Artificial intelligence is the next big thing, according to one of my mentor in A.I, Andrew Ng, who is a professor at Stanford university and also a cofounder of coursera, A.I is the new electricity. A.I will improve national security, health care, transportation, banking and so on. according to research there is shortage of human resources In the field. I want to encourage Africans to pick up this field with enormous opportunities. I am planing to create a group and also write to ministry of science and technology to setup a research lab here in Nigeria. I believe if adequate attention is given to A.I in Nigeria and use in the military boko haram in sambisa forest will be history.

let me learn from this awesome thread.

I believe the main purpose of this thread have solved. if your python syntax does not work, the fault is from the Python version. always use the version that is been used during the tutorial.

SoftEng:


OK.
I've only recently tried implementing simple stuffs in raw numpy and then theano (following through a blog post).
Primarily I use [url]keras.io[/url](and then I switch been tensor flow and theano as backend for keras)

With regards to your RL study, I'll advice you read some introductory textbook or blog posts before diving into papers (I guess you've already done this). Also, another good strategy is to go through papers that write about overview of RL.

Additionally, I'll put up some links here (You may already know some of them) for anyone interested in Reinforcement Learning.

1. Richard Sutton's (draft copy) book is a good introduction -
http://incompleteideas.net/sutton/book/bookdraft2016sep.pdf

2. For those that prefer video tutorial - David Silver's intor to RL lecture is on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PLzuuYNsE1EZAXYR4FJ75jcJseBmo4KQ9-

(From what I read online, the video lecture mostly followed the content of Richard Sutton's book)

3. Lastly recent RL overview paper on arxiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05866
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07274


Lastly, I apologise to OP for derailing this thread which was a question about python2/3 syntax.
It was nice to see people enthusiastic about DL and I had to jump in.

thanks. are you a Researcher or DL Developer.

michelle5683:


It's seems as though artificial intelligence is a large and unexploited part of python

honestly Nigeria government have to build Artificial intelligence research center, most developed countries are investing heavily on A.I

SoftEng:


Had to login because of this...
Nice to see that people are getting into deep learning (DL).
I have also been reading a lot about it for about a some time now (with some small image classification experiments on cifar-10 image dataset).

I have 2 questions for you.
1. Since you use python, do you use a DL framework/library. If yes, which one?
2. How does reinforcement learning (RL) fit into your project for crime dectection?

My guess for #2 is that you may want a system that can also 'act' and not just classify scenes as 'crime' or 'not crime'. If this is the case, then maybe I guess developing the system to 'act' by calling the appropriate security authority might be one of the angles you're looking at it from.

Anyway, I'm just guessing. I await you reply.

Thanks.


Lastly, @OP
Keep up the good work.
We need more people to take up interest in software (and also hardware) in this country.
Even more important than the above statement, we need more people to start using their skills to solve practical problems in our society.

Well done.

am using tensorflow, pytorch and Python numpy. only use numpy when you are good with the theories and maths but those libraries do that for you with ease. your guess are right, as I earlier said it a very complex work, up till now am still looking for ways to solve it. I downloaded a paper yesterday which I believe will give me clue to solve the problem, the paper is on reinforcement learning. that is the reason I want to learn reinforcement learning.

4kings:

Nope, just a programmer.
Any reason?

OK. I want to be good with the maths so that I can read research papers.

4kings:

Cool, i've worked on image recognition but using SVM.
I won't say i know deep learning enough, i've not applied it to any real project, i'm still battling with clustering algorithms.
And i've not even touched reinforcement learning.

How would you go about crime detection, is it based on text data or image data?

And have you worked on speech synthesizer? currently doing a project around it.

are you a researcher?

michelle5683:

How do I learn this?

you need mathematics but you can do it without mathematics but you won't be able to read research papers. I want to become a researcher in the field.

michelle5683:


Okay. I don't know what I want to do. I was thinking software development

software development is ok. always learn a programming language base on what you want to use it for. all programming languages have strength and weakness. for example Golang and Erlang are very good in distributed system, nodejs and php for web application and so on.

4kings:

Wow, what part of artificial intelligence have you worked on?

i have worked on Image recognition using deep learning but now am currently working on crime detecting and tracking system using artificial intelligence. to train the system to recognize crime but I discovered it was very complex, it involved machine learning, deep learning and reinforcements learning am not good with reinforcement learning, that is what I want to learn now.

michelle5683:

Okay. Thanks

you are welcome. if you are proficient in Python you can work on artificial intelligence, which is my Area.

michelle5683:


Does it matter that I've chosen 3 over 2?

it depends, there are some python libraries written in version 2, integrating version 3 will not work. learning both will be helpful.

am happy a lady is learning how to code. python is an awesome language.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Chris bishop is one of the best book for machine learning.

you need Linear Algebra, statistics, calculus and convex optimization. does not necessary mean know everything in these subjects. those topic will help understand machine learning. search for machine learning courses in udacity,coursera,edx, YouTube is also a good place.

GTbank dollar card is working. I paid for an app on play store last week.

Okuda:

are you a student there or you just got admission?

looking for admission

am looking for admission

i just applied for bachelor program. i want to know their admission process

please any ETH student here?

please any ETH Zurich student here.

anybody in university of oslo? .i applied for undergraduate program

only you

wao oooo interesting. how to apply?

now am beginning to discover this section is blessed with great programmers.

my reason for creating this trend is to look for great programmers.

i love the programming section here in Nairaland and there is something i discovered, most programmers here always discuss about the web either they need help on their web app or provide solution or even tutorials,the question am asking now is this, does it mean we only have programmers who are expertise on web application here,those who are into software are few. let us take programming from this low level to another higher level. if i were to source for programmers here to build server and scalable app that can handle millions of users or build enterprise application will i see them here? during my survey here programmers only focus on frontend and forget about the backend. companies do come here to search for programmers to work for them. i notice we are good but not professionals in business,how will somebody come to this section and call another programmer names,that action has great danger to this programming section,companies will no longer see us as trustworthy programmers and let us also have good communication with our client.