SMA time 👀

Ask Me Anything

questions, opinions, hot takes, whatever’s on your mind.

IT is Anonymous for those of you who haven't used this platform before

https://sma.et/b/l14zqylZhDYe

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-niche down the industry u want to dominate
-have an online presence
-if you are new to the industry do hackathons(they help out a lot)
-identify which companies are dominating your field and build something related with them

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a good question to start our SMA

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I am Yeabsera (ppl around me call me rizz😉)
I am a GC this year
I am an AI engineer
I like to teach
I work with startups
I have won 3 hackathon's
I am obsessed with 3D Animation lately

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AASTU

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u peps are shy to ask i seeeeee...no payment tho ask away😁

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choose your team wisely, make sure they are hungry to win like you...

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I’ve failed a lot. But someone close to me once taught me that clinging to failure won’t make me the person I want to become.

So whenever I fail:

-I remind myself why I’m doing all this hustling and what my goal is.
-I actually like failure sometimes, because it shows me what I was doing wrong and gives me something to learn from.
-I write down everything I’m feeling. It helps me process it instead of carrying it around.

And most importantly, I remind myself that the point isn’t to never fail. It’s to learn how to get back up, over and over again.

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Honestly, I think it started with curiosity. I’ve always been interested in what happens behind the scenes how computers learn, recognize patterns and make decisions. That curiosity eventually led me to take an AI Fundamentals course with a lagging pc in aastu library since my laptop was broken at that time and after that I started building projects and experimenting with ML and computer vision.

Then I joined my first inperson AI hackathon, which happened to be focused on AI agents, and winning that hackathon made me want to go even deeper into the field. Since then I’ve just kept learning and building.

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Thanks for everyone who participated in the SMA🙏

Goodnight

Be nerds for the thing you are interested in..

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fanccccy...🔥🔥

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All I do is win. Everywhere I go.

Even at a game of Charades with complete strangers I would never met before, somehow we ended up winning for our team😁

We get to choose from items and i choose this Fidget Dice

Not a bad way to kick off the AWS Student Group memebers introduction session. it is gonna be a fun year

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This is what happens when you spend too much time indoors and online

I speak in thought now, instead of thoughts in words.

This is me since i spend most of the time at home on my pc i can't communicat clearly in person

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I built something fun for the community using JEV.

You type what you are looking for. A topic, a question, or just a vibe.

The channels that fit the question rise up in seconds.

https://pile.sanyi.space/
Go try it.

built by @imsanyi

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ayii eloon

if you know ball u know what am talkin abt

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AASTU areee you Ready for a hackathooon..?

We present to you AWS AASTU 2026 hackathon

🏆 PRIZES

🥇 1st Place —> 15,000 ETB
🥈 2nd Place —> 10,000 ETB
🥉 3rd Place —> 5,000 ETB
🎟 Plus AWS Exam Vouchers ( 100$ - 300 $)

📜 All eligible participants will receive a certificate.

Register Here :- Link

⚠️ IMPORTANT
Before applying for the hackathon, all participants must register on Meetup  for the upcoming  community day.

Deadline: Oct 10

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