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If any of you ever become president and are considering me for any cabinet appointments, just hand me the Ministry of Sports. Yes, I want to be Minister of Sports. I have some unorthodox ideas I need to implement, and genuinely believe I’d outperform 99% of Nigerians in that role. Give me just 3–4 years and I’ll turn the entire ministry around and start producing global talent. Just try me and see. Second choice would probably be the Ministry of Education.

Chief, let me tell us some amazing facts about the Sahara. First, the Sahara used to be green full of plants and animals. It only turned to desert about 5k years ago due to a shift in Earth's axis. And here's the wild part; every 41k years, it flips back alternating between desert and savanna grassland. It's not dying. It's just on a very long cycle. Secondly, it's not called Sahara Desert...it's just 'Sahara' 'cos Sahara also means ''Desert.'' So why call it Desert-Desert? Thirdly, sandstorms in the Sahara can be so severe that sand actually gets blown into Europe. I mean literal African sand landing on European cars. Scientists track it annually. Then, there's a giant circular structure in the Sahara called the Eye of the Sahara. It's so big and perfectly geometric, it's visible from space. It once thought to be a meteor crater. It's not. We still don't fully understand it. No one does. Lastly, the Sahara is expanding southward at roughly 30 miles per year. It's a climate emergency unfolding in slow motion.

Jesus stood for something. He knew he couldn’t please everyone. Even as he died for everyone’s sin, he knew he’d still be rejected by some. So as a believer, why are you ambiguous or neutral? You’re called to be set apart. BE SET APART.

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Been a wild number of years. But we’re here now. Newest doctor on the block🤣 #MBBSUYO

Before I left home for church yesterday afternoon, my son came to me with a problem he needed to solve. He wanted to connect a controller to his Mac to test the game he was building. We finally figured it out with a Nimbus SteelSeries I had bought for the Apple TV Arcade games. He “conned” me with that maneuver into getting him an Apple developer account for $99 a year. I was laughing as I left home. I had taken our cleaner who I discovered recently was the Cathechist of a local Catholic church to his own church in a neighborhood I had never been to in Togo. It was an eye-opening experience. I saw people living as we used to live in Nigeria some decades ago. This was another part of Africa we don't show online in the suburbs of a city. The boundary between rural and urban life. The thing that took my memory back to my early days in Nigeria was a shop selling granite and concrete grinding stones outside. I had not used one of those things since the 1980s. I was shocked that they were still being sold in a city with constant electricity. My first thought was, these are stone-age cooking implements still being used likely by another child at home in an Africa where my son was also able to build online games for the world. Then I remembered that I still had a small manual stone grinding mortar at home that I used for some meals like Afang. It was more traditional than stone age. It still bothered me though. The people who likely bought and used these things didn't so so out of choice but necessity. As I moved further, I saw bigger grinding mills that were engine-driven being sold. They were still crude and a far cry from my electric Ninja blender at home. The good thing was that they were locally engineered and manufactured. We at least moved forward a bit. The crazy thing is that while the electric blender is now very cheap at China Mall in Lome, these crude local grinding and food processing machines are more widely used because of the sheer demand for food and their durability. It took me into another rabbit hole again on what we need to build for the market. While my son was using an app called Blender at home to make animations and games, another kid who didn't have access to a blender would be using a grinding stone and both are still living in the same city. I started wondering how both could share experiences and context? Then it occurred to me that I was the bridge. I had experienced both worlds. I have used the grinding stone to cook and I helped build tech companies that have raised millions of dollars. I can help my son and also help the boy whose parents can only afford a grinding stone. I think I am now changing churches again and will be going with my kids to the my cleaner/cathechist’s church. I also need my kids to experience what life is like in most of Africa and not get lost into a virtual existence while being unaware of the reality all around them. Africa will grow and move forward but it will not do so until then grinding stone becomes largely replaced by the electric blender and then every kid has the opportunity to be able to build online with software tools like Blender.

Funke Akindele is a Marketing jug​ger​naut, and I am not talking about movie promotions only. There’s a whole FA Universe. A top business school should be doing a comprehensive 360 degree case study on her Marketing prowess. I am in awe.

@blvckgirl_kim @EdidiongOkeffi Congratulations Dr👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉

Nine years ago, I started this journey with nothing but faith and a dream, God has carried me every step of the way. In 2 days, I'll be stepping into everything I've prayed and worked for. New month, new chapter and I'm stepping in with my full self #graduation #MedSchoolJourney

You are one of 7 billion people on a tiny planet orbiting an average star in a random ass galaxy. You my friend are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

@eh_die Congratulations Dr Edidiong 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

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LLM Knowledge Bases Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So: Data ingest: I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them. IDE: I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides). Q&A: Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale. Output: Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base. Linting: I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into. Extra tools: I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries. Further explorations: As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows. TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

Whenever I stay in a hotel, I try to keep the room in a very good state so that the person coming to clean it doesn’t feel disrespected. I never fail to tell the security guard who opens the door for me or the waiter who serves me, thank you. You see, one of my core values is respect and treating people with respect. People who are my subordinates, those on the same level as me, and those above me, I treat them all with respect, as long as they deserve it. As a matter of fact, I judge you by how you treat your subordinates. More significantly, people who do jobs that oftentimes come with so much disrespect, the security guard, the driver, the cleaner, the receptionist, the waiter, they all deserve respect.

Also, BTS brought awareness to Lupus and Funke Akindele donated heavily to a lupus foundation. That is a wonderful personnn

Yesterday, being Good Friday my wife dropped a truth bomb that made me pause everything. She came back from work and started gisting me: "We Nigerians are worse than our leaders, and honestly, we deserve exactly what we're getting from them." I dropped my phone and gave her my full attention. On her way home while crossing the road to get a bus, a truck loaded with drinks was making a U-turn when some of the packs slipped and scattered on the road. Without hesitation, my wife jumped in, waving down oncoming vehicles so they wouldn't crush the goods, then helping to pick everything up. The truck driver noticed, pulled over, came back, and started thanking her profusely for the kind gesture. Then it happened. One of the drivers who had stopped (to let them clear the road) stepped out of his car, walked straight to the truck driver, and boldly demanded: "Give me 3 bottles for my kids and me as compensation for waiting and not running over your drinks. "His children were already leaning out the window, pointing and choosing flavours like it was a supermarket. This wasn't even an accident; the man was simply supplying a customer. Yet here was someone turning a small act of patience into an entitlement tax. The truck driver stood his ground (thank God my wife backed him up), and the entitled guy tried to cause a scene before driving off in frustration. As she told me this, I just shook my head. What exactly is that father teaching his kids? That the world owes you for the bare minimum? That kindness from strangers is an opportunity to demand "your share"? This small roadside drama is why Nigeria struggles to rise. We complain about bad leadership every day, but when a fellow citizen shows basic decency, some of us immediately look for how to exploit it. The same entitlement that makes politicians loot is alive in the everyday Nigerian, on the roads, in offices, in markets. Until we kill this "what's in it for me?" mentality in ourselves, real change will keep dodging us.

An active Senator threatened to shoot one of the nation's respected Journalists. He didn't make the threat in the confines of his room, he made that threat to fellow journalists of that Journalist, on national TV. They were all giggling. See this country ehn.

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I really loveee the idea of food businesses exploring packaged items. Such a great way to unlock scale. How can we get some in Abuja?

Dear young guys, I need you to realise that there are women outside of twitter that are fair in their dealings and have never heard of all these twitter relationships standard. Go outside.

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As an ex-poverty alumni, one of the hardest things to do, was to beg or ask for help, yooo scary, I feel humiliated and ashamed before asking, on their behalf. If they ask me to kiss their feet I will do it. Self esteem drops, I don't wish this on anyone.

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