My AI Saturdays (Lagos) Journey - Week 4.

Ibrahim Gana
Sep 5, 2018 · 3 min read
Happy people

Getting into the weekend, after having a great week, the icing on the cake was when I saw Oreva’s WhatsApp message saying we will be using Cisco’s office for this weekend’s session. I was happy that I had to do the shaku shaku(read it in George’s voice).

It was a new day, new month and another weekend of AI. There was just something about the weekend, maybe it was Cisco’s office(maybe it was Siraj) but I was just in a good mood. I wore a native as a disguise because people now know I am the medium guy(that was what I told anybody who asked, but the truth was all my clothes were dirty and it was the only clean one I had).

Since last week I had this ritual of watching a video of Andrew Ng every morning( because this AI must sink in by fire by force) but the result has not been satisfactory (probably fatigue or village people).

On this fateful Saturday, it was different, I mean, I was not even trying hard but it was just sinking in like I was receiving revelation from the god of AI.

I arrived at Cisco’s office and noticed I was not the only one in a good mood. The organizers had these smiles on their faces especially Madam Teju, always in a happy mood (she probably does advert for a toothpaste brand, coded).

Everybody came early and we kicked off on time.

Teju started with answering some pressing questions. This weekend was more of revision. We revised both models of Linear Regression — the one with a single variable and that with multiple variables.

Teju, explaining a math problem.

George and Lawrence were next with the Math and Codelab sessions respectively.

George revising linear regression with multiple variables.
Lawrence revising linear regression with multiple variables — codelab session

Rounding up the session we were told the Hangout with Siraj Ravaj was postponed to 5:30 pm instead of the initial 3:30pm and beginners were welcome too.

To kill time while waiting for the hangout, the AI6 team played the “Solve AI or Die Trying” video for those that did not know who Siraj was.

Everybody watching the "Solve AI or Die Trying" video.

I tweeted him with a 30 seconds clip of what we were watching, and Boom!! I got a DM. guess who?

The Director, School of AI was in my DM.


The hangout session was an interesting one and the organizers really hit him with some questions he thought nobody knew.

Glad I waited, the class was so interesting most people did not want it to end. .

You can watch the recorded session with Siraj Raval on Youtube at https://youtu.be/WZkg05jeX6I

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