In a month, things will quieten down and people will forget #BlackLivesMatter and so will you. Here are some strategies I’ve learnt on the never-ending journey to make being an ally a way of life. I expressed this as a tweet a couple of days ago, but my dad asked…

For Machine Learning in Africa BIG DISCLAIMER: I have absolutely no background in psychology or sociology fields. I have not got any formal education in this or studies around this. I would REALLY LOVE for someone who does have research and formalized expertise to help refine or challenge these thoughts…

This year we assembled for the 3rd Deep Learning Indaba. For those of you who haven’t heard of the Deep Learning Indaba, you can check out my open letter from last year, and have a look at the website. Keep an eye out for their videos to be posted Dear…

Or any big ML conference for that matter. Learnings from a very flabbergasted overwhelmed first-timer — So, last year I attended the notorious NeurIPS conference. A conference with over 8000 attendees, and endless amounts of posters, talks, and workshops. Let’s not even get into the number of sponsors. You’re surrounded by the gods of AI research (for the crew I was attending with, it became a…

From meeting to presenting at a NeurIPS workshop in 3 months — This year Laura Jane Martinus and myself published a small but exciting paper at the ML4D workshop at NeurIPS. The two of us met 3 months ago at the Deep Learning Indaba and in just over a month we’d somehow submitted something to the workshop. We’re were excited and shocked…

When I began my MSc years ago, I sort of ran into research wildly and blindly. I grabbed paper after paper and viciously tried to read as many as possible. I wanted to rush through my MSc. And like my lack of a bug solving strategy, I had a similarly…

Dear Deep Learning Indaba Team So often, the world makes me sad. The world seems to have an inability to figure out how to recover from injustices of the past and this pains of my mind daily. …

Practicing good bug solving habits — Disclaimer: I am a backend dev for the most part. I know I’ve written this very much from a backend dev perspective. But I hope the concepts are generally applicable I’ve noticed that I tend to solve bugs in an upside down manner or get endlessly lost in a bug…

We live in a world where our connectivity and transmission of information is faster and more voluminous than our ability to critically analyse it. Additionally, the world seems to build software faster than we can figure out what to do with it or who it is useful for. It’s this…