Somewhere in Kigali

For anyone wondering about this, there are many who look Ethiopian, that's all I can say! Answer found so time to get back✌️

Anthropic🤔

Judging in a hackathon is really hard!

Key take aways from the hackathon:

- People trust AI too much and not do much of customizations.

- Super far fetched ideas that are very idealistic.

- You can build great projects with Vibe coding these days, which is cool.

- You don't need to solve big problems, you can just build fun/cool things for a hackathon.

Maybe don't use an LLM for _everything_?

They showed that agentic pipelines that mix LLM-prompt steps with principled techniques can yield better, more personalized summaries

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09369

This is really good. I finished watching it and reading the paper.

ICML 2024 Tutorial: Physics of Language Models

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBL7J0kgldU

Seems a bit better than last year for us. You could count the number of Ethiopians using one hand last year. In fact we were only 3 I'd say.

ACL 2025

This is a cool list. Alec and Noam being in top 5 with no Phd is the greatest thing ever.


https://www.metislist.com/

I'm glad to be ranked 80th world wide, thanks Francois Chollet.

Python 3.14 is here with some exciting updates for developers!

The biggest news for most of you is the improved performance for multi-threaded apps thanks to official support for free-threaded Python.

Plus, a new concurrent.interpreters module opens the door for true multi-core parallelism within a single process, offering a new way to write concurrent code that bypasses the GIL for better efficiency.

You'll also find smarter error messages to help you debug faster. Keep an eye out for these changes making your coding life a bit easier!

Test the JIT build of CPython by adding export PYTHON_JIT=1 as new environment variable.

https://docs.python.org/3.14/whatsnew/3.14.html

I think most of the great researchers are engineers too to some extent.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Leo Tolstoy


Well, unless you’re pretraining a model. Then, it’s data, data, data, GPUs, GPUs, GPUs, and luck

We finished our workshop at ACL 2025. Couldn't be there in person this year but glad i took part to organize AfricaNLP workshop.

https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2025/home

🔥 Genie 3: A new frontier for world models from Deepmind.

What if you could not only watch a generated video, but explore it too?

Genie 3 is our groundbreaking world model that creates interactive, playable environments from a single text prompt.

From photorealistic landscapes to fantasy realms, the possibilities are endless.

More

Try this to transcribe audios, a work from Hasab AI 🔥🔥🔥@myhasabaibot

Divine benevolence😎 Noam Shazeer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05202

GPT-5 seems like a nice web developer. Though, I believe that frontend is going to be the field that will stay regardless of AI/AGI !

Here for a week.

Apply to Cohere's Scholars Program

https://cohere.com/research/scholars-program