mwenemutapa

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

Art is an indicator of intelligence. When a society is infected by stupidity it starts showing in the design of public infrastructure and the architecture of buildings. When you start seeing ugly buildings it is game over for that society.

[ManLike Khalitoh @Khaleed_018]

Last night sisi watu wa moyale Kenya atukupata usingizi. Weeh hii war nikama haitaisha anytime soon na Risasi inatoka iyo side inamaliza watu side ya Kenya 💔

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

We need clarification on who made World bank the newest watchdog in the streets.
Last we checked, they're the ones that concocted the system that brings about this thuggery, & the homeguards they keep pointing fingers @ with these githeri releases are literally their errand boys.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

The Government of Kenya should not register, count, or recognise "tribes." Instead, the population should be organised legally under individual citizenship and civil law.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Underrated life advice: Your best years don't have to be behind you. You can be in the best shape of your life at 50. Start the company at 60. Fall in love at 70. Reinvent yourself at 80. Change doesn’t have an expiration date. Your best years are yours to create. So just start.

[William Wheelwright @ploughmansfolly]

The demonization of memorization is one of the top ~3 reasons that we have become retarded as a society.

Memorization is like pumping iron for your brain and you inevitably also come to understand/internalize what you memorize.

It shouldn’t be limited to vocabulary and times tables either. It should be poems in foreign languages, the ability to trace maps by hand from memory, timelines and dates, etc.

[King @KenyanRegista]

Correction. Kibaki is often judged against the shared dream of a united Kenya under the NARC vision.

He assumed office in a country that had a lot of goodwill for change. Kenyans were arresting corrupt police officers and asking they be punished.

It’s against this background that Kibaki failed. He could not honour a simple gentleman’s agreement let alone how he allowed tribalism to be entrenched in government.

Kibaki set the country down its worst path and to date we have never recovered. Successive elections in Kenya get stolen because of the precedent he set.

Do you know Kibaki stalled the Chinese from constructing a suspension road from Ngong to Mai Mahiu and subsequently towards Kericho just because he saw no need for such in opening up Western Kenya?

The likes of Muthaura made Kenya a tribal state under his blessings. His silence in the midst of all these atrocities meant he was an accomplice

That’s Kenya’s history and a fair recollection of Mwai Kibaki. The Goodwill of 2002 on a national leader was something he blew and will be a scar his name lives with

[Strace @straceX]

In 1989, computer scientist William Pugh came up with an alternative to balanced binary search trees.

Red-Black and AVL trees offered fast lookups, but maintaining their balance made insertion and deletion complicated.

His solution was the Skip List.

Instead of rotating tree nodes, he used a sorted linked list with randomly assigned levels of forward pointers. Those extra pointers let searches jump over large sections of the list, giving expected O(log n) performance.

The algorithms were surprisingly simple compared to balanced trees.

Decades later, Redis uses skip lists for sorted sets, while LevelDB and RocksDB use them in their in-memory storage structures.

[Eric @amerix]

I lived here in 2017 between October and December.

This is Pipeline Estate, Nairobi.

I had become so broke that I couldn't live in Nyayo Estate, where I had rented a 2-bedroom house, Gate B.

Baba had just lost an election, and on 26th October, Uhuru was re-elected in a sham "birthday party election."

I had put all my hopes and dreams in Baba's victory because I knew I was going to be appointed to a plum job in government.

But after Baba lost, everybody left. Baba himself was abandoned by people close to him. He was so lonely and depressed.

Only Saitabao Ole Kanchori took the role of giving Baba company. The rest took off. They crawled back when Baba had a handshake with Jameson.

Living here in Pipeline gave me a reality check. I had never seen such an indignified ecosystem.

My Ka-small cubicle was on the 7th floor. There is no lift. The eight tenants on that floor shared a toilet and a bathroom tucked at the corner of the floor's extreme corridor.

If you get to your house in the evening and forget to buy a matchbox, you'd rather drink a mug of water, accept the situation and sleep till the next morning.

If you walk leisurely and casually along the narrow, wet, muddy footpaths beside the sewer rivulets, a random tenant will pour kitchen effluent on your head, and that ruins the day for you.

This is an experience I will never forget.

In December, I relocated to my village and started life afresh.

I vowed never again would I live that life.

I fixed my life; I was obese, and I lost weight, regained my health, fortified my mental frame and became the best version of myself.

I took my experiences and successes and turned them into lessons for helping others out of their pain.

There are Kenyans living in squalor. They smile, but inside them is a whole funeral.

Unless you walk in their shoes, you will never understand their experiences.

You will mock them, call them names, but the people living in these places deserve better lives.

Lessons I learnt:

• Politics will never change your life. It is you who can change yourself.

• Politicians are buddies; it is you and me who insult each other.

• There is no dignity in poverty. Every Kenyan deserve a good house, good healthcare and an equitable share of national resources.

• You have massive potential. You can become the best version of yourself. Don't doubt yourself.

[DENNIS ONSARIGO @Donsarigo]

Kibaki killed what makes us Kenyan. He single-handedly promoted and quickly advanced ethnic nationalism.
We have never recovered

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

1. Learn the material before you take the course.

2. Blow the course out of the water, no matter how terribly it’s taught.

3. Be first in line for any “smart kid” opportunities: research, internships, recommendations, etc.

4. Compound the advantage. The more “smart kid” opportunities you capitalize on, the more you get.

5. Find your niche. You’re so far ahead that you have plenty of time to explore until you land on a career you love and are amazing at, instead of getting time-pressured into the first thing you’re decent at and don’t hate.

[Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super]

Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.

By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.

Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

‼️EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER AFRICA
Most extreme heat event in African history.
RECORDS EVERYWHERE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH

44.9 Chingodze MOZAMBIQUE (MINIMUMS 30C).
44C Zimbabwe and Malawi,43 Zambia and Botswana

43 Mali,40 in Kenya
Records also in Central Africa: 35.0 Mvengue,GABON

[David Ndii @DavidNdii]

Lack/fear of ambition is the hallmark of status quoism

[DHH @dhh]

If you hang out with happy, optimistic, and ambitious people, it'll rub off too. That's why pruning your social media algorithms is so key. Don't psyop yourself into a depressive hole.

[David Ndii @DavidNdii]

Correct. It’s affordable housing for all. This is how we did the math 4yrs ago. Our target was to deliver a 2BR flat costing 40k+ pm at Sh13k pm. At 30% of income, AHP brings affordability of this unit from Sh120k pm to Sh40k. Costs have changed but we are still on target.

[Chalbi @Chalbiwsk]

We have a nation, shared borders, shared language (swahili n sheng)….coupled with high rates of intermarriage, we are creating a shared gene pool, it’s basically an ethnogenesis. Most importantly, we have one nation, and we must find a way to thrive within it. u cannot thrive as a country if you are balkanized according to tribe. If you love your tribe so much, why did u run away to Canada? why not live amongst your fellow kikuyu, you dumb hypocrite….

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Once again, learn how to completely evict all forms of western mainstream unidirectional media from your life. As an African, the ability to do this is an important life skill.

The muzungus are NOT your friends. I don't know how many times I will say this before it gets through.

[Chalbi @Chalbiwsk]

Tribal identities are created according to the prevailing needs. Tribes were never static, they were fluid and people created new identities or assimilated accordingly