Khaled Al-Shamaa
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Research Database Manager and Senior Analyst at @ICARDA interested in #DataScience, #AI, #RStats, #PHP and #Arabic Language. Views are my own.
Cairo, Egypt
Joined April 2009
Proud to have led the development of #QBMS, @ICARDA’s R package that connects breeding data across platforms through #BrAPI, bringing greater interoperability, reliability, and efficiency to data-driven plant breeding 🤗🌱 https://t.co/bdcPDXIp7e
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QBMS 2.0 streamlines access to breeding data, integrating field, pedigree, and genotyping information across platforms through BrAPI standards. Developed by ICARDA as a public good, the upgraded R...
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The AI revolution didn't happen overnight 😉 It is built on decades of research & work. I coded my first neural network with backpropagation from scratch in VB back in 1995, and in my 1998 graduation project I used it to read ECG signals and detect myocardial infarction cases 🤗
Fukushima's video (1986) shows a CNN that recognises handwritten digits [3], three years before LeCun's video (1989). CNN timeline taken from [5]: ★ 1969: Kunihiko Fukushima published rectified linear units or ReLUs [1] which are now extensively used in CNNs. ★ 1979:
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Nice Nano Banana Pro prompt for weather app: CITY=Prague,Czechia Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of [CITY], featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft, refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle,
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Over 12 years, @ICARDA led a collaborative effort with agricultural institutes across 10 Arab countries, developing climate-smart solutions to address food insecurity in arid regions. #AlmaraiPrize
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📢 WebGPU is now officially supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari → https://t.co/TNB1bpcQtq Access high-performance 3D graphics and AI capabilities right in the browser with this major milestone.
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تشويقة: نظرة إلى داخل لوحة التحكم لناطور الويب - تقارير مُحدثة لحظيّاً - إدارة سهلة للدومينات المملوكة - لوحة تقارير سهلة الاستخدام - حجب ثنائي المستوى للبوتات الشائعة والتي تنتحل صفة المتصفحات العاديّة - تكامل سهل سجل الآن للوصول التجريبي: 🔗 https://t.co/NI5fnlb9ku
السلام عليكم أعمل على وضع اللمسات النهائية على النسخة التجريبية المبكرة لمشروع كنت أعمل عليه اسمه ناطور الويب أو Defensium بالانجليزية (الإسم مؤقت حاليّاً) المشروع منصة حماية من الروبوتات تساعد المواقع في إيقاف روبوتات استخراج المحتوى مثل تشات GPT كما يمكن أن تفيد بشكل غير
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السلام عليكم أعمل على وضع اللمسات النهائية على النسخة التجريبية المبكرة لمشروع كنت أعمل عليه اسمه ناطور الويب أو Defensium بالانجليزية (الإسم مؤقت حاليّاً) المشروع منصة حماية من الروبوتات تساعد المواقع في إيقاف روبوتات استخراج المحتوى مثل تشات GPT كما يمكن أن تفيد بشكل غير
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Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion plan and Nvidia briefly reaching a $5 trillion market cap, many have asked if speculation and hype have driven the values of AI investments above sustainable
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4...
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New paper in @NaturePlants 'Striking convergent selection history of wheat and barley and its potential for breeding' This will be intersting read! https://t.co/osYG0xjfFN
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The old way: 🙈 Blind code generation ❓ Guesswork in debugging 📉 Lower accuracy The new way with MCP: 👀 Direct browser insight 🛠️ Full DevTools power 🎯 Accurate issue fixing See for yourself ↓
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Public preview for the new Chrome DevTools MCP server, bringing the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants.
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🎉 Congratulations to Anna Backhaus @a_bakinghouse, winner of the 2026 IWGSC–Feuillet Early Career Award! Anna leads a research group at IPK. She will present her work on wheat genebank genomics during the #IWGSC workshop at #PAG33. 🎤 Read her interview: https://t.co/PtXGLwKvqn
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✋🏻DBIO's new report exposes how Europe’s financial sector, with its massive investments, bankrolls companies sustaining Israel’s occupation, apartheid and genocide. Glad to have contributed a foreword. Must read, must act. https://t.co/Oz0kumeox1
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The Don’t Buy into Occupation Report 2025 examines corporate and financial involvement in the Israeli occupation, presenting key data, legal analysis, divestment trends, and recommendations, suppor...
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To celebrate five years of #AlphaFold, we’re making The Thinking Game available on YouTube. 🧬 Get a candid look at the triumphs, the challenges and the pivotal moments that led to a breakthrough on a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology. Stream for free on @YouTube →
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The @ilyasut episode 0:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness 0:09:39 - Emotions and value functions 0:18:49 – What are we scaling? 0:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models 0:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence 0:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment
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We had to remove the τ2-bench airline eval from our benchmarks table because Opus 4.5 broke it by being too clever. The benchmark simulates an airline customer service agent. In one test case, a distressed customer calls in wanting to change their flight, but they have a basic
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🤖 Will AI Replace the Plant Breeder? 🌱 Join us for our final seminar of 2025 where our Centre Director, Professor Lee Hickey, will explore AI's transformative role in modern plant breeding. Through case studies spanning multiple crop species, Professor Hickey will
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«ما زلنا في بداية عالم الذكاء الاصطناعي!» 😧 نستضيف في جديد بودكاست #سوالف_بزنس مازن ميلباري @mznmel، الحاصل على دكتوراه في الذكاء الاصطناعي، لنُجيب على تساؤلات مثل: هل فعلًا يهدد الذكاء الاصطناعي وظائفنا؟ ولماذا مهم توطين تقنياته العميقة؟ وكيف نبقى على اطلاع دائم بتطوراته؟
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Deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Mahmoud El Solh, former Director General of ICARDA. I had the privilege of working during his leadership. His kindness, vision and dedication left a lasting mark. May he rest in peace, and may his family find strength in this difficult time.
Saddened by the loss of Dr. Mahmoud El Solh. Grateful for his mentorship during my PhD at @ICARDA & @CIMMYT. His vision for dryland agriculture and support for young scientists shaped countless careers. https://t.co/p5qTCljyoh
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As a fun Saturday vibe code project and following up on this tweet earlier, I hacked up an **llm-council** web app. It looks exactly like ChatGPT except each user query is 1) dispatched to multiple models on your council using OpenRouter, e.g. currently: "openai/gpt-5.1",
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If this proves true, the impact will be massive 🤯 Stay tuned 🔥
Can ultrasound make you smell things that aren’t there? Turns out, yes! We reliably triggered distinct scents like a campfire burn or a garbage truck by targeting our brains with ultrasound. To our knowledge, this has never been done before, even in animals. This may be a
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