I just published “Arm at Data Science Africa 2018” medium.com/p/arm-at-data-
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Damon Civin
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Data scientist, climate-concerned coffee enthusiast, home brewer, lousy surfer, noise rock fan and offbeat explorer. Cambridge alum. opinions my own. he/him.
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I just learned about the existence of the phylum “Vermes” for worms and I can’t I hear it in my head as mad Austrian scientist yelling “Wormies!!!”
Another fail from . Yesterday we were told our dog is too small for cargo and there’s no more space for days for us to reschedule. Last night they sent a DM that it was sorted and our dog was confirmed. This morning I get another message that there’s now no more space.
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Today I got invited to speak at:
"Women in Data Science Executive Conference (East Africa) 2020"
😭😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌
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Machine learning enthusiasts across the African continent! Consider applying to host a NeurIPS meetup, similar to indaba-x. Curious? learn more here: bit.ly/2olaTCH @DataScienceNIG
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Cheers to the epic week of DSA that has been. Looking forward to DSA 2020 in Kampala and the dance😄 with #DatSciAfrica
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Some good times, great people and excellent #datascience at #datsciafrica. Thanks and !!! Follow along on here instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0
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Happening today at Data Science Africa: A panel on Ethics in AI. Follow the conversation #DatSciAfrica #Ghana
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Great talk on mapping croplands in Uganda with computer vision by Nuruddeen Isa from @MakerereU! 🙏🏾 #DatSciAfrica
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Seth Baah Kusis discusses data collection for low resourced languages for natural language processing.
He is also looking for a job. Short CV below #DatSciAfrica
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Last day #DatSciAfrica -Thankful for ppl I’ve met, for technical #AI #DeepLearning sessions, for end-to-end applications esp in #RemoteSensing for agric & refugee settlements. Also is AMAZING 📷:
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Africans must be at the center of solving problems in Africa. The wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches. #DatSciAfrica
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A big welcome to participants of the Data Science Africa 2019 (). Over this week, AI and machine learning experts will engage on various applications on Data Science in the African context.
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Tech companies: let’s make our environment like grad school!
Grad students: we have awful mental health, no work life balance and (on average) aim for tiny impact on niche field that few people care about.
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SPEAKING FREELY by : This comic has been created for the Reader to document the year-long, citywide event series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. chicagoreader.com/chicago/speaki
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Back this Year! Honorary Surfdog Lifeguard Dr Meline Joaris, Courtesy of FUZZY –
#DogSurfing #dogs #surfing #surfingdogs surfdogchampionships.com/surfdog/back-t
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Trains are running at reduced speeds tomorrow, because of all this heat causing the rails to buckle.
Inevitably this brings out people asking “why doesn’t this happen in Spain/Mexico/other hot countries”, so it’s time for a thread about railway track.
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25/7 - Disruption into London as slowdowns will be in place.
In a #heatwave, steel tracks expand and buckle under stress, causing further delays. Slower trains apply less force, reducing the chances of this.
Please consider if your journey's essential & check @nationalrailenq
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Nothing angers me more than this asymmetry!
"Then there is the toll of a possible rejection – a rejection which will affect every subsequent visa application for the rest of your life, because whether you have previously been denied a visa is a specific question on applications"
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"It’s interesting to make a comparative list of visa requirements, some people carry a passport with privileges & others don’t... The world rises to meet and support those with privilege... it doesn’t for those without." blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20
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12 years ago I tried making my first poker AI in college and dreamed of beating the world's best pros. After seven years of a PhD, I'm excited to announce that I finally did it! It's been quite an adventure. Looking forward to the next one!
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Facebook AI and @CarnegieMellon researchers have built Pluribus, the first AI bot to beat elite poker pros in 6 player Texas Hold’em. This breakthrough is the first major benchmark outside of 2 player games and we’re sharing specifics on how we built it. ai.facebook.com/blog/pluribus-
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Thanks Damon! And there's a new book out this week, The Ice at the End of the World, that looks at the history of glaciology and climate science. . . .
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Just finished @jongertner’s excellent “idea factory”. The TLDR is that @BellLabs is the @kevinbacon of #tech. Highly recommended read! goodreads.com/book/show/1179
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Massive shoutout to ,
Who though we just met agreed to give some advice to one of the students from on #NLP - moments like that make our field special and make me truly appreciate the power of modern communication tech. #DatSciAfrica 👏 👏 👏
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Google acquires Looker for $2.6B, Salesforce acquires Tableau for $15.3B and tomorrow, data scientists will still spend a nauseating amount of time building and maintaining dashboards :/
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Wrote an opinion piece with for #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning in #IR "Machine Learning for the Interventional Radiologist" ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.221
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