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Jade Abbott

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CTO and Co-founder @lelapaai | Co-founder @masakhanenlp | Bassist @fmfyband | ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined November 2012
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@alienelf
Jade Abbott
6 years
In a month, things will quieten down and people will forget #BlackLivesMatter and so will you. Here are some strategies I've learnt on the never-ending journey to make being an ally a way of life ๐Ÿ‘‡โœจ A Thread on being a Consistent Ally โœจ๐Ÿ‘‡ (1/n)
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@packyM
Packy McCormick
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this is the greatest feature Anthropic has ever made
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@nearcyan
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doing code review on the 10,000 lines claude code wrote
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@premhid
Kameel Premhid
7 days
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ to G20: come to our braai. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ: no because "genocide". No one else will come because they like us more ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŽด๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ: *ignores, signs declaration* ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ to ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ: we h8u, youre not coming to our barbecue. ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ to ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ: dala what you must bra ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿฝ
@Chrispin_JPhiri
Chrispin Phiri ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
7 days
ATTENTION: ALL NEWSROOMS AND EDITORS WEDNESDAY 26, NOVEMBER 2025 PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA NOTES US STATEMENT ON SOUTH AFRICAโ€™S G20 PARTICIPATION* President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted the regrettable statement by President Donald Trump on South Africaโ€™s participation in the 2026 G20
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@alienelf
Jade Abbott
6 days
One of my pet hates is people asking me for a favour to participate in something, and then not having their shit together in terms of comms and expectations. ๐Ÿ™„
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@alienelf
Jade Abbott
9 days
Too old to use gui
@CodeByNZ
NZ โ˜„๏ธ
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When VS Code already has the Source Control feature, why do developers still use Git commands in the terminal for pushing, committing, or cloning repositories? ๐Ÿ‘€
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@karaan_dev
Karan Kendre
11 days
FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND FRONTEND IS HARDER THAN BACKEND
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@letsie_crescy
M๐Ÿค
14 days
No chomi. The plane lands on horses and we take it from there
@_Percyval
Percyval
14 days
Lesotho has an airport??
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@LelapaAI
Lelapa AI
15 days
Celebrating our co-founders Pelonomi Moiloa (@tamati_biskit) and Jade Abbott (@alienelf), named among Africaโ€™s Top 40 Under 40 AI Achievers ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ Their leadership drives a future where the #GlobalSouth leads with #ResourceEfficientAI built for real-world realities ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ #AI40Under40
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@MasakhaneNLP
Masakhane
19 days
๐Ÿš€ The future is #Multilingual & #Multimodal! Join the 7th AfricaNLP Workshop at #EACL2026 in Rabat, Morocco ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ We're bridging the gap for African languages in AI. Submit your paper by Dec 19, 2025! More details here:
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About the Workshop
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@paularambles
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20 days
thereโ€™s ai slop and thereโ€™s ai kino. this is ai kino.
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@davlanade
David Ifeoluwa Adelani ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ
20 days
AfroBench-Lite updated results for several frontier models, we cover 14 African languages and 7 tasks in the Lite version. #AfricaNLP @MasakhaneNLP Thanks to @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI and @googlecloud for the API credits. Courtesy @JessicaOjo__
@davlanade
David Ifeoluwa Adelani ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ
7 months
Congratulations @JessicaOjo__ for leading this work and paper acceptance to ACL 2025. Check out AfroBench--our new large scale benchmark for 64 African languages showing the performance of more than 10 LLMs on over 15 tasks and 22 datasets.
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@alienelf
Jade Abbott
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Went live with our largest enterprise yet this week - in 4 days weโ€™ve experienced 2000x the load that was estimated for ๐Ÿ’ช These are the best problems to have ๐Ÿ’•
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@naledimashishi
naledi
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Since Iโ€™m tired of responding individually, hereโ€™s a thread of sources proving white South Africans are not economically excluded: They have the lowest unemployment statistics out of any group. In SA the unemployment rate is 31% for everyone and 35% for Black people. For whites
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@pazunre
Paul Azunre
23 days
I dream of AI tech for Africa where we are the Main Characters during its development, not merely a footnote or an appendix Cuz that is the only way we benefit from the new AI age Anything else is merely smoke & mirrors, a way to keep extracting resources Look beyond the veil
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@nbashaw
Nathan Baschez
24 days
The reason nearly all VCs are betting against this is that focus and specialization matters OpenAI launched a direct competitor to Granola months ago and no one cares
@yishan
Yishan
24 days
My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to
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@Mochievous
Moe
28 days
what i am taking from this is that I am not side questing hard enough
@ndagijerichie
Ndagije Richard II.0๐Ÿ‘‘
29 days
We celebrate Zohran Mamdaniโ€™s win with his tune 'Kanda' from 10 years ago. Uganda stand up!๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ
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@shanselman
Scott Hanselman ๐ŸŒฎ
27 days
The algorithm is designed to make you feel less than. My son felt it too - asked for an "oldtimey flip phone" to detox from what the internet was doing to his head. We have to listen to how these tools make us feel. @tedx Full talk: https://t.co/fTFu7cmxWZ
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@dsn_ai_network
DSN - Data Science Nigeria
28 days
AI is shaping the future โ€” and African languages deserve to shape it too. A 2025 study shows that over 95% of African languages still lack the digital data required for AI. In other words, the systems defining tomorrow canโ€™t yet hear us, understand us, or speak back to us in our
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@xiu_shoegaze
xiu_shoegaze
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@alienelf
Jade Abbott
28 days
deathgripsisonline โ˜„๏ธ๐Ÿ‘บ๐Ÿ’จ๐ŸŒช๏ธ
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