Hi! This is @lmattosdasilva_
. Thanks for following along my takeover of the CSAIL socials! We had some great Qs in the past couple of days and I was so excited to answer them! Stay tuned for future PhD student takeovers on @MIT_CSAIL
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AI Literacy Programs for Informal Sector Workers Highlighted
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During the recent Global IndiaAI Summit, the session “The Future of Work: Ensuring AI Literacy for All” highlighted the need for AI literacy programs for informal sector workers in small scale industries. Incorporating AI in everyday tasks and across all sectors of the economy
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MeitY Launches AI Fellowships for B.Tech and M.Tech Students
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Nominations open till 31st July, Apply Now! The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched AI Fellowships under the IndiaAI Mission! Support to be provided for http://
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MeitY Launches AI Fellowships for B.Tech M.Tech Students
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Nominations open till 31st July, Apply Now! The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has launched AI Fellowships under the IndiaAI Mission! Support to be provided for http://
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DeepMind and OpenAI: Comparing AI Research and Education Impact
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Gary, you’re right that Google DeepMind has been just as amazing as OpenAI. Moreover, I admire DeepMind’s contributions to AI education in Africa and LatAm over the years. I truly love DeepMind. However, I did not mean to invite comparisons. What I really intended to provide as
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Daily Content on Python, Data Science, Machine Learning and MLOps
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That's a wrap! If you are interested in any of these topics: – Python – Data Science – Machine Learning – Data Analysis – LLMs – MLOps Find me → @Sumanth_077 I'm sharing daily content over here.
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Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large2: Exploring LLM Pretraining Courses
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We're all excited about @AIatMeta #llama31 @MistralAI Large2! They're pre-trained and fine-tuned models. Are you curious to pre-train models? Please check out the #Pretraining LLMs course. In a week, more than 100,000+ people enrolled on @DeepLearningAI
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Margaret Hamilton’s MIT software powered Apollo 11 moon landing
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55 years ago this month Apollo 11 took off —and then landed a man on the moon — thanks to software from an MIT team led by 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton.
— Sean Gardner (@2morrowknight) 24 juillet 2024
(video: @MAKERSwomen) @NASA @MIT_CSAIL #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #NASA pic.twitter.com/wmpXXN4ppt55 years ago this month Apollo 11 took off —and then landed a man on the moon — thanks to software from an MIT team led by 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton. (video: @MAKERSwomen) @NASA @MIT_CSAIL #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #NASA
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Federated Learning Course for LLM Training with Privacy
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Learn to train an LLM with distributed data while ensuring privacy using federated learning in a new two-part short course, Intro to Federated Learning and Federated Fine-tuning of LLMs with Private Data, created with @flwrlabs and taught by @daniel_janes and @niclane7.… pic.twitter.com/K3eJY33lye
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) 24 juillet 2024Learn to train an LLM with distributed data while ensuring privacy using federated learning in a new two-part short course, Intro to Federated Learning and Federated Fine-tuning of LLMs with Private Data, created with @flwrlabs and taught by @daniel_janes and @niclane7
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Visa and travel barriers exclude African researchers from AI conferences
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I think it is more nuanced. It is true that visas exclude people, and sadly even among African countries visas are an issue. There is also bias in the sense that these meetings mostly occur in Europe and north America. It is costly and demanding to travel to these conferences