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I don't understand what? This nonsense u wrote here?

naijadeyhia:
......how come we don't see any doggie-cats? How about monkey-bats? Why I don't even see an ant with a human head or anything in nature that is in the process of evolving into something else....... Examine your pets. Maybe your parakeet or parrot is evolving into a buffalo? Do you see any buffalo fur on it? I do not see any practical, common-sense, evidence of any evolution taking place. It it were, we are bound to see some animals of the millions on earth "evolving" into a new life form. All the zoo animals I see in the zoos are not evolving. It ain't happening folks!..

.......How come we see not one evidence of any mammal, human or beast evolving?......

Nobody ever claimed dogs evolved from cats so why will u be expecting to see a dog-cat? Or a monkey-bat for that matter? Let me not even start on the ant with human head u are expecting to see. That is just ridiculous even for someone as insular as u. This shows u don't understand the thrust of evolutionists to even be able to counter it effectively. I bet u haven't taken ur time to understand what proponents of evolution believe before spouting ignorance here.
Nobody claims evolution happens within a short time especially in higher animals so why do u expect them to show u proofs of such large changes over a short time in zoos. They can attempt to show u proofs of little changes on d microscopic level though.
Like bacteria evolving to become drug-resistant. Change in insect color as they adapt more to the changes in their environment.

Dude I hate arguing with less intelligent people whose faculties aren't competent enough to understand points I raise. U are proving to be one of those people.
I am not fully decided on evolution yet because I still believe that if evolution is true, it has to be theistic evolution. But that doesn't mean I don't try to read on evolution and understand it. U should too if u are actually willing to understand something u don't believe in instead of countering it blindly. Cheers

naijadeyhia:
Read the whole thread and you will see that this is my point exactly. I repeatedly asked how come a dog and cats DNA cannot be crossed since science claims they probably came from the same ancestor.

Now to ur dogs and cats issue. Let me focus on cats only. Two cats can be crossed if their DNA is close enough. And crossing them can result in new breeds that can give are fertile and can give birth. But the moment the DNA is a little farther, the new breed formed may be infertile and unable to give birth as is the case when lions and tigers are crossed. Their offsprings live but can't reproduce. Are u seeing a patter here? Viability depends on proximity in the DNA and the gene tree.
So that should tell u, by logic, that animals farther off in the gene pool will not be able to be crossed let alone produce off-springs.
U don't need to believe in evolution to see the logic in that.
And u can see the logic in something without necessarily agreeing with it. Cheers.

naijadeyhia:
Read the whole thread and you will see that this is my point exactly. I repeatedly asked how come a dog and cats DNA cannot be crossed since science claims they probably came from the same ancestor.

Dude I am ashamed for u and I am not even an atheist. I opened this thread thinking I will see sound counter arguments against evolution I can support but I ended up being disappointed. U are very ignorant and that's the first problem. U are not arguing against evolution. U are arguing against what u believe evolution is and those beliefs aren't how evolution is supposed to work. Ur lack of understanding of the subject matter is a mockery to Christianity. That's why I noticed smarter Christians on this forum seems to have avoided this thread. KingEbukaNaija is one of the smartest Christians I have seen and he seems to always have a good grasp on what he is talking about before supporting or refuting it. I need good arguments against evolution that I can use on atheists but all u have written denies ur claims to intelligence instead of denying evolution.

Lemme help u with a crash course in logic. If someone claims A = B and u disagree with it, u have to understand why the person thinks so and then bring up a counter argument to show why it is not so. Thats what intelligent people do.
What u don't do is go around saying or believing that the person claims A=C and then start arguing that A does not equal C and asking the person to show u proof that A=C. That's what u just did on this thread.

Hehehehe. Men don provoke. I started laughing hard the moment I saw that guy's reply to Guest01. I knew I will have more reason to laugh later as soon as people start responding. This is comedy gold.
Still I don't know what to make of Tochiddy. That ur last post got me scratching my head. It is as funny as it is sad. Someone came here to troll u and u are still treating him with deference and begging for more information. You are one of those extremely glass-half-full kind of guys, aren't u? Even when someone picks ur glass cup, smatches it hard on the floor, stomps on it, and ceremoniously micturates all over the broken pieces, the glass cup will still appear half-full to u, wouldn't it? Damn, wish to cultivate ur level of optimism.
RileyFreeman1, ur reaction still dey make me laugh since yesterday. Belle dey pain me for here. One of the funniest stuff I have read on this thread in a while. I wonder what Guest01 will have felt like after seeing that reply to his carefully worded and painstakingly constructed questions considering the way u reacted.

tygrins007:
So no offer letters yet....see long thing; waitlisted peeps on a long thing.

I expect the offer letters to roll in this week. They will still be needing at least a month's notice at their current places of work. They might even get the letters next month if the company is targeting a September resumption date.
And in case u are just realising it, let me make it sink deeper: waitlisted=long thing
Forget about NLNG until the first batch resumes then maybe after they get in they will be privy to info on when the next batch will resume and share it with u.

cattysmilez:
U dunt have to be so negative, it cld b in batches, so chillax.. Btw, i know someone dat said gt a regret mail yest, sadly it was deleted before i cld see for myself.. If some regrets mail went out as well yest, den dere z still hope

Lemme come in here.
I don't think anyone got a regret mail yesterday. Anyone who claims to have received such most likely got it since January and has been coy about it. I may be wrong though.
The rest of us waiting to hear from NLNG will probably receive feedback today. The question is will we be getting the axe or we will be asked to wait a little longer. Faced with those options I am sure waiting doesn't look so bad to some people anymore.
Best of luck guys.
And congrats to those who got mails yesterday. Cheers.

Uchboggy:
You said it all,that last paragraph is my fear, all stations have already stuck with the upper limit which is the first sign that it might not work

Yeah. I reckon the government needs to do more to guarantee the efficacy of their current strategy. They need to start making laws to expedite the creation of more refineries in the hopes that it actually drives prices down.
Come to think of it, must refineries be humongous contraptions capable of processing thousands of barrels of crude per day before they are considered worthy of investment and encouragement by presiding authorities? I mean some of our less-than-scrupulous fellow citizens have since perfected the art of illegal refining of crude, while looking over their shoulders, and some of their distillates have ended up in the market. Isnt there a way to encourage people to devise similar, but better designed, contrivances under legal oversight, quality control and regulation? They may not be able to produce quantities that will rival Dangote refinery but the sheer ubiquity of such springing up, if encouraged, will ensure continuous supply. The advantages are manifold

1. More jobs will be created as even SMEs will be set up solely for that purpose
2. Jobs will be created in even rural areas based on their proximity to oil wells as extracted oil can easily be transported nearby for local refining using the easiest mode of conveyance available. Unlike the sort of ridiculous situations we have now where oil producing areas suffer worst fuel shortages than non-oil producing communities.
3. It will reduce pressure on our foreign reserves quickly since there will be no need to source for foreign exchange to import fuel.
4. It will just stimulate the economy leading to more usage of our ports and inland waterways. Crude can be loaded into barges down south and shipped up the River Niger to different places in the north for local refining. Even Onitsha river port will feel less redundant. And since crude is less inflammable than fuel, it is a safer to transport and the highly inflammable end product will need minimal movement on the road before getting to consumers. The need for transporting through pipelines which are prone to sabotage will be reduced ensuring reliability of supply.
5. The byproducts of the refining will also be used to stimulate local economy or sold to other areas where it is in high demand. Petrochemicals can be used to produce fertilizers for local agriculture; lubricants for local use, etc....

The way I see it, it is safer to bet on numerous refineries with smaller capacities than one ginormous one requiring intricate pipeline systems that can be easily blown to smithereens by any ragtag group in the name of correcting perceived slights. It will be easier and better to get 1000 one-thousand-litter capacity fuel producing refineries around the country than a one-million-litter capacity refinery. The former can be completed within a year. The latter is usually prone to bureaucracies and takes a longer time to complete and still ends up putting the wealth of the nation in the hands of the already affluent few.

scarletdp:
Ma Niggur... You've been on stealth mode for a while now. Howdy?

My guy!!!! Haven't had a lot of reasons to want to comment recently. But I am still very much with u guys.

airsaylongcon:
How many times is this government gonna remove subsidy? Or is subsidy now a cat with 9 lives? Also please someone should explain to me how subsidy can be removed and yet price is still regulated? #HonestQuestion

The petroleum downstream sector at the moment constitutes an oligopoly; a cartel, to be precise. Left to their own, they would devise ever unscrupulous means to rip off the rest of us and sooner we'll be having to acquire their products at ludicrous prices. What the government has done is to set an upper limit for the price, set no lower limit whatsoever and throw open the rights to import fuel to any Nigerian company. This should ensure that more people go into the business freely thus morphing the downstream sector towards a perfect competition that will inadvertently drive pump prices down in the long run.
Now whether or not this strategy will work in a country that consistently defies economic theories remains moot.

dane15:
At this point, no one has strength to lam sef not to talk of lampoon. ROTFL

People are too exhausted from the wait.

It just seemed so strange to see Al Kaitung viewing for close to an hour!

Bros, if na you, you nor go ask questions?

Was he trying to imagine the impact of the mail? Or trying to pity some people?

Or holding himself back from saying something he really wanted to say?

Anyways, Yoruba people say A kii ri ewu l'osan. It's unusual to see grey hair on the scalp of a youth.

Occam's Razor. He was probably just trying to read through all the posts since the last time he commented on nairaland.

dotcomnamename:
[size=20pt]KEEP DREAMING. Na so you dream of Jonathan winning so tail during Presidential election.[/size]

Another emotional pleb. Everyone who thinks differently must have supported Jonathan. Such simplistic thinking is only a sign of intellectual impairment. Your life is ruled by absolutes and extremes but, unfortunately for u, life is filled with people who are able to think across spectrums. Ask those who know me who I supported during the elections before u come here to make assertions.
I don't know Saraki from Adam. And I don't care what happens to him. But I am smart enough to contribute to a discourse without being emotionally invested in it. Something u are obviously very incapable of doing or perhaps unable to muster enough brain cells to do it.

LMFashions:
Justice Salisu Alfa Modibo Belgore (former Chief Justice of Nigeria;

Justice George Oguntade (CFR), former Justice of the Supreme Court;

Justice Samson Odemwingie Uwaifo, former Justice of the Supreme Court;

Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN;

Chief Nnoruka Udechukwu SAN;

Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN;

Mr Olalekan Ojo.

U have an assignment, group them into their different geopolitical zones and let's see how much u know about where they are from.
Same as u too hassan85

Tribal bigots.

That Hassan85 guy is too dumb people are making points and all he is seeing is IPOB. He can't even see the point people against Umar are making. Umar will make Saraki win at the supreme court if he loses at the CCT. There are many other people apart from Umar that can be chosen to preside over this case and give it a simulacrum of fairness.
It is just laughable that people expect eminent lawyers to be emotionally asking for Saraki's head. Their job is to interpret the law and what they have done is shown many legal foibles in the case.
Every sensible discussion on nairaland has been reduced to IPOB shaming by very daft people.

Machini:
So, to the hopefuls, is it positive or negative news.

This is the million-dollar question.

All they've is taken a big unwieldy project and broken in two separate and manageable chunks and this is good because it allows for redundancy. A friend and I already suspected Train 8 would probably come fast on the heels of Train 7. What we didn't anticipate was them scaling down Train 7.
So obviously they will probably need more man-power to run both trains in the future. The question now is how we present crop of GTs fit into their future plans considering the FIDs for both trains are yet to be concluded and building both trains may take another 5-6 years. (Though I read a conflicting report elsewhere that the FID for Train 7 is already a done deal)
They MAY decide to take a higher number of GTs and groom us for that singular purpose and that's a very big "may" so don't get ur hopes up.

Nice one OP. This is the reasoning of someone with head on his shoulders. Sound and objective. Not the drivel intellectually impaired people like tuale4u spill out while trying to appropraite the moral high ground.
We all need to do some soul-searching in this country. The last government set us on this path of bigotry where even the simplest of opinion is coloured by tribal prejudice. Sadly, this government isnt doing doing things better. It seems unable to manage its victory in the last elections and appears uncoordinated. I am yet to be convinced that we are going to be better off than we were under PDP
The biggest problem this administration has are the sycophantic followers who have reduced everything to tribalists who actually convince themselves they arent tribalists but somehow always reduce everything to tribalism.They quick to scream IPOB at every turn even if the criticism of the government is constructive and they have succeeded in convincing the government that enemies from a certain section of the country are out to get them instead of focusing on their work

tgmservice:
I attended and they gave us gala and viju milk

Hehehehe. U don't seem very happy about it. Anyway I am particular about ur take away from the event that are not of the edible variety: what u learnt and how u feel about the event.

farouqzaib:
Hi NPComplete,

I participate a lot in Kaggle competitions (https://www.kaggle.com/) where I get to do a lot of predictive analytics. Sadly, I haven't won any yet .

I don't refer to personalization/recommendations as predictive analytics. I think they are distinct fields. Predictive analytics usually involves predicting one continuous/categorical value for a datapoint - e.g trying to determine if a loan applicant will default, if it'll rain tomorrow, if an insurance claim is valid etc. Unlike recommenders systems where the predicted values are usually not as restricted.

For computer vision it's mostly personal work. I do the usual object classification and scene labelling. I'm particularly interested in building a device for visually impaired people.

Enough about me. What do you do?

Ah yes me. What can I say about me? Ever the dilettante, I dabble into programming quite often when my day job lets me to. Most times I try solving my problems using programming often in Android or Python. I was once into machine learning and data science some two years back. These days I have been a little too distant from that field so I am trying to find my way back. So u can only imagine how giddy I became when I learnt of the event that made me create this thread. Alas, it was not to be. And from what I have gathered, I didnt miss anything important by not attending. Hopefully the organizers will put a little more effort next time.

farouqzaib:
Hey NPComplete,

Farouq here. I'm a Machine Learning Engineer working at Konga.

I didn't attend the IBM session. Weird I didn't even know about it until it passed.

Lately, I've been working on predictive analytics, recommendations and computer vision. And there's this NLP task I've been struggling with for a while now.

It appears you have some questions about Data Science (perhaps even not related to the IBM session?). I'd be glad to help however I can.

I don't normally identify as a Data Scientist because it's not exactly the same thing as a Machine Learning Engineer but there are indeed areas of overlap.

Cheers.

I tweet frequently, you can find me here @farouqzaib

Hi Farouq, nice to have u join us. When u say u have been working on predictive analytics, I am sure u are referring mostly to recommender systems considering Konga being into e-commerce and all, though the extent to which it is applied in Konga's business paradigm remains unfamiliar. I am curious about the computer vision aspect of ur interests; do u use computer vision professionally at Konga or it's just a side interest for u in ur free time?
Sadly, I have often found myself afflicted with a very strong aversion to twitter. I would love to hear more from u if u will be willing to share here.
Cheers

jacob05:
Exactly the bolded .. lolz

LMAO. Thanks for sharing bro

jacob05:
@NPComplete:

I was there and it was nice.

Topics discussed include issues with traffic management in Lagos, problems faced building apps that try to solve traffic problems [street mapping, bus-stop naming, routes], how traffic data analyses (Big Data) can be used to solve the problem (case study https://www.tsaboin.com/ and .....) and IBM Bluemix cloud platform. etc

Not as technical as I expect, though..

Hmmm
So it wasn't technical? Maybe that's because it was targeted at a wide variety of audience. I would have loved a more technical exposure though.
@the part in bold, did they go through a step by step process of a (maybe simple) problem and actually solved it? Or did they just go like "hey guys here's an example of an app that uses big data to solve a traffic problem, shiny ain't it?"

^^Hehehe. U guys got jokes. But seriously I need to know how it went. It will really let me know if big data is beginning to have a foothold in Nigeria. Dhtml8 u can help us talk to your friend and give me us a feedback here.

mynd1:
Wailers/Ipobs hope una don hear ba?

God bless mr president

God bless Nigeria.

U are obviously not a very intelligent girl. Wisdom should have taught u that it isn't everything u comment on.
There is a difference between being an PMB supporter and the sick sycophancy which u indulge in most times. A sensitive issue like this shouldn't be trivialised with name-calling and thereby making PMB supporters (which I proudly am) to look bad. How many smart pro-APC pundits did u see writing what u wrote? How many APC supporters from Agatu do u think will appreciate this crass response? U seem to be a nice person. U just aren't very bright. Seek wisdom. Avoid some threads on nairaland in the interest of peace.
Cheers

Seriously? Is it that no one on this forum attended or are the criteria laid down in the OP too stringent?
Okay I will be open to hear from anyone who attended and isn't even a programmer at all. Cheers

Hi all,
I will like to know if anyone here attended the Hack Lagos Traffic Big Data masterclass organised by Andela on the 26th of March 2016. I was unable to attend due to some other important engagement so I will like to know how it went and how good it was in general. Tell us about the positives and negatives.
Keep in mind that I am more interested in the thoughts of seasoned programmers especially those with a background or at least a little experience in data science and not the opinions of drooling fanboys who were so enthralled that they probably didnt learn anything other than how awesome it is to know about data science.

LMAO. A very black man offering his 3 very black sons to go into Nazi Germany to stalk and liquidate Hitler probably using bows and arrows? How were they gonna do it, paint their faces white to blend in and get close enough to their mark? His children wouldn't have gotten far before being hung on a tree and having their bodies mutilated. They probably would have been killed by the same people, the Jews and gypsies, the Nazis were committing war crimes against.
The chief could just as well have offered his three sons to his gods.

^^^Oy vey.

Land in space? Who lands in space? What's he gonna land on
An asteroid? A comet? or the USS Enterprise?

dane15:
Cattysmilez is right, because I have not even liked the post yet and I am so sure there are others like me.

Just waiting for the 60 threshold and now that it has been crossed, I have a feeling that the process could have been sabotaged by some stakeholders just to ensure the recruitment remains shrouded in mystery. A small part of me believes we are more than 60 though.

Just a question, Is it possible we can appoint a Jega (Naastyme) and let everyone just post "Yes" and then we total the responses by Sunday giving those who only visit Nairaland on weekend a chance to respond. This will also enable us to track possible saboteurs.

Or can someone come up with a better idea on how to tweak the polls for better results?

We are not just more than 50. In the least, our numbers should exceed 150.
I am curious about something though. If u believe the current tally has been compromised, dont u think just posting "yes" could just as easily be sabotaged? There is no way to vet the monikers posting to know if they belong to people still in the race.

cattysmilez:
And there are some 5/6 pple who i know got the "in the running" mail but might most likely not be on nairaland or are guests

There are 3 things this assumption can mean:
1. Some people lie. They may declare they are not nairaland or that they only sometimes view as guest to protect their identity on this thread. The truth is that they may be very vocal members on this thread. It's a subterfuge designed to thwart u so u dont feel a sudden urge to begin to look out for them on the thread and pick off on the peculiarities in their writing style especially if u chat with them well on other platforms
2. Someone else might have told them about this poll and they probably joined nairaland yesterday or resuscitated their dormant accounts and they have thus been already added to the tally
3. If u know 5 guys like that and I know 3 guys like that and another guy knows 4 guys like that, there is a high tendency for us to begin to think that there are about 12 guys like that or apply some other estimation techniques that will still be far off the mark. The truth is that the same guys I know may be part of the same guys u know or different guys all together.
We can conclude that this current poll cannot be accurate. The only way we can have a more precise poll will be for each of us to convince people we know that are in d race but may not be on nairaland to get a nairaland account within two weeks and then we can have another poll then.
Thanks naastyme. This poll is another fun way to keep this thread alive

scarletdp:
Ma Niggur.... wish my vocabulary is this indepth. ..

Brotherly no be vocab dey do me right now o. Na make NLNG call us we dey pray to Baba God for now mhen

prelinctus:
But this isn't negativity. It's just basic criticism.
@adenitemi & itstime4me, I would've said worse but the mod will hide the post. So, no point. GAG ORDER

Dude, there's criticism dway4ward's style, which I fully endorse; and there's puerility, which is less circumspect, unbecoming of people of our station, and which this thread was slowly turning out to be. Then there's the fine line between the two. We have to keep reminding ourselves to stay on the better side of that line even if it will require some or all of us not voicing our angst in any way.
Anything to keep u from talking and annoying more than half of the good people on this thread is good news to me though.

prelinctus:
What's with all these 'no more mudslinging'? Is it that everybody here is afraid of nlng OR nlng just can't accept criticism? I don't understand. People should be allowed to air their views. This new gag order is not a welcome develpment.

My reservations have nothing to do with trepidation. The mudslinging was becoming hackneyed and we were increasingly beginning to look like petulant infants. Overall I consider negativity, however justified, to be bad for my Feng Shui; hence the advice.
By the way, since when did u become a champion of civil liberties?

Dfavouredone:
Risk management is an important aspect of life.

Whether it is this month or not, NLNG will surely call one day. To reduce the risk of losing out completely if you aren't call, I will advise potential GTs to find some other potential GTs in the recruitment process to negotiate and sign a "minimum damage agreement" (MDA).

MDA is just a legally signed agreement that if I am call and employ and u weren't call , I will give a certain percent (maybe 10%) of my pay for certain period (maybe 1 year) and vice versa.

And if both of them are called or if none of the them in the agreement are called, then nobody pays anybody.

A pretty way to ensure you gain something no matter how the die is toss.

Nice one.

Y'all heard Forkadict. Have fun. Make fun of the wait. But no more mudslinging from here on out. We could use a little less negativity for the rest of this long wait. Cheers.