Joshua David Tarfa

Normal Person

[gabriel @gabriel1]

first profitable ai company reinvests everything into trying to save millions of lives and to make it as generally available as possible

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

🤔🤔

[Mark Amaza @amasonic]

BTW, this nonsense that a lot of Nigerians do with using "nobody knows tomorrow" to get you to overlook bad behaviour - the person that did the bad behaviour in the first place, why didn't he apply the same logic?
Bad behaviour should have consequences.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

@brian_armstrong TL;DR: Overhiring post 2020, economic uncertainty -> free money drying up, making lofty moonshot projects an impossibility, + mention AI to minimize stock price damage (almost everyone understands that if you had the magic 10x productivity multiplier you’d hire, not fire)

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”

[JP 𖣂⍣ @Awakenjp]

what the fuck 😭

[cheyenne🆗️ @evilvillain1231]

Type of shit I would spend hours looking through as a kid before the smartphone destroyed my life

[Mind of Saka @WFAFOOTBALL14]

“Pressure is a Privilege. And if you’re feeling any pressure or weight of expectation, you are breathing rare air, that very few of us get to live inside”.

Unbelievable piece of poetry .

[paulo the finance guy 🇧🇷 @PauloNoggy]

meanwhile we're here complaining about anyone who earns more than £35k a year.

This is what taxing the rich actually looks like

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Daniel Adetona @daniel_adetona]

the Birkenstock team just hit me up. I'm losing my mind!!!

[King Alfred @King_Alfreds_II]

The Nigerian has been so mentally conquered & broken that he cannot see himself as competent enough to create his own future - and even in his projections of the possible future, he imagines if he's submissive & pliant enough, a saviour will throw him a bone

Learned helplessness

[Pяom Pяom🌚 @effxzzzyy]

we have no idea how much greatness we fumble just by living in Nigeria

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Nobody wants to hear this but it needs to be said.

> Scientists just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. No training data. No machine learning.

> It woke up and started walking. No one taught it to walk. No one trained it. No gradient descent. It just... knew what to do.

A fruit fly brain has 140,000 neurons.
A human brain is around 86,000,000,000.
And we've gotten really good at scaling.

Meaning with this proof, the first digital human won't be built by OpenAI. It'll be copied from someone who's already alive.

Your consciousness is software. And someone just proved it can be copy-pasted.

Start your day with that.

[Thragg @MrTund]

Facts jollof rice costing £26 is absolutely insane.

[nana @naneinstein_]

I won’t shut up about this, pancreatic cancer kills a person in 4 months btw, it’s resistant to radiotherapy, and fucks two essential parts of the metabolism. this could change the world

[jaiya @jaiyagill]

Bridgit Mendler is proof that you really can do anything if you put your mind to it

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Sitting in the coffee shop watching the world go by this morning. One minute and fourteen seconds of very little happening. Wait forty years and it’ll be the most fascinating video you’ve ever seen.

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

Dangote was pushed out of instant noodles; the obliteration was so total that he handed his entire structure to Dufil.

Nobody talked about a Dufil monopoly in instant noodles even though it's a Nigerian branch of a foreign conglomerate.

He doesn’t have a monopoly on cement either. He competes against BUA and Lafarge, you can call it market dominance, but not a monopoly.

You can talk about favors from the government and I won't even budge but to me, the real fulcrum of Dangote’s edge has always been scale. You can’t name a competitor with his scale. You can see him talk about bringing in 20,000 trucks like it’s biscuits, no competitor operates at that level.

Nigeria’s industrial economy is not deep enough for all the catchphrases we’re latching onto. We cannot punish scale at this stage of development.

[X @_thecynic]

You people thought I was joking when I said this.