Antony M. Gitau @gitau_am
Google DeepMind Scholar | MSc. in AI 4 Science at AIMS and UCT antony-gitau.github.io Cape Town, South Africa Joined February 2018-
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I am easing back to social media with some splendid news. After months of working on this, we launched WHOLE, The KamiLimu Magazine, yesterday. In it, you'll find inspiration, interaction, & my creative side on display with games & all. It is worth your time. 😊
I am easing back to social media with some splendid news. After months of working on this, we launched WHOLE, The KamiLimu Magazine, yesterday. In it, you'll find inspiration, interaction, & my creative side on display with games & all. It is worth your time. 😊
Hello! Yesterday, we did something cool! We launched our first-ever KamiLimu Magazine (volume 1, issue 1), which we have named WHOLE. In this first issue, you will find journeys of single steps, career pivots, resilience, and hope that careers in tech can be wholesome. You…
Today, I got access to @ManusAI_HQ. So I gave it a @GoogleColab notebook and asked it to go through a GPT-based model and change specific architectural design to resemble LLama. So instead of GELU, use SILU and instead of LayerNorm, RMSNorm. ZERO errors!
Exciting news! DSA, in partnership with @Meta is launching the Llama for Africa Grant Program — offering up to $20,000 to African startups, researchers & labs using Llama 3.3 to create indigenous solutions. Apply by April 18, 2025 ➡️bit.ly/3Bd1z9B
Just returned from an inspiring three weeks at @AIMS_Next in Cape Town, where I taught Generative AI with @FEijkelboom. I was really impressed with these students, who are engaged, hard working, and asked some of the best questions that I have ever had in class!
🇿🇦Had the most amazing time at @AIMS_Next in Cape Town teaching some of the brightest, hardest-working, and most grateful students I've ever met. Special thanks to @jwvdm for this amazing opportunity and teaching this course! Can't wait to see where their talents take them ❤️
Wrapped up a fun and intensive course on Deep Generative Models and Generative AI, taught by Prof Jan-Willem @jwvdm and his PhD student @FEijkelboom @ja from @UvA_Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab as part of the AI for Science Masters at @AIMSacza!!
Tomorrow 5pm EAT. 😌 #TeamKenya
Tomorrow 5pm EAT. 😌 #TeamKenya
Kaggle ❤️ Colab Connect to a Kaggle backend from Colab, try it out!
Kaggle ❤️ Colab Connect to a Kaggle backend from Colab, try it out!
YC's Dalton Caldwell on Challenging Startup Conventional Thinking "If you're really into startups and you're really into startup news, you can end up diverging with all of the same opinions with all of the other people in the same subculture." @ycombinator's @daltonc and…
This is just the beginning of our research on the economic impacts of AI. We’ll run these analyses repeatedly, uncovering patterns of change as AI evolves. Now we’ve set the foundation, many more economic insights lie ahead. Read the full paper: assets.anthropic.com/m/2e23255f1e84…
Exciting News! DSA 2025 is heading to Ibadan, Nigeria! Join us at the University of Ibadan from June 2–6, 2025 for groundbreaking discussions, collaboration, and innovation in Data Science. #DSAIbadan2025 #DataScienceAfrica
20 years ago, Nvidia’s annual profit was $100 million. Today, it generates $100 million of profit in less than half a day.
The importance of language representation in NLP cannot be overstated. This survey paper by the Kenya NLP group highlights the challenges and opportunities in Kenyan NLP. Give it a read and send any reviews! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09948 @IndabaXKenya #NLP #KenyaNLP
Super excited to win this award - Africa AI Research Award 2024 during @DeepIndaba @IndabaXKenya! Thanks to my project mentor Prof. Ciira and colleague @KuyaMwangi - and @dsa_org for a research fellowship hosted at @DSAIL_DeKUT!!
As we look to the future, let us continue to embrace the evolving landscape of education and technology with a shared vision. The success of the IndabaX Kenya Summit 2024 has paved the way for a brighter and more technologically advanced future for Africa.

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