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Humanity; Chrstinity.

[SMA @Axum_Adolis]

@basedmmaX @Topuriailia 😂

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Congratulations to my phenomenal (former 😭) PhD student Dr. Osase Omoruyi, now off to do brilliant work on @NASAWebb at @Princeton

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Mengsteab Abraha Berihe @Mengsteab444]

Getachew Reda's Legacy has failed after he joined the PP Administration in Addis.

[UFC on Paramount+ @UFConParamount]

Jim Miller's son is cancer free ❤️

📺 @paramountplus

[Bloomberg @business]

Ethiopia’s inflation rate is back above 10% for the first time in five months, after fuel supply challenges pushed up the cost of almost everything https://t.co/fIxdjvrZt1

[Tibor Nagy @TiborPNagyJr]

Encouraging that His Holiness, Abuna Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, is calling for the nation's leaders to "pursue peace through dialogue and justice" not force. More influential voices are needed across the nation echoing same!
https://t.co/KYvgE7cVcX

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

The future of Math is mathematicians and AI agents working together.

Very pleased to introduce @GoogleDeepMind's AI co-mathematician: a multi-agent system designed to actively collaborate with human experts on open-ended research mathematics.

Mathematicians testing the agent across areas as diverse as group theory, Hamiltonian systems, and algebraic combinatorics have reported impressive results.

In autonomous mode evaluation on the rigorous FrontierMath Tier 4 problems, AI co-mathematician scored an unprecedented 48% — a new high score among all AI systems evaluated.

[Oliver Liu 中国记者在非洲 @YoloOliver1]

People say Tigray has the best honey in Ethiopia.

I got this honey from a Chinese friend who's been working at Mekelle University for 20 years and was recently promoted as the uni's vice president.

He has contributed a lot to Sino-Ethiopia cooperation, esp in education sector.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover turns 50 today!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

AMERICAN HEROES! 🇺🇸🚀

President Trump welcomes the incredible Artemis II astronauts to the Oval Office after their historic trip around the Moon, an epic moment for our nation!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Congratulations to Sabastian Sawe on an historic run, and to everyone taking part in the London Marathon today.

A huge effort from thousands of participants, volunteers and supporters from right across the country.

[adidas @adidas]

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster.

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#YouGotThis

[Yohannes V🧢 @Yohannes_v]

Orthodoxy is truly beautiful. ♰

[SMA @Axum_Adolis]

The best

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[𝐀𝐒𝐊 @askghmedia]

“I studied in Ghana, and there was a specific programme that only a few colleges offered. It was by far the most perspective-gaining and life-changing experience of my entire life.”

— Christina Koch, NASA astronaut and electrical engineer, and the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit on a lunar mission

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