Steve Kroon

groundup.org.za/article/we-d… - great detective work on SASSA SRD grant fraud by some first-year @MatiesCompSci students. Let's hope this gets some serious attention @SisisiTolashe @The_DSD @dailymaverick @NPA_Prosecutes

Congratulations to all the winners! (But especially to Jacobie as a past @MatiesCompSci student ;)

If you're at @icmlconf this week, my student @luro_learning will be around too. He'll be presenting a poster on his Masters work at the GRaM workshop, on fairly comparing networks equivariant networks ( openreview.net/forum?id=oUv5… ), if you want to check it out.

@UIFBenefits Your website is down....

I see a paper by Hiroki Takizawa on the arxiv claiming Othello is solved - arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387 (via Lance Fortnow's post on the Computational Complexity blog - blog.computationalcomplexity… ).

Really proud of @ArnuPretorius on being awarded the @DeepIndaba 2023 Kambule Doctoral Award for his PhD studies at @MatiesCompSci ! Congratulations to the winners of the other awards as well! deeplearningindaba.com/blog/…

gcgh.grandchallenges.org/cha… - funding call for 3-month projects tackling sustainable development goals in low-middle income countries with large language models.

@webafrica There seems to be something wrong with your Whatsapp troubleshooting bot - see the picture.

Jacobie did her Masters with me looking into how one can use prior knowledge from graphical models in generative modeling. This paper is the result of her excellent work.

There are opportunities for a research engineer and a research scientist role working for @instadeepai in Cape Town with @ArnuPretorius - check out instadeep.bamboohr.com/caree… and instadeep.bamboohr.com/caree… for more info.

So, I discovered this in Python today - anyone with more insight on this behaviour? mytuple = ([], []) mytuple[0].append("Blah") print(mytuple) try: mytuple[1]+=["blah"] except: pass try: mytuple[1]+=["blah"] except: pass print(mytuple)

I'll be in Melbourne from Saturday until next Sunday, being kindly hosted by @mgb_infers at @MonashUni . Let me know if you're in the area and interested in meeting up.

We're recruiting for a lecturer position from Apr 2023 at Computer Science at Stellenbosch University - advert with more detail at tinyurl.com/sucslecturer .

@theappaper Thanks so much for your post on fixing Google Maps navigation on Huawei phones (appaper.com/fix-google-maps-… ) - I've been struggling with this for ages!

If you are potentially interested in the use of category theory for machine learning, this looks interesting: cats.for.ai/program/

@vfsglobalcare The advisories link in your profile is giving a server error. Also, I've got to do biometrics in the next 2 weeks in Cape Town, but the system is showing no slots available - is this true or a system issue?

Congratulations to my Masters student Jacobie Mouton for her @DeepIndaba poster prize on SIReN-VAE. Poster: storage.googleapis.com/indab… arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2204.11847 . (Congratulations to the other prize-winners, too! of course!)

Shocking state of affairs in Gqeberha public hospitals. Source: Daily Maverick report at dailymaverick.co.za/article/…

My brother gave his professorial inaugural lecture tonight - it has been delayed some time for COVID. If you want to learn a whole lot about rainbows (and their links to various topics in physics), you may be interested in this: youtu.be/CvTeHFucuzc?t=2500 .

Applications are open for the 2023 intake of the MSc in Machine Learning and AI @StellenboschUni . Visit mlai.sun.ac.za for further details. We have a number of @DeepMind Scholarships available specifically for students from Africa to join this course. Please share.