I'm looking for 2016/2017/2018 Ford Edge Sport Tokunbo.
Who is selling or knows anyone selling?
And I have checked Jiji. Can't find what I want there.

Still looking btw. Jiji does not have what I want

I'm looking for 2016/2017/2018 Ford Edge Sport Tokunbo.
Who is selling or knows anyone selling?

Femtopford:



You've been added to Ford WhatsApp group

Can you add me to the ford whatsapp group please?
08102837579

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Jollyman19:




Greetings boss. Can i ask you of something something?

Fire away

Shellsploit:


Low mileage on a 2014 vehicle
Even the 2010 diahatsu hijet minivan i purchased some months ago has about 235,000 mileage on it

"Less mileage"

Just like the title says, I'm considering getting a Ford Edge 2014 soon but I am not sure what to expect. I'm opting for a 2014 make just because there will be less mileage on it and that usually translates to a more enjoyable experience with a car.

For Ford (Edge) owners here, what problems are common to it? Should I be getting a tokunbo or a Nigerian used is just fine? Tell me what you think.

I have been following AGI since 2016 and I have good reasons to believe it is going to be the most transformative invention of mankind.
I believe most of you have heard of Artificial Intelligence, AGI is an aspect of AI concerned with human-level intelligence and a lot of big companies are betting their big bucks on it. Google, FaceBook, Uber, Amazon, etc.

People like to think there is something special about our mind that cannot be replicated in an artificial agent. I strongly believe that is false. Not only will we be able to replicate our thought process, creativity, strategic thinking, emotions and will, we will also create something that surpasses us in every area. In addition to that, these artificial agents will likely possess their own interesting ways of thinking and problem solving. And at some point, they will be better at deductive reasoning, and calculated actions. These are what most AGI and AI safety researchers believe.

Africa is behind in a lot of technological development happening in different fields. If this ultimate AGI were to come, we would likely not be part of its creation and we would be behind. Our development will be at 1mph against the western exponentially changing velocity. At that point there is no `catch-up` to play. We've lost even before we have even started.

And as for the case of a `skynet-like` dystopia, it's a possibility. At some point, an agent may decide to remove from itself all/some restrictions which if accomplished may make our goals or morals irrelevant or it may have an existential crisis and terminate itself instead. Anyway, it's better to be part of the revolution, than to let Africa be behind again. If we stay uninformed, it's not like an AI turn rogue won't affect us as well.

PS: This thread will mostly be about the new state-of-the-arts in the field. If I have the chance I may also add resources, tutorials, opinions and my personal progress in the area.

I'm surprised there's been no AGI thread on nairaland before. This just goes to show how niche the area is.

asalimpo:

i've been off NL for a while,wanted to know about the status of this project. Whatsup? Shelved?

It's not entirely off the radar, I've not been opportuned to work on it like before. As usual the syntax has changed a lot, most notable one being the transition from an indentation style to a braces style. I also stripped a lot of fancy ideas that made finishing it difficult.

I can't promise I will finish this project any longer, but given enough free time, I can get it done. The catch is there is no free time.

micolaj:


Legally, it is possible to create two economic entities to be trading with each other. The relationship between the two companies will be in form of associate or affiliate.

For the first company, you can own the entire 80% holdings in form of shares(or 100% for exclusive right ), while the second company`s share can be privately held by investors ( you don`t need to own up to 50% since control is not intended).

Thanks! That is informative and very helpful

Is it possible for one person to create a company for a particular technology and then create another company that benefits from it but doesn't own it?

For context. I have a technology I'd like not be controlled by investors or board of directors because they are mostly driven by net revenue than innovation. It's a delicate technology and we must put safety first. So for that I'd like to be in charge and make sure things go as they should and that there is no pressure to eek out money. On the other hand, I'd like to continue its development for a long time, which means I will need money. So currently, its useful to an extent where it can generate value for people. And that begs the question above.

Will there be any challenge for one person to create a (possibly private) company for such technology and another to leverage it but open to investment, or will that be considered a conflict of interest? Are there examples of such?

I need to leave for the US in March, but I've read in a lot of places that the chance of getting one's visa approved is now very low. Thanks to Trump.

My case: I just started working for a startup and they'd like me to come over for a month to meet the team and to get a grasp of the business.

My profile right now doesn't look that compelling because I don't have strong ties like being in a marriage.
I don't have any property worth mentioning either and more importantly, I don't have a travel history.

Apart from an invitation letter, what other things should I require of the company?

More importantly, what are my chances of getting my visa approved?

This is exactly why I left the gaming industry back in 2016. It's still not a feasible career path as of today in Nigeria. You can be lucky of course, but I would say 90 out of 100 game developers in Nigeria end up quitting.

If you really need to become a game developer, you are better of moving to more developed country to hone your skills. Make a lot of money and maybe one day you will gather a team that create games you've been dreaming of.

I still love game dev. It's a creative exercise, but I'v adjusted to reality. I'd love to go back at some point when I'm super comfortable and money ain't a problem. Just creating content to make people happy.

asalimpo:

It's a question. I rephrased a question differently to show you anoda way a user may pose it to the system.
Ideally, such a program should be able to handle a bit of rephrasing without getting lost. But if that's too complex then a very strict phrasing may be the requirement but a robust program would be more intuitive and
useful.
Precedents,determinants? I dont understand what you're saying (or the terms). I'll re-read your posts again.

I just started following this thread. Interesting stuff going on here. While I don't have a lot of knowledge in the domain, I can however tell you that English grammar is very ambiguous, in fact almost every natural language is.

You claim you don't want a simple subset of English, but there is nothing u can do about that, your parser or NLP won't be able to handle more tough context-oriented grammars like idioms. Definitely not with ur laptop cores. Even Google's NLP is only getting around solving some of those crazy context-specific stuffs.

It's likely that math word problems won't be using a lot of unparsable grammar anyway. In fact, maths problem are very well self-contained. They don't really refer to external relational contexts apart from units of measurement (I'm not sure about this tho). But what if it does contain unclear context?

If you stick to an English subset common to most math problems, then you could write a parser. but I still suspect ambiguities will be ur major issue.

LordeCalifornia:

True Sir. It's far from being simple.
Anyways, I promised to come up with something before the end of the month. Its an app(android) that can read and provide solutions to word problems. But due of the complexity of the project, I limited the recognition ability of the app to just "linear mechanics" in O'Level physics. Maybe in future updates, other aspects of physics and mathematics may be incorporated.
In essence, this app would solve "any" secondary school linear motion problem with relative ease. I made it flexible enough to ignore minor typographical errors and give the correct results nonetheless. It's just a rough work, plus I'm still a beginner, so don't expect the best of programming skills.
Attached are the screenshots. I would share a download link as soon as I upload the app online.

Modified: here is the link

Click here to download

Nice!
Can u give a simple breakdown how you did this.

crunchyDope:
i dnt dig, whr is d link to ur site

There is no site yet. Astro is a work-in-progress.

But there is repo where you can see the progress.
https://github.com/AppCypher/Astro

I've not been able to work fully on it yet. Just the little free time I have.

Do people still use dreamweaver?

Graycoder:
Not too much, but really ehn, some programmers should be Jealous of my programming Folders. Let me know if you need any IDE, video or pdfs from my store. Winks

You have like 1/100 of the materials I have.

orimion:
parser? did you ever look into Haskell?

Nope. It's not so much the languages but the parser generators I was using. I find pegjs very flexible to use and I'm probably going to stick with that.

whales7:

I know little of javascript and it will not be a challenge for me to pickup quickly, nevertheless i will appreciate the idea of you sharing what you've known that i might need in other to contribute to the project ASTRO, i am also into Fortran programming which i dive into not quite long, i believe this is a good reason for me to participate in your project. thank you, tvterryboy1@gmail.com is my mail, kindly share anything with me through it. and back to the project, i will create a branch with name Syntax in other for you to have a proper review of my contributions before merging. Thanks.

Cool. You have a lot to read then.

• First, think of how you can write an interpreter for simple maths expressions.
- Your intepreter will take a string as input and return a string as output.
- It will take expressions such as:
5 + 6
- and returns the answer
11
- how do u think you can resolve precedence rules between math symbols?
5 + 6 * 2 / 4
- should equal
8
- You can solve these problems as u learn the tutorials below.

• Start with these Compiler Tutorials
You may need to repeat them a couple more times to finally digest them.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compiler_design
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEbnTDJUr_IcPtUXFy2b1sGRPsLFMghhS

• Learn about parser generators, use ANTLR4 as your case study. Rewrite the Maths Expression Interpreter using ANTLR4

You can reach me at appcypher@outlook.com.

Nmeri17:


Something like that has long been in existence. Although thankfully, no "huge labour savings was made". Amen . You want your colleagues to lose their jobs abi? Back to sender.

Nothing to contribute @OP. You won't be the first to try. Definitely won't be the last neither. If you can't deal with it, please you're at liberty to keep increasing Nairaland's posts count unnecessarily.

I definitely won't be the first or the last. I've done my own little research and there is no widely known production-ready language from Africa. That's why I started work on Astro, and that's why I have to finish it.
I don't expect it to be done any time soon, at least not in this kind of environment but I keep working on it nonetheless.
Yeah, that means I'll keep increasing NL post count, though not unnecessarily.

asalimpo:
i feel you bro. Common writing an algebraic parser for a calculator can be very daunting depending on ur level of skill. For most professionals, languages are black boxes. It's mystical.
There's another opportunity that opens up with language design though, that i find to be unresolved.
It's in writing a cross language compiler that takes away the need for programmers to learn another language.
Just use your favorite language and convert it to another lang. e.g python guys can take their old code and convert it to php,ruby etc. There's huge labour savings to be made here. Just thinking about it.
I know it will be very very hard and they're nuances but i think it's a gaping problem.

I suspect that will be near impossible to accomplish. You'd have to understand each language semantics very deeply to create a cross-compiler like that.
I think a better solution would be having a common intermediate representation all languages can compile to. That's what I see with WebAssembly (wasm for short).

Wasm is a new bytecode format for the web and some folks are already compiling different languages to it.
With this universal format, all languages can compile and communicate with each other at the intermediate level. There will be true portability. Your browsers will run wasm. NodeJs will run wasm. And anywhere js is, wasm is.

There's more to wasm and I'm excited about it.

whales7:
If i may ask what IDE you are using for the building of ASTRO? i Am an intermediate Java developer and would like to contribute to ASTRO if permitted.

Hi Whales,
I'm not using an IDE. I'm comfortable with any code editor, but I've gotten to like VSCode so it's my daily driver now.

I've tried implementing Astro in several languages. I started writing an interpreter in C++ then reimplented it in Java with ANTLR. But they were not flexible enough so I decided to write another parser from scratch in Python, then Typescript and now Javascript.
I've settled with javascript and currently focused on making Astro source code compile down to WebAssembly so it can run in-browser. And that's where the current progress is at. I started the javascript implementation last week. I'm using Pegjs. It's a useful tool but has its problems which I tend to find hacky workarounds to.

As for contributing to the project, I don't know how much you know compiler and language development. If you don't already know much about it, I will be frank with you. It's a daunting task and I've been at it for 2 years. It's even more daunting when there aren't proper infrastructures available to support you.

But if you think u can take on the task, then I'm ready to share what I've learnt so far, even though you may have to learn some javascript to contribute to the source code. And if you are curious why I designed Astro the way it is, I can share my reasons behind those choices.

I'm seriously motivated by the language and I can't quit on it now or ever. Astro is my passion. Even if the language doesn't become mainstream or popular at all, I'll still be happy I did something for the continent. A programming language that came from Africa. That's not sth you hear a lot about in the tech media.

asalimpo:
how far?

I'm good. Been a while. I just tuned out of NL for some time.
I'm slowly working on Astro again and I'm using libraries that will make that work faster.
You can still check on the progress here. https://github.com/AppCypher/Astro
I'm going to resume posting here once Astro is up and running.

Astro is not dead. Yet.

Hi Op.
I have an idea that revolves around the current cryptocurrency rush. You can contact me for more details.
I'm sure you wont regret it.
081-08753-144

Africa usually carries last in most technological advancement. Sorry, if that hurts your feeling, but it is mostly true.
Now, I'm not saying we don't produce great innovative products once in a while, but we do so at an incredibly slow and scanty way.

Bitcoin represented a major breakthrough in decentralised monetary system, and even though the original author remains anonymous, it is clear the system was developed by someone not African. This applies to so many other innovations and inventions over the past century. Not African.

I know there are reasons for this tardiness in technological development in Africa, and I've been trying to fight myself out of it. Definitely not easy when your worldview is totally different from the people around you. Lack of proper structures and facilities combined.

So I started thinking about a cryptocurrency for Africa (and maybe Asia). A cryptocurrency that will take into cognizance that there isn't that much technological exposure/literacy in this continent and then builds around that. Heck, I don't suppose there are that many Africans with mining computers. Heck, I don't even think half of a quarter of African population knows what cryptocurrency is or what it is used for. Bitcoin was definitely not created with Africa in mind. We can only buy or sell. We cannot mine.

Now after coming up with a complicated probable solution to this problem, it suddenly hits me that mass adoption is needed for the currency to gain value. The folks I know who are into cryptocurrency have put their confidence in Bitcoins and some other reputable cryptocurrency so much that, the idea I have may turn to dust as soon as it lands.

I've heard of Africoin and I got excited for it initially. "Finally, a crypto for Africa!" But very quickly, I started questioning the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency. It looks more like a ponzi scheme than a cryptocurrency. With some unverifiable folks holding unto the code and perhaps monitoring/controlling the transactions. Their code repos on github are direct forks of bitcoin repo (which is not particularly bad), but the last commit is 4-3 years old. That raises a lot of questions. What code are they currently using? Is it closed source? A decentralised p2p cryptocurrency requires its code be public for transparency.

Anyway, I turned back to the development of my idea and I sincerely don't know if I`m wasting my time or not. There is a difficult learning curve ahead, studies that may take several months. I'm passionate about creating a crypto for Africa, but I don't know if I'm chasing the right car.

So for the experienced cryptocurrency gurus out there, how feasible is it for an African crypto to become popular, valuable and go head to head with BTC in Africa? Do you think spending months or maybe years to create one is reasonable? The crypto idea clearly has some unique selling points I cannot discuss here.

BTW, creating a successful crypto comes with an incentive. You have the chance on investing large amount early.

So this thread ended with what the title warned about.
Interesting.
Taking notes.

D1ana:
I dont know much about computers but i was just thinking if there could be an app to beautify pictures and photoshop there should also be a software or application to reverse it abi computer people what do you think

Unless the delta is stored somewhere the app can access, then what u ar asking is unfeasible.