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Collaborations are a beautiful way to cut across someone else’s following or clientele. She might want to look into that, Instagram ads also work in getting attention, that will mean she has great content already to draw people in enough to make enquires and pay for her service.We often take word of mouth for granted, its still a very effective way of getting clients and its best when its from a client who has tried your product or paid for your services. Always offer get service so your customers can be your town criers. You can ask they please put in word for you in their circles as well.
Yewande Orenuga
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It's all about marketing yourself. If you believe you have the skills, make them believe it too.
Whether it is an official interview position or a networking opportunity, always make sure to take advantage and sell yourself. If you contribute to open source, highlight it in your conversation. If you''ve developed any applications or even simply learned a new technology/programming language, never fail to mention those. Do not let the lack of professional experience deter you.
As a developer, I would also suggest to create a portfolio of your work, no matter how small. If this portfolio is technology-based, like a well designed website or app, that highlights your skills even more and can serve as a great first impression and good conversation starter.
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I think my point of view is on the contrary because the African Commission does not make pronouncements on cases that are not brought before it.
There is a proper legal framework in place on how cases can be brought before the commission.
Cases are usually brought to the Commission by those who are directly affected by the relevant violation of their rights . However under certain circumstances it may be preferable to involve NGOs in a representative capacity.
Nevertheless, there are different regional courts that have different standing provisions in this regard . But as for the ACHPR , all NGOs are permitted to file communications contrary to the African Court which limits this to NGOs with AU observer status .
For instance in your Ugandan internet shut down case , NGOs are in a better place to act as whistle blowers because they are better placed to lobby and engage in advocacy campaigns and able to reach a wider audience. For instance where there may be fear of reprisals for instituting an action against the state , NGOs may be better placed to bear the brunt of such reprisals , NGOs may equally have expert knowledge, including technical and technological knowledge which are pertinent to digital rights cases.
Just like in the "Federation of African Journalists"; a combination of institutional and individual approach can be an effective remedy towards such cases on internet shut down .
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Personally I don’t have much knowledge on European and German robotics aside from their publications, which seem to be on par with every nation. In my opinion everyone is at a very similar level, and leaders can be pushed aside quickly given luck in research findings. I’ll also say that I’m not a Candidate yet, as I have one more requirement for qualifications to complete. I also don’t have an educated perspective on German education to answer that question well, but I always urge students to choose a graduate program that will support them personally and financially towards their ultimate career goal.
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Hi Isaac, i am glad you find the answers useful. To the first question, finding tailors was a major problem for me mostly because i had no interest in actually sitting on a machine. I personally do not enjoy it. I also started with no direction in mind i just kept saying i wanted to do ready to wear but didn’t think of basic things like the kind of clients i wanted to cater to and how i can get them. The tailors that were very good were expensive, I couldn’t afford them but i went ahead and got one regardless.
The business was barely surviving i had to let him go.Knowing your target audience is important so if they aren’t in your immediate circle, you have do something else short term to get noticed by your actual target audience. Getting clients was a problem because my social circle is extremely small and were also in my tax bracket while i was aiming for people outside that bracket.It is also important that whenyou give someone a discount, make sure you tell them it is a discount.Learning and restrategizing is the most important thing. When something isn’t working find a new way. My brand is still evolving and that is fine, till you find what works.
For starting up you might not make a lot of profit and that is fine, if you have a long term plan. Might being the keyword, it honestly is not the case for some people. Social capital is a huge determining factor. You want people to notice you and experience your brand once you have that you can start to mark up, those who know your value will stay. Do not take on more than you can handle, it will affect your quality of work and it will mess with you. Activity is not productivity, prioritize things. Learn when to say noAbout staying true to your style I honestly will say you decide that. Nothing wrong in letting other things influence your style. The idea of a business is making money, i also understand that carving a niche is important but if its not working you might need to tweak it till it works.
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Having a political Godfather and Godmother is not in itself a wrong approach. It is how it is done that must be looked at. A sound Godfather or Godmother would not introduce you into ignoble things. He or she would rather protect you from exploitation. Anyone who would introduce in a clause that is exploitative has no business becoming your Godfather or Godmother. So in choosing a Godfather or Godmother, be wise and be discerning. Choose to the right people
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I think this is a bit dangerous. Attempting to ascertain sentimental correlations and apply them to huge financial decisions may work in certain contexts and you could definitely train a model with 99% training accuracy on this task, but future situations that are dependent on complex human action can never be adequately represented by a numerical parameterization and a finite state machine. If the model is not large enough, we will not learn all the possible combinations of interactions. If it is too large, then we only learn the context of our training dataset. That being said, you could do both and get good results during training. Personally, I do not have extensive NLP experience or Bayesian experience in production, but their fundamentals suggest that they would learn this type of model well independently or in conjunction. Naïve Bayes is good for state estimation-based decision making, and NLP can be used to model language and extract sentiment. However, these models depend completely on the input dataset that one utilizes, and the chosen labels (if using a supervised method) that are often subjective. Using data from the internet is also dangerous because it is next to impossible to have humans annotate every piece of training data without spending a large amount of money, and learning from problematic input data can lead to problematic situations.To make this less vague, take the 2016 example where Tay, a chatbot made by Microsoft and trained on Twitter data, became extremely racist in less than a day of online training (https://twitter.com/geraldmellor/status/712880710328139776). Attempting to determine causation in a data driven sense is a slippery slope, and until AI solves the data-driven generalization problem (which I believe may be never) I wouldn't build a system like this in production until I could guarantee significant human supervision and have looked at the ethical implications on those who do not financially benefit from the proposed system.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
Off shore wind energy in your context should refer to the use of winds blown from the land towards the water bodies. It is important to evaluate the amount of offshore wind energy we have available.
Every project is feasible depending on the necessity, emergency and cost of the projects. Offshore winds utilisation is not a profitable one for Africa.
Of course, offshore wind energy is set to grow. At the moment only about 1.7 Tera Watts are mobilised on an average using windmills. Wherever need be, the resources could be better utilized. It is not Africa's priority and shouldn't be.
What Africans could do is research and optimistic analysis of such a project, bringing it to lower scales could be better. For example, having a team of mechanical and electrical engineering students designing local windmills in localities to assist with increasing access to electricity (this is the end of point of wind energy utilisation).
Loic Bethel Dje
Youth and Apex Performance Mentor | Initiator @ PureBreedSbe
Thank you for the compliment.
I'm still learning and growing in my field. This is actually a really good question because this has technically been my experience.
The answer is yes. For me, I never actually got any official software engineering degree. I studied electrical engineering in both undergrad and graduate school but just before I wrapped up my undergraduate degree, I got an interest in software engineering. I felt it was too late to make an official change, especially because it was my last semester so I started learning how to use a programming language on my own.
Through books, tutorials, online coding camps etc., I learned and used programming to create basic applications and like I mentioned in my answer to the previous question, I made sure to market that as a skill that I had. This is how my software engineering journey began.
So, not to sound cliche but if you put your mind to it, you can. Don't go into it thinking it won't be difficult because it most likely would be. It might be really difficult but if you truly know what you want to get out of it and you set that goal in mind, you can motivate yourself (and have a good support system motivating you as well) to put in the work that is necessary to make the ''zero experience'' obsolete
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