Chandler

Peace Researcher. Wartime Destruction.

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@JarryWotter @goteborgsuni This is big! Congrats!!

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

👀 Check out thus impressive and important recently fine-tuned model for Albanian! Thanks Kushtrim!!

[Kushtrim Visoka @kushtrimvisoka]

This week, Mozilla published the Common Voice 18 dataset, which includes around 4 hours of Albanian speech, thanks to the tireless work of Flossk activists. Using this dataset, I fine-tuned the Whisper Medium in Google Colab, achieving promising results.
https://t.co/ZlMAjsFlEw

[Kushtrim Visoka @kushtrimvisoka]

A sneak peek of the process.

Step 1: Segment article
Step 2: Convert to plain text - OCR
Step 3: Machine translation to any language

So far, I have segmented around 52K articles. :)

#GazetaBujku #AI #History #Kosova #HumanRights

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@kushtrimvisoka Urimë Pavarsia Kushtrim!

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

Thrilled to share that today is my first day as a Doctoral Researcher at @PRIOresearch on @HavardHegre's ANTICIPATE (@VIEWS_Uppsala ) project. I’ll develop forecasting methods to improve predictions of how armed groups engage in conflict and the negative impacts of their actions.

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@HCeku @HCeku do you know whether a list of these sites exists? Or where to find the list of these sites?

[PRIO @PRIOresearch]

Predicting the number of fatalities in armed conflicts is challenging, and early warnings save lives. Participation is now open to the 2023/24 @VIEWS_Uppsala for models that forecast conflict intensity. Deadline for abstract submission: June 1st. https://t.co/RTwizpEFVn

[EU Council @EUCouncil]

📢 EU countries have agreed: Kosovo* passport holders will be able to travel to the EU without a visa.

The new rules need to be adopted by the @Europarl_EN before entering into force. They will apply by 1 January 2024 at the latest.

More about the EU visa policy ⬇️

#JHA

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@undertheraedar @andriiish thought you might find this interesting!

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@DataChaz @googlesheets @OpenAI @SteveNouri @jacob_nyrup I’m not sure how functional this is for the dataset with the more obscure countries, but perhaps worth looking into?

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@_ipno_ @JonasVestby not sure if this is useful for Legacy, but an interesting data portal nonetheless!

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

@BIRN_Network @SimoneSessolo

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

Tensions appear to be cooling. Vucic, originally fueling the fire, now backing off his provocation

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Serbian president @avucic said KFOR commander will meet Srpska lista president Goran Rakic at midnight in north part of Mitrovica.

“I hope that this will be de-escalated tomorrow and that we will reach peace with new compromise solutions”, he told Pink television via telephone.

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Serbian president @avucic said KFOR commander will meet Srpska lista president Goran Rakic at midnight in north part of Mitrovica.

“I hope that this will be de-escalated tomorrow and that we will reach peace with new compromise solutions”, he told Pink television via telephone.

[Admirim @admirim]

Serbian ruling party MP: "Serbia will have no choice but to begin the de-Nazification of the Balkans."

This is not somehow vaguely similar to Putin's playbook, it's exactly the same playbook.

[Petrit Selimi @Petrit]

Radio Free Europe reporting both Kosovo police and NATO forces have now deployed additional units in north Kosovo in response to the crisis and the barricades erected by Serb militants. At the same time, Belgrade propaganda machinery tonight in overdrive.

[Xhemajl Rexha @xhemajl_rexha]

Breaking: US Ambassador to #Kosovo, Hovenier has asked the Government to postpone start of reciprocity measures with #Serbua for a month, because of 'misunderstanding of its implications'.

[Chandler @_ChandlerWill]

Tensions flaring in Kosovo.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Protesters in Sri Lanka have stormed the president's home in their nation's capital.

This should be much bigger news.