Dr. Serrano

That sweet nexus between health, digital tech, and behavioural science!😎

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

https://t.co/q5efTEPsR4

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others. 🧠

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

AI systems excel at pattern matching, much more than humans.

If there is a pattern, it will most definitely identify it.

And, yes, for humans to understand it, then there is a pattern.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

going where i to drop certain words writing like this to stop AI from understanding me. i've had enough. you will AI bot never reply to me bc you will never understand i. i misinformation post will all the time. i will destroy AI by legible never sentence writing.

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

😂

[khalifa aminu @KAminu49132]

I am continuing experiments to connect the human brain with a machine using neurons

However I have realized that this work is not easy Nevertheless I have used an EEG sensor that captures brain signals, which will enable a person to turn on a light or a fan through thought
At the moment, this is an experiment I am conducting with a small microcontroller But I have the ambition to acquire bigger equipment so I can continue the experiments until I achieve success

What do you think about this project? Do you think it is possible, or can it reach the level like that of Elon Musk?

#international
#pushtotheworld

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

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[#unBiggen Record @oliveKubmite]

Talk to them about the mundane and the serious. Study the lines and wrinkles around their eyes. Glean from the wellspring of their knowledge and experiences. Eat and Laugh with them. Gist and gossip. Time is precious & fleeting.

2. Change your toothbrush today. Right NOW.

[merve @mervenoyann]

hello Venezuelan friends, we're very heartbroken about the earthquake.
3 years ago we had a similar earthquake in Turkey where we lost 50.000 souls. to help people out we built a "needs map" where we scraped posts online and put address and name and what the person needs (food, water, saving) so others could help and we managed to get to people. we'd love to help you out, but actually work with local Venezuelan folk in ML, and at HF we are happy to cover inference. please respond to this post if you are interested 🙏🏼 the project is outdated so it would take a bit and you would need people to label a dataset shortly but other than that it should work

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

"But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
- the Architect

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

“Lol people have always thought the world was ending.”

Entire civilizations have been wiped from memory. There was a 1k year period where only 1 in 17 men reproduced. There was a 100k year period where the human population dropped 99%.

The world has ended many times.

[#BringBackOurChildren @elyakubusmvnn_]

They are unsheltered, malnourished, mentally, physically and psychologically abused in ways we cannot even imagine! Their only crime is going to school to learn. 35 DAYS!!!💔💔

[The Sound @thesoundhub_]

I don't understand the language but the song is so sweet with the name of Yesu❤️

[AlternativeTo @AlternativeTo]

Adding more people to a project

[Jennifer Joanna Yusuf @ImANorthernGirl]

How insecurity affects Northern Nigeria: The Empty Family Home

In our culture, the home is everything. It is where our families grow, where our values are taught, and where we find our greatest comfort. But today, insecurity is breaking this sacred space. Families are being forced to leave their homes, often in the middle of the night, leaving behind their memories, their belongings, and the life they worked so hard to build. The image of a home standing empty is a painful reminder of what we are losing every day.

When a family is forced to flee, they don't just leave a house; they leave behind their history. For many in the North, a family home is an inheritance, a place where generations have lived and shared stories. To see those homes abandoned, left to gather dust or fall into ruin, is a tragedy that goes beyond property. It is a loss of identity. When you become a stranger in your own land, living in camps or in someone else’s house, you lose the sense of belonging that gives you the strength to keep going.

The hardest part is seeing the effect on our elderly and our children. For the elderly, leaving their homes means losing their connection to their ancestors and the life they have always known. For the children, it means losing the stability they need to feel safe and secure. A home is the place where a child should feel invincible, but when you are a refugee in your own country, that feeling of safety is replaced by a constant, nagging fear. We are seeing families scattered across the region, struggling to keep their ties to each other while everything else they knew is gone.

We have to fight for a future where every family can live in the safety of their own home. A house is not just walls and a roof; it is the center of our lives and the source of our strength. If we cannot ensure that our people have a safe place to sleep and grow, we are failing in our most basic duty. We need to work toward peace so that our families can return to their lands, rebuild their homes, and start to heal from the trauma of displacement. A home is where the heart is, and right now, many of our hearts are scattered, waiting for the day we can finally go back.

ImANorthernGirl

[Craig Jones @Craig_J_85]

What I want after this world cup is over.

1. USA to NEVER host a World Cup.
2. Infantino to be booted out.
3. Hydration Breaks to never occur when temperatures are at a certain level.
4. Ticket prices to be capped at a reasonable amount.
5. USA to NEVER host a World Cup.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Best friends.. 😊

[Jennifer Joanna Yusuf @ImANorthernGirl]

I met someone who said Northerners don’t care about educating their daughters.

In my mind, I wondered whether they had confused a challenge with an identity.

Because there is a difference.

Yes, there are communities where girls still face barriers to education.

That is a reality that deserves attention and solutions.

But somehow, people take that reality and stretch it across millions of families as if every Northern parent wakes up determined to keep their daughter out of school.

The North I know is filled with parents making sacrifices so their daughters can study.

Parents paying school fees from modest incomes.

Parents relocating for better educational opportunities.

Parents proudly attending graduations.

Parents celebrating daughters who become doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, pharmacists and entrepreneurs.

Every year, thousands of young Northern women earn degrees, master’s qualifications and doctorates.

Some study within Nigeria.

Others study abroad.

Some return home to serve their communities.

Others build careers across the world.

Yet these stories rarely receive the same attention as stories of educational setbacks.

And that is how stereotypes survive.

When people only hear about the problem, they begin to believe the problem is the entire story.

Imagine judging an entire region by its worst statistics while ignoring its successes.

You would never get an accurate picture.

The truth is that many Northern families deeply value education for both sons and daughters.

The conversation should be about how to ensure every girl has access to those doors.

Not about pretending millions of Northern parents do not want them opened in the first place.

ImANorthernGirl

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2026 is 44% complete.

[Jennifer Joanna Yusuf @ImANorthernGirl]

I met someone who said Northerners are all the same.

In my mind, I realised that statement alone revealed how little they knew about the region.

Because Northern Nigeria is one of the most diverse places on the African continent.

Hundreds of ethnic groups.

Dozens of languages.

Different histories.

Different traditions.

Different cuisines.

Different styles of dress.

Different cultural practices.

A person from Adamawa may have traditions completely different from someone in Kano.

A person from Plateau may have a culture that looks nothing like someone from Kebbi.

A person from Taraba may speak a language and practice customs unfamiliar to someone from Sokoto.

Yet somehow, people speak about Northerners as though they are one giant, identical group.

Imagine describing all Europeans as exactly the same.

Or all Asians as sharing one culture.

People would immediately recognise how absurd that sounds.

The North is not a single story.

It is a collection of countless stories, identities and experiences.

The moment you start seeing that complexity, most stereotypes begin to fall apart on their own.

ImANorthernGirl

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

😂

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

Day 3 of no caffeine and I’ve lost hearing in my right eye

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

Saving this for later...

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

[Ndi Kato (Ungwan Masara's finest) @YarKafanchan]

@RidwanuLlah OMG thank you. Let me bring one forward. Zidane's case is still out here. He was sentenced to death for defending his community against terrorists. https://t.co/VKHZMbMYJm

[Jonathan Said @JonathanSaid1]

The African continent doesn’t need more entrepreneurs. It’s full of them.

What it needs is a specific class of entrepreneurs called industrialists: business people who build value-adding firms in export-oriented job creating sectors, not rent capture.

[Dr. Serrano @TheSerrano_]

Structural sustainability.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This was exactly how Peter Obi leased heavy tractors out to my local community in Anambra state to supposedly modernize farming and improve our agricultural outputs.

The entire project rapidly turned into an absolute disaster, and this is not a baseless political rumor because I personally worked on the project, I sweated in those fields, and I physically followed the tractors to the farmlands to till the wet rice fields in my village. There were grueling days we even spent 2- full days stranded deep in the bush because the tractor completely broke down. It's either the hydraulic systems failed, or the engine stalled, and we always have to desperately source for replacement parts at the Onitsha market, while simultaneously hunting for the rare skilled mechanics required to get the massive machine to work again. Both of which were technically impossible to handle even in a single day.

The tractors broke down not because they were of low quality or that the engines were weak, but simply because the rural roads are completely terrible, the regional infrastructure is practically nonexistent, and the state abandoned the fundamental engineering required to sustain heavy machinery.
The farmlands are not planned, the topography is completely chaotic, and some of the unpaved roads leading directly to the rice fields are absolute death traps that can violently chain your tractor to the thick mud, paralyze your tires, and you will eventually need another heavy tractor just to come and drag you out.
I personally remember aggressively using a crude cutlass to hack down soft dwarf trees, to manually clear thick bushes out of sight, and to physically clear the blocked path just for our so-called modern tractor to pass through.

The absolute worst thing in all of this is not even the brutal suffering and shege we saw in the bush. It was the horrific reality that after all of these backbreaking efforts, after burning our physical energy to support a state project, nobody paid us one single penny. The state government was owing me about 15,000 naira in 2014, which was exactly the final year of Peter Obi's term as governor. Factoring in our severe inflation, that stolen amount is equivalent to about 90,000 naira today. Back then, there were exhausted tractor drivers that were owed more than 70,000 naira. Mind you, I was not even a driver, I was very young, my daily job was strict monitoring and running endless field errands, and I worked brutally from 6:00 AM to sometimes late into the dark night.

The primary reason for this wicked lack of payments to us poor workers is not because Peter Obi did not legally release the project funds. We actually wrote a formal letter of complaint directly to his executive office in Awka, they officially reviewed our claims, and they confirmed that the funds were indeed fully disbursed. But the corrupt higher officials, the greedy local politicians, and the ruthless bureaucratic middlemen that the tractors were officially entrusted to completely ate all the money, they pocketed the labor wages, and they looted the treasury dry simply because they saw the governor was just leaving office and they knew absolutely no one would hold them accountable.

Willie Obiano eventually came into power, he immediately found out that maintaining and subsidizing those abandoned tractors was a financial nightmare, he looked at the sheer logistical rot, and he officially scrapped the entire project altogether, and that was the pathetic end of the heavily advertised sweet agricultural revolution.

Peter Obi also built the massive Coscharis rice mill in my local government area. It was a very massive modern rice mill that expertly refines raw rice, automatically removes the crude husks, thoroughly polishes the local grains, aggressively bags them for commercial mass distribution. It was supposed to ultimately scales our local production to compete on the global market. When I drove home just last year, that highly praised facility was absolutely no longer functional, and even as far back as five years ago, it was completely dead.
The reason for failure is lack of institutional infrastructure to support the project, no reliable electricity from the national grid, the commercial diesel desperately needed to run the massive generators is astronomically expensive, the total lack of skilled industrial mechanics meant that sometimes the factory would be completely grounded for weeks over minor faults, and the frustrated local farmers simply moved on and abandon the rotting mega-facility, and went back to using their own small-scale private rice mills to survive.

I am not even going to talk about the heavily publicized laptops he distributed to public schools, the cosmetic classroom renovations, or the other temporary projects he undertook to subsidize chemicals for local farmers, because they all met the exact same tragic fate, they lacked structural sustainability, and they pretty much completely collapsed the moment he stepped out of office.

This is exactly why I laugh mockingly when incredibly naive people blindly attack me for criticizing Peter Obi on this platform. They have absolutely no idea that I have intimately witnessed his governance firsthand, I have felt the painful sting of his administrative blind spots, and I know exactly how his policies crumble under the weight of reality. This is exactly why I aggressively fight for absolute institutional change, for the total dismantling of the corrupt bureaucratic machinery, and for the radical restructuring of the state itself, rather than merely begging for a cosmetic change in the face of the elite man occupying Aso Rock. We are absolutely never going to simply vote our way out of this catastrophic, systemic state failure.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This was exactly how Peter Obi leased heavy tractors out to my local community in Anambra state to supposedly modernize farming and improve our agricultural outputs.

The entire project rapidly turned into an absolute disaster, and this is not a baseless political rumor because I personally worked on the project, I sweated in those fields, and I physically followed the tractors to the farmlands to till the wet rice fields in my village. There were grueling days we even spent 2- full days stranded deep in the bush because the tractor completely broke down. It's either the hydraulic systems failed, or the engine stalled, and we always have to desperately source for replacement parts at the Onitsha market, while simultaneously hunting for the rare skilled mechanics required to get the massive machine to work again. Both of which were technically impossible to handle even in a single day.

The tractors broke down not because they were of low quality or that the engines were weak, but simply because the rural roads are completely terrible, the regional infrastructure is practically nonexistent, and the state abandoned the fundamental engineering required to sustain heavy machinery.
The farmlands are not planned, the topography is completely chaotic, and some of the unpaved roads leading directly to the rice fields are absolute death traps that can violently chain your tractor to the thick mud, paralyze your tires, and you will eventually need another heavy tractor just to come and drag you out.
I personally remember aggressively using a crude cutlass to hack down soft dwarf trees, to manually clear thick bushes out of sight, and to physically clear the blocked path just for our so-called modern tractor to pass through.

The absolute worst thing in all of this is not even the brutal suffering and shege we saw in the bush. It was the horrific reality that after all of these backbreaking efforts, after burning our physical energy to support a state project, nobody paid us one single penny. The state government was owing me about 15,000 naira in 2014, which was exactly the final year of Peter Obi's term as governor. Factoring in our severe inflation, that stolen amount is equivalent to about 90,000 naira today. Back then, there were exhausted tractor drivers that were owed more than 70,000 naira. Mind you, I was not even a driver, I was very young, my daily job was strict monitoring and running endless field errands, and I worked brutally from 6:00 AM to sometimes late into the dark night.

The primary reason for this wicked lack of payments to us poor workers is not because Peter Obi did not legally release the project funds. We actually wrote a formal letter of complaint directly to his executive office in Awka, they officially reviewed our claims, and they confirmed that the funds were indeed fully disbursed. But the corrupt higher officials, the greedy local politicians, and the ruthless bureaucratic middlemen that the tractors were officially entrusted to completely ate all the money, they pocketed the labor wages, and they looted the treasury dry simply because they saw the governor was just leaving office and they knew absolutely no one would hold them accountable.

Willie Obiano eventually came into power, he immediately found out that maintaining and subsidizing those abandoned tractors was a financial nightmare, he looked at the sheer logistical rot, and he officially scrapped the entire project altogether, and that was the pathetic end of the heavily advertised sweet agricultural revolution.

Peter Obi also built the massive Coscharis rice mill in my local government area. It was a very massive modern rice mill that expertly refines raw rice, automatically removes the crude husks, thoroughly polishes the local grains, aggressively bags them for commercial mass distribution. It was supposed to ultimately scales our local production to compete on the global market. When I drove home just last year, that highly praised facility was absolutely no longer functional, and even as far back as five years ago, it was completely dead.
The reason for failure is lack of institutional infrastructure to support the project, no reliable electricity from the national grid, the commercial diesel desperately needed to run the massive generators is astronomically expensive, the total lack of skilled industrial mechanics meant that sometimes the factory would be completely grounded for weeks over minor faults, and the frustrated local farmers simply moved on and abandon the rotting mega-facility, and went back to using their own small-scale private rice mills to survive.

I am not even going to talk about the heavily publicized laptops he distributed to public schools, the cosmetic classroom renovations, or the other temporary projects he undertook to subsidize chemicals for local farmers, because they all met the exact same tragic fate, they lacked structural sustainability, and they pretty much completely collapsed the moment he stepped out of office.

This is exactly why I laugh mockingly when incredibly naive people blindly attack me for criticizing Peter Obi on this platform. They have absolutely no idea that I have intimately witnessed his governance firsthand, I have felt the painful sting of his administrative blind spots, and I know exactly how his policies crumble under the weight of reality. This is exactly why I aggressively fight for absolute institutional change, for the total dismantling of the corrupt bureaucratic machinery, and for the radical restructuring of the state itself, rather than merely begging for a cosmetic change in the face of the elite man occupying Aso Rock. We are absolutely never going to simply vote our way out of this catastrophic, systemic state failure.