It’s time for a big drum-roll … today we are announcing our invited speakers for #ICLR2021! 🎉 Read about our amazing speakers and the unique perspectives they'll contribute to the the conference: iclr-conf.medium.com/announcing-the… Alice Oh Naila Murray Ivan Titov Katja Hofmann Shakir Mohamed

Catch me talking next week, the 19th of April about different topic modelling approaches on Twitter data at 4pm in the CapeTownMachineLearning x DAMA SA collaboration: buff.ly/3uAxLuE

#Google's decision to fire @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) and MMitchell has triggered waves of protest. Academics have registered their discontent in various ways. theverge.com/2021/4/13/2237…

This preprint is the first of several papers, each asking a different question about reorganization/plasticity: tinyurl.com/2vvnyerb. This one was led by the wonderful Greta Tuckute with help from Alexander Paunov Hope Kean Hannah Small Zach Mineroff I.A.B 3/n

Great article by Davis David ™ on African language datasets for NLP from text classification to speech recognition. buff.ly/3fGUYXl #DataScience #MachineLearning #NLProc #Africa #tech #news

Apply for an MSc DeepMind Scholarship at Wits University, South Africa (starting Jan 2022) with a research focus on machine learning. Join our exciting team of ML researchers! Apply here: forms.gle/uC2rRJM12k5Wsm…

THREAD: We're dealing with the 'fog of war' right now as the looting/insurrection continues. Here's a small attempt at some context based on 904k tweets as of Wednesday 14 July. #ShutdownSA

My op-ed on the political messaging likely to come from each of the major parties, and who they are speaking to, ahead of the Local Government Elections

Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world cbsn.ws/3Dgd374

We at CapeTownMachineLearning will be hosting an amazing session to kick of the year with the creator of the Feast Feature Store (Willem Pienaar): meetup.com/machinelearnin…

THREAD: Here's a visualisation of the first report from the State Capture Commission It was created by Thembani Phaweni and myself 🧐🧐🧐 You can access the Zondo Commission's full report here: gov.za/documents/judi… #StateCaptureReport

THREAD: Here's a visualisation of the SECOND report from the State Capture Commission, focusing on Transnet and Denel. It was created by Thembani Phaweni and myself 🧐🧐🧐

The CapeTownMachineLearning meetup hosted the awesome Principal Engineer Willem Pienaar from Tecton in a session around High-Performance Feature Stores with Feast. Video of the meetup is out : #ML #AI #dataengineering #DataScience #FeatureStores youtube.com/watch?v=04erpg…

Is this data science? 🤔 it should be.

Join us for our first in-person meetup of the year on July 26 at 18:30. Our speaker @TheMicon will be talking about his work on the Numerai competition. See here for more details and how to attend meetup.com/machinelearnin… #CPTML #meetups #DataScience #MachineLearning

Join us for a talk by Andre Blaauw about modern Machine learning methods in credit data science. Tuesday, 16th of August, 6pm sharp. See you there. meetu.ps/e/LhVj3/fqCvK/i #ctml #DataScience

We CapeTownMachineLearning are hosting an exciting in-person meetup (the 27th of September) with the title: "Monitoring and Debugging Machine Learning Models using AWS Sagemaker". Limited seats please grab your seat asap. meetup.com/machinelearnin…

any black founders interested in a $500K check that requires moving to ny for a bit?

Our next meetup! Laszlo Sragner will be speaking to us about code quality for data scientists. We know we need to hear it 🙈 😬 😆 Details: 14 March, 17:30 for 18:00 SAST. Venue: The Flash Group office in Black River Park Signup: meetup.com/machinelearnin… #datascience