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The First Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Challenge

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The pathloss radio maps of the dataset were generated based on the simulations by the ray-tracing software Win-To foster research and facilitate fair comparisons among Prop from Altair [3], on a dataset of urban environments. The recently proposed pathloss radio map prediction methods, city maps were fetched from OpenStreetMap [4] in the cities we have launched the ICASSP 2023 First Pathloss Radio Ankara, Berlin, Glasgow, Ljubljana, London, and Tel Aviv, Map Prediction Challenge.


Syria war: Drone attack on military academy kills 100, monitor says

BBC News

In a separate development in Syria on Thursday, at least 10 people were reportedly killed in Turkish drone strikes in a Kurdish-controlled region of north-eastern Syria that were prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish militants.


Drone Attack Kills 3 Counterterrorist Fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan

NYT > Middle East

The elite forces were focused primarily on Islamic State fighters in recent years, but other Islamic militant groups now also move through Iraq's porous borders with Iran and Turkey. The Iraqi government announced early on Tuesday that the drone was launched by Turkey and called on Ankara to halt such attacks. "This aggression constitutes a violation of Iraq's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity," said Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasoul Abdullah, military spokesman for the prime minister, "These repeated attacks are not consistent with the principle of good neighborly relations between countries, and threaten to undermine Iraq's efforts to build good and balanced political, economic, and security relations with its neighbors." Kurdish leaders, whose territory is routinely targeted by Turkey, used angrier rhetoric. "This criminal act is an open trespassing of the border of the Kurdistan Region and of Iraq, and it is part of the conspiracy aimed at disturbing the peace and stability of the Kurdistan Region," said Bafel Talabani, president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two main political parties in Kurdistan and the dominant one in Sulaymaniyah.


Senior Data Engineer at Bumper - Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

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Bumper is a fast-growing payments start-up, and we're excited to begin the next phase of our growth having recently completed a successful Series A funding round. We're looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer We work with over 4,000 automotive retailers across Europe, helping drivers to pay for motoring costs, accessories and other services through a variety of different payment options. Our product is customer-centric and a market leading. Our HQ is in London along with offices in Sheffield and Ankara, but we are spreading our wings through a rapid growth phase with many of the leading brands across the continent. Bumper is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be responsible for data engineering capability within the Data and BI tech.


Ukraine to produce Turkish armed drones: Minister

Al Jazeera

Ukraine said it will build a factory to produce Turkish armed drones that Kyiv previously bought to use against pro-Russian separatists in the east, a deal that might upset Kyiv's adversary Moscow. "A land plot on which the factory will be built has already been chosen," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at a news conference on Thursday with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. "There were a number of obstacles to the implementation [of this project] but all of them have been removed," he added, without providing further details. Pleased to welcome my Turkish colleague and friend @MevlutCavusoglu in Lviv and expand our diplomatic geography. Cavusoglu did not speak specifically about the subject but stressed that Kyiv and Ankara were "in the process of strengthening their relations in many sectors", including defence.


An Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Drought Prediction using Weather Data

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Drought is a serious natural disaster that has a long duration and a wide range of influence. To decrease the drought-caused losses, drought prediction is the basis of making the corresponding drought prevention and disaster reduction measures. While this problem has been studied in the literature, it remains unknown whether drought can be precisely predicted or not with machine learning models using weather data. To answer this question, a real-world public dataset is leveraged in this study and different drought levels are predicted using the last 90 days of 18 meteorological indicators as the predictors. In a comprehensive approach, 16 machine learning models and 16 deep learning models are evaluated and compared. The results show no single model can achieve the best performance for all evaluation metrics simultaneously, which indicates the drought prediction problem is still challenging. As benchmarks for further studies, the code and results are publicly available in a Github repository.


Turkey to be among pioneers of AI-controlled warplane: Erdoğan

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Turkey aims to be among the first countries to have an entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled unmanned warplane, with plans for it to take to the Turkish skies in 2023, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday. The success of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the field has produced results that "require war strategies to be rewritten," the president said. Erdoğan was speaking at the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) parliamentary group meeting in the capital Ankara. The president added that currently a total of 180 Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) are operated in four countries, including Turkey. Previously, Turkish drone magnate Baykar's Chief Technology Officer Selçuk Bayraktar said the maiden flight of the prototype of the country's domestically-made unmanned fighter jet is scheduled for 2023.



Financial Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning

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In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Murat Özbayoğlu, Chair of Artificial Intelligence Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey. I've long been fascinated with finance and trading. My first job after I left academia was as the lead quant in a hedge fund, and ever since, I've tried to stay abreast of what tools and techniques quants and data scientists in finance are using. Forecasting in this setting usually means price prediction or price movement (trend) prediction. Output of forecasting models are used to inform investment decisions.


Iraq fumes against Turkey over deadly drone attack

Al Jazeera

Iraq cancelled a ministerial visit and summoned Turkey's ambassador on Wednesday as it blamed Ankara for a drone attack that killed two high-ranking Iraqi military officers. Iraqi officials called the attack a "blatant Turkish drone attack" in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, where Turkey's military has for weeks raided positions of fighters it considers "terrorists". Two border guard battalion commanders and the driver of their vehicle were killed on Tuesday, the army said in a statement, marking the first Iraqi troop deaths since Turkey launched the cross-border operation in mid-June against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels. Iraq's foreign ministry - which already summoned the Turkish envoy twice over the military action on its soil - said the ambassador would this time be given "a letter of protest with strong words" rejecting the offensive. The ministry also confirmed the Turkish defence minister would no longer be welcomed for a planned visit on Thursday.