The slides from my presentation at the Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Consortium meeting on 17 August 2019 at Intel HQ in Santa Clara: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cfpOLsL0f6Okm4c_dKEArDNMgryjDloDtf8dzSwOZZU/
doing backpropagation using pen and paper We begin with a simple problem, we have two guys, Joris and Carl, who both want to be tall. Joris is dutch and so he drinks a pint of milk a day, so that he may grow tall. Carl is Swedish and so he eat meatballs with jam to grow tall. We can represent this in a matrix: `X = [[1,0],[0,1]] ` {: .kdmath}
Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: SSE4.1 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 FMA The above notification keep popping up whenever you use TensorFlow to remind you that your models could be training faster if you used binaries compiled with the right configuration. When TensorFlow first came out, it was available as a package, it became available to Arch Linux users as a package in the Arch User Repository, meaning that it was compiled on your local system.
In the keynote at African Peering Forum (AfPIF) 2016 I presented the Promoting Content in Africa report written together with Michael Kende, these are the slides. or otherwise here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11uHhY4yLrvBbmf4N2aZm0SE1aUyoDhWt/ The recording is available here (archived, backup): Blog posts The report is accompanied by a blog post on local content creation and a blog post on local content availability, each of which summarises one of the chapters of the report.
The Local-Content Effect of google.co.za in Setswana I presented this paper at EEA 2016 in Geneva Abstract This paper shows that an exogenous increase in accessibility of local language content leads to an increase in demand for internet connectivity among native speakers. Internet connectivity provides enormous improvements in quality of life as well as opportunities for the newly connected, yet recent attempts to connect the current ’next billion’ in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in usage was not observed. The introduction of the Setswana language in the South-African Google Search website was a spillover of the Botswana Google search website being translated from English to Setswana. This exogenous improvement in the accessibility of Setswana-language content has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of native Setswana speakers coming online and owning personal computers. It has also led to increased usage of the Setswana language online, creating a positive-feedback loop. This suggests that connecting the fourth billion will require a greater focus on the demand-side of connectivity, specifically by means of local content.