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Kenya Katılım Mayıs 2014
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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Vivek Sen@Vivek4real_
SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”
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John Morton-Finney, a World War I Buffalo Soldier, earned 11 college degrees including his final one at age 75 from Butler University and practiced law until he was 106 years old.
Born in 1889 to a formerly enslaved father, this extraordinary man taught for 47 years, spoke multiple languages, and lived to 108.
A legendary life of service, perseverance, and Black excellence that still inspires generations. 👏🏾
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Spot on!
We need to clarify that the August 25th 2023 National power blackout was not caused by LTWP.
LTWP plant tripped due to over voltage situation in the National Grid System.
This has been referred to when discussing wind and Solar situation on the Grid.
Dr. Eng. John Mativo CP³P@MativoMJohn
Kenya’s national electricity peak demand is currently around 2,440 MW. Electricity growth is 8.5% per annum and this year we need to add equivalent energy from approx. 207 MW. In the last 7yrs when we had the new power plant moratorium (plus the 2-3yrs needed to move a quick project from PPA negotiations to Commissioning), we needed to have added a minimum of 1200 MW base load generation - which was unfortunately missed out. Regarding the “new narrative” about wind and solar….. Remember most of these variable renewable energy sources have 20yrs worth of site data since feasibility study and 10yrs years 24/7 data since operations. For two decade we have always known that the average capacity factor for utility-scale Solar plants in Kenya is: ~20–30%. The Average Kenya utility-scale wind is between 35–50% with LTWP reaching 55%. So technically you can only confidentially talk of 1/4 of the Solar and 1/2 of the Wind. With Data running for 10-20yrs plus an extremely good AI forecasting tools plus the tracking factors that affect wind speed, temperature and cloud cover, it’s not to difficult to project/forecast the amount of energy expected from VREs in the next few days. All in all, we need an adequate and resilient network - generation capacity and grid - with enough spinning reserves. Existing Wind and Solar plants - built years ago - are totally innocent 😇 in causing a current load shedding. Wind and Solar has never changed performance from the 10-20yrs available data.
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Angella Okutoyi keeps flying the Kenyan flag high!
She and Egypt’s Merna Refaat have earned ITF US College Tennis Doubles All-American honors.
This is BIG!!!! Congratulations! @Okutoyiangella2 🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#NoWeakness
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If you want to become a world-class software engineer (in 6 months), read these 12 books:
1 The Pragmatic Programmer
2 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
3 Clean Code
4 The Mythical Man-Month
5 Refactoring
6 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
7 Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
8 Database Internals
9 Staff Engineer
10 Extreme Ownership
11 Philosophy of Software Design
12 Why Programs Fail
What else should make this list?
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Arsenal Players going to the world Cup:
Bukayo saka 🏴
Eberechi Eze 🏴
Declan Rice 🏴
Noni Madueke 🏴
Ethan Nwaneri ( camp) 🏴
Gabriel Martinelli 🇧🇷
Gabriel Magalhães 🇧🇷
Martin Zubinmendi 🇪🇸
Mikel Merino 🇪🇸
David Raya 🇪🇸
William Saliba 🇫🇷
Viktor Gyokeres 🇸🇪
Martin Odegaard 🇳🇴
Piero Hincapie 🇪🇨
Jurien Timber 🇳🇱
Leandro Trossard 🇧🇪
Kai Havertz 🇩🇪
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Most engineers learn system design backwards.
They jump to Kubernetes before they understand what a network packet even does.
Here’s the order that actually makes you dangerous:
1. Networks first
HTTP. TCP. DNS. Latency vs throughput.
This is the part nobody studies.
This is like trying to bench 300lbs without learning to squat.
2. Databases second
SQL vs NoSQL, indexes, replication, and partitioning.
If you can’t reason about data -> you can’t reason about scale.
3. Caching
Redis, CDNs, TTLs, eviction policies.
70% of scaling wins come from avoiding queries.
4. Queues & Streams
Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS.
This is how you decouple timelines and handle spikes without blowing up servers.
5. Load Balancing
Round robin vs least connections vs consistent hashing.
You understand how to scale horizontally without chaos.
6. Build 5 classic designs yourself
- URL shortener
- Rate limiter
- Chat app
- Feed system
- Notifications
7. Read real-world post-mortems
Real learning is failure exposure.
You see what broke. You see WHY.
You don’t become good at system design by memorizing diagrams.
You become good by understanding the physics of distributed systems.
Latency. Durability. Throughput. Availability. Cost.
Those 5 forces rule everything.
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“If all of mathematics disappeared, it would set physics back precisely one week.”
— Richard Feynman (after a lecture by mathematician Mark Kac at Caltech)
Feynman was in the audience for Kac's lecture. Right after, he stood up and dropped this line. Kac fired back without missing a beat: "Precisely the week in which God created the world." It's peak Feynman — irreverent, insightful, and funny. It highlights how physicists rely on math as a tool but can (in principle) rediscover the basics quickly through physical intuition.
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@hashjenni There is just as much water on earth as a million years ago. It doesn't go anywhere but back into earth's perfect water cycle. It's weird that the #1 and 2 things humans need to live are in an infinite cycle of regeneration. Almost... divine🫡
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@moneyacademyKE @Allan09036042 They will have to construct a small substation near the Port with connection to the national grid at Kipevu. Just like they did with westmont power badge from Malaysia in the 90s
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@Allan09036042 They are essentially heavy-duty, utility-scale thermal power stations built directly onto the deck of a modified marine vessel. They sail directly into a coastal harbor, drop anchor, and plug straight into the national grid.
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Finance Bill 2026 has removed the Certificate of Origin that was giving importers sleepless nights.
Right now, if you want to import anything into Kenya, you have to produce a Certificate of Origin from, say, China.
Without it,
• Your goods will not be cleared
• They can even be seized by the government
Finance Bill 2026 wants that removed.
Meaning,
- You can import your goods without a Certificate of Origin.
But,
If you want lower tax rates under:
• EAC
• COMESA
• AfCFTA
You will still need that certificate.
Implications:
- Imports will clear faster.
- Compliance costs will drop for importer.
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Kenyans are currently paying more income tax as individuals than companies pay in corporate tax.
PAYE currently stands at up to 35%, compared to 30% corporate tax, leaving workers with less take-home pay.
The proposed 5% PAYE reduction would help correct the imbalance, ease pressure on households, and improve disposable income for workers.
A fairer tax system should support both workers and economic growth.
#BeyondBanking
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🏙️ 🥘 Top 10 cities where food and rent are both cheap
1. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
$200 rent | $1 meals
Low daily costs. Cheap eats & rent: Street food haven & budget living hub.
2. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi, Georgia
$300 rent | $5 meals
Great value city. Budget-friendly lifestyle: Historic charm with low housing & food costs.
3. 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia
$350 rent | $3 meals
Affordable living hub. Great value city: “City of Eternal Spring” with unbeatable rent.
4. 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai, Thailand
$400 rent | $1.50 meals
Low daily costs. Budget-friendly lifestyle: Digital nomad hotspot with incredible street food.
5. 🇵🇱 Kraków, Poland
$450 rent | $4 meals
Affordable living hub. Cheap eats & rent: Rich history and culture without high prices.
6. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
$500 rent | $2.50 meals
Great value city. Budget-friendly lifestyle: Modern metropolis with affordable diverse food.
7. 🇲🇽 Mérida, Mexico
$550 rent | $3 meals
Low daily costs. Great value city: Safe, vibrant, and culturally rich on a budget.
8. 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
$700 rent | $8 meals
Affordable living hub. Cheap eats & rent: European charm with lower-than-average costs.
9. 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece
$750 rent | $6 meals
Low daily costs. Budget-friendly lifestyle: Ancient history and sunny climate at a fair price.
10. 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey
$800 rent | $5 meals
Great value city. Cheap eats & rent: Crossroad of continents with vibrant culture & value.
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Record. Breaker. 😎
Kimi Antonelli is the first driver ever to take his first four Grand Prix wins consecutively 👏
#F1 #CanadianGP
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@Alfayaz11 In Kenya the system is rigged in favor of crooks and charlatans. Any righteous person can never survive or rise to the top
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I keep saying this, we do not lack the brains, knowledge, ability, or human resource to fix many of our broken systems. In fact, we are abundantly blessed with all of these. We are also not a poor country, as I have said before, we are simply a mismanaged one.
Our biggest problems for decades, and ones that seem to worsen with each passing year, are nepotism, endless politicking, lack of genuine will, and above all, the cancer of corruption.
I will never stop saying this.
We are blessed with one of the most beautiful countries in the world and some of the most resilient and remarkable people. We have every opportunity to be the very best on this continent and to stand proudly among the best in the world.
It is what it is.
#ReclaimNairobi
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Happy #AfricaDay to all our Sevillistas across the continent!
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