Binyam

Data science - deep learning

[World Peace Foundation @WorldPeaceFdtn]

“Famine is stalking parts of Ethiopia. The epicentre is in the northern Tigray region.” Read the latest from Alex de Waal in @BBCWorld.
https://t.co/zRE2d8GR1T

[Albert Gu @_albertgu]

Quadratic attention has been indispensable for information-dense modalities such as language... until now.

Announcing Mamba: a new SSM arch. that has linear-time scaling, ultra long context, and most importantly--outperforms Transformers everywhere we've tried.

With @tri_dao 1/

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@bernhardsson @cHHillee @HamelHusain Also this: https://t.co/lah87khHte

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@bernhardsson @cHHillee @HamelHusain Maybe this: https://t.co/EiNz8ctY4V

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@fchollet @mmitchell_ai The no free lunch theorem states: “any two optimization algorithms are equivalent when their performance is averaged across all possible problems" - does this imply that all intelligences are equal if averaged over all tasks and that there is no general intelligence?

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@yoavgo @timnitGebru Why do you ask? You don’t care about the truth anyway, did you change your mind?👇🏿

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@yoavgo @kendmil What is your evidence for actual genocide against Amhara? And that it is committed by Tigray? Tigray did not commit genocide. In fact, it is a victim of it. Do you know that Tigray, with 6 millions, was besieged for two years? Do you know > 600,000 died? https://t.co/4zj9uqpqb1

[Binyam @BinyamGGebre]

@yoavgo “Amhara genocide by the Tigray TPLF, with 2-6M people (!!) gone since 1990” - you are taking this as a fact and this is dangerous because this was one of the narratives of the forces that invaded Tigray and put it under siege, causing unspeakable suffering to millions.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

There are a lot of things wrong with this world…

but too much intelligence is not one of them.

[World Peace Foundation @WorldPeaceFdtn]

"The tragedy of the Sudanese marginalised is that the man who is posing as their champion is the ruthless leader of a band of vagabonds, who has been supremely skillful in playing the transnational military marketplace." - Alex de Waal on Hemedti. https://t.co/qHNO1bK3V2

[World Peace Foundation @WorldPeaceFdtn]

"The atrocities were very deliberate, very intimate and very targeted. On top of that, they weren’t really recognized internationally.” Alex de Waal is quoted in Spiegel, reckoning with atrocities committed in Ethiopia's civil war. #WorldPeaceWednesdays https://t.co/8M7qjAPO7z

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

Today, Secretary Blinken has announced the findings of the State Department's review of atrocities reported during the war in northern #Ethiopia:
🔹all parties to the conflict committed war crimes
🔹the ENDF, EDF, and Amhara forces committed crimes against humanity in Tigray

[Dade Desta @DadeDesta]

The Maryam Shewito massacre by Eritrean forces vividly recaptured by Washington Post here: https://t.co/za9lr9SDve

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

In late 2021, the State Dept's top Africa official told Congress that the Dept had decided to "refrain from making a public determination" on whether abuses in #Ethiopia's #Tigray region constituted war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide "to make room for diplomacy."

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

I’m delighted to have copies of my book with Sarah Vaughan. Finally published!

https://t.co/N0qRvHsAhS

[Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie @GebrekirstosG]

ጀነራል ፃድቃን፡ ክይግበሩ ኣለዎም ዝበሎም ብዙሓት ሓሳባት ለውጢ ኣቕሪቡ ነይሩ/ኣሎ። ብ ሓቂ ፅቡቓት ሓሳባት እዮም። እዞም ሓሳባት እንተ ተግቢሮም፡ ትግራይ ክትልዓል ትኽእል እያ። ብ ትብዓት ሓሳቡ ስለ ዘቕረበልና እኣመስግኖ።
https://t.co/gehOvSFffI

[Kjetil Tronvoll @KjetilTronvoll]

1/12: Analysing politics in #Ethiopia is to try to capture a moving target. Our scholarly approach and understanding have over decades been "blunted" by the incessant fundamental political events happening every so often: large scale conflicts, mass atrocities, revolutions, etc.

[Tigrai Television @Tigrai_TV]

Egela Massacre Mourning
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Residents call for the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean troops while remembering the summary execution of more than 75 civilians
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For More: https://t.co/aoCCUtRFOZ

[Tghat ትግሃት @TghatMedia]

Amhara authorities demand 20K Birr & hold more than 300 Tigray-bound trucks between Kobo and Woldia. After charging the money & holding the trucks for 4 days, they have now told them to return [towards Addis]. But they have allowed khat & beer to pass.
https://t.co/jS5mQbFD8V