@skroon@sigmoid.social . AP in CS @ SU. Posts should not be construed as more than my personal opinion - perhaps not even that.
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groundup.org.za/article/we-d… - great detective work on SASSA SRD grant fraud by some first-year @MatiesCompSci students. Let's hope this gets some serious attention @SisisiTolashe @The_DSD @dailymaverick @NPA_Prosecutes
Congratulations to all the winners! (But especially to Jacobie as a past @MatiesCompSci student ;)
🪘We are extremely proud to present the recipients of the 2024 DLI awards. 🏆
It has been inspiring and uplifting to see homegrown research done by African researchers excel. 🌍✨
Read more about the winners and their research: bit.ly/AwardRecipients2024
#DLI2024
#XamXamlé
If you're at @icmlconf this week, my student @luro_learning will be around too. He'll be presenting a poster on his Masters work at the GRaM workshop, on fairly comparing networks equivariant networks ( openreview.net/forum?id=oUv5… ), if you want to check it out.
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📢 Apply now for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool!
You will develop mathematics skills/intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience or #MachineLearning field & have the opportunity to interact with our researchers.
Where: @SWC_Neuro
ℹ️ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-w…
I see a paper by Hiroki Takizawa on the arxiv claiming Othello is solved - arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387 (via Lance Fortnow's post on the Computational Complexity blog - blog.computationalcomplexity… ).
Really proud of @ArnuPretorius on being awarded the @DeepIndaba 2023 Kambule Doctoral Award for his PhD studies at @MatiesCompSci ! Congratulations to the winners of the other awards as well! deeplearningindaba.com/blog/…
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1/📯I am hiring!📯PhD or postdoc position in Resource-Efficient Probabilistic Machine Learning
@UnivHelsinkiCS with strong links to @FCAI_fi
Please see blurb below, and full ad here: helsinki.fi/en/researchgroup…
Applications evaluated on a rolling basis. Please RT!
gcgh.grandchallenges.org/cha… - funding call for 3-month projects tackling sustainable development goals in low-middle income countries with large language models.
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Electricity has not been restored in parts of Block 8 after load shedding. The municipality is in contact with Eskom and we are checking for faults.
We will provide an update as soon as possible.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce @ArnuPretorius as speaker at #indabaxtunisia2k23
Arnu is a senior research scientist at @instadeepai with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from @StellenboschUni . He specializes in RL and is passionate about developing AI talent in Africa.🤩
Jacobie did her Masters with me looking into how one can use prior knowledge from graphical models in generative modeling. This paper is the result of her excellent work.
Integrating Bayesian Network Structure into Residual Flows and Variational Autoencoders
Jacobie Mouton, Rodney Stephen Kroon.
Action editor: George Papamakarios.
openreview.net/forum?id=OsKX…
#autoencoders #generative #flow
There are opportunities for a research engineer and a research scientist role working for @instadeepai in Cape Town with @ArnuPretorius - check out instadeep.bamboohr.com/caree… and instadeep.bamboohr.com/caree… for more info.
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Our #ICML2023 workshop proposal "Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling" has been accepted 🎉. We can't wait to engage in insightful discussions with experts in probabilistic ML and other areas at the beautiful Hawaii 🌴🏖️.
Check🔍: spigmworkshop.github.io/
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Join us for the Generative Modeling Summer School in Copenhagen on June 26-30, co-organised with the two fantastic @jmtomcza and @pamattei and with an amazing lineup of guest lectures!
Apply before April 10, 2023.
gemss.ai
#GeMSS23 @DataScienceDK @AiCentreDK
Together with @jesfrellsen & @pamattei, we organize Generative Modeling Summer School #GeMSS23! Please check out our webpage gemss.ai/ and apply!
Deadline: April 10, 2023
Where: Copenhagen (Denmark)
When: June 26-30, 2023
Lecturers: see below👇
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We're at it again - @CityofCT's data science branch is hiring! Come help us apply advanced analytics to the benefit of **all** our residents.
Please share widely! – at Cape Town, South Africa
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Our paper on #MARL evaluation is accepted to #NeurIPS2022 🚀 I am truly honored and proud to work with these awesome co-authors at @instadeepai from Northern (Tunisia 🇹🇳) and Southern #Africa (South Africa 🇿🇦) :@MahjoubOmayma,@ruanjohn, Siddarth Singh, Roland Dubb @ArnuPretorius
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So many of the study techniques we learned in school were actually ineffective.
Here are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip highlighting, summarizing, and rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain. journals.sagepub.com/stoken/…
AI can help! 1/
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Happened to me < a wk ago.
I was going to take up a job that involves relocation & visa sponsorship. I'd passed the interviews, & we'd discussed housing & compensation. I sent over my docs for the visa processing only to be told a week later I didn't pass the security clearance.
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normflows is a PyTorch package for normalizing flows. It can be used to model densities, even those on complex manifolds such as the cylinder surface. A brief article about the package is now available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2302.12014 1/2
