Special shoutouts to AI Saturdays (Lagos), AYA,Aisha Alaagib, Kahira and many others not tagged directly 🤩🤩

The results are in from our first round of data collection!

Can anyone identify our co-founder (@tejuafonja) in this picture? ;)

Congratulations to the SCA team for the incredible work so far.

IndabaXNigeria coming to Abuja 🙌🏿 Registration is now Open!!!

✨ Our Community Ambassadors continue to inspire us and we are proud of all we have achieved together ✨

Yes yes yes 😁

⭐️⭐️ Lecture 1⃣ on Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Introduction to #DeepLearning — from single neurons to training full networks!

🧠 New lecture every Monday at 10am ET!

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I will be in Vienna for ICLR 2024 next week. Happy to talk about multilingual LLMs, cultural bias and adaptation of LLMs, pre-training data, evaluation of LLMs-generated text, privacy preservation, etc. DM me.

Image and data visualization credit - Joshua Preston Georgia Tech Computing

Video tutorial please ;)

Disappointing.

Today, we are thrilled to celebrate Khadija Iddrisu, our co-lead, for being recognized as one of Connected #30Under30 in #Tech Ireland by Business Post 🎉

An incredible achievement! We are extremely proud of you!

Article link here:
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#womenintech #tech

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

(Credit: @tejuafonja)

If you can, please support our campaign to send WiMLDS Yaoundé leaders to #IndabaX 2024 in Cameroon 🇨🇲 for a panel discussion & #wimlds booth.

We're trying to raise $1600 USD. As a 501c3 US non-profit, donations are tax deductible. Link below. 🙏

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Many thanks. Our dataset in [2], project overview in [1]. Additionally, ongoing projects and collaborations w
Masakhane Intron Health on similar topics [3]. We always welcome collaboration.

[1] sautiproject.com
[2] zenodo.org/records/4561842
[3] direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/d…

👏The first edition of the workshop was held in Accra, Ghana (trustaideepindaba.github.io) last year and we're really excited to see the new edition this year!

❕Submit your papers before 26 April 2024: trustaiijcai.github.io/trustai-ijcai2…

Akintomiwa Dr. 'Bosun Tijani Awarri DataDotOrg Many thanks. Our dataset in [2], project overview in [1]. Additionally, ongoing projects and collaborations w Masakhane Intron Health on similar topics [3]. We always welcome collaboration.

[1] sautiproject.com
[2] zenodo.org/records/4561842
[3] direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/d…

Dr. 'Bosun Tijani Awarri DataDotOrg Great one!!!!

However, I think AI Saturdays (Lagos) and @tejuafonja already started something very similar to this with their SautiDB project, I guess there should be room for collaboration instead of rebuilding the wheel again

Look forward to future Roads to Research sessions on:
💡research ideation
🤝applying to research roles
✨connecting with mentors
💪and interactive calls to leverage the strength of our collective expertise.

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We’re excited to launch Roads to Research 🛣️- a new program to showcase all it takes to be an ML researcher, with focus on elements of the process that are less often spotlighted.

First up: Sara Hooker on “Your journey into research: lessons to live by”

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📢 Masakhane Weekly Presentation!

🎙️ Akintunde Oladipupo presents Better Quality Pretraining Data and T5 Models for African Languages aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-mai…

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC
🔗 Zoom Link: Available to members on Slack.

#Masakhane #NLP