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SoftEng:
In terms of programming modern AI systems, it's not just about knowing the math. You can also write the low level maths in python. But there's something else you have to seriously consider. Which is your hardware. Mordern AI systems are computationally expensive.

To seriously train modern AIs (basically neural networks), you need to use a GPU (Nvidia GPUs are the most favourable to use because of their underlying very low level libraries called CUDA).

Mordern AI libraries in python are written to interface with some low level C/C++ codes which in turns interface with CUDA library for NVIDIA. So that means that interfacing your AI systems with GPU is taken care of by default for you. That means that you can then write the math equations in python (but they are processed in the GPUs). Not many languages have this kind of software library stack (interfacing with CUDA) like python. I believe Java has this capability thanks to the some AI libraries.

If your AI codes can't run on GPU (let's say because your choiced language don't yet have bindings for GPU support), it means that it will run on CPU. The difference between training your AI system on CPU and GPU is HUGE. For example, a neural network that will take 3 hours to train completely on a GPU can take 18 hours or more to train on CPU.

Lastly, I'll note here that if you are building just a small AI system, then you may not need to consider your hardware. But I'll tell you that modern AI systems that powers Language Processing systems, Computer Vision, Speech etc are nothing near small in computational size.

Fin.

Good point, but this depends on the datasets. Beginners would normally start small.
But for computational power, there are always cloud services like, AWS(Amazon Web Service), Google cloud platform, IBM Blue mix, Azure and so on.
I use pythonanywhere.

Though i'm not sure if these options will work for all languages(especially php) but you get the point.

osarenomaspecial:
is there any Al libraries in PHP, if none you have to push to Python. If you are good in machine learning algorithm you can build library from scratch. I believe there are machine learning libraries api in PHP.

Ya, if one knows the maths then choice of language is no problem.

SoftEng:
I believe there is a community (although still very young). It's called Data Science Nigeria. Here's a link to their webiste and twitter handle. OneFi is one of the key organizations spearheading this movement and they had a loan risk prediction challenge on kaggle (see link below)

website - http://www.datasciencenigeria.org/
twitter - https://twitter.com/DataScienceNIG
kaggle challenge - https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-nigeria-credit-risk-prediction

It is also possible that there other Data Science communities existing in Nigeria that I haven't heard about.

Thanks for the link.

Hmm, *observing*.

@osarenomaspecial There is a machine learning channel in the slack group. That's cool.

osarenomaspecial:
Nigeria programming community have large numbers of web applications developers. I was even planning to create A.I group, were we can share ideas and learn together, but no community.

Please do, and invite me.
The group could turn out great and might be a learning centre for newbies.

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Even at school, they were very few students into AI/data science or networking sef.

osarenomaspecial:
is there community in that Area in Nigeria.

Not one i've heard of.

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Pcguru1 invited me to a slack group, i asked if there are anyone into data science, hoping to get a good response cos all i see are mostly web and android guys even here on NL.

That's great.

Data Science.

PastorAIO:
Pedophilia is everywhere, but what is the attitude of an organisation when it gets discovered? Even when the Catholic church covered their own didn't we all halla? Even Catholics on NL here cried out. So I want to see if an JW's will denounce the practice and it's cover up in their organisation.

Hmm, "cover up". Okay.

pcguru1:
Done delete your email because of bots or spam

Okay. Was very anxious about that too.

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Edit: Seen the mail and registered.

PastorAIO:
Abeg, let me just park this here, if you don't mind. I go come collect am later.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU5pRwKH-kk

I don't buy what this documentary is trying to paint.
Jehovah's Witness as an Organisation does not encourage pedophilia, it's a big church so it's no surprise that there are some black sheep, even the catholic or any other organisation have similar issues.
the homosexuality issue, well that's commonplace.

This documentary is somewhat misleading.

pcguru1:
what's your email let me invite you

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pcguru1:
Programming section is dead, just let it go, come to Dev Square on Slack or Reddit

Okay. How do i get the URL invitation for slack?

OLAADEGBU:
You will have to ignore the following verses just as you have conveniently evaded.

I've not evaded anything o.

"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'" (Mark 10:6).

What about those born without sexual organs, conjoined twins, intersex babies and so on, are they the devil's creation?
And by the way, your point here does not affect OEC, after all for the most part animals are categorized as male and female, whether they believe it's through Abiogenesis or a different phenomenon.

"For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither shall be" (Mark 16:19).

OEC don't dispute the fact that the universe was Created by God, so what's your point here?

"That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say to you, It shall be required of this generation" (Luke 11:50-51).

Like i said before, some interpret some parts of the bible as metaphors or symbols for esoteric understanding.
Here's is an explanation: http://www.spiritofthescripture.com/id471-cain-and-abel-the-higher-and-lower-nature.html

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And i just remembered this, when Cain was being punished he said something about him being scared of the wrath of some population outside Eden.
If you interpret the book of Genesis literally, how do you explain this?

OLAADEGBU:
See why YEC is the closest to 'literal biblical history' here.==> https://www.nairaland.com/4176884/could-god-really-created-everything

Although it seems i'm trying to support a biblical ideology but;

OEC: I found that over 90% of the Bible dealing with creation I have to ignore to believe it.

from the quote above, what do you have to ignore when considering OEC.

Olyboy16:
never mind bro, the issue is dead.

Okay.

OLAADEGBU:
It's not only the spectacles that needs to be swapped but you also need to unplug your ears.

YEC contradicts literal biblical history.
Deal with it.

OLAADEGBU:
You will need to take off those evolution spectacles that is preventing you from seeing Scriptures and calculations buttressing the truth of a young earth.

You're a clown.
If you have no valid argument then you're just being dogmatic.

OLAADEGBU:
I gave you 3 different mathematical calculations that proved that the earth was a young earth. I also gave you three biblical verses where the Lord Jesus Christ asserted that the earth is young and lastly I cited what Josephus said about the belief in his day as a young earth and yet you are still pretending to not see it. I can give you one more calculation to prove it but will not see it?

What calculations?
So far only 1 calculation which i debunked, which other 2 are you talking about.

Jesus Christ never said the earth is young, that's just your interpretation of what he said.

It seems you're just copying and pasting without reading, can you show me the calculations you gave? and also how what Jesus said is devoid of interpretations?

OLAADEGBU:
Do you understand it now that you've seen the explanation or you still have some objections?

Mr. Man is it that you're not understanding me or you didn't read what you posted.

There is no explanation up there, i thought the explanation would continue in the link you posted, but i didn't see it.
Check it again.

OLAADEGBU:
Now that you've see the expanded version of it, do you now agree?

which expanded version, i told you i didn't see their explanation in the link you posted.

KingEbukasBlog:
From another thread o . Where we "discussed" intentionality of consciousness . Materialists generally deny that such exists while he affirmed that it does exist but claimed mental states are evidence for mental states - hot nonsense yanked from the anus I guess .

Lol. Okay.

KingEbukasBlog:
You don't have the knowledge or ability to comprehend arguments for supernaturalism . It's a total waste of time and effort arguing for the supernatural with you . You are so ignorant of the argument that you affirmed the position of a supernaturalist while admitting to be a materialist . You are that confused and ignorant

@bolded, i don't get.
Did you make this deduction from his post you quoted or from a different thread?

butterflyl1on:
Oga kingebukasblog the guy above me says your reasons are not logical

The guy would not recognise logic even when it uppercuts him eyeball to eyeball.

He thinks you are being logical alone. He does not realise you are being truthful but in a simplistic logical manner for the sake of the one who opened this absolutely foolish OP.

I suppose his comments are "logical" ba?

Na wa oo.
First: the guy above me says your reasons are not logical
Next: He thinks you are being logical alone.

Keep it up.

Very nice.

[quote author=Olyboy16 post=62303108][/quote]Huh?

TheOtherGeek:
Hello,

Lots of mentions coming from here.. How may I be of help??

Hmm, Nevermind.

I wonder who really watched the video.
It's an old preaching when he went to the US and it's not about tithing.

Olyboy16:
duh...like dhml dint do more than this; Op probably has more than 2 other active monickers including one where he pretends as a lady.
Soon he would come and start marketing one nairaland rival now....mtchw...ish

Do you mean TheOtherGeek?

greatface:
Do invite me when you start.

Okay.
Oga Dhtml has helped me change back my username hallelujah.

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Na wa for the scene going on with the bosses here sha.

OLAADEGBU:
Here is another evidence that further supports the biblical account in the book of Genesis. With a little bit of Mathematics we can calculate how we arrived at a population of about 6.7 billion people on earth today.

Population Studies Indicate A Young Planet Earth

According to the Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 24, 1999, "Last weekend the world's population topped 6 billion"
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In 1985 there were 5 billion people in the world.
In the year 1800 there were only 1 billion people in the whole world.
In the year 3 BC a Roman Census at the time of the Birth of Jesus Christ indicated that the population of the world was 250 million.
All text books teach that, and the world's population is growing rapidly.

Illustration from Merrill Earth Science 1993, p.503
(Check the link below for the graph or chart of the population growth of modern humans)

Year World Population

2000 6 Billion
1985 5 Billion
1800 1 Billion
3BC 250 Million

The Bible teaches that:

6,000 years ago God created the Universe.

4,400 years ago there was a Flood which destroyed everyone except for 8 people.

The current population curve started 4,400 years ago.

Current growth curve based on Biblical time scales

If you start with 8 people 4,400 years ago, after Noah's Flood, a population of 6 Billion people over 4,400 years is perfectly reasonable.

Current growth curve based on Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionists believe that the Earth is billions of years old, and that Human Life evolved millions of years ago.

If Human Life started 3 million years ago, we would now have a world population of 150,000 people per square inch, and that is incredibly crowded!

The population growth curve clearly demonstrates that Human Life did not start 3 million years ago.

http://www.finalfrontier.org.uk/index.php?main=3&sub=1&page=22

At least you've seen your previous calculation does not make sense.

I didn't see the continuation of the article in the link.