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Asgard73:
Na so the thing pain Yoruba people reach

Na wao!

Tribal Nigeria.

It wouldn't be Nigerians, Ghanaians more likely.

I hope that one day this trick of getting away with things by having Nigerians blame themselves ends.

funkekemi:
this is just the beginning, same way the bombed our kids during the civil war

Who bombed your kid during civil war?

Thermodynamics:
Tired of this Country, tired of complaining, I'm just tired.
Why was I even born in this Country.

Below is a picture of a village in Denmark.

May God punish all the politicians that are making life unbearable for the youth, especially for those of us who don't want to go into anything illegal just to survive

You sound more like a baby needing a pacifier than the youth you imply. Sure, government providing all your deserved needs would be great but there’s much individuals and the community can do to improve quality of life in the absence of your ideal government. I write from experience not fantasy.

The most disappointing change I’ve noticed in Nigerians –if you and others like your are even Nigerians – is the disappearing of imagination, the spirit of get up and go and the becoming like the rest of Africa, like helpless retards that can do nothing for themselves in terms of self employment, always waiting to be employed or for White people to come tell you about your condition and help you. Becoming absolutely unable to question the purpose of life, unable to challenge social and political paradigms established by Western World for themselves and superimposed on you, totally viewing reality through the eyes of Europeans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ivsZdIP4XE

Petty cash - community probably too humble and their lawyers unambitious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEm4mEizns

Team GB silver medallist CJ Ujah SUSPENDED for doping violation

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/team-gb-silver-medallist-cj-ujah-suspended-for-doping-violation/ar-AANfCf3?ocid=BingNewsSearch

First Salwa Eid Naser , then 10 Nigerian athletes, then Blessing Okabare, now C.J Ujah

Self-help and bemoaning to the world about your government’s derelictions are not mutually exclusive.

BigBashiru:
that is the "truth" according to BBC and CNN who have brainwashed you by constantly showing the worst of Africa....and you have fallen for it.....
There are so many African countries with great schools and infrastructure such as Lagos State in Nigeria, Rwanda, Botswana, Ghana.

Canada once consisted of over 50 countries... when they were being colonized by the English and French, the First Nations in Canada were also war torn just like Africa is today.

Africa is war torn today due to foreign interference - as part of ongoing colonization of africa of which uk and france are major players.....

This is not about Africa, this is about the community where that school is. When we all shout about government, amd cuss leaders at the top, this sort of dereliction of personal responsibility and mutual care for one another erodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oT7Hr7NlzU


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpTvDxIMTk

Even primitive builds can do for the time being, if these people can why not you in Nigeria. Why not evolve from simply always complaining about derelict government into showing excellence in your everyday work and then still complain about derelict government

Biodun556:
If the same pressure we mount federal government is applied to state governors, Nigeria will be better.

Indeed and also on ordinary Nigerians and communities. I’ve asked this question before, what prevents the teachers, parents and community of this school getting together to build benches and desks – even if they must use blocks, why not find and lay down good blocks in a systemic way. What prevents them working on the school, sweeping up, fixing roofs, painting and so on? They could still have images and videos of the former deplorable state of the school for use to score political points. They can show the government and the world what they did to fix the school and still complain how government does not help them. What prevents Nigerians doing charity for their fellow Nigerians, there is a video of an Igbo woman than dose charity for schools in Ghana and yet she lives in Nigeria.

Lamasta:
They want to tax Nigerians again with all the bad roads everywhere

This is not quite like saying, 'they want to build homes again with all the homeless people everywhere' but close.

Wey police dey? Everything army, Poor army, none stop fighting, from civil war to Liberia; Delta Militant to Bokoharam; ISAWP to Bandits; Herdsmen to Kidnapers - IPOB buffering

If you’re black, never trust Indians in your business of any type.

This boy that has given to Nigeria, no one giving to his family. Posters keep asking if you’re Nigeria president for a day what you would do for Nigeria. It occurs to me that if it could be mandated in the constitution that hence forth, all presidential, gubernatorial and general public office seekers must possess at least a year’s experience in Charity work, own charities or demonstrate examples of providing free public service or and philanthropy, Nigeria will go a long way towards getting leadership right.

Drsnives:
Make the thing reach Nigeria na

If flames sweep down from Algeria, it’ll likely pass through your country first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxVdJfI3X4U

Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was expected to challenge for medals in the 100 metres and 200m in Tokyo, but was provisionally suspended for human growth hormone 12 hours after winning her 100m heat. She took no further part in the Olympics.

Okagbare is coached by former British Athletics employee Rana Reider in Florida, with Gemili and Neita also part of the group, alongside Canada's Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse.

Neita made a huge breakthrough at the Olympics, becoming only the second British woman to break 11 seconds on her way to making the 100m final. Gemili pulled up injured during his 200m heat.

British Athletics will speak to its standards, ethics and rules committee to seek procedural advice over what, if anything, it should do to proceed. It is understood no investigation has been launched. Gemili and Neita are not accused of any wrongdoing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/08/08/british-athletics-look-high-profile-training-group-blessing/
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I have this nagging feeling some skulduggery took place here and the people surrounding Okagbare's need to push for investigation into this incident.

DubaiLandLord1:
This country funny. When people were killed at the Lekki Toll gate, we were been told that people are not coming out to ask for their love ones, now wey people dey scream at the top of thier voice about the way the NPF dey arrest their love ones, dem dey ask say how this people sure their love ones are not working for UGM

Your statement mostly made no sense and the last, slightly understandable line, wasn’t thought through since families can and do tell lies, providing alibis, in defence of loved ones.

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding.

In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code. The software is far from infallible and takes some patience to operate, but could prove invaluable in making coding faster and more accessible.

“IT TAKES PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY PROGRAMMERS AND REMOVES THE DRUDGE WORK.”
“We see this as a tool to multiply programmers,” OpenAI’s CTO and co-founder Greg Brockman told The Verge. “Programming has two parts to it: you have ‘think hard about a problem and try to understand it,’ and ‘map those small pieces to existing code, whether it’s a library, a function, or an API.’” The second part is tedious, he says, but it’s what Codex is best at. “It takes people who are already programmers and removes the drudge work.”

OpenAI used an earlier version of Codex to build a tool called Copilot for GitHub, a code repository owned by Microsoft, which is itself a close partner of OpenAI. Copilot is similar to the autocomplete tools found in Gmail, offering suggestions on how to finish lines of code as users type them out. OpenAI’s new version of Codex, though, is much more advanced and flexible, not just completing code, but creating it.

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model, which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. One application users found for GPT-3 was generating code, but Codex improves upon its predecessors’ abilities and is trained specifically on open-source code repositories scraped from the web.

This latter point has led many coders to complain that OpenAI is profiting unfairly from their work. OpenAI’s Copilot tool often suggests snippets of code written by others, for example, and the entire knowledge base of the program is ultimately derived from open-source work, shared to benefit individuals, not corporations. The same criticisms will likely be leveled against Codex, though OpenAI says its use of this data is legally protected under fair use.

“THE REAL NET EFFECT IS A LOT OF VALUE FOR THE ECOSYSTEM”
When asked about these complaints, Brockman responds: “New technology is coming, we do need this debate, and there will be things we do that the community has great points on and we will take feedback and do things differently.” He argues, though, that the wider coding community will ultimately benefit from OpenAI’s work. “The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem,” says Brockman. “At the end of the day, these types of technologies, I think, can reshape our economy and create a better world for all of us.”

Codex will also certainly create value for OpenAI and its investors. Although the company started life as a nonprofit lab in 2015, it switched to a “capped profit” model in 2019 to attract outside funding, and although Codex is initially being released as free API, OpenAI will start charging for access at some point in the future

OpenAI says it doesn’t want to build its own tools using Codex, as it’s better placed to improve the core model. “We realized if we pursued any one of those, we would cut off any of our other routes,” says Brockman. “You can choose as a startup to be best at one thing. And for us, there’s no question that that’s making better versions of all these models.”

What is Codex actually like to use?
Of course, while Codex sounds extremely exciting, it’s difficult to judge the full scope of its capabilities before real programmers have got to grips with it. I’m no coder myself, but I did see Codex in action and have a few thoughts on the software.

OpenAI’s Brockman and Codex lead Wojciech Zaremba demonstrated the program to me online, using Codex to first create a simple website and then a rudimentary game. In the game demo, Brockman found a silhouette of a person on Google Images then told Codex to “add this image of a person from the page” before pasting in the URL. The silhouette appeared on-screen and Brockman then modified its size (“make the person a bit bigger”) before making it controllable (“now make it controllable with the left and right arrow keys”).
GIVING CODEX THE RIGHT INSTRUCTIONS IS AS MUCH AN ART AS A SCIENCE
It all worked very smoothly. The figure started shuffling around the screen, but we soon ran into a problem: it kept disappearing off-screen. To stop this, Brockman gave the computer an additional instruction: “Constantly check if the person is off the page and put it back on the page if so.” This stopped it from moving out of sight, but I was curious how precise these instructions need to be. I suggested we try a different one: “Make sure the person can’t exit the page.” This worked, too, but for reasons neither Brockman nor Zaremba can explain, it also changed the width of the figure, squashing it flat on-screen.

“Sometimes it doesn’t quite know exactly what you’re asking,” laughs Brockman. He has a few more tries, then comes up with a command that works without this unwanted change. “So you had to think a little about what’s going on but not super deeply,” he says.

This is fine in our little demo, but it says a lot about the limitations of this sort of program. It’s not a magic genie that can read your brain, turning every command into flawless code — nor does OpenAI claim it is. Instead, it requires thought and a little trial and error to use. Codex won’t turn non-coders into expert programmers overnight, but it’s certainly much more accessible than any other programming language out there.

The future of programming
OpenAI is bullish about the potential of Codex to change programming and computing more generally. Brockman says it could help solve the programmer shortage in the US, while Zaremba sees it as the next step in the historical evolution of coding.

“CODEX IS BRINGING COMPUTERS CLOSER TO HUMANS, LETTING THEM SPEAK ENGLISH RATHER THAN MACHINE CODE”
“What is happening with Codex has happened before a few times,” he says. In the early days of computing, programming was done by creating physical punch cards that had to be fed into machines, then people invented the first programming languages and began to refine these. “These programming languages, they started to resemble English, using vocabulary like ‘print’ or ‘exit’ and so more people became able to program.” The next part of this trajectory is doing away with specialized coding languages altogether and replacing it with English language commands.

“Each of these stages represents programming languages becoming more high level,” says Zaremba. “And we think Codex is bringing computers closer to humans, letting them speak English rather than machine code.” Codex itself can speak more than a dozen coding languages, including JavaScript, Go, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript. It’s most proficient, though, in Python.

Codex also has the ability to control other programs. In one demo, Brockman shows how the software can be used to create a voice interface for Microsoft Word. Because Word has its own API, Codex can feed it instructions in code created from the user’s spoken commands. Brockman copies a poem into a Word document and then tells Word (via Codex) to first remove all the indentations, then number the lines, then count the frequency of certain words, and so on. It’s extremely fluid, though hard to tell how well it would work outside the confines of a pre-arranged demo.

If it succeeds, Codex might not only help programmers but become a new interface between users and computers. OpenAI says it’s tested Codex’s ability to control not only Word but other programs like Spotify and Google Calendar. And while the Word demo is just a proof of concept, says Brockman, Microsoft is apparently already interested in exploring the software’s possibility. “They’re very excited about the model in general and you should expect to see lots of Codex applications be created,” he says.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22618128/openai-codex-natural-language-into-code-api-beta-access

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

Forget about Fuchsia and Google Search. Researchers from Google, Stanford, Princeton and other institutions could have discovered a computer breakthrough so significant we can’t completely grasp it yet. Even Google scientists aren’t convinced whether their time crystal finding is correct. However, if the report is correct, Google may be one of the first corporations to provide the globe with a critical technical improvement in the future. Quantum computers, which can tackle difficult problems with amazing speed and power using technologies that have yet to be created, will require time crystals as a building component.

What is a quantum computer?

Google isn’t the only business working on quantum computers, and these devices continue to make headlines daily. Quantum computers won’t be able to reach your phone, and they won’t be able to play games with you. Even if they did, Nintendo’s future systems will be completely devoid of the latest computing technologies.

According to The Next Web, we intend to use quantum computers to solve difficult issues. Warp drives, for example, might allow for rapid interstellar travel. And medical technologies capable of curing almost every ailment.

Earlier this year, Google teamed up with Michael Pea for a quantum computing demonstration at I/O 2021:

Quantum computers, on the other hand, are extremely difficult to create, maintain, and even operate. That’s where Google’s time crystals may be useful. Qubits, or quantum computer bits, are now used in quantum computers. When these qubits are seen, they behave differently than when they are left alone. It’s because of this that measuring qubit states is challenging. Because of this instability, using a quantum computer is difficult. That’s when time crystals enter the picture.

Google’s time crystals
The time crystal idea, first proposed in 2012, is a new phase of matter. According to The Next Web, time crystals defy one of Sir Isaac Newton’s renowned principles. “An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion,” according to Newton’s first law of motion.

There’s something called high entropy in our cosmos (disorder). Energy transfers constantly cause something to happen. When there are no processes, entropy is constant, but it increases when they are present. However, this is not the case with time crystals. Even when employed in a process, they can preserve entropy.

The Next Web gives a fantastic analogy with snowflakes to explain Google’s time crystals. Because the atoms are organized in precise ways, they have distinct patterns. Snow falls, melts, water evaporates, and ultimately turns back as snow. All of these processes entail energy transfers. A time crystal is analogous to a snowflake that can switch between two configurations without consuming or wasting energy. Time crystals can have their cake and eat it too, and they can do it indefinitely.

What does it mean for you and me?
The time crystals that Google uses do not belong to Google. Even the Google crew is unsure if they were developed by them. The study is only available in pre-print form while it is being peer-reviewed.

However, if Google can figure out how to build them, next-generation quantum computers may include time crystals. These computers might be built by anyone. They’d also bring quantum coherence to a region where there’s a lot of decoherence — the restless qubits we talked about before.

Even yet, the development of quantum computers based on time crystals is still in its infancy. Google may have demonstrated that time crystals aren’t simply a theory, but it hasn’t built any.

To develop warp drives or uncover “universally effective cancer therapies,” we may require decades of quantum computing research to produce quantum computers with time crystals. And it will take decades to fully comprehend quantum computers and time crystals. This is the URL to Google’s paper. Furthermore, Quanta Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of Google’s findings, replete with a time crystal animation.
https://eduindex.org/2021/08/03/we-cant-completely-grasp-googles-time-crystal-discovery-since-it-is-so-large/

od501:
And they told you it is a racist nation abi? This a country where a blackman (precisely an Igbo man) is made a mayor or Councillor in some of the towns. You are looking at the most educated country in the world.

They don't even tolerate rubbish one bit, some thing dem don ban all your generation from entering the country. Racism is far from one of their traits.

Finland shamed on racism in EU study

https://euobserver.com/justice/143518


Extract:

Around a third of people of African descent across a dozen EU states have experienced some form of racist harassment in the past five years.

The findings, out Wednesday (28 November) in a report by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), paints a dire picture for people whose skin colour is not white.

"Black people in the EU today are still victims of widespread and unacceptable levels of discrimination and harassment simply because of their skin colour," said FRA's director Michael O'Flaherty, in a statement.

He said EU states must put together policies to tackle the racism, noting that "racial discrimination and harassment are commonplace."

The FRA's 80-page report is based on interviews with 6,000 people of African descent across 12 EU states.

Of those 12 EU states, Finland tops the chart in terms of perceived racial harassment, described as offensive comments and gestures.

At least 63 percent of those surveyed in Finland had experienced some form of harassment motivated by racism.

This was followed by Luxembourg at 52 percent and Ireland at 51 percent.

The least amount of racial harassment was registered in Malta at 20 percent, followed by the UK at 21 percent, and Portugal at 23 percent.

Similar listings of EU state rankings were found for those who experienced violence motivated by racism.

The highest rates of violence were recorded in Finland (14 percent), followed by Ireland and Austria at both 13 percent and then Luxembourg at 11 percent.

The lowest rates of violence was found in Portugal at 2 percent and the United Kingdom at 3 percent.

od501:
This is why I sometimes feel reluctant coming on this forum, there are alot kids with android phones here. How can anybody open his mouth to say that Finland of all nation is a racist country?

Before I continue...please have you been to Finland? (Cos I have). How do guys even pick up phones and start typing rubbish. What do u even know about that country? This is unbelievable!!

I haven’t been to Finland personally but ironically my brother and friends spent a couple of weeks there. They had a grate time.

od501:
Are you kidding me? Let them do it with ordinary American citizen nah...not diplomat oo...ordinary citizen. I bet it won't end with letters-writing. You think the world is not watching what plays out here? In case you don't know, in some countries, mere holding Nigerian passport is a crime on its own.

Crap, common officials out there on the streets of these foreign nations couldn’t give a damn about foreign human rights records -Indonesia herself has appalling human rights records. if Nigerians are especially victimised aboard it is more likely because many of theses nations nationals are aware that it plays well to blacks and Africa generally that seem to react positively when Nigerians are attacked. Nigeria and Nigerians need to react less kindly to these attacks.

od501:
Baba...go to Finland, mention you a Nigerian. If you last one month in that country....u have a very big God

Stop lying to others even if you’re comfortable lying to yourself, racist have no black preferences. Finland is recognised as one of the most racist European nation. If you're black, you’ll be attacked by any racist with a predilection for attacking blacks be you American or Togolese. Nigerians fight back so racist may be especially antagonistic when expressing their views on Nigerians. Secondly Nigeria is often the only African nation they are able to automatically name.

od501:
A country that sends the army to shot, kill, and hide bodies of it's unarmed citizens for just for protesting. Kidnap a man of another nationality for speaking the truth, fund terrorists and terrorism back to back.

What has Nigeria's human rights record got to do with Indonesia police primitive actions?

helinuesIsaMumu:
Nigeria is a ZOO

If Nigeria was a country, they will recall their Ambassador and also close Indonesian Embassy here

You wouldn’t close their embassy; you'd call their Ambassador for questioning at Aso Rock and during this meeting assurances sort that officials involved are dismissed at least.

Incidentally we need to get away from these simple victim-centred positions that eventually and unwittingly place our antagonists abroad above us. This happens whenever maltreatment of Nigerians abroad automatically cast aspersions at Nigeria and not the perpetrators. For instance, you called Nigeria Zoo but had nothing to say about the more deserving ZOO-like behaviour of the Indonesians. Had roles been reversed, and Nigerian police had maltreated an Indonesian diplomat in Nigeria, you and others would rightly castigate the Nigeria police and call Nigeria primitive and so on. Why not do same with Indonesia at this point?

Stop showing these primitive races abroad respect, they are not deserving. This is why I’m not too concerned about Nigerian youths misbehaving in places like Dubai, none of these Nations abroad deserve especial respect.

RoseJudy:
False sense of " Biggness "

You dey mind Twitter? And some questionable persons will go around thinking that just because Twitter is some white owned, Western company, no African nation dares raise objections at anything it does.

ohosi4real:
If they like let them kill themselves in the east. na dem sabi

lol, Nigerians are funny.

Deji Adeyanju: If Bandits Kidnap Politicians, Nigerians Won't Have Issues by HonNL:

Popular but extraordinarily stupid sentiment....

What gets me looking at the vid and pics is the unacceptable state of the environment i.e. road, sidewalk, buildings, open gutter, no trees and shrubs. Who’s responsible here – state government, federal government, the wealthy individuals of the state doing nothing for communities?
Out of ignorance, then, I’ll make two comments; firstly, looking at the bleak conditions in which people live there, is it a wonder ordinary people are quick to believe individuals or groups that promise them better or support churches that promises same? Secondly, why are these areas not representing in splendour and development the intellectual brilliance of the people in this area of Nigeria?