X also known as Professor X

Maker of Things.

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

LAUNCHING LUNE

We're very happy to share to launch the LUNE program @researchroundhq. LUNE will help African researchers gain a better understanding of the intellectual process of inquiry, analysis and synthesis while experiencing personal and professional growth.

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

https://t.co/UuF8zwEHcL

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

https://t.co/m5BsLLypcv

[Agbowó @agbowoart]

“They say I ruined paradise. But have they heard my side?”

Read Chiwenite (@Chiwenite_O) Onyekwelu’s Eve Gives Her Own Account on Agbowó.
https://t.co/f5DQlG9W7C

#Agbowo #AfricanPoetry #ChiweniteOnyekwelu #TheLiminalIssue #Poems

[ResearchRound @researchroundhq]

“I am impressed by the Knowledge and pedigree of our facilitators as it has helped increase the development of my research focus”

Watch Anthony Ojukwu share LUNE TWO https://t.co/BxUTMgy2BB Sciences Fellowship experience and expectations.

Learn more at https://t.co/WHDO0ypdls

[Agbowó @agbowoart]

We are now accepting submissions.

Please share your magic with us. ☺️
https://t.co/bmMUnou46d

#Agbowo #CallforSubmissions #AgbowoMagazine

[Caleb Watney @calebwatney]

This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

I'll probably run away from this school or find a reason not to use that track.

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

If i had a teacher like this, maybe i wouldn’t have been jumping fence in secondary school. They’re so blessed to have him.🥹❤️

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

@KunleAdebajo Congratulations @KunleAdebajo I wish you all the best. Keep the trail blazing!

[Scott Hambrick @HambrickScott]

I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.

10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis.

The half life of knowledge is the time it takes for new knowledge to either be lost, or obsolete. We know what lost means. For knowledge to be obsolete, it loses its utility because it's irrelevant, applies to defunct systems, is found false, etc.

Knowledge of fire escape routes in a long since destroyed building, refining whale oil for lamplight, and how to drive a manual transmission all might be examples of lost knowledge.

At the time I gave the speech, we in the data management business estimated the half life of knowledge to be 18 months. 50 years ago it was closer to 18 years.

The half life of knowledge is now probably closer to a year, maybe less.

The Lindy effect, of course, tells us that the older knowledge is the more likely it is to get older yet. The knowledge about how to cook meat isn't going away anytime soon, but the instructions that came with your Temu junk are already gone.

Most of the web that has existed has already disappeared and most of the web that exists will disappear in HALF that time.

The costs to maintain a viable web page 500 years approaches infinity. Energy, disk space, indexing it into a growing database, format conversion for compatibility, etc makes this not likely.

Archive and wiki are great ideas, but their expenses are infinite and the knowledge they are entrusted with will only last as long as the institutions operating them.

What's the half life of institutions? Shorter daily.

Our knowledge is going away.

I've bemoaned all of this on podcasts for years. The biggest problem is that the half life of knowledge is so short now that human experience is continually made irrelevant.

Example, how you dated the kids mom 25 years ago is entirely irrelevant when you try to give dating advice to your 18 year old today.

This pace of change is destroying our ability to parent.

It's also destroying our ability to run profitable businesses as we must CONTINUALLY TRAIN employees, never cultivating or benefitting from an old head that's "seen it all in the industry" as the whole damned thing is different than it was 10 years ago and the old head needs training on Poonysis, the new ERP.

This is yet another reason why wages are flat. It doesn't matter that much if you've been a machinist for 30 years, you'll need almost as much training this year as a 3 year machinist. AND the shop just got new a new CNC machine that you know nothing about, whereas their used to be men who ran a SINGLE LODGE AND SHIPLEY LATHE 40 HOURS PER WEEK FOR 40 YEARS STRAIGHT. That guy knew some hacks and cracks.

This is what happens when financialization occurs. Making a product or service that lasts forever is a great way to go out of business as your competitors who can increase lifetime revenue from inferior products can BORROW MORE MONEY THAN YOU, and use that capital to drive their own costs down, market to new customers, etc.

Permanence and durability is not rewarded and we ALL pay the price.

Wisdom, knowledge test by experience, is dying.
Wisdom, being impossible to obtain, makes older people less valuable. Parents seem entirely irrelevant to their children who only view them as resource providers.

Grandparents are just a nuisance, like Grandpa Simpson

Younger people, who are easier to train, are over valued. Ease of training means they are quicker to buy a new product, which drives companies to develop products that are marketed almost exclusively to youngs. Olds don't want to buy new stuff they have to learn.

So, the business world and culture becomes more and more skewed towards the interests of people who haven't fully developed executive function yet.

Adult contemporary music doesn't exist as a genre anymore for example. Almost NO ONE makes music for adults.

Many such cases.

For the 3 of you that has read all of this, what do you think we should do about it?

I do have ideas. I'll save them for now.

[Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu @WaasiShaffii]

very excited to share that my first academic paper has just been published! in it, my co-author and i argue that localised digital activism is vital, using #arewametoo as case study. we argue that ethnographic studies are vital to cultural specificity.
https://t.co/J2cKO437fe

[Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @ChinasaTOkolo]

Deeply honored to be recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in AI by @TIME!

Receiving this recognition a year after earning my PhD and a year into my professional career is considerable motivation for me to continue my research and advocacy.

[TIME @TIME]

Why Chinasa T. Okolo, a Nigerian-American computer scientist and a Brookings Institution fellow, is one of the most influential people in AI https://t.co/ZgOWqz3e4o

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

How to read a research paper

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

How to read a research paper

[Jamesb @experilearning]

Left my job to focus 100% on math, CS and ML for a while. Haven't got a precise end goal in mind at the moment but I think something will emerge. Here's the stuff I am learning, learning process, etc:

1/n

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

The seventh edition of my annual essay contest for students of Nigerian universities is now live.

Topic: 'Igbo Vs Yoruba Post-2023 Election: Can Nigerians Ever Live As One?'

Submission deadline: October 31.

Full contest details can be found on @ucj_ui

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

@KunleAdebajo @kanyeeeen 😀

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

Nothing to see here. Just Patek's asian brother, Patel.

[Timeless @Mr_Wealth7x]

@itsSh0la Original Patel Philips with it manual box @itsSh0la
Price: 300k

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

Depending on whose mandate the next president is standing.

[Mayowa Tijani @OluwamayowaTJ]

It may take 10 years, but we will change the national anthem again.

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

Lol. With 2m USD, you can get a passport in a country with better amenities, and buy a better house with the change.

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

5 bedroom house in Ikoyi, Lagos.

Price is $2m.

It’s the real price and I’m astonished because why???

[X also known as Professor X @Habeeb_X]

Do Nigerian architects have an ongoing war against windows? Why are houses being built with very small windows in a tropical climate with very high energy costs?