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Don’t you agree this is pretty neat? 🐧As a longtime Linux user (~20y), I got excited to see a native Debian environment land on Android 15.With regards to accessibility, a student can learn command line basics, debug while in transit, or even manage AI agents from their phone. I think having an isolated terminal…
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Have you ever heard of the Somali Jet? (Wait for it) Until a few days ago, I hadn’t. I was exploring WeatherNext-2—an experimental AI weather forecasting model—when I stumbled upon something striking along the coast of East Africa. The visualization below shows global wind power potential at 100 meters (typical wind turbine height) forecasted…
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I’ve been experimenting with a fun way to visualize urban density by mixing the Google Open Buildings dataset with AlphaEarth embeddings.I’m using unsupervised clustering on top of AlphaEarth’s embeddings. Instead of coloring pixels for each area, I’ve assigned the cluster color to the building polygons themselves.The result is an interesting “fingerprint” of these cities.…
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You can now interact with a database in English—the real NoSQL 🙂 As someone who has done a lot of database administration and written a lot of SQL queries in the past, this is the stuff of dreams! So this week when Google announced Gemini CLI extensions, I was particularly interested in the new…
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Fun Sunday exercise, how much useful information I can squeeze in a tiny AI model. My goal was to take a general-purpose language model and turn it into an expert on a topic vital such as agriculture. Here are my steps: 1. The Foundation: Google’s Gemma 270M I started with this small but powerful…
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I started this exercise wondering how Google DeepMind’s AlphaEarth embeddings dataset would compare to historical fire data. It turned out to be a really interesting experience.I learned there are a lot of fires in central Africa—especially Southern DRC, Angola, and Zambia—far more than I expected. Apparently, some fires are set on purpose as part…
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Google Colab has been updated with interesting new features. Julia is now supported natively, so no more need for workarounds! Plus, the Gemini Data Science agent is now more widely accessible. This agent lets you query data through simple prompts, like asking for trend visualizations or model comparisons. It aims to reduce the time…
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How do you manage ML projects? 🤔 A question I hear often!Working in research over the years, I often got asked about the day-to-day of managing machine learning projects. That’s why I’m excited about Google’s new, FREE “Managing ML Projects” guide which I can now point to going forward. it’s only 90 minutes but…
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Google DeepMind has released SigLIP 2, a family of Open-weight (Apache V2) vision-language encoders trained on data covering 109 languages, including Swahili. The released models are available in four sizes: ViT-B (86M), L (303M), So400m (400M), and g (1B). Why is this important? This release offers improved multilingual capabilities, covering 109 languages, which can…
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🎉 My colleagues and members of the language community have released SMOL, a new open-source dataset (CC-BY-4) designed for machine translation research. SMOL includes professionally translated parallel text for over 115 low-resource languages, with a significant representation of over 50 African languages. This dataset is intended to provide a valuable resource for researchers working…