the opposite of diversity. You're not going to find diversity by looking for people with identical education. THIS is what structural racism looks like everyone https://t.co/qnSPAeQuye 2020-12-22 04:34:47 RT @annargrs: Our BERT subnet study made it to @gradientpub! Joint work with @sai_prasanna &amp TLDR: lottery ticket hypothesis h… 2020-12-22 04:31:59 RT @devonbl: If you ask me to schedule a meeting for you, I will not. 2020-12-22 04:30:32 I'm not surprised at all. Google's recruitment has always been the sign they don't actually support D&amp The D&amp And they refuse to #ListenToBlackWomen who are trying to fix it https://t.co/h64Nk9WMS5 2020-12-21 16:50:04 RT @timnitGebru: I mean he is literally the *only* senior person who one can point to that is doing the right thing and people are trying t… 2020-12-21 15:54:33 @d_ozbagci Twitter is not the answer. We'll zoom them 2020-12-21 09:49:48 @oanacamb This looks fantastic! Thank you! 2020-12-21 08:08:29 So @dionnewarwick Twitter is the only Twitter you're allowed to be on this December. And she's taking a rest, so go rest https://t.co/1s3ZwvEtko 2020-12-21 06:13:31 @diversekhaulat You too 2020-12-21 06:02:29 @quantadan Then we should find elsewhere to engage. I highly recommend zoom calls with bottles of wine 2020-12-21 06:00:21 Fam, I think we need to stop tweeting for 2020. We tired. We must rest. Everyone is just saying nonsense now. Let's get off here and go spend time with friends and family. 2020-12-21 05:28:36 RT @timnitGebru: But what happens is you see who stays quiet to be on the safe side, who spews our platitudes that don’t really mean anythi… 2020-12-21 05:27:35 RT @timnitGebru: This is what always happens. Everyone says they’re against these things but when met with the specifics they either “both… 2020-12-20 21:58:28 RT @chrisalbon: Make a normal distribution 2020-12-20 21:46:07 RT @vboykis: Lame: Trying to keep up with ML frameworks Game: Trying to keep up with ML controversies 2020-12-20 06:46:57 To @hadyelsahar for your expertise, your guidance, leadership, voice and initiative. Thank you for amplifying our spirit of rebellion and helping us navigate the chaos of the research world 2020-12-20 06:09:03 Thank you to Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga for driving our data gathering via SA parliament. You approached Masakhane with excitement, energy, bravery and enthusiasm and you inspire me! Working with translators is necessary to building something relevant and we're so grateful 2020-12-20 06:05:10 Thank you to @s_olabiyi for your brilliant ideas, your ability to organise, and leadership. You were one of our earliest participants. And I'll always remember you demanding for African relevant data and just appearing the next week having started gathering sentences thank you 2020-12-20 06:02:21 Thank you to @Shmuhammadd for your dedication, leadership, initiative, great ideas Thank you for your initiative to expand Masakhane to new tasks 2020-12-20 06:02:20 Thank you to @categitau_ for your efforts to lower the barriers to participation in the movement, your initiative, and your energy 2020-12-20 05:58:11 Thank you to @igezeani for your leadership, inspiration, endless support, passion, community. Thank you for opening opportunities for everyone, and for always focusing on African-centricity 2020-12-20 05:55:54 To @ruohoruotsi for your leadership, your mentorship, and ideas Your work on Niger Volta languages was such an early inspiration to me when the field was a desert 2020-12-19 11:55:21 RT @garybernhardt: Twitter: do not fix carp. Carp is a feature. Let us have this 2020-12-19 11:55:12 carp 2020-12-19 07:33:32 @KimTommy92 There are mimosas waiting at the end of the tunnel good luck and see you on the other side 2020-12-18 22:49:03 RT @chrisalbon: There are two types of mentors: First, mentors who give you advice. Second, mentors who get you speaking gigs, hire you,… 2001-01-01 01:01:01