She worked her way in her workshop to become a professor in a her own craft. A remarkable woman indeed.

Lets keep an eye on https://substratum.net/

WE ARE THE FOUNDATION
OF THE DECENTRALIZED WEB.
Substratum is an open-source network that allows anyone to allocate spare computing resources to make the internet a free and fair place for the entire world.

GreenMavro:


Those wey dy watch MOJO no go like this news...........

Sadly it won't be the case. The Mojo industry is big business. They have the financial muscle to stay afloat at top speed. ISPs are no moral police- its quality service for the highest bidder. Outfits that will be the worst hits are NGOs, Open-source communities, and small businesses.

You should be worried.

DMathematical:
It's high time we place media attention appropriately. This is at best a toy and he can be encouraged to package it and sell it accordingly. Bank of Industry comes in handy here.

The world is seriously moving on! and junky hobbies like this should not be mistaken for innovations.

Your are right on placing media attention on efforts like this. I am currently doing all I can to create a platform that is dedicated for this purpose.

But keep in mind that "junky hobbies" are innovations too: they are the precursor to greater innovations.

He started with what he had, to do what he could. The least we can do is to encourage him.

@ anthropino, Very insightful thanks.

Gaara101:

That's exactly what I'm trying to do
I find linear algebra easy but statistics is a little challenging though.
I'm also working on becoming an intermediate pythonista.

I think it all depends on the way we think. For me, statistics was challenging because of its relationship with probability. I was averse to randomness(probability) and continuity(calculus) in my school days but liked discrete mathematics because my thinking pattern was "tuned" to appreciate the deterministic. But all that as changed since I discovered the extreme usefulness of this fields in the real world.

^ Gaara101, its your call. I think that will be cool though.

Gaara101:

That's cool bro.
So how far have you gone. What language do you use?

Currently I am deepening my understanding of statistics and linear algebra. I use C/C++ on OpenCV. I am also learning python for faster experimentation of algorithms.

OP, Please note that the reason why FORTRAN is "obsolete" is because Nigeria is not an industrialized country with a robust R&D institutions. FORTRAN is still the king of numeric computation. Even "modern" scientific languages like matlab runs on FORTRAN.

My interest is in the application of ML in Computer Vision like object/pattern recognition etc.
It will be great to keep this thread alive.