“Choose” your path. Is there such a thing as true #randomness? Or does what we perceive as randomness actually stem from our ignorance about the universe? #determinism #freewill

I first got interested in ethics in NLP/ML becuase I was asking "does this system work well for everyone". It's a good question, but there's a more important important one: Who is being harmed and who is benefiting from this system existing in the first place?

A lot of important historical science (eg. discovery of cells) is qualitative observational science. But now "qualitative" seems to almost be a dirty word. How did this change?

Iz Srbije se godišnje odseli čitav jedan grad. Odlazak sa Balkana je odlazak iz bede i nesigurnosti. I to je začarani krug – što više mladih i obrazovanih ljudi ode, to će oporavak biti teži ili čak nemoguć. p.dw.com/p/3VL8p

Facebook finally learning how to translate! #Serbia #SNScancer

Today are parliamentary elections in #Serbia. And the first time I will abstain from voting. I will not legitimize sham elections in the midst of the pandemic. There is no opposition, no free national media, no safety from the virus. #BOYCOTT #SerbianElections #BOJKOT #Izbori2020

Danish language resource portal sprogteknologi.dk opened today: "Sprogportal skal sikre dansk som digitalt sprog" berlingske.dk/virksomheder/s…

.Atlantic Council Please ask Aна Брнабић how they sleep at night knowing that they have sacrificed thousands of people to Covid-19 for the sake of their re-election campaign. balkaninsight.com/2020/06/22/ser…

📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 New Common Voice Release! 📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 🎉 📢 ✅ 7,226 hours ✅ 54 languages ✅ New subset for digits + yes/no discourse.mozilla.org/t/common-voice…

Data collected for one purpose will be used for others: - 1940 census data used to intern Japanese-Americans - ICE using driver's license photos - Police looking up ex-romantic partners - Data breaches, eg Clearview client list - Acquisitions, eg Chinese firm purchasing Grindr

Some research updates: We published FT Speech 💬, presented by Marija Marija Stepanović last week at #interspeech2020, a new corpus for automatic speech recognition for Danish 🇩🇰- w/ Andreas Kirkedal arxiv.org/abs/2005.12368

Now that “Ievan Polkka” is trending again, thanks to Bilal and the vibing cat (youtu.be/NUYvbT6vTPs), let's remind ourselves of the original masterpiece, performed live 25 years later and recorded in HD 🤯 youtu.be/smQ90OqZjo8

Ćutanje... Neprijatno je, ali mi smo navikli da ćutimo na mnoge bitne stvari. Ćutimo kada ne bismo smeli i zato nemojte nikada više pitati žrtve zašto su ćutale, nemate pravo, nego ih podržite da progovore kad god da su spremne! Uvod u #PregledDana sa Jelenom Obućinom.

I'm thrilled to announce the public release of #SpeechBrain! #SpeechBrain is an #opensource toolkit designed to make research and development of #speech technologies faster. It is flexible, modular, easy-to-use, well documented. speechbrain.github.io #DeepLearning #AI

Thank you everyone for your likes and wishes! Thank you, Barbara Plank, for your invaluable support and guidance. And I thank Pınar Tözün (@[email protected]), Martin Pichlmair, and Neil Zeghidour from the committee for your constructive and encouraging feedback! I look forward to continuing my project. 😊

Serbia currently has more vaccines than they can use, so they're offering vaccines to foreigners free of charge. Anyone can register via this link: euprava.gov.rs/usluge/6224. You can even choose the one you want: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, or SputnikV apnews.com/article/belgra…

Hi! I'm Marija Stepanović, a 3rd-year PhD student working on Automatic Speech Recognition for Nordic languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) with the aim of improving speech technologies for low- and zero-resource languages. 👇🧵 [1/6] #IntroFriday #NLProc #SpeechProc