Facebook is announcing the launch of new Accelerator programs!

The Facebook Accelerator program helps startups with a product in market to scale effectively through immersive and locally-tailored training, mentorship, and access to a global network of startup peers. Today, we are opening applications for two new programs customized for startups building in areas of connectivity or commerce.

Facebook Accelerator: Connectivity, is for startups in the Americas that are focused on improving connectivity through technologies, solutions, and new models that address the availability and affordability of internet access.

Facebook Accelerator: Commerce, is for startups in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East building on commerce platforms, innovating solutions around catalog functionality, and enhancing the overall commerce experience through conversational tools and immersive shopping experiences.

Read more about how your startup can benefit from the Facebook Accelerator program here: https://bit

Liquid Telecom Kenya is hosting an online workshop on The Internet of Things for JKUAT students. To express you interest, kindly sign up in the link below: https://forms.gle/8bSCJTvmHuBugF266

Guide to Text Analytics webinar recording
Good Afternoon

We have now uploaded the Youtube video of the last session we held on Text analytics. In the session, we covered;
introduction to Text Analytics
• Have a general understanding of Text Analytics techniques
• Text Analytics applications in business
• Key components of text processing
• Text representation
• Example applications – text clustering and classification
• What of for Low-resource languages?

 

You can watch it here. Feel free to share with others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtf3rVAGss&feature=youtu.be

Clean Code and Clean Architecture are both filled with principles that are timeless and can be applied regardless of the programming language in use.

In this workshop, Jeremy Appel will guide us in gaining practical knowledge on how to think about clean code and architecture on a daily basis, coupled with a Kotlin hands-on codelab.

RSVP here:
https://bit.ly/AugustTechnicalWorkshop

#CodeNewBie #100DaysOfCode #ml
Ever wondered why you dream? Neuroscientists think that human brains can suffer from overfitting, just like your models. Researchers say we dream to introduce 'noise' or bad data into our models of reality, which keeps us from making bad mental predictions.

Or as they put it: "The purpose of dreaming is to provide 'out-of-distribution' simulations specifically to prevent overfitting and improve generalisation.”
Read More👉🏿https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-artificial-neural-networks-paved-the-way-for-a-dramatic-new-theory-of

#CodeNewBie #100DaysOfCode #ml
Ever wondered why you dream? Neuroscientists think that human brains can suffer from overfitting, just like your models. Researchers say we dream to introduce 'noise' or bad data into our models of reality, which keeps us from making bad mental predictions.

Or as they put it: "The purpose of dreaming is to provide 'out-of-distribution' simulations specifically to prevent overfitting and improve generalisation.”
Read More👉🏿https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/how-artificial-neural-networks-paved-the-way-for-a-dramatic-new-theory-of

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #DEVCommunity
As a coder you should:
➲ Build Projects
➲ Learn new concepts
➲ Have patience
➲ Help others

You shouldn't:
➲ Watch tutorials all-day
➲ Memorize code
➲ Try learn everything at once
➲ Fix printers, microwaves, etc.

Hello Developers,
Amazon Web Services is at it again. Africa needs to be well represented in this Virtual Hackathon.
You are invited to participate in a virtual hackathon organised by AWS.
The Mission to M|A|R|S Virtual Hackathon invites hackers to build amazing prototypes using AWS services like Amazon ML, AI and Robotics.
The competition begins August 10, 2020 and lasts for 6 months. Top teams get a chance for acceleration.
Best Overall Prize:Win entrance into the M|A|R|S Acceleration in addition to cash and AWS credits.
Grand Prize: After the M|A|R|S Accelerator the top teams will present in front of AWS executives and industry experts for a chance to compete for $20,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS credits to bring their application to market.
You can find full details about the competition here: bit.ly/AWSMission2MarsHack

We are thrilled to announce the GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV!!

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #DEVCommunity
Don't miss this awesome opportunity to contribute to open source with the power of GitHub Actions. By participating, you'll be eligible for some amazing cash prizes and special swag, too! 🎉🎉🎉

https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-github-actions-hackathon-on-dev-3ljn

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #web
If you want to be a web developer, you should learn the building blocks of the web - HTML & CSS.

Want to create a solid foundation?

Check out this free 11 hour course for beginners that teaches you the basics of both. Check it out and start building.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/html-css-11-hour-course/

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #Ted
Apply to be a TED Fellow
Every year the TED Fellows program selects a new group of extraordinary, multidisciplinary individuals by open application. We look for innovators on the rise in their respective fields who are doing bold, original work.

https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-fellows-program/apply-to-be-a-ted-fellow

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #ADR
Give future you a break. Architecture decision records, also known as ADRs, are a great way to document how and why a decision was reached within a codebase. https://github.blog/2020-08-13-why-write-adrs/

The theme for this year's JS13K competition was just announced. It's 404!

Can you build a browser-based game based on that with less than 13kB of HTML, CSS, and JS in 30 days?

https://js13kgames.com

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #AT
Here's how M-Changa has been streamlining offline communications and enhancing crowdfunding experience with our SMS, USSD and Airtime APIs!

Read all about it here➡️ https://blog.africastalking.com/m-changa-enhancing-crowdfunding-experience-via-sms-ussd-and-airtime-dde18367c0bf

​​#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #AWS
Hello Developers,
Amazon Web Services is at it again. Africa needs to be well represented in this Virtual Hackathon.
You are invited to participate in a virtual hackathon organised by AWS.
The Mission to M|A|R|S Virtual Hackathon invites hackers to build amazing prototypes using AWS services like Amazon ML, AI and Robotics.
The competition begins August 10, 2020 and lasts for 6 months. Top teams get a chance for acceleration.
Best Overall Prize: Win entrance into the M|A|R|S Acceleration in addition to cash and AWS credits.
Grand Prize: After the M|A|R|S Accelerator the top teams will present in front of AWS executives and industry experts for a chance to compete for $20,000 in cash and $50,000 in AWS credits to bring their application to market.
You can find full details about the competition here: bit.ly/AWSMission2MarsHack

TL;DR: Visit https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com/ to register your team

Hello!

We are really happy to announce the Google CTF 2020!

This year will be slightly different than previous years:
We will integrate beginners challenges directly into the Google CTF.
We will only have 1 online round to select the top 3 teams that will receive the top prizes.
We will have a new event (a CTF speedrun!) open to the top 16 teams of the Google CTF.
We hope to see you all there this weekend. We will open the CTF August 22 2020 at 00:00 UTC (this saturday!) and the CTF will be open for 48 hours.

To register your team visit g.co/ctf and watch our teaser video here.

If you have any questions, you can contact our team at [email protected], or reach out to us through IRC on Freenode, on the ##ctfcompetition channel.

Are you interested in
🔹Guiding beginners and intermediate learners looking to grow in their various tech fields?
🔹Providing mentorship to mentees in their respective learning paths
Would you like to be a mentor and share your knowledge in your technical field ?  
Then join us: https://bit.ly/SCA-mentor-C3

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie
No matter what books or blogs or courses or videos one learns from, when it comes to implementation everything might look like "Out of Syllabus"

Best way to learn is by doing
Best way to learn is by teaching what you have learnt

-Credit: Srivatsan Srinivasan

#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #AI
H2O.ai Virtual Meetup: The Future of AI Strategy & Innovations in Insurance

Hello Maker,

 

There is still time to register! Join us on Tuesday, August 25th at 11:00 AM PDT with Michael Proksch, PhD, Senior Director, Customer Data Scientist at H2O.ai, Olaf Menzer, PhD, Senior Data Scientist - Decision Analytics at Pacific Life and Kadir Hallac, PhD, Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics at Aetna, talk with us about where we are right now and where we could be in AI for insurance in a couple of years from now.

In this meetup, you will learn about:

- Current topics and challenges tackled with AI

- How the future of AI strategy could look like

- What are current AI innovations that drive the insurance Industry

 

Register here ---> https://bit.ly/30OxgB4