Ochieng' Olanga

@NairobiJVMGroup Co-organizer. Software Engineer. Tech. Community. Pursuit of knowledge and adventure. Lover of food, experiences & music. Wannabe guitarist

[James Ward @JamesWard]

We are about 3 months away from someone coming clean with this story:

We spent $4m in tokens to port our 2.7m LoC enterprise Java application to Rust.
- P99 performance increased by 0.3%
- RAM usage decreased by 2%
- Full compile times increased by 437x and required 279GB of disk.
- Incremental compile times increased by 9853x and required 279GB of disk.
- Average developer salary increased by 24%
- No one understands the code
- We are super hip again!!

[Markus Eisele @myfear]

"Applied AI for Enterprise Java Development" by @alexsotob @natalevinto and myself for @OReillyMedia got it's final cover! Grab the early release for free!
https://t.co/I8elUlGev1
#ai #genai #Java #langchain4j #quarkus

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

🎥 Today we’re premiering Meta Movie Gen: the most advanced media foundation models to-date.

Developed by AI research teams at Meta, Movie Gen delivers state-of-the-art results across a range of capabilities. We’re excited for the potential of this line of research to usher in entirely new possibilities for casual creators and creative professionals alike.

More details and examples of what Movie Gen can do ➡️ https://t.co/M19x2ndwnr

🛠️ Movie Gen models and capabilities
Movie Gen Video: 30B parameter transformer model that can generate high-quality and high-definition images and videos from a single text prompt.

Movie Gen Audio: A 13B parameter transformer model that can take a video input along with optional text prompts for controllability to generate high-fidelity audio synced to the video. It can generate ambient sound, instrumental background music and foley sound — delivering state-of-the-art results in audio quality, video-to-audio alignment and text-to-audio alignment.

Precise video editing: Using a generated or existing video and accompanying text instructions as an input it can perform localized edits such as adding, removing or replacing elements — or global changes like background or style changes.

Personalized videos: Using an image of a person and a text prompt, the model can generate a video with state-of-the-art results on character preservation and natural movement in video.

We’re continuing to work closely with creative professionals from across the field to integrate their feedback as we work towards a potential release. We look forward to sharing more on this work and the creative possibilities it will enable in the future.

[Crystal Asige @CrystalAsige]

You will never convince our generation that you can ever be trusted, ever again. When young people marched patriotically, wearing Kenyan flags on their backs and raising their voices, you responded with bullets and death. And NOW you have supposedly ‘heard’ and want dialogue? For 20 months you have been speaking, it’s our time now.

No more commissions of enquiry, no more multisectoral taskforces, no more reports, no more diverting our attention. If you have heard us, then no more talking—just act. We want to wake up in the morning with budget allocations reworked, with the Appropriations Bill overhauled, your MPs sacked, your Cabinet Secretaries sacked, the wheels of Constitutional amendments to begin turning, and your resignation on Gen-Z's desk for them to decide whether to accept.

This will go down in history, and we are no longer in an era where history can be manipulated. #RutoMustGo

[Blackavelli: #DebtAudit @T_kimaru]

There is this POISONOUS idea that we are raising taxes to pay debts. This is a FALSE NARRATIVE. Allow me to make a PASSIONATE PLEA
WRONG. In the 10 years of Jubilee, we accumulated a debt of 6T but from the appropriation bills, our deficits were only 1T...#RejectNotAmend 1/n

[Brad Smith @BradSmi]

Today, in partnership with @G42ai, we are announcing a $1B investment in Kenya which represents the single largest and broadest private digital investment in the country’s history. It reflects our confidence in the country, the government, its people, and the future of East Africa.
https://t.co/B9758yO9ak

[Matthew @muteesocrates]

I wrote some really interesting code. An absolute work of art, but in as much as it's a beauty, the business don't care about it, all that matters is the value it adds. Does it help solve business problems. And that my mates, is what you should always strive for. Great week.

[RENNSPORT @RENNSPORT_gg]

Mark your calendars for November 24th, our biggest Beta key drop yet! 🔑🚀

We really appreciate the high demand for keys, and the number of delivered keys continues to grow every week!

Keep an eye on your inbox come the 24th, you might just get lucky! 🔥

#ForRacersFromRacers

[Samwel Ogor @samwelogor]

Kabla tukosane here in front.
#FootballKe

[Ochieng' Olanga @OchiengOlanga]

@_waingoo Yikes! 😅 I had a couple of those on projects using sbt 1.5.x. Bumping up sbt to version 1.6.2 or a more recent version fixed it. You've probably done this, if not, it's worth a try

[Nairobi BBQ Pitmaster @nbibbqpitmaster]

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[Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer @thatroblennon]

Most people do "networking" because they want something from someone else.

Bad strategy.

Here’s how to network effectively:

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Introducing Imagen, a new text-to-image synthesis model that can generate high-fidelity, photorealistic images from a deep level of language understanding. Learn more and and check out some examples of #imagen at https://t.co/RhD6siY6BY

[Ochieng' Olanga @OchiengOlanga]

@muteesocrates @Microsoft Congrats Mutee! Best wishes on your new adventure!

[Bruno Borges @brunoborges]

The documentation about running #Java on Containers that @mnriem, @kcp, @mon_beck and I have been cooking for a while, is finally live.

Check it out!

Learn more: https://t.co/c08jS2QMmN

[Maciej Walkowiak 🍃 @maciejwalkowiak]

💡 @springframework includes a bunch of handy *Util classes. Perhaps you do not need any extra dependency for the util you need?

Examples below 👇

[MotoGP™🏁 @MotoGP]

🏁 #MotoGP RACE 🏁

@AleixEspargaro IS A GRAND PRIX WINNER!!! 🥇

#ArgentinaGP 🇦🇷

[Koding & Kahawa @KodingKahawa]

Due to popular demand, we are excited to host the 2nd part of our talk Acing your Technical Interview on Thursday 24th March 2022 EAT.

See details below
Acing your Technical Interview (Part 2)
Presenter: Matthew Mutiso @muteesocrates
Google Meet link: https://t.co/SPlchfZeRH