Vitumbiko Lowole

Knowledge Creation, Use, and Dissemination || AI, Philosophy, and Combat Sport || Creator at DokSolutions || Educator @mubasmw || Data Science @UR_aceds 🇷🇼

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@ddebow You can’t use reason to talk people out of positions that they didn’t use reason to get into.

[Vitumbiko Lowole @VLowole]

Love it!

[The Slice Magazine @slicemagazine]

Malawian shoemaker Chimwemwe Mwenyemasi has signed a distribution deal with South African retail chain PEP, paving the way for his footwear to be sold across Africa. 👞🇲🇼

He was reportedly offered a work permit in South Africa but chose to operate from Malawi to create local jobs and earn foreign currency.

[Vitumbiko Lowole @VLowole]

@Times360Malawi The current Miss Malawi is 27. The competition age range is 17 to 27. Why isn’t she representing Malawi?

[Ashwinee Panda @PandaAshwinee]

the fable / sol summaries are getting more and more absurdly information-dense
1 in every 5 words is a novel compound word (ex: “rate-adjacent”) which itself is the model’s invented stand-in for a metaconcept that it developed that i need to interrogate it about
how to fix this?

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

The Geometry of Integration by Parts.

[giatt @1owroller]

girlfriend overheard me and started yelling at me asking me “who the fuck is kimmy” “why the fuck are you talking about chinese models”

[Vitumbiko Lowole @VLowole]

@ebarenholtz @pmarca Perhaps writing forces you to reason in the expressed output space since you’re confronted with what you’ve externalised on to the page.

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

One tricycle at a time!

Women in Kano, Nigeria have launched "Mata Zalla" (Women Only), an exclusive, female-driven cab service.

By operating bright pink electric kekes, they are delivering safety, cultural comfort, and vital job opportunities.

[African Center of Excellence in Data Science @UR_aceds]

The 3-day EpiScientia Network meeting concluded today. Participants agreed on strategies to build a sustainable workforce capable of transforming health data into actionable intelligence for infectious disease prevention and control. @episcientia. We thank you for your insights.

[Prime Intellect @PrimeIntellect]

Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack

Led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors

Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack.

Own your intelligence.

[African Center of Excellence in Data Science @UR_aceds]

Today, a meeting of the African National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) Network for Training in Integrated Health Informatics and Data Science:Scaling Up Infectious Disease Modelling (EpiScientia Network) project, was held at the @Uni_Rwanda

[Vitumbiko Lowole @VLowole]

@Gaurab One day you must do a write-up on the frameworks you use to discover these things!

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[Dr. Jennifer Batamuliza @jbatamuliza]

Today UR Afretec awarded 300 people who successfully completed short courses in AI, Machine Learning and big data analytics and also cyber security! Thanks to Afretec Network and @cmu_africa for this great partnership in accelerating digital transformation!

[Vitumbiko Lowole @VLowole]

@ArchitectMwangi Haha I sure will!

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.

[Irembo @TeamIrembo]

Yesterday, at the Inaugural Convention on South-South and Triangular Cooperation hosted by Rwanda Cooperation, our CEO, Israel Bimpe, joined the ministerial roundtable to reframe the conversation around digitizing government services. The question was never whether the tools could be built. The real test is whether citizens show up, stay, and trust what they find. Israel grounded that in what Irembo has already built: a platform operating across 50+ government institutions, integrating national registries including National ID and TIN, with over 7,000 officers processing applications daily.

The real question is how you deliver a solution tailored to the uniqueness of each country: its institutions, its policy frameworks, its trusted cloud environment, and its infrastructure. Irembo does not seek to export itself. It adapts. On AI specifically, Israel asked the room to resist the reflex to add it for its own sake. In Rwanda, Irembo already operates across three languages. Regionally, that complexity multiplies. The goal is not to use AI to do things for the sake of it, but to use it to fast-track what genuinely serves the user. Make the complexity invisible. The citizen should just experience a service that works.

#SouthSouthCooperation #Cooperation4Impact

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Due process. Rule of law. The most important principles sound the most boring.