Feb 17, 2021Count every birth in Nigeria | Improve the life of every 11th ChildHere’s why and how — You have 4 kids. One afternoon your 12-year-old daughter is tricked by a man twice her age to marry him. They go get married. Enraged, you go to the police and call out the bogus predator for attacking a 12-year-old. But you can’t prove she’s 12. They ask for her…Birth Registration12 min readBirth Registration12 min read
Nov 21, 2020Going Beyond Human SensesI think, therefore, I am — At some point, while diving into philosophy you’ll come across the question: “How do I know, what I know is true?” This was the idea that René Descartes explored. …Philosophy3 min readPhilosophy3 min read
Sep 27, 2020Don’t Let Envy Eat Up Your LifeIn a world much more connected than that of Friedrich Nietzsche — These two moustaches changed the western world…4 min read4 min read
Apr 12, 2020Lessons from the PayPal Mafia.Peter Thiel on startups, life and how to go from 0 →1 — What do you get when you combine 13 men 30-year-old men in silicon valley? The biggest online payments company to IPO at 1billion Paypal now worth over 100billion and valued more than double it’s parent company. What do you get when these men leave Paypal? One of the most valuable…6 min read6 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·Apr 7, 2020Member-onlyHow self-driving cars seeYou only look once| YOLO object detection algorithm — The human eye is state of the art the fastest muscle in the human body, perfected by hundreds of years of evolution. When paired with the processing power of the brain, we can analyze and classify objects in a fraction of a second. But how do we recreate this process…Yolo6 min readYolo6 min read
Mar 25, 2020Turning my computer into Van GoghCreating art with Neural Style Transfer — Guess which artist painted this? None, my computer did! Here’s how I taught it with the help of a deep learning algorithm called Neural Style Transfer (NST). NST allows us to mash the content of an image and the style of another image to generate a baby image.Neural Style Transfer7 min readNeural Style Transfer7 min read
Feb 29, 2020Proof of ExistenceBirth registration on the blockchain, giving people ownership of their identities. — We love expressing our selves from what we wear, what we watch, how we talk and the people we surround our selves with. But what if you couldn’t prove you existed? That’s the reality for over 1.1 billion people who have no proof of their identity. …Birth Registration7 min readBirth Registration7 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·Feb 19, 2020How to talk about Ai at a Dinner PartyA Dive into deep learning for dummies — You’re at a cocktail party and a guy walks up to you. He says he’s an Ai researcher, curious you ask what specifically in Ai. He doesn’t respond… *crickets* It’s time for you to run. Ai is a buzz word that gets thrown around alot. Not just at cocktail parties…AI9 min readAI9 min read
Published inDataDrivenInvestor·Feb 17, 2020The next Cloud: Edge computingEdge computing enabling an IoT utopia — Every day we produce over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data!! Over 90% of our data has been produced these last 4 years. Those number are only going to grow, as we move towards the futuristic tech utopia we read about in books, filled with smart devices in every household and…IoT6 min readIoT6 min read
Jan 12, 2020Reengineered Superfoods for dinner🧬Solving hunger and obesity through gene-edited agriculture. — Since the origins of agriculture, humans have been constantly trying to figure out how to do it more efficiently. Agriculture’s the backbone of every prosperous civilization. Food is one the most basic human necessities, yet 10% of the world population around 700 million people are hungry, a number that’s expected…Food8 min readFood8 min read
