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During the Day I am a security man. At night I am a software engineer.

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Every navigation app on earth finds its route using an algorithm invented by a Dutch computer scientist in 1956 Edsger Dijkstra solved the shortest-path problem in twenty minutes at a café in Amsterdam, without paper; he did it in his head Google Maps, Uber, and every GPS system alive run on a Dutch mathematician's coffee break

You’re never too old to turn things around. Give yourself 3 years of consistency, and watch your miracle happen.

My weekend reading.

so real

now take this information and flip it. constantly pointing out the things you are grateful for can train your brain to notice more things to be grateful for. constantly noticing abundance will train your brain to notice even more abundance. flip the script & stay in control.

A man’s greatest weapon is consistency. It outlasts talent, talk, and luck.

257 years ago, Joseph Fourier was born on this day. In 1822, Fourier showed that any wave can be broken down into an infinite sum of sine waves, using a technique now called the Fourier transform. The Fourier transform is like a recipe generator. You input a complicated wave and you get back its ingredients, the amplitude and frequency of each component sine wave. Fourier analysis is an essential part of modern technology. Its applications range from JPEG compression and image recognition to quantum physics and MRI's. Fourier theory has two components: basic building blocks and labels. Imagine a child's toy castle. This castle can be disassembled into individual building blocks. And these building blocks can then be sorted by color into bins and labeled. Similarly, the Fourier transform disassembles a complex wave into individual sine waves. These are like the building blocks. Each sine wave can be labeled with its frequency, or how quickly it oscillates per second. The labels on the bins are more than just a way to organize things. They can be used to rebuild the original complex wave and as an efficient shorthand for communicating information. For example, when you send a voice message, your phone doesn't transmit an entire complex sound wave. Instead, it breaks it down and sends just the labels or frequencies of the component sine waves. The receiver's phone then reverses this process, converting the labels back into the contents of the bins to reconstruct the message’s original sound wave.

When we look at a JPEG image, we are not looking at pixels. We are looking at a Discrete Cosine Transform (a cousin of Fourier’s work). The computer ignores the high-frequency details (the noise) that the human eye cannot see & only saves the low-frequency shapes. Majority of the times ~90% of the data in our photos is thrown away by Fourier’s math before we even see it. W/o a 257 yr old Frenchman's obsession with heat, the modern internet would be so slow it would take 10 mins to load a single cat picture.

That tiny red nub sitting between the G, H, and B keys on keyboards has been quietly dividing the tech world for over 30 years. Half the people who encounter it have no idea what it does. The other half refuse to use anything else. It’s called the TrackPoint. And it was born out of a single frustrating observation. In 1984, a researcher named Ted Selker conducted a study showing that it takes a typist 0.75 seconds to shift their hand from the keyboard to the mouse and a comparable amount of time to shift back.  That 1.5 seconds of lost time, multiplied across an entire workday, felt like a solvable problem. So he built something that would eliminate it entirely; a pressure-sensitive nub planted right in the middle of the keyboard, so your hands never had to leave the keys at all. IBM introduced it commercially in 1992 on the ThinkPad 700 series.  The way it works is not what most people expect. It doesn’t move like a joystick. It responds to pressure. Beneath the rubber cap sit strain gauges that measure the force applied in different directions and translate it into cursor movement. The harder you press, the faster the cursor moves.  There is no repositioning, no lifting your finger, no running out of space. Infinite cursor movement from a single fingertip that never moves more than a millimeter. The red color almost didn’t happen. IBM’s product safety division had reserved red exclusively for emergency power-off switches on mainframe computers. ThinkPad designer Richard Sapper got around this by calling the color IBM Magenta and when the first batch shipped, the engineers made it decidedly more crimson. A loophole dressed in plain sight.  Power users programmers, analysts, executives who live on their keyboards swear by it. The reason, according to Lenovo’s chief design officer, is that your hands never leave the home row. You type and navigate simultaneously, without the constant interruption of reaching for a trackpad.  Once mastered, people say it feels less like using a tool and more like an extension of thought. Most laptops abandoned it. Lenovo never did. And the people who know, know.

@KhayaAI quietly grew to 10+ talented Ghanaian devs past 2 months 😊 @GhanaNLP engages over 500 individuals across the diaspora 😊 @algorineinc played a major role incubating both 😊 10 years ago I saw a vision of authentic AI for Africa. Excited to play a small role in it 🤝

The biggest barrier for AI applications in Africa isn't model complexity -- it's the scarcity of data for the 2000+ spoken languages there. We just released WAXAL. This open-access dataset delivers 2,400+ hours of high-quality speech data for 27 Sub-Saharan African languages, serving 100M+ speakers. Crucially, this community-rooted effort — led by African organizations — changes the roadmap for truly inclusive voice AI. Learn more and check out the WAXAL dataset here: goo.gle/4cxNHae

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@sammychrise They snatched her car, she ran to her best friend for help, and she robbed her of her belongings and injured her. Then sent her to an addict home. Your best friend could be your worst enemy.

🚨 Sarkodie set to take on the 20K-capacity O2 Arena in the UK on March 6, 2027 🇬🇭🏟️

They gassed wembley arena last year only for the Goat to pull up at the o2. First African rapper to headline the Greenwich arena.

Read books. A single book can completely change your life.

highly recommend reading “being digital” by nicholas negroponte. thesis: software eventually commoditizes everything it touches (atoms to bits) the agentic era we’re in is the reverse shift — bits will now command atoms. nobody building in this era should skip it.