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[Dave Rogenmoser ⛳️🤖🦄 @DaveRogenmoser]

Welp, Jasper just raised a $125 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation.

From launch to unicorn in 18 months. 🦄

We’re one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, but our journey to this point was FAR bumpier than you may think.

A thread… 🧵

[Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi]

We spoke to 50+ Web 3 metaverse companies in the past year.

My takeaways, summarized.

[Joe Portsmouth @joe_portsmouth]

If you're 47 or younger, you're a time billionaire.

Are you using that time wisely?

THREAD: How to get more value out of your time.

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

"Mobile-Former: Bridging MobileNet and Transformer". Combines the depthwise and pointwise convolutions of MobileNet with cross-attention to capture global feats. Not SOTA, but great performance for this relatively small computational footprint. https://t.co/QdEaUqAC87

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

Our new AI system learned speech recognition in English with *zero* speech to text training data: researchers just gave it lots of audio, and it figured out what the words were. But it goes way beyond that - it learned Swahili too!

[Michael Auli @MichaelAuli]

Today we are announcing our work on building speech recognition models without any labeled data! wav2vec-U rivals some of the best supervised systems from only two years ago.

Paper: https://t.co/cYzF9MGu56
Blog: https://t.co/iiGmgdnCiV
Code: https://t.co/TQ56tT0unx

[Sage Elliott @sagecodes]

Cuda support is coming to WSL! #MSBuild
https://t.co/oVJxHkNioZ

[Pycon Africa @pyconafrica]

PyCon Africa 2020 is going virtual!

Our CFP is officially open and we encourage you to submit a talk from wherever you are in the world 🌍
Visit https://t.co/VrGpKoyA1b for the full announcement.

#PyConAfrica2020 #PyCon #Python

[Hugging Face @huggingface]

Let’s democratize NLP for all languages! 🌎🌎🌎

Today, with v2.9.1, we are releasing 1,008 machine translation models, covering ` of 140 different languages trained by @jorgtiedemann with @marian, ported by @sam_shleifer. Find your language here: https://t.co/9EMtfopij3 [1/4]

[The Skeptic @TheSkeptic21]

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020.

To the Women passionate about STEM, thank you for your work & your tenacious pursuit of excellence & truth.

To the Girls passionate about STEM, your curiosity is the foundation of our future.

🧪🥼👩‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬🥼🧪

[𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕖 𝕟𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕚 𝕠𝕞𝕒 🔆 @chinasza]

Today, I had the pleasure of watching Rediet Abebe @red_abebe successfully defend her dissertation.

She will be the 1st Black woman to graduate with a PhD in Computer Science from @CornellCIS. My heart is so full!

[Peter Mwangangi @PeteMwangangi]

What can artificial intelligence do for you? Young innovators in South Africa and Kenya went head-to-head, in a hackathon challenge, to crack that answer! Here’s my latest for @BBCWorld News - Focus on Africa @AIKENYA1 @ZindiAfrica @Impact_chaser @MaryDancilla

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

If you want to keep up with the most important changes to fastai (API breaking changes, major new features, most significant bug fixes) you can subscribe to notifications here:
https://t.co/ePx3u2Kcdv

[This Is Africa @ThisIsAfricaTIA]

4. 19-year-old Ethiopian software engineer @betelhem_dessie is  at the forefront of tech in Ethiopia. She runs five projects and works at Ethiopia’s first Artificial Intelligence Lab, @iCog_Labs. She is interested in solving people’s problems by using simple yet effective tools.

[KDnuggets @kdnuggets]

Top 7 Data Science Use Cases in Travel https://t.co/5uRr4EaR5C

[Victor Schmidt 💀🐔 @vict0rsch]

.@MILAMontreal is hiring interns work with Pr. Yoshua Bengio! You'd work on an interdisciplinary project to fight #ClimateChange along with @MSFTResearch and @element_ai. Not only #ML: also #BehavioralSciences | Climate/Econ. Modeling topics => https://t.co/N1exnMuCNL #CCAI

[Forbes @Forbes]

Rediet Abebe, Co-Founder of Black in AI, talks about the need for more diversity in AI job roles, and why she founded her own organization
https://t.co/LfrGyjt6D7 #paid @intel

[Semhar @Semhar]

Amazing work by Ms. Rediet Abebe @red_abebe, Co-Founder of @Black_In_AI, who talks w @Forbes about the need for more diversity in AI job roles & why she founded her org.
#Diaspora #Africa #Ethiopia #US
https://t.co/QYBrwBuVyw cc: @anildash @ReignOfApril

[Sebastian Ruder @seb_ruder]

A new bigger, better language model by @OpenAI:
- Scaled-up version of their Transformer (10x params)
- Trained on 10x more curated data (40 GB of Reddit out links w/ >2 karma)
- SOTA on many LM-like tasks
- Discuss potential for malicious use
https://t.co/4hnXa8DsJx