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Pakistani American Olympic weightlifter w/a ECE PhD. Volunteer ML Engineer & community builder @OmdenaAI, Data scientist, interested in ML/DL research for good.

Atlanta, GA
Joined June 2011
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🗣 “Once you train your willpower to take positive action, with time, it becomes a habit.” As Ramadan comes to an end, @_siham7 looks at how Muslim female athletes maintain their training schedules 💪 Weightlifters @amna_alhaddad and @liftingcovered detail their experiences ⤵️

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I'll be speaking tonight about GPT-3, how we investigate bias in language models, and how we can use pizza to trick GPT-3 into liking Muslims... Join me in ~2 hours 🚀 ai.science/e/gpt-3-persisten…
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The @GradioML team used a pretrained image captioning model to generate short captions and fine-tuned GPT-3 to turn them into HONY-style stories for a photo of @timnitGebru and I... Not my favorite description of two minority PhD women in CS. teapawt.org/MarzyehGhassemi/status…
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ICE Cold Fact: If somebody owes you money… Put on your mask and pop up at their crib right now… They’re Home.
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In 7 months, from zero to 12 global #AI challenges, and collaborators in 66 countries.💯💡 "Thank You" to all collaborators & partners for making this possible🙏 2019 was just the start... #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #datascience #aiforgood
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Here’s a link to our latest ep. on #ApplePodcasts & while you are there, give us a nice review. It helps people find our #pod @liftingcovered podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Why We Need More Women in #ArtificialIntelligence! Tomorrow (16th October)❗️❗️, a webinar to take action with the goal to inspire more women to get into #AI & #datascience Register & let us tear down barriers👇 bit.ly/2OmwRzZ #AIforGood #womenintech
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Why We Need More Women in #ArtificialIntelligence! A webinar to take action with the goal to inspire more women to get into #AI & #datascience & build ethical #AIsolutions. Register & let us tear down barriers👇 (20 spots left) bit.ly/2OmwRzZ #AIforGood #womenintech
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Kulsoom Abdullah retweeted
Replying to @marazepeda
@marazepeda in conversation with @liftingcovered at #rpPortland ~ of course they immediately get into the importance of context and connective tissue, in sports as in big data
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"As far as AI is concerned, it is not representative of the general population. In this field I’m considered a minority. But it is important to bring in diverse experience and knowledge." – Data scientist Kulsoom Abdullah (@liftingcovered) on the lack of diversity in tech. – at Portland, OR
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Why We Need More Women in #ArtificialIntelligence! A webinar to take action with the goal to inspire more women to get into #AI & #datascience and build ethical and inclusive #AIsolutions. Register now & let us tear down barriers👇 bit.ly/2OmwRzZ #AIforGood
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Kulsoom Abdullah retweeted
🔔 Can #AI and #CBT help with #PTSD treatment? 40 AI enthusiasts from 19 countries think CBT is promising but we need help from experts to make our AI challenge most impactful! Any guidance would be tremendously helpful. @HiWoebot @alisonmdarcy @AndrewYNg #AIforGood
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Excited to share this piece on how Muslim athletes and how they navigate the month of #Ramadan for @BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com/shireenahmed/at…
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LONDONERS: Meet the filmmaker + subject of GIRL UNBOUND! Tickets on sale for #HRWFFLDN now: ff.hrw.org/london Please Share.
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Check out London billboard of our Athlete Ambassador + #MuayThai World Champ @RuqsanaBegum featured in @adidas #heretocreate campaign!
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Spotlight on extraordinary teen, Amaiya Zafar, new Athlete Ambassador fighting the #boxing ban with us! es.pn/2kagmc6 #MuslimWomen
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Spotlight on awesome new Athlete Ambassador @noorenashams. Read shirzanan.org/articles/item/… to learn about this Team Player and Patriot!
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Spotlight on KulsoomAbdullah who opened up #weightlifting to #Muslim #WomenInSport Read her recent op-ed nyti.ms/2bre0OK
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Kulsoom Abdullah retweeted
Cool to get a tour of the @ADP #DataScience Incubation Lab at @GeorgiaTech #hellowork #allofthedata
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