Thank you so much for lecturing at AMMI! The students really enjoyed the course and learned a great deal about generative models.

So we received 7053 (!!!) applications for the African Masters in Machine Intelligence 2019/2020 (aimsammi.org). I think #AI has a bright future in #Africa .

Last chance to get your Deep Learning Indaba applications in at deeplearningindaba.com/indabax.html or deeplearningindaba.com/apply-2019.html Plz retweet Jeff Dean Nando de Freitas Kyunghyun Cho Sebastian Ruder Moustapha Cisse Sebastian Ruder @DataScienceNIG Shakir Mohamed #AfricanML #Masakhane 🌍

I am excited to see how the grantees will use #AI to help adress some of the most crucial challenges our societies are facing. I was impressed by the quality and the creativity in the applications submitted. #GoogleAI Jeff Dean

Does this mean Bing never receives 10K requests at a time? #neurips

#CVPR2019 not allowing Ghana residents to register is a shame! Unfortunately just one of many hurdles one has to face to attend international conferences ...

This is just sooo coool! Let's play!

Dad reflexes 😮 #HappyFathersDay

CONGRATULATIONS to one of our esteemed role models, @red_abebe on being named one of MIT MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35! Rediet is passionate about Developmental/Social Good AI. A co-founder of Black in AI & a generous knowledge contributor to the Nigerian AI community

Submissions for our ICLR workshop "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning" are now open! Papers and Proposals due: Feb 4 Apply to mentor or be mentored on submissions: Jan 14 More details: climatechange.ai/ICLR2020_works…

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Just a snippet from our most recent podcast where Sanmi Koyego discusses building ML systems with complex metrics. Listen to the full pod here: buff.ly/2PxGpId

My first tweet! I'm excited to share my recent interview on Metric Elicitation and Robust Distributed Learning with Sam Charrington for the The TWIML AI Podcast podcast. Check it out! twimlai.com/talk/352 via The TWIML AI Podcast

A Senegalese innovation lab is helping the UK develop a 10-minute coronavirus test kit qz.com/africa/1816621/ via Quartz Africa

Nature stores oil for free.

1/ Spent the last couple weeks in quarantine obsessively coding a website for Virtual ICLR with Hendrik S (find me in blueksy). We wanted to build something that was fun to browse, async first, and feels alive.

Stroke to stroke translation model using YouNet.

Are you working on a project responding to an immediate crisis facing Africa due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the locust invasion in East Africa or other local challenges in Africa? We are excited to announce an opportunity for support. Visit bit.ly/3euzLw2 for details

We are happy to announce that Lanfrica(lanfrica.com) is officially launched! Lanfrica aims to mitigate the difficulty encountered in the discovery of African language resources. Read our full post here: github.com/Lanfrica/lanfr…