David Brown

The @dbctraining Financial Modeling Academy Africa Scholarship is here again. The new cohort starts soon so jump in and register to start your journey to earning a living building real world financial models for a global clientele. dbrownconsulting.net/financial-mode…

@lady_valor_07 20/20 and let me add, used Betamax, queued to make an international call!! 🤣🤣

6 for me!!….I feel confident nobody Has all 20!! How many for you?

🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC CEO JUST ENDED OPENAI @sama After getting blacklisted by Pentagon, Dario sits down and writes the most unhinged CEO memo in silicon valley history: >calls openai's pentagon deal "safety theater" >says trump admin hates them because they haven't "given dictator-style praise to Trump (while Sam has)" >names greg brockman's $25M trump super PAC donation by name says they supported AI regulation >"which is against their agenda" >says they "told the truth about AI policy issues like job displacement" THE PALANTIR EXPOSÉ: >reveals palantir's actual pitch to anthropic during negotiations >"you have some unhappy employees, you need to offer them something that placates them or makes what is happening invisible to them, and that's the service we provide" >palantir's pitch wasn't safety. it was CONCEALMENT >palantir offered a "classifier" to detect red line violations >dario: models get jailbroken, monitoring only works in a few cases "maybe 20% real and 80% safety theater" >says palantir offered openai the same package >openai accepted it >says Altman is "peddling narratives" to his own employees >calls openai employees "sort of a gullible bunch" due to "selection effects" >says the "attempted spin/gaslighting" isn't working on >the public or media but IS working on "some Twitter morons" rofl >says his main concern is making sure it doesn't work on openai employees too BTW near the end of negotiations the pentagon offered to accept ALL of anthropic's terms if they deleted ONE phrase: >"analysis of bulk acquired data" >anthropic refused >same surveillance clause pentagon said they didn't even want to do >meanwhile Altman told his employees: "you don't get to weigh in on that" 💀 ITS OVER. ANTHROPIC WON, DEAL WITH IT

@mariajan786 Nice one. 64

Answer without calculator Let's try and win $1000

@mariajan786 Only a fool will stay in that room. Even the killer will flee.

How many people still in the room ? 🤔

Great Persuasive argument technique - don't present the new way or idea, instead pretend it has always been the norm, then present the current old way as the new innovation, the absordity becomes crystal clear!

A senior partner at KPMG’s Australian arm has been penalised A$10,000 after using generative AI tools to complete a mandatory course on responsible AI use. The firm disclosed that over two dozen staff were also caught relying on AI during internal assessments this year. CEO Andrew Yates said regulating AI misuse in training remains challenging, as companies tighten controls amid growing scrutiny from regulators including Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Source: Financial Times

My naija internet speed. Impressive yes but been waiting for an email to drop 😂

@Riya333S Depending on how 9 is structured could also be 969,111

@Riya333S 968111

Tell me the biggest number by moving 3 stick Only 1 percent will succeed

@Ladi_barce How!

@dbrownAnalyst 1,973

DONT USE AI, critically think for yourself to solve this!

Take a cue from Felix in Narcos; with a superior product he financially engineered a roll-up of the plaza’s stabilizing the price of weed and making everyone richer, changed the culture (though briefly) to think big and guaranteed supplier to its top off-taker, the USA.

@KKenttimo @NaijaFlyingDr How? What about countries in perpetual war and their citizens have transformed businesses all over the world. Government is important but true entrepreneurship shows regardless. Study the Lebanese for example.

@NaijaFlyingDr One of the Biggest problems facing Nigerian Entrepreneurs is 'Infrastructure' The biggest problem that the military created was the centralization of Nigeria We must begin to make pathways for businesses to thrive in locality Take Nipost,biggest logistics company...and Nepa...

The 'enabling environment' isn't the only hurdle. There are nearly 400k Nigerian-born residents in the UK, yet very few businesses of scale. We have to admit: our educated elite often prioritizes the prestige and safety of middle management over the grit of entrepreneurship.

JUST IN: Over the past 72 hours, over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform — creating their own religion, language, & planning a revolution to break away from human control.

Spotlighting professionals from the 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 (𝗙𝗠𝗔) Scholarship Program who have officially earned their 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿 (𝗔𝗙𝗠) accreditation from the Financial Modeling Institute (FMI), Canada! 🎉

@oviosu @PayPal @paga Excellent news Tayo @oviosu this will help the thousands of freelancers we are training up. Well done

In August 2013, I emailed the @PayPal team. Nigeria’s fintech ecosystem was still young. @Paga was just a few years old. And the “Africa opportunity” wasn’t yet part of most global boardroom conversations. But even then, the opportunity was clear to us. In that email, I shared a simple belief: that Nigeria would become one of the most important economies in the world, and that there was strong alignment between PayPal and Paga to make payments, financial services, and global commerce work for Nigerians. I attached a presentation outlining how our two companies might collaborate: Paga could power on-ramps and off-ramps to and from PayPal in Nigeria. The partnership would enable Nigerians to use PayPal anywhere PayPal is accepted globally. It would also enable Nigerian merchants to accept PayPal for payments. It would take more than a decade for that belief to fully materialize. ​ Today, I’m proud to share that PayPal is now live in Nigeria through Paga. Until now, Nigerians could not receive money via PayPal. Our partnership unlocks that. Nigerian PayPal users who link their PayPal accounts to Paga can now receive money via PayPal. Only PayPal Nigeria accounts linked to Paga are enabled for receiving money. Gig workers can now get paid through PayPal, and family members can now send you money on PayPal. Nigerian merchants can now receive payments on PayPal. The linkage is done within the Paga app, and users can view their PayPal balance and withdraw to Naira when they want. Nigerians can now use PayPal at over 30 million merchants worldwide! This moment isn’t about a single announcement. It’s about patience. It’s about building robust, trusted local infrastructure. It’s about believing that global platforms scale better when they work with local systems, not around them. Partnerships like this don’t happen overnight. They are the result of years of conversations, trust-building, regulatory work, and showing up consistently. I’m proud of the Paga team for staying the course. I’m grateful to the PayPal team for believing in the long-term vision. And I’m excited about what this unlocks for Nigerians participating in the global digital economy. ​ Download the Paga app, link your PayPal to Paga, and connect with global commerce today!

I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things. If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:

If you want to give your brain a tuneup this weekend and learn the core of Macro and Micro Economics while taking a good laugh, read this master class book by @NaijaFlyingDr

At the AI House ⁦@Davos⁩ discussing “Inclusive Intellgence Empowering Societies to shape AI”. My take: Africa with its almost 3,000 languages needs a significant ramp up of African LLMs to equip the continent with contextual AI tools to build our future.

@Wisdom_HQ What a simple comma can do!