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[Mzwandile Zulu @Father_Of_Geeks]

🇿🇦A FIRST FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

We built Sign Language for Code — a system where hand signs write real Python, live, as you gesture.

No keyboard. No typing. Just your hands.

Hold a sign, it writes a keyword. Show two hands together, and you unlock even more of the language.

This has never been done before in South Africa. 🇿🇦

Not a demo. Not a script. A real, working signed coding system — built from scratch, running actual code, right now.

This is Air Keyboard.

First of its kind in South Africa. 🇿🇦✊🏾

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

100 years old. Still the sharpest mind in the room.

Jean-Pierre Serre, youngest Fields Medalist in history (age 27), first Abel Prize winner, and the “Mozart of mathematics,” turned 100 on September 15 and is still lecturing, still writing on the blackboard, still shaping the field.

Happy 100th to the greatest living mathematician. The rest of us are just trying to keep up.

[Asanda Magaqa @asandamagaqa]

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[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@FranbuchNir @vovudebosh But why would you want a non-living machine to be accountable?

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@rohanpaul_ai Whilst this video is old (over 8 months) and when it was made probably it would have made more a lot of sense then and even now if what we are dealing with in AI was largely static. I doubt the Prof would say the same sentiments today. There is a huge progression in AI now!

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Terence Tao: The math behind today’s LLMs is actually simple.
Training and running them mostly uses linear algebra, matrix multiplication, and a bit of calculus, material an undergraduate can handle. We understand how to build and operate these models.

The real mystery is why they work so well on some tasks and fail on others, and why we cannot predict that in advance. We lack good rules for forecasting performance across tasks, so progress is largely empirical.

A key reason is the nature of real-world data. Pure noise is well understood, perfectly structured data is well understood, but natural text sits in between, partly structured and partly random. Mathematics for that middle regime is thin, similar to how physics struggles at meso-scales between atoms and continua.

Because of this gap, we can describe the mechanisms but cannot yet explain capability jumps or give reliable task-level predictions. That mismatch, simple machinery versus hard-to-predict behavior, is the core puzzle.

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Video from Prof @Briankeating YT Channel (Link in comment)

[Jonathan J. Crabtree - ZERO FEAR MATH @jcrabtree]

Hi Rohan

In my opinion, we're entering an era where AI will teach basic math to billions of children. This means the cost of getting math foundations wrong is no longer a classroom problem. It's a civilizational-scale error-amplification problem.

The question isn't just "How do we use AI to teach math better and cheaper than humans?" It's "do we want AI to teach the current version of buggy math rejected by a society filled with math anxiety at enormous scale?"

I say we must fix the math first!

Most people have math anxiety because the foundations taught at school are wrong. Kids are smarter than the math rules they are taught.

Cognitive dissonance is natural when the algorithms we're taught do not work!

My goal is to retrain AI so it teaches math via symmetry, intuition and basic laws of physics. It would be a lost opportunity if AI merely amplifies the math education rubbish that people have intuitively rejected for centuries.

The current Fields fuss focusses on the needs of elites. What the world needs is AI that focusses on the needs of everyone else!

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@Abgamaa @LynneStactia No need to clone anything or number. Web WhatsApp can support up to foru linked devices. You can also download desktop WhatsApp on your laptop or desktop. This one can do calls unlike web WhatsApp. You link your device with WhatsApp to that gadget. Maximum of 4 linked devices!

[Kshitij Mishra | AI & Tech @DAIEvolutionHub]

IN 2024 IN CHENNAI A 54-YEAR-OLD PROFESSOR EXPOSED a leaked secret that Western universities want to keep quiet.

Elite departments charge over $2,400 per credit for advanced quantum theory. But this entire graduate course has been free since the early 2000s, and paid institutions are actively trying to hide it.

In this unlisted lecture footage, S. Lakshmi Bala moves past abstract vector spaces straight into the two-level atom model—the exact same physics driving modern laser tech and quantum processors today.

No login wall. No certificate fee to just watch. One professor, one blackboard, and a camera that never stopped rolling for over 40 lectures.

Traditional universities built million-dollar gatekeeping systems around this exact material. IIT Madras just recorded it and gave it away through an archive that now hosts over 3,200 free courses.

$0 to watch, no account required Filmed lecture hall style since the early 2000s Same physics that underlies quantum computing today
Just don't lose it and find a way to save the lecture, because other paid institutions don't want you to have access to it for free. What happens when the gatekeepers finally lose control of elite education?

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Ewin Tang, born in 2000, is a gifted computer scientist whose teenage work quietly rewrote what we thought we knew about quantum speedups.

At 18, as a UT Austin undergraduate advised by Scott Aaronson, she designed a classical algorithm for recommendation systems that ran nearly as fast as the best quantum version, proving ordinary computers could still surprise us.

She later dequantized other machine-learning and linear-algebra tasks, then earned her PhD at the University of Washington. Her insights won Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition and the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize.

Now a Miller Fellow at Berkeley and soon a Princeton professor, she keeps asking where quantum computers truly help and where clever classical ideas suffice. Her story shows that one clear-eyed student can change the conversation in mathematics and computation.

[Dr. Yvonne Maphosa @Yvonne_Maphosa]

Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I don’t know how many times in high school I dreamt of going to Oxford. It felt unreachable because I was just a girl with unkempt hair, in a turquoise skirt and green jersey, worried about where my mother would find the money for next term’s school fees. I was at Empandeni Girls High then, in rural Plumtree. How would I possibly get to Oxford?

To me, Oxford was the epitome of “university”... right there with Cambridge. See, I wanted to be a scientist and an author, and Oxford was a huge part of both those dreams. It existed in my imagination as the very definition of excellence. It was in the books I read, the stories I loved, the scientists who inspired me, the authors I admired, and in the idea I had of what a university was supposed to be. It felt like the centre of the intellectual world.

Of course, I didn’t understand that it was made up of colleges, or how any of it was structured. I couldn’t tell Oxford from Oxfordshire, or the town from the university. I just knew it would be a dream come true to one day be at “Oxford”.

Being here now, I keep thinking about that younger version of me. She had no idea what the path would look like. She couldn’t possibly have imagined all the twists and turns this pretty little life would take, or that one day she’d find herself walking the very streets she had so often fantasised about.

It’s funny how dreams work, isn’t it? You hold onto them for so long that by the time they happen, you’ve almost forgotten how impossible they once felt.

Somewhere along the way, the girl from Empandeni became the person she once imagined when she looked at pictures of places like this. She became the person who walks into rooms she once thought were beyond her reach.

And always, for a moment, she forgets how impossible it once felt. Until she remembers the little girl from eMambale running barefoot to school, hating winter with everything in her, and the teenager eMpandeni who spent hours looking through the Atlas, dreaming of faraway lands she had only read about in novels.

And that always makes me smile and stand up a little straighter.

Yazi, I don’t know how we got here 🤭
All I meant to write as a caption was: “Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿” 🤭

[Dr. Yvonne Maphosa @Yvonne_Maphosa]

So excited for this chapter of my life 🤓

It has always been my dream to be a visiting scholar at prestigious international universities 🥹

Now I get to realise that dream in not 1 but 4 universities 🥹

I will be lecturing, holding seminars, conducting research, presenting to postgraduate students, collaborating on research and co-supervising PhD students alongside world-renowned professors at University College London, University of Nottingham, University of Greenwich and Lincoln University.

I couldn’t be more grateful. I keep catching myself smiling 🤭

God, man. God! 🙌

[“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”]

[Musa Khawula @Musa_Khawula]

Sinethemba Madondo x Sibizi Magazine.

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@paultungwarara Can you please list 10 "monumental developmental projects" since 2017.

After these, I would request videos of the status of Zimbabwean cities starting with Harare, Bulawayo etc. Major Roads. Include the road from Bulawayo to Nkayi-Dakamela area too.

An earnest request!

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@Father_Of_Geeks @kimheller3 @koko_matshela Now we are talking! I love it!

[Mzwandile Zulu @Father_Of_Geeks]

Growing up in South Africa, coding always felt like it belonged to someone else's language.

So I built my own.
Introducing CMT-IsiZulu — write Python code in isiZulu South African can now write codes in their home language
🇿🇦 Sikhona. We exist.

https://t.co/yPjDg6rN08

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I do not know why Gayton McKenzie speaks so confidently about things he clearly does not understand. It is embarrassing when a cabinet minister appears unaware of how diplomatic passports work.

A diplomatic passport is not reserved exclusively for diplomats, ambassadors or presidents. Around the world, governments have often issued diplomatic passports to individuals who have brought distinction, honour and international recognition to their countries.

Outstanding athletes, artists, musicians, cultural icons, business leaders and other distinguished citizens have, on occasion, been granted diplomatic passports or equivalent travel privileges in recognition of their contributions to the nation.

In the case of Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, the Somali government confirmed that it issued him a diplomatic passport to facilitate his travel to the FIFA World Cup after he became one of Africa’s most celebrated referees and was named CAF Men’s Referee of the Year for 2025.

Somali officials have publicly stated that the passport was issued because of his historic achievement and to assist him in representing Somalia on the global stage.

Artan became the first Somali ever selected to officiate at a FIFA World Cup and has been widely recognised as one of Africa’s top match officials. His achievements have put Somalia on the international football map and inspired millions of young Africans.

What is worrying is not that Gayton McKenzie got it wrong. Everyone makes mistakes. What is worrying is that he chose to speak with such certainty about a subject he clearly had not taken the time to understand.
Ministers have a responsibility to be informed before making public pronouncements, particularly on matters involving diplomacy and international affairs.

A little research would have shown him that diplomatic passports are sometimes awarded as a national honour and a practical tool to assist distinguished citizens representing their countries abroad. That is not unique to Somalia, and it is certainly not unique to Africa.

Diplomatic passports have been issued to many people who are not politicians or career diplomats. For example, boxing legend Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, football stars Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast and Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon, musician Youssou N’Dour of Senegal, long-distance running icon Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, and now Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan have all been granted diplomatic passports or diplomatic status by their governments.

The suggestion that only politicians or diplomats can be issued diplomatic passports is therefore incorrect.

I have noticed a certain interesting trend with Gayton McKenzie. Most of the time when the American government makes a mistake, he comes out to defend it. I wonder why he does that.

From the issue of visas to the political standoff between South Africa and the United States, he has consistently appeared to side with America, even in instances where many believe it is wrong. It is a pattern that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@PhakelaMthakath You clearly have no clue how universities operate and studies at university that matter most or have people's lives.

This number is like a drop in the ocean and shouldn't even make headlines. It's clear your sponsors or handlers have an agenda, unfortunately, quite misguided!!!

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@DavidColtart A good verse that politicians read and never apply. On a different note but related. How has lobbying for municipalities to go back to their former independence in managing their financial inflows & service delivery going? Suburb roads are turning to dust roads & many more issues

[dr.peacegates.mwelase @okaManyathela]

@LCabonena We have a neighbour, the late RG Mugabe who did the same! In fact he dug a pit and drove all the people inside! His predecessor is currently burying them alive! Story of our life in African countries! Universities have become pyramid schemes!