Uche Musa

Finacle Treasury Analyst || Data Analytics || Human Resources || Technical Writer || Anime Lover.⚡⚡

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

1. How I Started my #DataAnalytics Journey.

I was first introduced to Data Analytics in 2020 during the pandemic. I got a call from my Uncle and Mentor, who was a statistician, telling me about the amazing field of Data Analytics.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Nigeria, man. There's no escaping the rot, insecurity and dysfunction, no matter how rich you get.

1. Buy an SUV because the roads are bad, and you become a prime target for kidnapping, extortion, and inflated prices

2. Live in an estate for quiet and security but the moment you drive out the gate, you're back in the same poverty, crime, chaos and insecurity everyone else suffers. Your safety exists only within the walls of your expensive prison

3. Spend millions on solar so you don't have to suffer generator noise but your neighbours still use generators. You stop hearing yours, not theirs.

4. Make money and the women will come but the women who come are poor. You work hard to escape poverty, only to give your money to women who are hoping to escape their own poverty by 'working' you

5. Buy Starlink to escape MTN and Airtel, and now the whole compound wants your password.

"But it's unlimited now?"

Decline and you're a bad neighbour

The tragedy of trying to buy your way out systemic dysfunction is that you never truly solve the underlying problem. You just spend money trying to insulate yourself from it, and in that process, create new problems for yourself.

But you interprete it as progress because you no longer have the exact same probems as the next Nigerian.
Because progress here is less about better roads, reliable power and security for all.

Progress here is more about owning an SUV while everyone else dodges potholes in their Camry, having steady power and uninterrupted airconditioning whilst everyone else sweats through the heat, and living behind the 'security' of estate gates while everyone else lives with insecurity.

It is that contrast that gives me fulfilment. It is what makes you stand out, and provides both of us something to brag about. So the benchmark is not whether the system works; It is whether I am better than others in a system that does not work.

And I say "I", because I, also find myself thinking that way sometimes.

I also want to brag about paying 8 million for rent, rather than demand afforable housing for all or protest against the fraud of agents and the greed of landlords.

Afterall, I am also a product of the system.

As a result, most of what I, and by extension, Nigerians broadly speaking, consider progress, is a maladaptation to systemic failure.

It is, to condense it, progress measured against dysfunction, rather than freedom from it.

And 'Maladaptation' because the actions we have adapted to help us cope with the dysfunction, ultimately does more harm than good.

So for example, rather than protest insecurity, bad roads or unreliable power, we maladapt by travelling by air, buying SUVs and installing solar.

We spend money to work around failing institutions while the institutions themselves continue to decay.

But the problem with our "I better pass my neighbour' cope is that it will eventually reach its limit. Because as the rot and decay deepens and spreads, even our workarounds will fail, our estates will no longer keep the criminals and the abokis that surround us out (Abuja residents beware), the kidnappers will come to our doorsteps, like they're doing in Ekpoma, and our roads will get so bad even our four-wheelers will no longer be able to handle them, leading to accidents that will land us in hospitals with no doctors and nurses because our best health workers have japa'd.

Checkmate

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

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[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

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[UNCLE @MrOlibaba]

My boss has an HND in Electrical Engineering. No MSc, no MBA, no foreign stamp on his certificate.

But he has over 20 years of solid experience across banking and oil and gas.

Under him, we are four team members with MSc and MBA. Recently, someone joined us fresh from the UK with an MSc.

But on the job, you quickly understand how things truly work. He's the job, through and through.

You can’t mention three people in this company who understand this business deeply and leave him out. It won’t be an honest list.

He reads situations faster, spots risks early, and connects dots that most people are still trying to figure out. Certificate never gives you this level of competence.

These experience didn't come from the class of his certificate, but because he has seen patterns repeat over the years.

This man is a well grounded professional. What we the lads do is humble to his expertise.

[Abefe - the statistics guy✍️📚😎🇳🇬 @starboy_abefe]

The fact that you guys think writing code is the job of a software engineer shows how much you don’t know.

Writing code is literally speaking to the hardware of the computer in language that it understands, it’s like 1% of the job.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

I have thought this too. On point.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The answer:

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Hi Hamid,

I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge.

After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects:

✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255]
✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling
✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum
✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product
✓ S(x,y) — sky value
✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value
✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center
✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan
✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness
✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2
✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600
✓ The full N_s structure

The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are:
✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator
✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel

I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have.

What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image.

This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose.

Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation.

Thank you.

Yusuf

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@YusufAsunmogejo @chronicUtdFan @naderi_yeganeh 🙏🏽

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@OlalekanOpaleye @MSIngawa Lol. I am not entirely show, but I heard that a entry level staff earn around $2k.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@MSIngawa How much does the CTO earn?

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@NigeriaStories The poor no fit breathe 😂

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@Lamataonline @Mr_JAGs @gbenga_omo @gboyegaakosile @Nairametrics @MobilePunch @TheNationNews See how packed this thing is and the AC is barely working. Someone collapsed today inside and we don’t know the status of the person. @Lamataonline or whoever that can intervene should intervene. You guys have really done well so far. Just help us fix this. Thank you.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@Lamataonline @Mr_JAGs @gbenga_omo @gboyegaakosile @Nairametrics @MobilePunch @TheNationNews @Lamataonline what can be done to this heat inside the Red line during the evening trips!!!

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@theladyjane_ Yes. Your Father and Brother(s).

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@notmutuals @Spazzzz3x @wtffolly_ You go still lose for here o. Just go soak garri. Go back to d drawing board and try again 🤣

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@FinPlanKaluAja1 That bro is a very successful Youtuber now. People that have principles, and are dedicated, are more than 80% successful because these people don't lose opportunities when it comes their way. They capitalize on it.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@FinPlanKaluAja1 Because you are motivated to do more when you think like that - delayed gratification. Then when you eventually get double the cash and you eventually buy the stutt, there's this satistaction you get. Tested and trusted.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

@Buzor_Grace I’m a sucker for overripe plantains. When you fry them dark-golden and you take that first bite, ohhh lawd, the softness and sweetness always brings me the satisfaction I had the first time I tasted them.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

I have to document my learning and I will post the summary here in 15 days. 15 days from now (16-10-2025) will fall on the last day of the month (31-10-2025). So by 1-NOV-2025, I should have posted my summary.

[Uche Musa @Uche_D_Analyst]

Okay. The first step of Gyoji is to declare publicly.

So this is me declaring publicly:

In 15 days, I want to finish Jeremy's IT lab videos on CCNA. There are 126 videos in the playlist. Meaning 8 videos on average per day. And this won't be binge watching.