Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊
@vukosi
Chair of Data Science @UPTuks, Co-Founder @LelapaAI.
PhDCS Rutgers MsEE Wits.
Changing the World @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP.
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http://www.vima.co.za 28-06-2008 17:23:04
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Get ready for the launch of our Vulavula API.🎊 It's multilingual, user-friendly, and proudly African.
For now, make sure to apply for our exclusive hackathon to be among the first to explore its features and win prizes!
Apply now: bit.ly/VHack
#VulavulaHack
It is normal for IEC South Africa to meet with diplomats. They have already engaged EU diplomats & will meet the Dean of African Diplomats. DIRCO South Africa is convening a meeting of the Diplomatic Corps for a briefing by the #IEC on the state of readiness for 29 May elections (standard
A true giant has fallen. An inspiring hero to many of us, Ntate Sam Motsuenyane, invested his lifetime uplifting and teaching that self-sufficiency and integrity were core values for success. We were truly blessed to walk and work with him. #RIPMotsuenyane
🎉 Big news, Pythonistas! 🐍
We've got some updates: #PyConAfrica is back, and we're kicking off in Accra again before heading south to South Africa in 2025 and then catching the beat in Uganda in 2026! Let's gear up for a Pythonic journey like no other!
#PyConAfrica 2024
📣📣📣 Just a friendly reminder: The deadline for submitting your workshop proposal to the Deep Learning Indaba 2024 is only 2 days away! Make sure to get your proposal in on time!
This is just outrageous. The SABC News Board needs to come out and support the head of news. It’s an egregious effort to undermine editorial independence. City Press News24 🇿🇦 SANEF Media Matters SOS Coalition
We are sharing this Rutgers Today story featuring our Computer Science Prof. Jie Gao and Vukosi Marivate, Computer Science alumnus that discusses the need of AI to address critical needs in the world. Full story here: rutgers.edu/news/ways-rutg…
#rutgerssas mps #rutgerssas Rutgers Computer Science Department
Happy #FreedomDaySA !
My 1st ever interview with #NelsonMandela in at his home in Soweto after his 1991 US tour where he called on South Africans living abroad to come back home to serve. During this interview, I pledged my commitment to come back & Nov 1992 launched #FeliciaShow
A friend of mine finishing his master Université Paris-Saclay is looking for a PhD position in multilingual NLP for low-resource. He’s currently working on RLHF & synthetic datasets creation (previously worked on culture-aware LLMs). Please reach out if you’ve any, share and retweet!