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If you'll like to join the #EndSARSProtest around you physically, search for #EndSARSProtestCalendar + [your state, LGA, or country]. E.g #EndSARSProtestCalendar Enugu or #EndSARSProtestCalendar Dublin You will see the tweets of organizers and timing of the protest. #EndSARS

Breaking: Minor faints in court before trial for participating in protest Credit: Ikechukwu Nnochiri

In August, I made mention of the fact that there were minors taken by the Tinubu govt and locked up secretly because they came out to protest, and they responded that it wasn’t true but today on the news, the same minors I spoke about, who were illegally arrested for participating in the #EndBadGovernance peaceful protest collapsed in court. So what would the government say now?

𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐎𝐒: 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 #𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐣𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 “They haven’t had food; they are malnourished, they are sick, they were slumping. They’ve been kept for three months. They have been left without food. We had to provide food for them.” punchng.com/video-malnouri…

#EndBadGovernance protest: Minor collapses in Federal High Court Abuja

It is a crying shame that Nigerian authorities decided to charge poor, homeless, malnourished and out-of-school children to court for “participating in #EndBadGovernance protest”. This is the mirror of a society whose soul is lost. Obviously malnourished, the children slumped on Friday morning in open court since the Nigerian authorities deliberately denied them of food after keeping them in unjust detention for months. How despicable? The persecution of children by the Bola Tinubu administration is unacceptable and constitutes a gross violation of human rights. There should not be an arraignment in the first place. These children should be enrolled to school and provided basic amenities. The criminals in power are those who should be behind bars; certainly not these innocent kids. For everyone involved in this gory experience, let them be reminded that the verdict of history beckons!

They were hungry. They spoke up. Now they're in prison. Teenagers as young as 14 have been detained for exercising their right to protest in Nigeria. This is inhumane. Release these children immediately! #EndBadGovernance

🎉 Thrilled to announce the OSS release of LIDA - a lib for automated visualization with #llms 🛠️ API for #datavisualization generation, eval, editing, recommendation 🔄 Supports multiple LLM providers (@openai, @cohere, PaLM, @huggingface) 🌟 Great UI ➡️ github.com/microsoft/lida

🚀 LIDA is now open source on GitHub. github.com/microsoft/lida

🚨📊 Breaking News: Microsoft just unveiled LIDA, a game-changing tool that lets you create data visualizations using language prompts! This is next-level #dataviz. Dive in and be among the first to explore: vimeo.com/820968433 #LLMs #DataScience

On the impact of LLM fine tuning … these results strongly suggest that almost all knowledge in large language models is learned during pretraining, .. only limited instruction tuning data is necessary to teach models to produce high quality output. arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206

#weekendhack What does the UX of editing charts with natural language look like? (enabled by @openai #chatgpt). Below, we apply transforms to the data & add new marks (update) a seaborn chart (code)! Some kinks here and there but reliable results so far. @npew

LLMs (#ChatGPT, #gpt4) tuned to a specific domain can be quite helpful assistants! - Me: Here's a dataset (windvectors.csv) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - ChatGPT: Well here are 4 relevant questions And here is a chart! - Me : Well .. that looks pretty!

Always exciting to see advances in training smaller models that excel on code generation tasks. In this case, a Meet in the Middle(MIM) training paradigm yields smaller models with competitive performance. MIM-2.7B appears to outperform LLAMA-65B, PALM-65BCodex12B (but not code davinci) on several code infilling tasks on the HumanEval dataset. These "little" advances can really save on significant deployment costs, making them very very important! arxiv.org/pdf/2303.07295…

"What's your plan for the agberos if elected as Governor?" Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour:

Quite an important role. Managers Have Major Impact On Mental Health: How To Lead For Wellbeing Shoutout to all the incredible managers. I have been extremely lucky to work with and learn from so many such individuals! forbes.com/sites/tracybro…

An unusual but profound way to build a research career. - Be a generalist, learn about multiple areas (I know ... sounds like a career mistake .. but) - Find advances in one area and skillfully apply them in solving problems in a different (often disjoint) area. I recall a lecture by @kchonyc several years ago (~2018) touching on historical developments in DL and he mentioned how work by Alex Graves (previously part of Schmidhuber's group) moved the field forward by applying LSTMs to multiple different problem domains (long sequence generation, phoneme classification, writing recognition, speech recognition etc) and blowing away the existing benchmarks. What other common examples of this approach come to mind? Pros and cons?

I’ve been informed of evil reports & outright lies trying to scare the good civil servants that their jobs are under threat under me, these are LIES! The workers of Lagos have been underpaid & undervalued, & they deserve job security & better pay! And I’m here to bring that!

BREAKING: LP has lost confidence in the collation of the results of the presidential election. "We call on INEC to suspend further announcement of results and follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election and make plans for another election." - Labour Party

The law does not require that collation be done on the basis of uploaded results, but on results manually transferred to the collation centres. But where there is a contest, the uploaded result supercedes. — INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu. I wish Nigerians took this seriously 👇🏾