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Shakir Mohamed
@shakir_za
ML with Social Purpose. @[email protected] | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Sep 15, 2023
    Very honoured to be included in this year’s #Time100AI list of influential people in AI🎈And more so the humbling messages from so many people ❤️. The work on directing AI to social purpose remains, and the ownership and inclusion of global communities🌍 time.com/collection/tim…
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Dec 22, 2023
    🥳 Our work on machine learning for medium range weather predictions is this week’s cover of Science🎄This is a fun area to work in and lots more scope for us as a field to support a range of decision-making needs. 🌍
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    Science Magazine
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    Dec 21, 2023
    Trained on four decades of historical data, #GraphCast from @GoogleDeepMind is an #AI model that predicts global weather with greater speed and accuracy compared with traditional approaches. Learn more in Science's last issue of 2023: scim.ag/5hf
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jun 26, 2019
    Exited to share our new paper: 'Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning', with @ElaClaudia @mfigurnov @AndriyMnih. It reviews of all the things we know about computing gradients of probabilistic functions. arxiv.org/abs/1906.10652 🐾Thread👇🏾
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jul 8, 2020
    Excited to be giving an introduction to Bayesian Machine Learning tomorrow @MLSS_Tuebingen 🥳. Going attempt to cover: topics in Bayesian theory; tricks for manipulating probabilities; topics in ethics and social impact; raising interest in Bayesian thinking. 🎲#virtual #MLSS2020
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jul 9, 2020
    Excited to share a new paper on Decolonisation and AI. With the amazing @png_marie @wsisaac 🤩 we explore why Decolonial theory matters for our field, and tactics to decolonise and reshape our field into a Decolonial AI. Feedback please 🙏🏾 Thread 👇🏾 arxiv.org/abs/2007.04068
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Sep 29, 2021
    We've worked for a few years on the problem of nowcasting, making short-term weather predictions ☔️. I think this is a powerful example of what is possible with generative models 🚀🤩. Excited to share our paper in @Nature today🎉🥳. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jul 31, 2019
    Really excited to share our latest paper in @Nature today on machine learning for health data to make early predictions of acute kidney injury. Has been an amazing journey over the last 2 years and with an amazing set of people. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jul 12, 2020
    In case anyone wants the slides for the tutorial, you can find them here: shakirm.com/slides/MLSS202… Thanks again to all the amazing participants @MLSS_Tuebingen 🖤 #MLS2020
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    Robert Lange
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    Jul 10, 2020
    Beautiful overview of Bayesian Methods in ML by @shakir_za at #MLSS2020. Left me pondering about many things beyond Bayesian Inference. Thank you Shakir🙏 Quote of the day: “The cyclist, not the cycle, steers.“🚴‍♀️ 🎤 P-I: youtu.be/x4Y90zPjbq0 🎤 P-II: youtu.be/DItJbz2OH5U
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Sep 4, 2017
    The slides for our .@uai2017 tutorial on Deep Generative Models are online. shakirm.com/slides/DeepGen… with .@DeepSpiker (sorry for delay 😨)
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jan 14, 2018
    First post for 2018! Machine Learning Trick of the Day (7): Density Ratio Trick. Somehow let 2 years pass and a long list of tricks are waiting. In this post, on the importance of statistical comparisons, density ratios and classification. wp.me/p3hD0L-be
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Oct 14, 2018
    The videos from the 3 lectures I gave at #MLSS2018 are online🌱. If you watch any part of the 4.5 hours leave me some feedback: what's missing, should be left out, reordered, etc Video 1: youtu.be/BgZ_UFsjCD4 Video 2: youtu.be/YdwbVgEsg2M Video 3: youtu.be/B_F8PtU2XMU
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Aug 28, 2018
    The attendees at #mlss2018 Madrid were one of the most engaged I've ever had: so many questions and thoughts😻. I gave 3 lectures on 'Planting the Seeds of Probabilistic Thinking'. 🌱🎲 See the slides here: shakirm.com/slides/MLSS201…
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Jul 10, 2024
    A great honour that our work on medium-range weather forecasting and Graphcast has been selected as the winner of this year’s MacRobert award, the UK’s premier award for engineering innovation 🥳
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    Royal Academy of Engineering
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    Jul 9, 2024
    🏅 The winner of the 2024 #MacRobertAward is... @GoogleDeepMind Huge congratulations to the team behind GraphCast, which uses machine learning and vast data sets to give highly accurate and timely weather predictions up to 10 days in advance: macrobertaward.raeng.org.uk #RAEngAwards
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Aug 24, 2019
    After a year of intense effort we are making our way to Nairobi for the 3rd Deep Learning Indaba @DeepIndaba 😻 There's a community of people who have given every part of themselves to Raise Africa's voice in AI 👉🏽 deeplearningindaba.com/committee-2019… 🦁 #SautiYetu #DLIndaba2019 #Masakhane
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    Shakir Mohamed
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    Aug 6, 2020
    I was extremely excited to give a short talk on 'Queering Machine Learning'. Queering is an approach for a more critical ML that is available to us all. Thank you @QueerinAI workshop @icmlconf #ICML2020 🙏🏾🏳️‍🌈🥳✊🏾. Video, text, slides here 👇🏾 blog.shakirm.com/2020/08/queeri…