Steve Kroon

@krikamol Congratulations, @krikamol !

Pleased to become the ELLIS Scholar 🎉

@vukosi @DSFSI_Research @LelapaAI @UPTuks @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP Congratulations, @vukosi !!!

Thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Computer Science, starting 1 January 2025! 🙌 This milestone reflects a journey that started in 2018 when I returned to academia to build something meaningful in AI and NLP. 1/n

@SABC_Sport It's not live - Top Billing is on SABC3 right now as the game plays on....

🏏 𝕎𝕀ℂ𝕂𝔼𝕋 🏏 The Proteas in a spot of bother now as Reeza (8) is bowled by Abrar, who picks up his second wicket. Enter: Heinrich Klaasen. SA 🇿🇦 28/3 after 3.4 overs. 🚨 LIVE 📺 SABC 3 #SABCSportCricket #SAvPAK

groundup.org.za/article/we-dis… - 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

@WXVRugby The WXV2 website still says 38-26 - when this is corrected, then South Africa should have a 3rd bonus point after Round 2, right? (Is there info somewhere on tiebreakers at the end of the tournament?) @WomenBoks

Cape Town, you put on a show! @WallaroosRugby get the job done in #WXV2 🇦🇺 #WXV

Congratulations to all the winners! (But especially to Jacobie as a past @MatiesCompSci student ;)

@SABC_Sport Disappointing the quarter final isn't being shown, with soccer between USA and Zambia on the channel now...

🏉 𝕄𝔼ℕ'𝕊 ℝ𝕌𝔾𝔹𝕐 𝕊𝔼𝕍𝔼ℕ𝕊 🏉 A try fest as #TeamSA's Blitzboks 🇿🇦 register a comprehensive win over Japan 🇯🇵 in their third and final Men's #RugbySevens Pool A match at #Paris2024 #SABCSportOlympics

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=oUv5c… ), if you want to check it out.

@UIFBenefits Your website is down....

📢 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-a…

@SAgovnews @dsigovza @BusinessUnitySA @CSIR Where can we find out more about this fund, and how it will be managed and the avenues for applying for funding?

@dsigovza @BusinessUnitySA @CSIR President Ramaphosa just announced the Presidential PhD Initiative, which will bring together bright minds to tackle AI research, fuel cell development, battery storage and so on. He has also asked the private sector to invest in this initiative.

HAPPENING NOW | President Cyril Ramaphosa just arrived at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, where he will deliver an address at the inaugural Presidential Plenary on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI).

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.org/2023/11/othell… ).

@wiebkehutiri @tudelftTBM Congratulations, Dr!

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/2023/08/a…

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/researchgro… Applications evaluated on a rolling basis. Please RT!

gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/cata… - funding call for 3-month projects tackling sustainable development goals in low-middle income countries with large language models.

@webafrica There seems to be something wrong with your Whatsapp troubleshooting bot - see the picture.

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.

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.