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[Ope @opeispo]

So..this is a "today I learned" thread. #TIL

[Abdulwahab Animoku, PhD @AnimokuA]

Our students took on the challenge this year to represent Nigeria at Pan African Maths Olympiad, 2026 held in Ivory Coast. 18 years ago I spent a gruelling 9 hours solving some of the most difficult problems I have ever seen in my life. These students have already surpassed what I ever did while competing in secondary school. I am super proud of them. Today is the closing ceremony of this contest and we look forward to making history at this year’s outing. Special shoutout to @SpecialMaths instructors @Mmesomachi1 who spends crazy hours working with these kids. Watch out for the results today.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The last time Nigeria participated in the International Maths Olympiad (IMO) was in 2019.

The government's reason then was that it was not important enough.

The actual funding required is less than the cost of a brand new Hilux.

This is the most prestigious academic competition in the world, and our children have been deprived of participation for years.

Education has been pushed to the back seat for a long time, while illiteracy has been elevated.

This needs to stop now!

[Ope @opeispo]

@pfbyjy @winexviv Just seeing.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The problem with the "if it works who cares what the code looks like" mindset for agentic work is that it assumes the agent has a perfect understanding of "works." Realistically, things are underspecified, agents make bad assumptions, etc.

To be fair, agents are pretty good at unit test coverage. They're pretty bad at designing human experiences (API, CLI flags, etc.), especially cohesive ones for future roadmap plans they may not have visibility into (unless your backlog is perfect and vision fully laid out, which I doubt). They're bad at knowing where performance matters and what type (CPU vs memory tradeoffs). They're bad at where compatibility matters and where it doesn't (and tend to err on the side of preserving it without further guidance). Etc.

Unless you have this ALL specified, you can't possibly claim "it works" without taking a look and thinking about it.

[Ope @opeispo]

@ShriramKMurthi looks like a good idea!

[Ope @opeispo]

@_iamtpo You might enjoy - Nand2Tetris - elements of computing system and Code hidden language of hardware and software by charles petzold

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

More musings after some people got upset about the word clanker. https://t.co/gXPC6iRP0g

[Manchester City @ManCity]

"What a time we have had together." 🩵

[Ope @opeispo]

Completed the distance, though swim was shortened to 1.5k cos of water temp

[Ope @opeispo]

tread water -> open water swimming -> open water triathlon = ironman 70.3 next year?

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

https://t.co/BwpF1bXhIr

[Ope @opeispo]

@efemoney_ 🫂

[Ope @opeispo]

2weeks to go to 70.3

[Ope @opeispo]

tread water -> open water swimming -> open water triathlon = ironman 70.3 next year?

[Ope @opeispo]

@coder_blvck it just takes time and consistency and then it clicks one day.

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Nike spent millions on “Breaking2,” an attempt to break the 2 hour marathon by Eliud Kipchoge.

Kipchoge did it in Nikes in 2019, but it was with lazers and pacemakers. It didn’t count.

Today, 2 men do it officially. Both in adidas. The hits keep coming.

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

evergreen controversial opinion: it is good to care about the quality of your work

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This original medieval-style dance piece is in G minor, with a chord progression that alternates between Gm and Cm, incorporating variations like Gm6 and Cm6 for that hypnotic flow.

[Shobhit Shrivastava @shri_shobhit]

I’ve always loved the term "intuition for numbers" and find that the ability to do a back-of-the-envelope test for any hypothesis is its best manifestation. I am truly in awe of people who are good at it!

This shouldn't be confused with the ability to do complex mental math, like multiplying 73*29. Rather, it’s the insight to realize that if a stock drops by 50%, it has to double just to break even.

It's also understanding that if you store data for every single second, it only takes 86,400 calculations to process a full day's worth of information, something even a cheap mobile phone can finish in under a millisecond.

It’s the same mental model that tells you a MacBook has more than enough computing power to host a site with 10,000 daily users.

The possibilities for this kind of thinking are endless!!

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” https://t.co/PLDj7ZmuIX

[Kenneth Stanley @kenneth0stanley]

Terrence Tao’s arguments for the value of serendipity and the counterintuitive benefits of inefficiency align perfectly with Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Too much emphasis today on optimization, getting the answer right, and getting exactly what we asked for.