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Abdoulaye Diack

@diack.bsky.social

Program Manager ML & AI @ Google Research | Ex-Google Brain. Speaker (FR/EN) Abdoulaye.ai ⠦ Thinking... 🌍 Accra, Ghana (cover photo: Dar Es Saalam, circa 2015)

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WHO@who.int · 4d ago

The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the #DRC is intensifying, with sustained transmission, rising cases and deaths, and expanding geographic spread. This is now the largest #Ebola outbreak ever reported in the country. Full report, read here: bit.ly/4g6lLeH

Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo Disease Outbreak News, 1 Aug 2026
Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 4w ago

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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Abdoulaye Diack@diack.bsky.social · last mo.

Volcano activity detected over Mt Nyiragongo DRC by combining thermal (NASA FIRMS) and gas (COPERNICUS Sentinel-5P) data. I set up an agent that sent me the alert along with a Sentinel-2 SWIR image.

Short-wave infrared (SWIR) false-color satellite image of Mt. Nyiragongo's volcanic crater.
Abdoulaye Diack@diack.bsky.social · last mo.

Following the double M7.5 & M7.2 Venezuela quakes, I mapped USGS ShakeMap contours over the Google Open Buildings dataset (a project I proudly to worked on!). Visualizing building density in Earth Engine shows Morón & Puerto Cabello as the two largest cities closest to the epicenter.

A map of northern Venezuela showing earthquake shaking contours overlaid on human settlement density. Colorful concentric contour lines from the USGS show shaking intensity levels for the M7.5 earthquake. A black heatmap shows regional building density from the Google Open Buildings datasetA map of northern Venezuela showing earthquake shaking contours overlaid on human settlement density. Colorful concentric contour lines from the USGS show shaking intensity levels for the M7.5 earthquake. N orange/yellow heatmap shows regional building density from the Google Open Buildings dataset. Major cities impacted: Morón & Puerto Cabello
NYU Center for Data Science@nyudatascience.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can a grammar book replace training data for AI translation? NYU Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty (@jacksonpetty.org), CDS Assoc. Prof. Tal Linzen (@tallinzen.bsky.social), and CDS MS student Jaulie Goe tested this with synthetic languages. nyudatascience.medium.com/can-ai-learn...

Can AI Learn a Language from a Textbook?

Most of the world’s 7,000 languages will never have enough written text online to train an AI translation system. However, linguists have…

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Antoine Guédon@antoine-guedon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What if you could turn any number of photos (3, 8, 15, or even 60) into one clean 3D surface (pts & mesh) with Flow Matching? Check out our new work, Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State. 🧵 1/N 🔗https://anttwo.github.io/surflo/

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can the new DiffusionGemma model help fix broken OCR? In theory, denoising tokens in parallel could work better for OCR correction since context is seen upfront? Pointed it at 19th-century newspaper OCR. It corrected better than the autoregressive baseline — at ~8x the speed.