₦airaland Forum

Appareil:
Stop all of this trouble and division. Before the Igbo women began having kids out of wedlock, the Yoruba had been on that track. So stop this palaver. When they will describe your ladies,, you will feel bad. Let us stop this mockery.

Before Ibo women began having kids Yoruba wetin? Ibo women and baby factories cum babymamas. Your women own don finish

Addicted2Women:
Can you mention one ibo babymama you know ??

We all know that Yellow bar girls are sluts

Genevieve, Atiku's babymama

FFK's babaymama

BomboyOnline:
I believe she is Edo.

Edo girl with Yoruba name. I get you.

They keep marrying Yoruba women but keep making babymamas out of Ibo women.

Largas:
Hahaha the Russians imported Nigerian oil during the civil war in exchange for war weapons and a steel mill supposed to create employment and provide materials for constrcution.


Those weapons they used to kill civilians during the war will cause the souls of innocent civilians never to let Ajaokuta function.

I wonder what's stopping Ibo states from functioning or what keeps chasing Ibos from their land. You wish it won't function, jealous Ibo christian tout.

CioAngels:
This is what fg want as their 'change mantra' and they are getting it in full over dose form. I for one, i don't blame them anymore blowing up pipelines becos seeing that the fg does not have plan for the teaming Nigerian poor youth with no known politician, oga at the top and a richman, they will not get government job becos such jobs are meant for the families and friends of politicians while the brilliant poor will learn vocation in ill equiped hall with their families teachers. Go to ikorodu vocation centre you will weep and such centre is where they will send the graduate children of the poor to. I can now understand why fashola told job seeking youths to be selfemployed becos fg jobs are for politicians families. They secretly employed some months ago by CBN 91 families of buhari, osinbajo, atiku, tinubu, fashola and others. No ordinary Nigerian was employed. June, FIRS secretly employed again politicians families under the supervision of tinubu with once again ordinary Nigerians were not employed becos he or she does not know politician. Should we continue to support them when they hate us? OIL PIPELINE BLOW UP SHOULD CONTINUE.

5%. I hope ND Terrorists find you in Enugu where you dey hide. Why no ask them to come blow up pipeline in the SE?

chikel2000:
Anambra n lagos will never be there, all dis mumu governors sef

Lagos' IGR is like 10x Anambras own. Please don't compare amala with apku.

I pray for Enugu. Kano emir don buy that state.

Abia should be amongst.

Let them continue bombing. Honestly I can't blame them.

Yorubas Hausas and Ibo politicians steal their money, so.....

ejilife:
Yoruba muslims supporting fulani and Awusa muslims since 1993 after they murdered a Yoruba Muslim named MKO Abiola. Una no dey learn?

Even Yoruba Muslims don't support PDP, a northern party like Ibo Christians.

ejilife:
..Tell him the bitter truth. The dullard is a ill to the point of no return. He will keep running even when no one is chasing him.

So you'll run your mouth.... what next?
You Ibo christians are national comedians

I hope they find Buhari, so when they find him, what will they do?

Know2020:
Yorubba...smh

Ibo....not disappointed. Ibo fearing Yorubas since 1780

Lmaooo Okkkayyy.

How about we focus on Boko haram alerts? ISIS is beyond their skills. Make dem no even invite those demon's attention. I pity this indomine, ukwu, skibobo and skelewu generation.

Ibo christians.
Useless old men raping an underage child.

warrior101:
And you must be a kid or a blinded zombie. You derive joy from making other people feel bad and you also support untrue things because you're a motivator or you don't know the difference. All in all you're a witch and you're busted

Where does Seun get all these ediots from?

warrior101:
Lol see this one. So your intent was to hurt me? Sorry, I'm not food for witches. I'm a hunter so you better run along

Eyah. You must be Ibo. Always so paranoid and bitter.

warrior101:
Whether my mother use it or not, you tell me what you think it is. I'm not the one selling my mother in public forum.

Eyah pele. Hurt no more.

chxe:
Continue with your foolishness. We are watching.
Zombie no get sense. I am not surprised

Says GEJ's zombie.

warrior101:
That's makeup for you

Because that's what your mother uses?

IamMissMarvel:
I remember when my dad was alive. He always loved my mum looking fat, cause according to him, it showed its her body his money is going to. (As a Yoruba man).

After his death, my mama respect herself trim down.

Below is a pic of my mum at 50, made up and dolled up.

She looks young, classy and beautiful!

elisra:
I hate this country.where we prefer to polish clay and paint diamond dirty.
Imagine if this guru from yorubaland and emeagwali bath nnaji and a host of other wizards have been heading our ministry of science and technology instead of Ogbonnaya Onu who is just there for political compensation.
Politics taken too far will usher the end of this country.

Last I heard, Emeagwali is a scam.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcml1gxtCCM

elisra:
my dear the brain drain continues.
When you hear an exploit by a nigerian in the diaspora,its always a southerner while the northerners are local champions.
Remember the nengiti guy from bayelsa that broke 38 year old record in the usa war college.
Born to rule mentality of the inferiority complex suffering northerners made us to lose the services of great men and women.
Both hausas and the Europeans are lacking in human resources as the northern controlled fg frustrate intellectuals from nigeria only to run to be embraced by the waiting arms of the west.
Our loss,their gain.

Let the brain drain continue since Nigeria doesn't know what to do with the brain she's got.

Trina0936:
Pained yellowbar bigot spotted lol

lol ironic.

Shym3xx:
Mehn, muthaphuck avianwu or whatever the fvck that crap is.

As long as he listed Yoruba on Linkedin and he speaks it fluently - he's definitely down with the West Coast. I claim him as a West Coast head lol.

And fvck the shytehole called, Nigeria the Nigger-area.

I only fvck with the West Side.

Big ups to the guy...he's Yoruba as far as I'm concerned. As for the rest of you and avianwu, fvck ya feelings.

Salute. I'm out.

West West y'all.

https://i.imgur.com/NKLMtYi.gif

Rinato:
LMFAO Yoruba people wishes!!!!!!!!! Who dash monkey banana. Igbos u too should not be happy o! Na una know wetin una collect from each other. But that man is from EDO-STATE specifically my LGA, ETSAKO L.G.A, he is even my big-brother's name sake OSHIORENOYA which. Means "Whom God has given" So shut the DIRT up!

Yoruba wishes? Ngga move aside as if this is new in Yorubaland. Ba today una sabi that Edo ain't Yoruba abi?

Terrorism in the East, terrorism in the North.

I hope the West can get out of these demonic union before it's too late.

I'll give $100 to anyone that can guess the OP's tribe right? Hint: Flath.ead

Uduak2019:
In your Yoruba eyes abi? Even a blind mind can see the beauty in Mrs. Umahi...woman on the left mistaken as Oyo first lady.

She looks Ibotic.... your women usually look like men.

Lol not surprised she's Ibo.

modath
scholes0
omenka
Omoajowa7
hundrendhundred

Where are my people in the house?

We keep excelling while they keep fearing us, hating us, watching our next steps, blaming us and wanting to be like us.

The Yoruba race, once free of this quagmire of terrorism from the North and East, will become Africa's beacon of hope. Yorubas are intelligent, tolerant and beautiful people.

May Oduduwa bless the great Yoruba nation.

[size=18pt]Meet Oshiorenoya Agabi The Nigerian Scientist Who Is Building A Computer Made Of ‘Human Brains’
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Last month, Google’s AI division, DeepMind, announced that its computer had defeated Europe’s Go champion in five straight games. Go, a strategy game played on a 19×19 grid, is exponentially more difficult for a computer to master than chess—there are 20 possible moves to choose from at the start of a chess game compared to 361 moves in Go—and the announcement was lauded as another landmark moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Google, Facebook, and IBM have all gone all-in on brain-like computers that promise to emulate the mind of a human. The ability to learn and recognize patterns is viewed as a key next step in the evolution of AI. But Oshiorenoya Agabi believes the brain-like processors are missing one key component: actual brains.

Or, at least, living neurons. His startup, Koniku, which just completed a stint at the biotech accelerator IndieBio, touts itself as “the first and only company on the planet building chips with biological neurons.” Rather than simply mimic brain function with chips, Agabi hopes to flip the script and borrow the actual material of human brains tocreate the chips. He’s integrating lab-grown neurons onto computer chips in an effort to make them much more powerful than their standard silicon forebears.

Koniku is fundraising towards a first-round goal of $6.3 million, Agabi says. It has already landed customers in the aviation and pharmaceuticals industries, like AstraZeneca, the UK-based pharma company, Agabi says, and Boeing has signed on with a letter of intent to use the tech in chemical-detecting drones. The first batch of neuron-abetted chips are set to ship in the next few months. Agabi says that one customer, a drone company, hopes the processors will prove superior in detecting methane leaks in oil refineries. Another aims to use the processors to model the effect certain drugs will have on a human brain.

The future, Agabi believes, will run on a computer that’s much more alive.


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Part of Koniku’s funding success seems to come from his genuine, even romantic vision of neuron-based chips as the future of processing. When I interviewed Agabi recently, his excitement over the future of neurotechnology was palpable.

Agabi, who was born in Nigeria, told me he first became interested in machine learning while teaching a pick-and-place robotic arm to classify objects for the Swiss robotics company, Neuronics. After eight years, he left the company to pursue his Masters in theoretical physics, focusing his thesis on the challenge of interfacing neurons with a robot. He spent the next four working to build a robotic arm that could attach to an amputee, eventually leaving to move to London to pursue his PhD in bioengineering.

Basically, he hopes to build a computer chip with living, learning processors.

Recognizing the imposing nature of his resume, the engineer paused for a moment, attempting to simplify his life’s work. “Essentially, for the last fifteen years, I have worked to understand how neurons talk to each other,” he said. “I’ve worked on how to communicate with individual neurons—how to read information from them and write information into them.”

This ability to code specific tasks into neurons, born out of Agabi’s specialized history, is the essence of what Koniku is hoping to accomplish. Through years of teaching machines to learn, and through the study of the brain’s mechanics, he believes that his team will be able to organize living neurons into circuits built to perform precise tasks—basically, he hopes to build a computer chip with living, learning processors.

“We take the radical view that you can actually compute with real, biological neurons,” he said.


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A Komiku chip.

Since the silicon transistor was created in 1947, the amount of transistors that can be crammed onto a chip has grown from a few thousand to more than 2 billion. Today, chip manufacturers have shrunk the size of each silicon transistor to the equivalent of three strands of DNA. Agabi said that because there is a limit to how tiny you can shrink the deep lens of a silicon transistor (IBM announced the creation of a 7 nanometers transistor in July, and a single silicon atom is 0.2 nm), silicon-based processing can only get so powerful.

“In the cycle of accelerating computing power, we’ve gone from the slate to the paper, from the paper to mechanical systems, mechanical systems to the vacuum tube, vacuum tubes to silicon,” he said. “And now we are moving to neurons.”

For a frame of reference, Dr. Laeeq Evered, a professor of neuropsychology at the Wright Institute, tells me that “a piece of brain matter the size of a grain of sand contains approximately 100,000 neurons, 2 million axons, and 1 billion synapses.”

There is, of course, a quixotic quality to the dream of actually creating an artificial chip so small and powerful, but Agabi feels he’s found the path to it. I asked Dr. Evered whether he thought it impossible to ever build a chip as powerful as the human brain.

“That’s what I think, but I think we’ve all been astounded by the progress of technology,” he said, and laughed. “So, we’ll see.”

Agabi told me he believes any hesitations around neuron-based chips will vanish when Koniku can successfully and publicly exhibit the chip’s practical application. “You want to build ideas that people will say, ‘That’s so obvious.’ Today, it’s not that way because no one has demonstrated this yet,” he said. “But I feel very confident that in two years when we demonstrate it, it will become like, ‘Ah, this is obvious.’”

For a third opinion, I turned to Sherif Eid, a systems engineer behind the deep-learning program DRIVE PX that some believe could be the key to the self-driving car. He said he was intrigued by the idea of neuron-based processors, but he said the technology was still based on a lot of unknowns.

“It is just that there are so many secrets we haven’t unlocked yet in the brain,” he said. “The neuron-based chips could unlock something in the future, but it takes investors with so much faith or very deep pockets willing to throw away money to see what comes out of it.”

Eid thinks it will be a few decades yet before the neuron-based processors were adopted, if they were ever adopted at all. In Agabi’s view, however, the technology is inevitable—and on the horizon today. He told me he believes his chips will be powering robotics around the world within five years. Which raises the question: What happens if he actually pulls it off?

When I first heard of Koniku, I was a little spooked. I’ve kept a close eye on the race toward true artificial intelligence and have been most persuaded by philosopher Nick Bostrom’s calls for caution. To me, Koniku felt like a potential Skynet moment—Agabi, after all, seemed to be planning to give the machines human brains.

“Carbon is a material like any other material. So for us the premise that we start from is that neurons are a material.”

Naturally, I mentioned that infamous malignant AI to Agabi, and asked if he was burdened by the effect theTerminatorfilms have had on his research. “Yes, yes, yes,” he said, letting out a wearied laugh. He told me the idea that his company was putting human parts into machines was just a simple case of anthropomorphizing. Neurons are present in many animal brains aside from humans, and Agabi reminded me that Koniku’s neurons are grown in a lab. “Carbon is a material like any other material,” he said. “So for us the premise that we start from is that neurons are a material.”

For Agabi, what he calls the “AI drama” is much less interesting than the simple question of efficiency. He notes thatthe Tianhe-2, the most powerful supercomputer built to date, demands 24 megawatts of power, while the human brain runs on just 10 watts. In other words, he says, the most powerful computer on earth burns 2.4 million times the energy of the human brain. “It’s not a matter of luxury, or just because we can do it. It’s a matter of urgency,” he said. “We have to find a way to build much more with less if we as a species are going to survive.”

Dr. Evered agrees that much of the brain’s tremendous efficiency stems from its ability to learn to recognize and reinforce the optimal connections between neurons. Though we are born with 100 billion neurons, we lose 100,000 per day—and it is the ability for the remaining neurons to form connections with beneficial counterparts that determines the power of the brain.

“It’s not a question of nature or nurture. It’s nature and nurture. We’re going to have a certain number of neurons and neuronal connections that have genetic determination,” he said. “But then, interacting with our environment is at least as critical, if not more so. It’s those connections, through learning and development, that are going make a very strong brain.”

Thus, much of the challenge in creating brain-like processors will be the pursuit of programing adaptability into computers. In a lab setting, Agabi says Koniku has proven its chips are capable of deep learning—the ability to recognize patterns and retain that knowledge—by demonstrating a process called spike timing-dependent plasticity, the idea that neurons build circuits with beneficial neurons.

Agabi believes his neuronic chips will be better at learning than traditional silicon processors, because they can more closely mirror human brain function.

Near the end of our conversation, I asked Agabi if he thought his neuron-powered chips could be the key to powering humanity past Moore’s Law—the rule that holds that the processing power of computers will double every two years. There has been concern among some experts that Moore’s Law has plateaued and that the future of AI will rest on engineers’ ability to find faster and more efficient computation than is currently available. Agabi points out that Moore’s Law only applies to increases in computational power through the addition of more silicon processors on a chip over the last 70 years—and argues that it may just be part of a larger trend; a second law, one that describes the long-tail improvement of computing tools over the course of human history.

It will, he says, take moving away from silicon itself to allow Silicon Valley to continue to innovate.

“The fact that we’re constantly getting increases in computational power, tha tlaw of computing holds for the last 2,000 to 5,000 years. Moore’s Law is a little patch, it’s only a little piece of that law,” he said. “One of these two laws is going to have to give in, and I suspect that Moore’s Law is the one that’s going to have to give in. But our power to calculate faster and faster—that law is here to stay.”

http://www.risingafrica.org/uncategorized/meet-osh-agabi-the-nigerian-scientist-who-is-building-a-computer-made-of-human-brains/