Excited to see our partnership with Microsoft expanding, with Bing Maps switching to TomTom for base map data. #TomTomMaps #Microsoft

fastai2 and the new course will be released Aug 21st. The new course includes both machine learning and deep learning - we don't have separate courses for these two topics any more. fastai2's design is explained in this peer-reviewed paper: arxiv.org/abs/2002.04688 1/

Data Ethics course: ethics.fast.ai Deep Learning course: course.fast.ai Data Science blog: fast.ai/topics/ Diversity blog: medium.com/@racheltho NLP: bit.ly/fastai-nlp Talks: bit.ly/rachel-videos Medicine, AI, & Bias: bit.ly/MLmed

I'd like to announce my new blog called "Scattered Thoughts on Distributed Systems". It's located at pathelland.substack.com. Please feel free to subscribe if this is interesting to you. Subscriptions are free and worth every penny. Thanks, Pat

I'm pausing #themorningpaper for the time being. It's been a hugely rewarding project, and I'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged me in it over the years. Find out more here: blog.acolyer.org/2021/02/08/the…

Breaking news: FOSS4G 2021 will be hosted online! More information soon. lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/disc…

Check out the "Awesome Kurdish" repository to find out about the resources, tools and scientific papers related to Kurdish: github.com/sinaahmadi/awe… Is something missing? Please let me know. #nlproc #KurdishLanguageProcessing #Sorani #Kurmanji #SouthernKurdish #Zazaki #Gorani

Scala 3 is a new language, built on a new compiler platform. We put special emphasis on making it easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to scale. /1

🔵 Don’t miss our e-poster at European Space Agency #phiweek. Access it any time during the event. Contact us during the dedicated e-poster sessions, when we'll be available to have a live discussion about the #GEM project. Find it under #110 or simply watch it here 👀🎞️▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=YbonUC…

Look what my friends from Leaflet core team put up on the website while I was busy. Much love ❤️

For people connecting to Signal in Iran, here's more information on how to use a proxy, in Persian. Please share: support.signal.org/hc/fa/articles… #IRanASignalProxy

What a remarkable image. The daughter of Minoo Majidi--a mother of two who was killed by the Iranian regime while protesting for #MahsaAmini--stands at her mother's gravesite. She is defiantly unveiled, and in her left hand she holds the hair she cut from her head.

1. The single best way to understand Iran's uprising is not any book or essay, but Shervin Hajipour's 2m anthem "Baraye" which garnered over 40m views in 48h (before he was imprisoned). Its profundity requires multiple views. (Translation by Siavash Ardalan)

هۆگران و خۆبەخشانی تەکنۆلۆژیا تکایە لەگەڵ ئەم ڕێکخراوەیە هاوکاری بکەن بۆ سازکردنی مۆدێلی فرەزمانە و بۆ #کوردی ش. #زمانەوانیی_کۆمپیوتەری

It took three years to finish, but our follow-up to the 2006 "What Goes Around Comes Around" is finally out! Stonebraker and I examine the last 20 years in databases and discuss why relational databases + SQL will continue to remain on top. 📄PDF: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/wh…

Introducing Explore: Our new browser-based tool for interacting with #Overture data—no code required! This is now the quickest way to get started with Overture. Check it out: hubs.la/Q02HNSdb0

📢#NLProc for Middle Eastern Languages: Project Update 🚀Exciting progress on our project! Grateful for all contributors and welcoming more awesome new members 🌟We need YOUR expertise! Speak any of these languages? Reach out now! #کەڵھوڕی #لری #Zazakî #گیلٚکی #هەورامی #مازرونی

Happy 20th Birthday OpenStreetMap! "OpenStreetMap has grown exponentially or quadratically over the last twenty years depending on the metric you’re interested in . . . The story isn’t so much about the data and technology, and it never was. It’s the people. " --@stevec,