Sayeed Choudhury

@eSayeed
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All posts, actions,, etc. are personal. "Find out what makes you kinder...what opens you up and brings out the most generous, and unafraid version of you." -- George Saunders

Here is the ad which infuriated Trump so much, he does not want to continue trade talks with Canada.

I hope this gets a gazillion views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABUi669v3g

Trump ends trade talks with Canada after ‘anti-tariffs’ ad featuring Reagan

YouTube

What a brilliant #DeepDive with Jonathan Starr on identifying and mapping the impact of #OSS through the @NumFOCUS @OSSci

This is a really exciting project for anyone in the #opensource and #openscience ecosystem who wants to tell story of #opensourcesoftware in a visual way that resonates with people.

📺https://bit.ly/44Sxgl0

ℹ️Learn about the Open Source Science Initiative: https://numfocus.org/open-source-science-initiative-ossci

#academicOSPOs #academicOSS #openresearch #OSScommunity #RSE #RSEng

“I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
Democracy dies in a data server room.

Important, outstanding accomplishment by CMU Language Technologies Institute. Pangea is an "open-source, multilingual multimodal large language model (MLLM) that recognizes 39 languages and was trained on six million data samples to create a culturally inclusive model."

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/pangea?utm_campaign=2025-01-23+Piper

Pangea Tool Expands LLMs Global Reach

A CMU team developed Pangea to make AI and large language models accessible to people who speak languages beyond the Western-centric ones traditionally used to train these models.

Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
I finally had an opportunity to go inside of the White House residence library.
It was a great pleasure to present at the RLUK - Research Libraries UK Digital Shift Forum, which has shared the recording of the talk. I spoke about the open source movement and AI within universities and research institutions: https://www.rluk.ac.uk/dsf-on-demand/#OSAI
RLUK Digital Shift Forum

Back to the Digital shift page Digital shift working group Digital shift manifesto Digital shift manifesto webinar RLUK's Digital Shift Forum Geographical origins of delegates registered for the first DSF seminar in October.

Research Libraries UK
Thanks to @anajsana #TODOGroup, Jonas van den Bogaard #Alliander, Natali Vlatko #Cisco and #CURIOSS members @eSayeed #CarnegieMellonUniversity and John Whelan #TrinityCollegeDublin for the great discussion.
Alright, I need to set up CURIOSS.org on Mastodon. Anyone have advice on how to choose a server for professional networks?