Celia Cintas

Walk around Nairobi CBD in a cloudy day 🇰🇪 #nairobi #kenya

CFP Closing Soon! Only 6 days left to submit your talk for PyCon Africa 2026 in Kampala 🇺🇬 🗓 Oct 7–11, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: 16 Apr 2026, 11:59 PM (EAT) Share your expertise. Inspire the community. Submit now: africa.pycon.org #PyConAfrica #Python #CFP #TechAfrica

#DLI2026 Update: Registration Ticket Lottery Now Open! If you missed the financial aid deadline, you can still join us in Lagos through our Registration Ticket Lottery! What you need to know: The Lottery: To ensure fairness in our oversubscribed event, we use a lottery system for ticket allocation. Paid Route: This is a paid attendance route. We charge registration fees to cover the high operational costs of hosting an Indaba and to subsidise the costs of attendees with financial support. Financial Aid: Please note that applications for financial aid are now officially closed. Deadline to enter the lottery: 30 May 2026 Apply here: baobab.deeplearningindaba.com Full Details 👉 deeplearningindaba.com/2026/applicati… #DLI2026 #Indaba2026

Good news: The #DLI2026 application deadline has been extended! / Bonne nouvelle : la date limite de candidature est prolongée ! The new deadline is 4 April 2026. Did you know? You can complete your entire application in French! We want to ensure that language is never a barrier to brilliance. To apply in French, simply change your language settings in Baobab. Nous vous accordons plus de temps pour nous rejoindre à Lagos, au Nigeria. La nouvelle date limite est le 4 avril 2026. Le saviez-vous ? Vous pouvez remplir l'intégralité de votre candidature en français ! Nous voulons nous assurer que la langue ne soit jamais un obstacle à l'excellence. Pour postuler en français, modifiez simplement vos paramètres de langue dans Baobab. Apply/Postulez ici : baobab.deeplearningindaba.com #DLI2026 #indaba2026

I thought "AI for Science" was something like AlphaFold, ie. using AI to creatively address computational bottlenecks for well articulated scientific problems. Now I'm seeing more of "AI slop cosplaying as research paper", where the problems are fake, methods unverified, etc.

If you are a student from eligible countries for this opportunity – South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia. #Apply

Call for applications – 6th BDAS | Big Data Africa School is now open! We are excited to announce that the Call for Applications for NRF/SARAO – South African Radio Astronomy Observatory‘s 6th BDAS | Big Data Africa School is now open! The school will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 4 – 10 October 2026. The thematic area of this year’s school is “Machine, Deep Learning and Novel Quantum Computing Techniques applied to Medical Imaging”. At the school, students will work on real-life data sets in the area of healthcare focusing on medical imaging by solving some of the biggest challenges facing the African continent. Students* registered at an African university and currently undertaking their 4th year BSc Honours or final year BEng degree, Master of Science / Engineering or PhD degree in a science or engineering discipline, with intermediate to advanced programming skills, are invited to apply for the school. Eligible countries for this opportunity* – South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 3 May 2026 (no late applications will be accepted) More information can be found in the attached brochure and link to the application below: sarao.ac.za/researchandstu… #BigDataAfricaSchool #TrainingOpportunity #SkillsDevelopment #DataScience #CapacityDevelopment #BigDataAfrica

Something is rotten with policy gradient. PG has become *the* RL loss for LLMs. But it’s not even good at basic RL. Even on MNIST with bandit feedback, vanilla PG performs far worse than cross-entropy because it wastes gradient budget. Delightful Policy Gradient: arxiv.org/abs/2603.14608…

Similar to publication venues, the world of open coding is now being inundated by slop. What solutions can we use here to address this new world issue?

Our biggest open-source repos are getting overwhelmed by AI slop which literally makes Github unusable (~a new pull request every 3 minutes). Fun new challenges in an agentic world!

Reminder: our Call for Workshops & Sessions for Indaba 2026 is still open. More info: deeplearningindaba.com/2026/workshops/ #DLI2026 #Indaba2026

It’s official, we will be in Kampala, Uganda, from 7th to 11th October 2026. For 5 days people from across Africa and beyond will come together to share, learn and celebrate the Python community. It has always been about more than just code. africa.pycon.org

The Quiet Rise of African Intelligence: Eight Africans Join UN AI Panel iafrikan.com/the-quiet-rise…

And lols Deepskeek is gonna make it free and open weight unlike these people. What they're doing is showing how this bubble propped up by these goons makes no sense.

They're not even stealing from them the way Anthropic stole the internet. They're paying for model use.

Shameless people stealing everyone's data then complaining about other people stealing from them 😂

Thrilled to announce the 3rd African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS) 👉acvss.ai 🎓Learn computer vision from the best scientists 🌍Google, Accra, Ghana 📆July 19-29, 2026 🎓Apply before March 1st (full grants available) ❤️ Follow us #ACVSS #computervision #ai

Tiny Aya models are here! Efficient enough to run locally, while delivering state-of-the-art translation quality and broad language coverage over 70 global languages. Including base models, specialized variants, and a detailed tech report.

Huge congrats to the @Cohere_Labs team and community! Super special to see tiny Aya in the open. Congrats to everyone involved, and the large amount of care required for this type of launch.

I’m honoured to have been selected to serve on this panel. I look forward to continuing to share experiences and perspectives from across the African continent, and to learning from my fellow panelists. Learn more about the panel un.org/independent-in…

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A #dataviz article & exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.