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Something I was really happy about accomplishing in 2017 was getting more practically involved with modern AI. I’ve studied a lot of math, which has certainly been fun, but haven’t done any practical projects, and therefore have nothing to show for my efforts. To remedy this, in April, I applied for an <a href="https://aigrant.org" target="_blank">AI Grant</a> with the aim of building <a href="https://fasttext.cc" target="_blank">FastText</a> skip-gram models for Kenyan speech. I became a finalist in the first round, but failed to win a grant.