Enceladus:


Downloading to google colab doesn't incur any data cost. As long as you are not uploading the dataset to the runtime from your pc. You can download up-to about 100 GB of dataset.

Hi, Have you tried the TF-Agent for Reinforcements learning? You may want to try look that out. It makes things faster and easier.

ibromodzi:


Nice one. He should get a GPU along with it.


Is he a Nigerian? I'll like to work with academics in the field of AI. I've got some papers I'm working on. My background is not in CS though.

American... 2x RTx 3090 GPU

So my professor just got this 12k$ PC for research in AI... 32 cores 3.7GHz

256GB RAM
2TB O.S drive(SSD)
7TB Data/Storage Drive(SSD)

Start with learning a programming language (either R or Python). Learn Object oriented programming. There is a free course by Harvard university that will help you a lot. https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50s-introduction-artificial-intelligence-python?delta=0

Drybones:


I know friends who participate in machine learning competitions on their phone,
Small dataset though.

Lol. I quit. “I know a friend” is an obsolete proof on NAIRALAND.

Semtu:


I guess you are just not up to date... QPython and Pydroid mobile apps does all of the above. They come with terminals and interpreters as it is on a pc. You can easily install libraries on Pydroid with the normal pip install.

You can launch jupyter notebook from Pydroid terminal and it will function normally as on a PC.

Lol. He said not up to date lol. I used qpython and all of when I was learning. So tell what real program have you written with your phone? Im not denying that you can code on phone. What you are doing on your phone are just hide and seek codes... The basic and completely basic codes. Again, you don’t do real programming on phone. All you do on your phone are jokes. Those are not programming

Drybones:

I beg to differ though.

There is nothing you want to do in your laptop (Basic python) that you can't do on a phone.

Yeah Basic python no one is disputing. How is that different from what I said earlier. You can’t do practical coding. Not the usual print stantements and the input functions

Semtu:


You can write scripts with your phone tho. I've done that a number of times when I wasn't with my PC. In fact, if you can successfully code on a mobile phone, doing the same thing on a PC should be much easier.

What script man. The print name or enter your name script Lol.

For real, you cannot write scripts on your phone. Tell me what IdLe u using and I will tell you what you can’t do. It’s good for leaning but not for real coding. The python being the easiest. How are you going to install libraries. How are you going to run terminals. I know you will talk about JupyterLab or Other online Access. But MAN, except you have keyboard attached your phone(iPad or Tab)

Abcruz:


There's nothing wrong with it. I have been using my phone to code since my PC crashed and I find it flexible.

Lol. What IDLE are you using on you phone? What libraries are you using Again you haven’t started coding. You are still joking and playing hide and seek

olamidedivotee:

yes, very well.
With Python but I'm still using my phone cos no laptop.

Lol. Code very well on phone You haven’t started coding.

Enceladus:


I started with Tensorflow actually, but it doesn't feel pythonic to me so I switched to pytorch but with the Keras api now merged with the new Tensorflow, I think I might start to use it again.

I’m currently working a traffic light(Computer Vision) model to be deployed to PyBoard and Arduino.


Sounds interesting, could you explain more about it. And why PyBoard and not raspberry pi.

It’s a neural Net model for object and signage detection. The agent basically will be able to detect the traffic signs and make decisions from there. Like self-driving car. The signs are just the usual American traffic signs; the stop signs, yield signs, traffic lights. The agent will control the speed of a motor to either stop, slow down or run based on its decision through the model from the camera and sensor.
The choice of Arduino and PyBoard is just because that’s what I have and I have been using for some electronic projects.

crownzeal:
Hello House,

Please I need all the bosses opinion on this.

A friend got admitted for a fully funded PhD, she already started online classes. She intends to go with her child. But she wants to apply for visa with the husband as well, so the husband can come when he is ready. Note: The husband has no plans to stay in the US, he intends to be visiting. The husband is the sponsor for the dependents (himself and the baby).

Is it okay for the husband to be the sponsor in this case?
And is it fine for them to apply together?

I advise the lady and the child apply first. The husband can apply later maybe after 6 months that the madam is in the US already. It might be easier if the Husband was the principal applicant

LagosismyHome:


23 years having $20k plus in the country like Nigeria can raise a brow. ..... but if can show evidence of how u got it then that helps

Is this undergrad or postgraduate

You must be able to show the source of of the funds in your account. You be ready to articulately justify how you make your money either through business or employments

ThreeEyedRaven:

I have white friends and I had almost punched the living daylight off one who played that joke on me the minute he got to know I'm a Nigerian.
I understand how scammers poses as royalty whole trying to sell off huge properties or businesses to some of those greedy whites

Yes Correct. The greediness of some of those whites is what is costing them fortunes. How can you receive an email from an unknown person and you jump on that deal just to get millions of dollars proceeds

ThreeEyedRaven:
"Nigeria... The scam capital of the world?"

"Darn prince still owes me millions"

"Yeah, he cashed my cheque too"

. How did the darn prince ever took one million from you if not that you were also greedy by falling for neocolonial promises
I don't support fraud but these Americans that were scammed to such high level also have questions to answer.

Meanwhile, God please don't ever stop forbidding me bring children into this world through a Nigerian portal. Amen

Obviously you don’t understand the Naija Prince Scam.

Python isn’t for the future. I beg to disagree. We shouldn’t limit technology to web development and mobile app please. In fact technology is completely beyond web app and mobile app. YouTube was written in python for your information and python has opened the Artificial intelligence and Nerual net field to more potentials. Tensorflow was written in Python, Cpp and CUdA and more python for a reason. Quantum computing is in fact mostly done in python for a reason.

talk2hb1:
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE LEARNING A FRAMEWORK
One of the most interesting part in the technology development business is change, the most dominant technology today will be fast forgotten as soon there is new zing thing on the block. Technology of today has make technology of yesterday silly and technology of tomorrow will make technology today silly, the technology business and environment is evolving and its evolving fast, so those of us the development community must always race against machine which doesn't have to be. In order to beat the machine at its own game is to change the rule, “when you change the rules on what controls you, you can always change the rules on what you control”. This post is about understanding how the game is being played and how to define your own rules and eventually enforcing your own rule in the game, this is what you need to know before picking a new framework, although not compulsory but necessary, I wont teach you which framework is better or which framework to pick (Those argument of Coke is sweeter than Fanta). If you understand this concept you will find it easier to pick any PHP framework and perhaps create your own frameworks. You should be able to
1. Basic of programming: This is a compulsory but I still include it in this write-up, at least you must have understand the basic of the programming language you want to pick its framework. The concept of writing fabulous beginners software of “Hello World” application using the language basic syntax (variables, structured programming, function, arrays/data structure, etc).
2. Understand Object Oriented Programming (OOP): As far as I know most framework adopt OOP in their base program, because this gives the development team easy maintenance capability. Therefore it is standard procedure among professional developer, perhaps framework development team to adopt Object design in framework development, and of course which I believe you are or want to be. So to increase your success rate in learning any framework, you must learn your language of choice OOP concept i.e. Class declaration, Object instantiation, Inheritance & Multiple Inheritance, Abstract, etc.
3. Design Pattern: Design patterns are true and adopted way of writing code, this is actually my own definition of design pattern because that's the way I sees it. These are method of writing codes over time and deemed fit for writing better code (Factory pattern, MVC, etc)
4. Understand Data Entity Abstraction and Entity Relationship : The inspiration for this post came from this point when I tried helping a friend out on his project (Which he wants me on the development team of which I wont be available) I tried explaining what to do in order for him to use Laravel, but alas that it's just a part in the whole part. He doesn't even understand what I was saying when I told him to map out the application entities. Entity mapping is just the way an Architects come up with building design concept (Going back to my educational background). Architects understand that in order to design residential building they map out all variables (Stakeholders) contributing to their designs design, how each of the variables affect the outcome of their product. They understand to separate personal area (e.g Bedrooms) from public areas (e.g Living room) as much as possible, for beginners in Architectural school you will be taught the concept of grids where you line up facilities vertically and horizontally and map out the strengths of their relationship. This also applies in all form designs job, but in the case of Software development considering you want to build a school result solutions and you want it to be extensible over time, it is not advisable to keep student basic records (name, gender, dob, etc) with the results. You separate the basic record from the result and map a relationship to each other. A student will/can have one or many result and in reverse a result must always belong to a student. This applies to frameworks like web applications, where you are expected to concentrate on what you need to get done than how to get it done. Mapping out relationship between entities involved in your application will make job easier and will make your application scalable.
5. Play around with free Libraries and Packages: With thousands of open source projects floating over the internet, most especially on Packagist, Github, Bitbucket, etc. you can contribute or fork it in the case of github and modify it to your taste and perhaps share it for other users too. This will give you sense of belonging and contribution to the open source community, I help contribute to open source school management system sometimes ago. This gave me an insight of what collaboration and contribution meant, the fulfillment of being part of something great and useful is more than enough. Before I get my hands dirty on any project I did first dig into some open source project online and see how to utilize them for my personal usage instead of writing everything from scratch (Swallow your ego).

6. Write some code library that you have used over and over on Github: (Later Please)
7. Attempt to write your own Framework: This may sound crazy! Yeah, the crazier, the better. I'm trying to learn a how use a framework, why would I want to write my own framework? Because, if you don't understand how it's being done how will you get it done! If you can build your own framework at least if it doesn't get to production, you will have base understanding of how most public frameworks are developed. I developed my own basic PHP framework which I named “QodeLite” it follows the MVC design patterns and I used it to developed some couple of pet projects before I abandoned because of maintenance, it was meant to be simple like CodeIgniter, powerful and extensible like the C programming language where you don't have all the whistle of not necessary libraries that may not be used in all projects in fact doesn't have a database library (I guess QodeLite requires a complete libraries of its own ). Building QodeLite gave me a lot of insight in how most MVC frameworks are designed and built, therefore any MVC framework are just bunch of Model, View and Controller; your job is how to juggle them together to achieve what you want to achieve.
8. Try contribute to open source framework you like or fancy: This the part where I lied because this will come after learning the frameworks of choice, you wont be able to contribute to a framework you don't understand (I guess you must have forgiven me because it's an honest lie, and honest lie are always forgiven before and after its being told). By contributing to the framework you love means you see yourself as part of the community that makes great things that everyone is using and possibly you might get a medal or even have your name on the wall of fame the framework contributor. There are several ways to contribute to all this projects which include but not limited to all these core of the frameworks, plugins/extensions development, documentation, language translation, bug fixing/bug reporting, financial contribution.
If you have read this post so far I am pretty sure you know how to pick a framework and which framework to use as your default framework in all your project. I have heard guys filling criticism against using framework with their baseline that framework makes a developer lazy, yeah its true, but not 100% true. Our job is to build a solution that help business and clients succeed and they want it done quickly, and luckily for us there is a solution that meet us half way to what we need to get done isn't it reasonable to adopt such solution to help make the life of our users easier, and not only that these are solutions being built by an army of developers around the world, if more than one head could be wrong then a single head is more wrong. Before we you stop reading this post, I just want you to know that this is not all the picture, but my own perspective of what you should understand, but if you think I am wrong, please kindly judge me with manner (Justice with Mercy), but if you think there is addition or subtraction to this post please comment on it below otherwise share on all social network with friends and families.
Regards' Habeeb Salami

https://habeelety..com.ng/2016/12/what-you-need-to-know-before-learning.html

True Talk in No 6. I submitted a coding assignment recently with python. The professor advised that we use Numpy or list of list. I told him I have several framework of my own from Hashmaps to Array, set, Maps, dictionary. To cut story short, I wrote the algorithm with 3dimentional C type array data structure and the heapqueue like framework of my own. We benchmarked it with Numpy implementation and it didn’t do bad.

SegFault:

I learnt C within three weeks there is nothing hard there except for pointers and addressing, C is a language which can solve almost any algorithm out there whereas html can hardly solve any, html can only structure web content through browsers, c is also versatile anything you can think off was built with C, from compilers to OSes to VMs to Servers etc. C is a general programming language and the fastest language out there because its features don't rely on the machine.

True talk. Even python and C++ are written in C. Microcontrollers are programmed with C language

TheHulk616:
yes. But python is kind of slow and that Machine learning is hard to learn.

Lol. Is YouTube slow Python had the most libraries for machine learning. I had an interview with a Tractor company(40billion dollar worth) and they are even Using R for Deep learning and data engineering

Interesting. I am also an AI enthusiast and my interest is on the Microcontroller programming (TinyML). Interestingly I don’t like Pytorch, I use Tensorflow for deep leaning and neural network. I’m currently working a traffic light(Computer Vision) model to be deployed to PyBoard and Arduino.

Hi I will recommend you start with python. Learn things that you think are interesting to you. You can also go to EDX, search for CS50 introduction to computer science. You will learn slowly and gradually. It is a course initiated by Harvard university. Python is syntactically simple. After learning concept with python, you may now consider learning C or C++.

Jaytee116:
Hello guys, if i was self funding myself for my program, with bank statements showing more than enough funds, would this affect my chance in anyway?

Employment history and maybe age matter a lot in these situation if you don’t have funding. If you checked these two, you are good to go.

orlahtohbadt:

please can one with a third class and aced GRE get funding, say 325 in GRE?

You should talk more about your GPA than the class of your degree especially when it’s related to studying in America. Your GPA and your last 2 years where you did your core courses are what matter

Mosminic:

I disagree. You can renew just like you said. It doesn't mean no PhD or BSc

Time will tell and everyone will understand. The usual policy is that you renew your stay or update your i-20 after 2 years. All F1 visas for Nigerians are 2years visa while SA is 5years. What it sounds like is that pHd and Bsc may have difficulty in getting visa since the Visa will only be issued for 2years and you cannot renew your stay except for OPT. You don’t renew visa in the same country, you cannot renew your Visa in the USA. But this policy is saying that you have to renew your visa after 2years, that means you have to go back to your country after your visa expiration if you want to continue studying. How is that a good news

sayfe:
Hello all, I need some advice. Does anyone know any private student loans institutions that would give loans to international students without a co-signer. MPower hasn't been accepting applications all year.

Prodigy isn't giving to my school (Illinois Tech) anymore. Any ideas or suggestions?

Very difficult. I’m not sure if there are other private loans. What program are you going for? Prodigy gives Illinois tech for STEM courses

proprp:
For those that feel Apple might be overvalued, I say with Apple you can't just look at fundamentals alone. iPhone changed the mobile device industry when it was released and has been able to maintain its lead till date. Those that have used iPhone/iOS can attest to its usability compared to others/android OS. So the product itself is a buy for most. Then if you add the services they offer to compliment the their hardware you should be able to comprehend how valuable the company is. In my option Apple would be worth more today if Jobs was alive because a lot of people believed in his vision. In summary whilst looking at the fundamentals is important, it is also important to research the brains behind the company.

As for our Tesla, I do agree the stock is currently overvalued but Elon Musk is a different breed and I understand why some people might buy in his vision. Even if other auto makers start making electric cars, I don't think they can compete with Tesla, yet, in terms of specification. In addition, Tesla's battery & software seems to be top at the moment and when 5G is fully rolled over and countries start approving self driving cars I think Tesla's stock would shoot up again.

Let's see what happens when Space X goes public!!

Tesla is taking a different route from the Lidar system for self-driving car... They haven't made a breakthrough t
Yet

TheNoble007:


With all due respect to you, kindly invite them to this thread to glean information by themselves. Hinder them not. Show them the fountain of water and let them not fetch from a bucket. Thank you!

@ predstan, I trust you are doing well.

Man I have been good. Been a while how is studies going?

Just wise, where is imperiouxx

I've known about studying in the US since I was a junior in college, I mean I've been reading this thread since I was in 200Level in a polytechnic in Nigeria. Then ,I was maintaining a weak Upper Credits(3.1 of 4). I've had the dream and the vision of studying here in the US. I Graduated ND and was looking to begin the process but there was no money for even the least which is a passport. I paused it and decided to apply for Direct entry into a university because i didn't know HND can get me into America. I had applied and sat for unilorin's exam. I was admitted into Biomedical Engineering but was dropped and they changed my major to Educational Technology after i had paid tuition. I dropped them and moved back to that polytechnic for HND after I read about Ibrahim Waziri, the guy that got his PhD in 4 years after an HND degree in Nigeria. Yes, he's there on google, he bagged his Phd at Purdue University in Engineering. Ive been saving up since my first year of my HND degree. I didn't only just saved, i graduated best in my HND. I was still saving even when i was doing NYSC. I saved over 1.5million naira throughout those years. I started the process with WES, GRE, paid SEVIS when it was 200$, still paid when it was 350$, paid the embassy 3 times and i travelled 3 African countries as advised by my great PAdi and Mentor *Fairheart and several other expenses. It didn't come easy for anyone and don't expect it to come just easy for you. Im here in the US studying Engineering and will be researching what TESLA is researching atm(Abandoning the LIDAR system for self-driving cars). Its not a dream if you cant face the difficult challenges.
Go get your degree and plan ahead. Many couldn't make it here because they abandoned every other thing just for the dream. You shouldn't tow in that path....

@Justwise. This is not just for him, it might be helpful for others. I hope the post lives

Deegayes:
I finally heard the words “ welcome to America “ yesterday . After the hurdles faced since the start of corona , It was like music to my ears. Guys don’t give up yet , if your dream is to study in the US then keep pushing .

Welcome to the USA bro... did you travel from Nigeria or some other country?

gbolly1151:
Quite an age here

Yeah, where have you been? I don day use tensorflow