David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸

CS PhD Student @WestVirginiaU

AI, Deep Learning, Computer Vision

Writer 🖋

Violinist 🎻

Christian ✝️

[David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @DavidBabalola19]

The second half of 2024 has been exciting. In August 2024, I left Nigeria to begin a fully funded Ph.D. program in Computer Science at @WestVirginiaU. In my PhD journey, I will work with my advisor, Dr. Amr El-Wakeel, at the Intelligent Cyber-physical Systems Research (iCPS) Lab.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Do a flip for no reason

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at https://t.co/cLu9I7M2wC

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at https://t.co/arzrqInqJA

[Kalshi FC @KalshiFC]

Messi received a standing ovation after bidding farewell to his father and returning to the field. ❤️

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

❤️‍🩹🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “Dad, you kept asking me to play in one last World Cup… just days before it began was when your condition got worse”.

“It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at tournament… but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel”.

“I kept telling you we were going to reach the World Cup final so you could make the trip, this was my mission once again”.

“After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was”.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games”.

“We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t”.

“My legs just couldn’t give me any more”.

“This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t”.

“I never managed to feel physically right”.

“We didn’t become champions Dad, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it… as you told me, always”.

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Our deepest condolences. May Jorge Messi rest in peace.

[🇦🇷 Selección Argentina ⭐⭐⭐ @Argentina]

Mucha fuerza, Leo Messi y familia. Estamos con ustedes en este difícil momento. Les enviamos nuestro más sentido abrazo.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

[David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @DavidBabalola19]

@JeffDean Congratulations, Jeff! You're truly an inspiration!!!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just shared some changes we’re making to the teams at @GoogleDeepMind.

@DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs. He’ll be able to dedicate his time and focus on shaping the future of AGI and scientific discovery. It’s work that is vitally important to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t imagine a better person than Demis to do it. He’ll stay closely connected to Koray and the GDM teams.

@Koraykv will become the SVP, @GoogleDeepMind, responsible for all aspects of model development, GDM research, and @Geminiapp & dev teams. Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands!

Excited for this next chapter. You can read my note along with the message Demis sent to @GoogleDeepMind here: https://t.co/mvsvrDUai7

[signüll @signulll]

if you’ve ever spent time around google, you know this slide design has carried some of the most legendary work in the company’s history.

i remember reading decks in this exact format that now feel like historical documents for all of humanity.

now imagine being a vc in the room when this slide goes up. it should likely make any venture capitalist feel tiny & insignificant. these are ppl who helped invent, scale, or materially advance modern computing / internet in ways ppl could only dream of. i mean just one of these would be a huge accomplishment for most ppl.

finally the good news for vc’s is that jeff dean’s startup will probably have negative burn because the compute will pay him to be used.

what an absolutely remarkable run.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

I also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his own public benefit corporation with @Sanjay_Ghemawat focused on accelerating discoveries across ML, science, & engineering. @Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with Jeff and Sanjay, and I wish them all the best. Thank you for everything!

[David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @DavidBabalola19]

Dragon Fist 3

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Spanish players from Barca: We really wanted to win, but it would have been fine if you had won too.

Messi: Same here. We all won.

Same football heritage, different nationalities.

[David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @DavidBabalola19]

💯

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

THIS!!! I keep ignoring them. They have messed up this space.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

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[adidas Football @adidasfootball]

GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

[Ballon d'Or @ballondor]

SIMPLY... THANK YOU, LEO. 🇦🇷✨

Lionel Messi has played his final World Cup match. 💔🏆

It was a journey filled with records, goals, and glory. Your legacy and your 8 Ballons d'Or are eternal. 🌕

🔗 More about his golden career on https://t.co/qkKEZsNOIB!

#ballondor #worldcup #argentina #messi

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🇦🇷 Football = completed. ✅

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Thank you for everything.

Dropping one of the best World Cup campaigns at the age of 39.

Greatest sportsman of all time.

Greatest player in history of the sport.

[David Babalola 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 @DavidBabalola19]

🐐

[GOAL @goal]

Lionel Messi's officially passed the torch onto Lamine Yamal 🐐🤝