Wandera Nimrod

[cogsec @affaan]

https://t.co/NscRA7sqBt

[Uganda | USA @UgaEmbaWashDC]

Ugandan education based AI startup,Terraworks AI, excels at Startup World @SWCPTV a competition that connects startup eco systems from more that 130 countries and regions to Silicon Valley.
@mist_science
@UgandaMFA
@terraworks_ai
@wanderanimrod
@unaaorg

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

Put your money where your mouth is. Pay your customers late delivery fees when you miss the deadlines you set. That will create a real incentive for you to deliver on time. Anything short of that is just words. Words are cheap.

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

Hey @ModernLivingEA . Your furniture is nice and your attention to detail is impressive. But, when you are late to deliver, please do more than say "we apologize for the inconvenience." Talk is cheap. Anyone can say that.

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

I find the story of AI and radiology fascinating. Of course, Hinton's prediction was wrong* and tech advances don't automatically and straightforwardly cause job replacement — that's not the interesting part.

Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is growing nevertheless. The augmentation-not-automation effect of AI is despite the fact that AFAICT there is no identified "task" at which human radiologists beat AI. So maybe the "jobs are bundles of tasks" model in labor economics is incomplete. Paraphrasing something @MelMitchell1 pointed out to me, if you define jobs in terms of tasks maybe you're actually defining away the most nuanced and hardest-to-automate aspects of jobs, which are at the boundaries between tasks.

Can you break up your own job into a set of well-defined tasks such that if each of them is automated, your job as a whole can be automated? I suspect most people will say no. But when we think about *other people's jobs* that we don't understand as well as our own, the task model seems plausible because we don't appreciate all the nuances.

If this is correct, it is irrelevant how good AI gets at task-based capability benchmarks. If you need to specify things precisely enough to be amenable to benchmarking, you will necessarily miss the fact that the lack of precise specification is often what makes jobs messy and complex in the first place. So benchmarks can tell us very little about automation vs augmentation.

* Hinton insists that he was directionally correct but merely wrong in terms of timing. This is a classic motte-and-bailey retreat of forecasters who get it wrong. It has the benefit of being unfalsifiable! It's always possible to claim that we simply haven't waited long enough for the claimed prediction to come true.

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

From @asmartbear:

At wildly successful startups and those that fail, the first few years are gut-wrenching, uncertain, on the brink of collapse all the time.

No one can tell you which of the two you are building. Only time can.

https://t.co/ZItKeIBfkZ

[WanMan @WanMan_10]

Nothing more satisfying than having your jersey design picked for your country's maiden men's World Cup appearance, in your favorite cricket format. Hey @avarcsports, we did it, AGAIN!

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

Congratulations @WanMan_10 !

[Cricket Uganda @CricketUganda]

Unveiling the winning World Cup Jersey Design Competition Winner.

The design was crafted by Mangeni Elijah.

A big appreciation to all the creatives that were involved in the competition.

#CricketUganda

[Cricket Uganda @CricketUganda]

Unveiling the winning World Cup Jersey Design Competition Winner.

The design was crafted by Mangeni Elijah.

A big appreciation to all the creatives that were involved in the competition.

#CricketUganda

[Solomon King #FreeBesigye @solomonking]

Ban just five logical fallacies (especially ad hominem) and watch your favourite tweeps' arguments crumble to pieces.

Logical fallacies are the lifeblood that drive the virality of "hot takes", "gotchas", "okubye nnyo" and "sabulas".

Happy Friday!

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@mkiboneka's content is always good, but every once in a while, his writing and delivery blows my mind! This is one of those times.

https://t.co/jPtWXRLeil

[Solomon King #FreeBesigye @solomonking]

Fundi Bots can use this to improve learning for exactly 29,584 students in Uganda.

That's almost thirty thousand Ugandan students who could potentially become engineers, astronauts, doctors, material scientists, architects, software developers, etc.

Thirty. Thousand.

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@ponton_alex Quality, actionable content as always. Thank you, @ponton_alex !

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@avarcsports , come & see

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Afcon 2023: The best kits in Africa Cup of Nations history https://t.co/VYE53HVjIo

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@solomonking Coffee At Last, Makindye Hill or Munyonyo.

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@joelanthony23 Correction:

Whoever posted that made a fatal error in premise 1. The correct way of stating it is: "Everything that BEGINS to exist has a cause".

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

Then to the @ntvuganda journalist who doesn't bother to report the most important thing about this story; how the tracker actually works. If my privacy is going to be infringed, I should at the very least know when and under what circumstances that will happen.

Oh, Uganda! 😭

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

https://t.co/lcxilXdXjT
Sometimes, Uganda leaves you speechless. Look at the glee on the minister's face has he announced this gross violation of privacy! (if the system works as advertised)

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

Then the joy on the so-called engineer's face as he threatens those that might want to "tamper" with the devices to protect themselves from state surveillance.

[Wandera Nimrod @wanderanimrod]

@KakandeAlex Market price is 10M per decimal. 1 acre = 100 decimals. 0.6 acres = 60dec