vukosi.bsky.social
Chair of Data Science at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Co-Founder LelapaAI. #NLProc PhDCS Rutgers, BScEE-MsEE Wits University. Changing the World @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP. Made with ❤️ Tshwane Lab Data Science for Social Impact
👤 Joined on 22 June 2023
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@vukosi.bsky.socialAfrica has 2,000+ languages, yet fewer than 6 in every 10,000 pages in Common Crawl, the web archive most AI learns from, are in an African language. 🌍 Part 1 of our new AfirkaLLM series: where the data comes from. 🧵 @vukosi.bsky.social 1/
Show Post1/🇳🇬 The countdown is on for #DLI2026 in Lagos, Nigeria! The @dsfsi_up lab is heading to the Deep Learning Indaba (2–7 August 2026). Here is a thread of where you can find our team, research, and workshops throughout the week! 👇 www.dsfsi.co.za/blog/dsfsi-a...
Show PostA (very small) silver lining of writing a metareview with dozens of spammed LLM rebuttals is that occasionally the authors' unproofed generated response gives the game away by saying something like "Your criticism is spot on—it points to a serious oversight that requires a major revision."
Show PostFor a long time, the academic system has struggled to recognise software development as “core” research. Code was often treated as a byproduct of a paper, rather than a primary research output in its own right www.dsfsi.co.za/blog/ideas-m...
Show PostToward a new collaboration in AI for Global Health Security 🌍 AIMMLab was pleased to welcome Prof. Vukosi Marivate, Director of AfriDSAI at the University of Pretoria, for discussions on advancing collaboration between UofT and UP in AI, data science, modeling, and health security. #AIMMLab
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