Martin Twum Mensah

tweet first! Later understand! Confused? That is the objective of this bio though! o___o! I love good food! I love technology! Geek, apps!

[Martin Twum Mensah @twumm]

@cyberrtyler @levelsio “Keep everything the same” 😆

[Martin Twum Mensah @twumm]

@yatish_me I wonder which engineer has not been through this 🥲. There’s always the opinion of more microservices are better. Then the proponents jump ship, leaving you with over 30 services when you had just 3. 10x engineering, I guess.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I see so much FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) about the future of sw engineering, mostly from non-devs. Along the lines of “soon anyone can spin off AI agents in bulk that act as hundreds of devs.”

A false premise. Just open your airline app that is built by ~hundreds of devs.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Veo 2, our new, state-of-the-art video model (with better understanding of real-world physics & movement, up to 4K resolution). You can join the waitlist on VideoFX. Our new and improved Imagen 3 model also achieves SOTA results, and is coming today to 100+ countries in ImageFX.

[Martin Twum Mensah @twumm]

A mad city! #MUFC #MCIMU

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

A priest, a pastor and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood. The nurse asked the rabbit: “what’s your blood type?”

“I’m probably a type O”, said the rabbit.

[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

More languages, more insights!

A few interesting takeaways:

* Java and Kotlin are quick! Possible explanation: Google is heavily invested in performance here.
* Js is really fast as far as interpreted / jit languages go.
* Python is quite slow without things like PyPy.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

Just look at the sheer number of (very important) laws, policies, and measures that Ghana's ruling party wants the Parliament to reconvene for JUST TWO DAYS to RAM THROUGH! Unbelievable! Essentially, they see the Parliament as just a rubber stamp. If the Opposition agree to participate in this racket, it would be the clearest sign to voters that all their claims of being interested in change and improved governance etc are just a show. What a lark! 😡😡😡

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Voice AI is absolutely going to be game changing. Typing is fine, but when you just talk to your device and get an instant answer back, it lowers the barrier to asking questions about anything. It’s the closest thing to sci-fi we’ve had in AI. 0 latency is the key though.

[JoyNews @JoyNewsOnTV]

"The law says bail cannot be used as punishment but as we speak it has been used as such against them."

- Samson Lardy Anyenini descends heavily on the Police, AG and Judiciary for the injustice meted out to the arrested protesters. #Newsfile #NoToGalamsey #FreeTheCitizens

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

I don’t think it’s possible to make a compelling pitch deck for a consumer social app. Describing your idea with slides will make you sound like a mental patient.

Real investors know that if it works it’s because of 100 tiny decisions—not an audacious vision.

You’re better off just saying you’ve put together a great team and the company will be a product studio, where you’ll test a bunch of ideas and—oh, here’s one of them.

[Martin Twum Mensah @twumm]

@Codie_Sanchez Saved this at number 5! It is quite the skill and I have seen how lucrative it has been. Looking forward to sharpening that.

[Martin Twum Mensah @twumm]

😆

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

Report: Apple to launch iOS 18 AI features marketed as 'Apple Intelligence' https://t.co/zOcs8YpsSR by @bzamayo

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

Heard all the hullabaloo about a monopoly 5G license having been issued to a one-week old company, etc? So that all telcos and ISPs will now have to buy bandwidth from it & retail? Well, here is the lowdown.

https://t.co/XhYSQ7NO9z

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Christmas is a time when families get together and celebrate. With the brutal war going on in the Middle East, especially the death and destruction in Gaza, this year we get to Christmas with very heavy hearts and we share the pain of those families who are grieving the loss of their loved ones. Please do not forget them and do not get used to their suffering. Merry Christmas.

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

“So far everything we have published on this contract they are not denying it except the page 13 which is on the duration”

- @Manasseh_Azure on the SML contract exposé. #Newsfile

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

Have you watched the GHS 3 billion lie? Here you go. #Newsfile

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

For all those who were too busy due to the end of year rush to follow trending conversations like Ghana's first lithium deal, here is a playback to listen at leisure during the holidays.

https://t.co/9aUIPfbNZk

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

Only in a country where the elites have vacated their gatekeeping role on behalf of citizens can a law saying that you can't import cars or clothing unless a committee appointed by 3 Ministers give you a permit be sent to Parliament in a fast-track form that allows no changes.🤦🏽‍♂️

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Labor cost in coordinating freight is ~10% of the cost of international shipping. AI will make almost everything you buy cheaper.

Thanks to our new GPT-4 based copilot that Flexport ops tech team rolled out this week, a task that used to take operators 30 minutes can now be done in 20 seconds with a single prompt.

A huge number of similar tasks in freight forwarding will be susceptible to similar AI-based automation. We plan to knock them all down one by one in the months ahead.