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We look forward to the start of @ZindiAfrica UmojaHack tomorrow, we are sure it's going to be fun as always. Good luck to all participating schools. @DataScienceNIG @o_funminiyi @Aminu_Israelb

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Countdown to start of #LASUTECHX

Welcome, AllenNLP 2.0 from @allen_ai, an open-source NLP platform built on Pytorch for building state-of-the-art models with ease. It provides high-level abstractions and APIs for common components & models in modern NLP. More: bit.ly/2MnzV03

Our EdTech unit, @DSNLearnathome is recruiting full-time teachers to work at our Lekki, Lagos educational content creation studio. Exceptional teachers needed for Primary, JSS & SS subjects. Engaging voice & passionate teaching skill required Detais at bit.ly/LAHFullTimeSAT

Welcome, Vx2TEXT from researchers at @Columbia @facebookai @GeorgiaTech & @dartmouth, a framework for text generation from multimodal inputs consisting of video, speech, or audio outperforming the state-of-the-art on 3 video-based text-generation tasks. bit.ly/3jfu0pX

AI can speak slangs. Researchers from the @UofT & @VectorInst have developed a framework that combines probabilistic inference with neural contrastive learning to generate novel slang word usages & predict the historical emergence of slang word usages. bit.ly/3pQjcRr

Here are our AI+ Community events from last week - @dsn_ui ran 3rd edition of intro Python class - @AIplus_OAU launched two competitions on @ZindiAfrica - @aifunaab had an intro webinar on AI and data science Join our communities as an AI+ member today: bit.ly/2YBT41u

Welcome Speller100 from @MSFTResearch, a collection of large-scale multilingual spelling correction models with high precision & recall in 100+ languages, leveraging zero-shot learning with large-scale pretraining tasks & historical linguistics theories. bit.ly/3rBIxPD

Get that world-class data-career! Registration for the 2021 AI+ mentorship stream remains open! Give your learning and career a boost with our tracked and career-oriented AI+ mentorship program. Sign up today: bit.ly/AIPlus_Mentors…

Call for Mentors! Are you passionate about impacting a generation of AI talents? We seek academic, industry, and technical experts with experience in AI and other data-related fields to mentor AI talents in our AI+ Community Details and sign up here: datasciencenigeria.org/mentors/

AI learns how caregivers understand children’s communication. Researchers from @mitbrainandcog, @UChicago & @DukeU have developed a suite of Bayesian models of spoken word recognition to understand how adults overcome the noisiness of child language More: bit.ly/3tMY4xO

We need our teachers to learn AI to teach the next generation. Register today for our FREE free training on Python programming and AI for school managers, teachers & educators. 15-19 February 5:30 – 7:00 PM (GMT+1) #OurTeachersKnowAI Register: bit.ly/TeachersAIMast…

Today is class 6 in week 3 of the Game Theory semester with Prof. Hau Chan! We are excited to have supported 30 AI+ members so far with data grants to participate in this online semester at the University of Nebraska-London. Become AI+ today by clicking: bit.ly/2YBT41u

AI gets better at moderating online commentary Welcome CAE-T5 from researchers at @TelecomParis_, @Stockholm_Uni & @Google, a model that generate suggestions on the rephrasing of toxic comments in a more civil manner while preserving the initial content. bit.ly/2Z3hGzT

Welcome, TensorFlow 3D from @GoogleAI, an open-source framework of training and evaluation pipelines for state-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation, object detection and instance segmentation, with support for distributed training. More: bit.ly/3d52Tg2

I'm so inspired right now, being a member of @dsn_lasu , @DataScienceNIG ,and a participant of the just concluded #UmojaHackNigeria hackathon organized by @ZindiAfrica. Thank you all. Today was lit🔥🔥🔥.

Here they are! 😁 Team Anonymous - University of Lagos Team Solo - Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-ife Sam_ - Federal University of Technology Akure, Computer Science Girls can code too - Ambrose alli university cruise_fc - Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta 🥳

@dsn_lasu @ZindiAfrica @DataScienceNIG @o_funminiyi @LASUOfficial @Aminu_Israelb Great job

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