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maths, philosophy, finance. currently @harvardhbs @innovationlab. previously investing @lightrockglobal

[ade @degbnro]

spain and france on Tuesday? yikes

[ade @degbnro]

what a goal! Bounou is good but oh boy #FRAvsMAR

[UptownOfLagos @Uptownoflagos]

Nigeria failed politicians are holding Nigerians down wahala.

How do Nigerian kids casually stroll into a competition with over 159 Countries and take away almost all the Gold Medals?

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

https://t.co/v694m8Eaj6

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.

[ade @degbnro]

i remember reading a chained tomb at 10 or 11 and naively began to believe in justice.

[Anendlessbeing @obeze_abba]

African writers really trusted teenagers to process grief, colonialism, betrayal, tradition and identity… all in one school term.

[ade @degbnro]

cape verde!!

[ade @degbnro]

staring at a wall after hitting my claude session limit after sending 2 prompts

[ade @degbnro]

fable, was in fact, a fable

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[27. @dimvji]

you know it’s getting real when you start going on walks to clear your head

[ade @degbnro]

sometimes you have to keep pounding the pavement until you get a response

[ade @degbnro]

i ask again, why does linkedin not have an mcp?

[ade @degbnro]

humour is interesting. as an international student in the us, i can understand american humour and banter. however, i find that americans struggle to understand mine. i suspect that my ability to do this, while they struggle with mine, is because i grew up consuming us media

[ade @degbnro]

is he a bot?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A glaringly obvious double-standard

[ade @degbnro]

persecution everywhere

[ade @degbnro]

being black, muslim, trans and an immigrant must be exhausting in today’s world. you will never be able to catch a break from all the rhetoric.

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes.

Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision.

Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A WSJ analysis found 67% of Polymarket profits goes to just 0.1% of accounts, while most traders are in the red. Most Kalshi users also lose money. https://t.co/Bq3Ei9e8WD

[ade @degbnro]

i stopped wearing my wearables to bed since the start of the year and i haven’t been happier.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.

A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.

164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.

Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.

The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.

The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.

Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.

The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.

The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

[ade @degbnro]

“there is a graveyard of startups that have tried and failed to solve this problem. how are you differentiated from all of them?”

[Nathan| Brydge @iamprincenathan]

lol. I am in a WhatsApp group where founders in Nigeria with decades of experience in e-commerce were punching air .

They swear they’ve pitched to these similar investors and couldn’t get a meeting. And when they did they were met with “how is this different from Jumia” and “this market is saturated”.

I guess it was less about the market and more about “them”..