"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." ~ Samuel Johnson

Language identification still proves to be a challenging task, especially for web data. In collaboration with @mlcommons.org @eleutherai.bsky.social @jhu.edu and 97 community members, we created CommonLID, a new benchmark for LangID for 100+ languages!

I'm learning Rust right now and I'd recommend the experimental version of the Rust Book: rust-book.cs.brown.edu. The quizzes help you understand that you don't actually understand ownership 👍

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

A huge thank you to @very-laurie.bsky.social for delivering a fantastic UoB Turing seminar. Her talk was entitled “Common Crawl: open web data for everybody.” In this talk, she introduced the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products they offer.

The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @very-laurie.bsky.social and Thom Vaughan to introduce the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products it offers. 📆 26 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍C44 Biomedical building, University of Bristol Find out more: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n

If you were able to join us, let us know about your experience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc

I've been learning by writing the tutorials 💅 Next up: using CCF's host index commoncrawl.org/blog/introdu...

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

✨Call for papers!✨ @commoncrawl.bsky.social and friends are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality! Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org

I'm starting as a Senior Research Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation today! 😎

#Gaelic #Hobbit #Ghàidhlig EEEEEEEEEE! www.gaelicbooks.org/explore-the-...

There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.

I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267

I'm nerd famous

Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.

My replacement PIR finally arrived! Hoping it doesn't short this time 🙏

I'm pretty sure that recursion is magic.

Day 7 of Codemas has a motion sensor! thepihut.com/blogs/raspbe...

It's day 6 of Codemas! As befits the season, I'm coding on the kitchen table surrounded by leftovers.

Merry Christmas! The house is quiet for a minute so I'm doing box 5 of Codemas. Maybe I'll finish the whole thing before the new year

Uh I have something I need to tell you

I'll return to Codemas after nearly a year, I'll bully this old Chromebook into installing an IDE and finally seeing the Pico, I'll do what I want

Zoom zoom fully graduated Dr coming through

unlike you i get my news from a reliable source

I just finished "Some Desperate Glory" and now I need post-book therapy, 10/10 strong recommend

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,126,995!

Heard about ANIMAL WELL courtesy of the Octothorpe podcast and now I'm really looking forward to playing it! Thank you @octothorpecast.bsky.social for branching out from Worldcon admin analysis to game recommendations 💜

I have another review up today at Nerds of a Feather, talking about the comfort in familiarity in the new T. Kingfisher novel.

Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.

Having spent the last few days incapacitated with a Covid-induced headache, I've come to the conclusions that a) I personally should have worn a mask at Worldcon and b) future Worldcons should have a mask mandate. #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

Clearly I am very late to the party, but if you haven't read Naomi Kritzer's short story "The Year Without Sunshine" yet, you should. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Worldcon was amazing! I loved meeting so many great people and listening to so many excellent panels. My TBR list from the con alone is now over 50 books long, starting with "Some Desperate Glory". I will start reading as soon as sleep has occurred. #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

we should all be saying "enemies of glory" more, tbh

Congratulations to @chloroformtea.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

Hello Bluesky! Know me through my Worldcon ribbons.