Moses Olwenyi

Medical Doctor, Health Development Specialist. Outwardly introverted.
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[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@ArthurMuhwezi12 Commonwealth nationals (Uganda) are eligible to join. Officers by default undergo training at Sandhurst. To join at officer level , you will currently have to be resident in the UK for 3 years at least A-level qualifications) and fitness requirements. This process is free.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

From "After the Spike": "The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists."

Going to live-tweet interesting bits.

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@regesa @IsaacSsemakadde Time.... Reveals all and sundry...

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@norbertmao Chairman, are you not part of the 'feathers of the same bird"???

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@AndrewWabwire @IsaacSsemakadde @PheonaWall @ug_lawsociety @JSCUganda Fire in the hole.....

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@BalaamAteenyiDr Come up with fake charges, Jail them, and then forgive them... Good work Sir.

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@PM_ViktorOrban @realDonaldTrump You wish

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@nickopiyo @GodwinTOKO The only thing that is constant is time... Clearly if U-turn was a person...!

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@AndrewWabwire Happy birthday "Omuhongo"!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Uganda's main opposition leader Bobi Wine 'shot in leg' after confrontation with police

https://t.co/crImBhIgZ6

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@PhillipKarugaba @URAuganda Catch them by the b*lls

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@newvisionwire @PoliceUg What a messed up lot.....! How does one procure a plane with this amount with a feasibility assessment or appraisal of the operational requirements?

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@visegrad24 Good stuff...

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@DailyMonitor Economics that (doesn't) work/s!

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@AdamSpliid @DKinUganda @aBiDevtFinance @SolidaridadECA @UgandaBreweries @OPMUganda @DanishMFA @MAAIF_Uganda Nice work..... Lest we forget the need for food security. Maize is clearly more relevant for food security and it makes sense to focus on how we can best increase its yield.

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@rowancheung Impressive. Can't wait to use some of those devices

[Amina Yonis, PhD @DrAminaYonis]

You do not have to read a research paper from start to end for the first pass. This is a huge academic misconception.

There are key parts of a paper and a specific order that students should be taught.

▶️ Here's how to read a research paper quickly using AI:

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives.

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[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

I'm reading Elon Musk's biography.

One revelation was more fascinating to me than all of the gossip combined.

It's what the book calls The Algorithm. Elon's simple 5 step recipe for success. Read on to learn all about the algorithm and what it implies for the future of Twitter.

The Algorithm

The five steps of the algorithm are:

1. Question every requirement. Each should come with the name of the person who made it. You should never accept that a requirement came from a department, such as from “the legal department” or “the safety department.” You need to know the name of the real person who made that requirement. Then you should question it, no matter how smart that person is. Requirements from smart people are the most dangerous, because people are less likely to question them. Then make the requirements less dumb.

2. Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn’t delete enough.

3. Simplify and optimize. This should come after step two. You should avoid doing this for parts and processes that should not exist.

4. Accelerate. Every process can be sped up. But only do this after you have followed the first three steps. Again, you should avoid doing this for parts and processes that should not exist.

5. Automate. This comes last. Wait until all requirements have been questioned, parts and processes deleted, and bugs removed.

This process feels potentially very powerful to me. I'm interested to try it out in my own life and to see how it works. If we follow the advice of the algorithm itself, then we should not accept it just because it works for the richest man in the world. We should each vet it for ourselves.

The Future of Twitter

It was clear when Elon bought Twitter that he was questioning a lot of the received wisdom. People wondered if he was crazy or stupid and why he wasn't listening to experts. That seems to have been the questioning-every-requirement phase.

He followed up that stage by deleting as much as he could. Almost all of the employees most spectacularly. A lot of people noted that he'd probably end up realizing he needed a lot of what he was cutting. Apparently that was to be expected and a key part of his process.

As far as I can tell, looking in from the outside, we are probably now in the simplification and optimization phase. Hopefully this means things will be settling down for Twitter in the foreseeable future.

Hope you found this commentary on Elon's biography helpful.

I 'm currently tweeting insights from another book called The Book of Why which teaches us about the new science of causation.

Follow me (@kareem_carr) to get data science threads in your timeline 2-3 times a week.

[Moses Olwenyi @jamachi79]

@PgrResearcher @Ejessu .... Things to ponder.