Marc Sturm Kenfack

Data scientist| Automatic speech processing researcher| Full stack developer|Teacher|Bantou &Yemba|Madridas

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@OusBad10 @GioMbappe @goal 😂😂😂

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@BeloboKiki 🤣🤣

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@svpino 😂😂

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

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@FranceRMCF Je crois que nous avons le successeur de el phenomeno

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@syriltchouta @picacaropi @Iam_OnanaFranck 😂😂

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@leonkibondo 😂😂

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@johnnyblacksad 😂😂🤣😂

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@ArobaseGiovanny Effectivement. Même si on ne se focalise que sur la CM. Même Mbappe mérite que Messi.

[Melatagia Paulin @melatagia]

#YembaTones: An Annotated Dataset for Tonal and Syllabic Analysis of the Yemba Language .
https://t.co/DFyKFBakME

#SpeechProcessing #Cameroon #Ummisco

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

STACK OVERFLOW JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR OWN AI!!!

OverflowAI is a tool, that will also have a VS Code plugin. The way this works, if you are on the site and ask a question, it will produce the answer for you while also citing the sources it used to produce the answer.

You can then ask more in the conversational area, even including code, and through Generative AI it can continue building off of the answer.

This is the right move on their part and I am confident a lot of people will be trying it out. Everything releases in August! Great job @StackOverflow. Really great announcement at the @WeAreDevs Conference!

[Greg Yang @TheGregYang]

Finally launched https://t.co/SpHbO7GxDt!

The mathematics of deep learning is profound, beautiful, and unreasonably effective. Developing the "theory of everything" for large neural networks will be central to taking AI to the next level. Conversely, this AI will enable everyone to understand our mathematical universe in ways unimaginable before.

Math for AI and AI for math!

Any mathematician/theorist excited about this needs to DM me!

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@BrendaMateck 😂😂

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@gp_pulipaka The best... With best recommandations for ML expérimentations

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Yann LeCun and I have thought a lot about the proposed 6 month AI pause, and plan to chat about it on Friday - the questions it raises for AI and its impact on developers and companies. Please join @ylecun and me for the conversation! RSVP here: https://t.co/o4vVuH4ItM

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Patrice Lumumba has streets named after him in Serbia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana, Belgium, Egypt, Iran, South Africa, Morocco, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Haiti, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Germany, Iran, Mozambique & Tanzania.

There is a university named after him in Russia.

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Dr. Godwin Maduka also built a Chinese restaurant in his village.

He vowed to make his village as beautiful as Las Vegas, USA, where he works.

He is the Director of Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners in USA.

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@MuhammadAnas707 @Olearningcurve Thank you @Olearningcurve. I will consult @storywithdata book

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@MuhammadAnas707 @Olearningcurve Intuitive visualizations. With you please any good courses or data visualization books on the choices to advise me?