Arthur Kakande
@ArthurKakande
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AI | Intelligent Systems | #Research | #intellikit | #WheresMyMoneySpent | @TheFindersLab | https://t.co/OAF30K7KAx | #DataScience, #Statistics #CBR
Joined January 2010
Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1) claimed Uganda's Entebbe Expressway is the costliest road per kilometer in the world. Could this be true? @PesaCheck investigates this here; https://t.co/L8mIXELM3r
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๐จ Final Call for Papers โ AfriLang AI 2025 ๐จ Deadline: Today, September 3rd at midnight (EAT) The AI for African Languages Conference (AfriLang AI 2025) will be held on October 10, 2025, in Kampala, Uganda. Donโt miss the chance to share your research and innovations on AI and
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๐ WE WON!๐ฅณ Our AI-powered platform: PoliWatch (GBVBase) won 1st place for tackling gender inequality in Ugandaโs civic space. It delivers real-time policy alerts, fact-checks GBV info, and strengthens women-led advocacy using NLP and knowledge graphs. #CivicTech #AIforGood
@marungairyne @commonwealthorg @PeaceOlive1 @Owomunshozi @NyapendiEsther @mwesigwapavans @ivandy23 @GuyNatumanya @WomenLensAfrica ๐ And itโs a wrap! Huge congratulations to our Hackathon winners: ๐ฅ GBVBase ๐ฅ Gamba Noogu ๐ฅ Her Voices from the Borderlands Podcast Your ideas are bold, inspiring & game-changing! ๐ ๐Huge shoutout to ALL teams, judges & participants, you made this amazing!
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We're incredibly proud to highlight the work presented by @jonathanmukiibi of the Makerere AI Lab of @Makerere university at #DLI2024 ! โจ Learn more in @natAfrica1 article: "To fight Ebola misinformation, AI mines old-tech radio data" ๐ https://t.co/4U6fdJgvtq By Abdullahi
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Nature Africa - Insights from machine learning models in Uganda can be used to tailor policies for handling present and future disease outbreaks.
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Weโre excited to announce that #DataFestAfrica2025 will take place on October 18th in Lagos, Nigeria! ๐ This yearโs theme; โAI in Africa: Solving Todayโs Problems, Building Tomorrowโs Systemโ, will spark conversations on Africaโs role in the global AI revolution.
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From Ibadan to Uganda โ The DSA movement heads East! After a powerful gathering in Ibadan, Nigeria, the Data Science Africa movement is heading to Uganda in 2026. Get ready to host Africaโs brightest minds in data science, AI innovation, and tech leadership. Details to follow!
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Hey friends ๐, We're thrilled to announce that we're now accepting proposals for ๐ #PyConAfrica2025 , until โฐ27 June 2025 at 11:59 PM (UTC+2). ๐กGot a brilliant idea? We want to hear from you! ๐Apply today: https://t.co/gSLiIhfHXc
#PyConAfrica #PyConAfrica25 #Python
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We made a repo with 100+ Fine-tuning notebooks all in once place! Has guides & examples for: โข Tool-calling, Classification, Synthetic data โข BERT, TTS, Vision LLMs โข GRPO, DPO, SFT, CPT โข Dataprep, eval, saving โข Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Phi, DeepSeek ๐ https://t.co/1qSdX8w8SO
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Real-time webcam demo with @huggingface SmolVLM and @ggml_org llama.cpp server. All running locally on a Macbook M3
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meet the Pearl Model (11M-translate) โ a Transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT) model built from scratch it's designed to translate from English to Luganda, trained on roughly 11 million parameters current BLEU score: 27.90 โ higher than any model i've seen either
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๐ฅ๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ณ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐๐โ๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐ป ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐! ๐๐ Get ready to ๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต โ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ
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JUST IN: ๐จ๐ณ Chinese regulators grant the country's first-ever approvals for two companies to operate autonomous passenger drones (flying taxis).
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๐ Awesome LangGraph Projects A curated list of enterprise-ready LangGraph projects, templates, and agents. This GitHub repository showcases production-tested implementations integrated with the LangChain ๐ ecosystem. โญ๏ธ Featured projects from LinkedIn, Uber, and GitLab ๐
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Exciting news! DSA, in partnership with @Meta is launching the Llama for Africa Grant Program โ offering up to $20,000 to African startups, researchers & labs using Llama 3.3 to create indigenous solutions. Apply by April 18, 2025 โก๏ธ https://t.co/svbCXdjr5b
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Our latest CS224N Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning lectures are now available! View the playlist here:
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Natural language processing (NLP) or computational linguistics is one of the most important technologies of the information age. Applications of NLP are ever...
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Book, Machine Learning in Production: From Models to Products by Christian Kรคstner, Carnegie Mellon University https://t.co/ey9w3G5uP0
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CMU's "Advanced NLP" (Spring 2024) ๐ฝ๏ธ Lecture Videos: https://t.co/51PMmdRt4V ๐๏ธ Course Website: https://t.co/6g0axtXDBk
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๐ค๐WebRover AI Agent Meet the open-source AI agent that autonomously navigates websites and automates tasks like a human Powered by LangChain & LangGraph, it handles everything from research to finding the cheapest flights between cities. https://t.co/NTT349X9IQ
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๐ Just dropped a new tutorial: Learn how to runย Deepseek R1 locallyย using Ollama, Chatbox AI, and LM Studio! ๐ฅ๏ธ DeepSeek-R1ย is a new free and open-source LLM that achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and reasoning tasks. ๐ฅ Watch now:
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We are accepting research proposals to accelerate Robotics + AI through the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program. Our Edge AI call is seeking projects on GPU simulations, learning-based control, and foundation models for humanoid robotics. Apply by March 31:
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๐ข Announcing data loaders in kagglehub! Load a Kaggle Dataset file directly into a Pandas DataFrame or a @HuggingFace Dataset in a single line of code. https://t.co/234O0VQBw1
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