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Great to see interest in the Indaba from the HN community! This year was a lot of fun; we had some amazing students, speakers, and tutors. While the practical
by taliesinb 7y ago
Great to see interest in the Indaba from the HN community! This year was a lot of fun; we had some amazing students, speakers, and tutors.
While the practical notebooks we used in 2018 were already amazing, my colleagues and I worked hard on expanding and improving them for the 2019 Indaba. In case anyone wants to check them out, here's a full list of the practicals (the links go to Google Colab notebooks)
1a: Machine Learning Fundamentals, http://bit.ly/2nfeu4W http://bit.ly/2nfeu4W
1b: Build your own TensorFlow, http://bit.ly/2obD1rK http://bit.ly/2obD1rK
2a: Deep Feedforward Networks, http://bit.ly/2oQSjSQ http://bit.ly/2oQSjSQ
2b: Optimization for Deep Learning, http://bit.ly/2nqkyHB http://bit.ly/2nqkyHB
3a: Convolutional Networks, http://bit.ly/2nqdQRX http://bit.ly/2nqdQRX
3b: Deep Generative Models, http://bit.ly/2nnkisU http://bit.ly/2nnkisU
4a: Recurrent Neural Networks, http://bit.ly/2ncgYkx http://bit.ly/2ncgYkx
4b: Reinforcement Learning, http://bit.ly/2oO4lMK http://bit.ly/2oO4lMK
They're also available on the official github page: https://github.com/deep-learning-indaba https://github.com/deep-learning-indaba
We'd love any feedback on the practicals to improve them for next year!
If you have some ML expertise and would like to volunteer to be a tutor at next year's Indaba, which will be held in Tunisia in late August 2020, drop me a mail at contact (at) taliesin.ai. I also encourage anyone to apply to attend as a student!
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- wodenokoto 7y agoAre there videos like from pycon? The conference sounds really interesting
- taliesinb 7y agoYes! The videos were just updated, here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICxY_yQeGYng7mbMmuZjt3S1sDb6YpBJ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICxY_yQeGYng7mbMmuZj...
- light_hue_1 7y agoThat's great! I don't understand the rather negative introduction in the article. Indaba seems to be about getting people up to speed with the basics of ML, NeurIPS and other ML conferences are about cutting-edge research. Both have an importance place. Why the distinction about Western vs non-Western AI? This isn't an alternative, it's a way to bootstrap research in Africa. And that's amazing. But the narrative that there's tension between the two and that somehow African AI is "other" and won't find a place in "Western AI" when the research is world-class is totally absurd and does African researchers a massive disservice. Yes, Africa is under-represented at international AI conferences. But that's a consequence of many things (imperialism, oppression, economics, etc.), not the somewhat-impartial double-blind review system we have. I wish people would tell a more inclusive and positive story rather than manufacture some conflict where there is none.
- thewarrior 7y agoVisa policies create exclusion by their very existence. So its not entirely an unfair assumption. For those who are unaware visa policies are extremely discriminatory to people from African countries. You will not even be granted a tourist visa or even be allowed to attend a tech conference. You are stuck where you are born.
- taliesinb 7y agoCase in point from today’s Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/01/oxford-professors-children-refused-visas-to-join-her-in-uk https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/01/oxford-pro...
- LunaSea 7y agoI'm guessing that is done to prevent people from overstaying their visa.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoYou're saying that governments create visas to prevent people from overstaying their visas? Lol.