Most people hate digital ads. But they're actually a great thing. Here's why. First, there are three main players involved in this whole "ad network". 1. The Digital Platform (e.g Google, Instagram, TikTok & soon ChatGPT) 2. You (the user) 3. The [Small
Honestly, I think that it’s obviously true that 90+% of software will be written by LLMs in relatively short order. But I don’t think it means humans will “write less code.” Even if you put aside the ambiguity about what “AI-written code” means versus “human-written code” i.e.
Tldr: Debates about whether (on their own) LLMs are “truly intelligent” or “comparable to human intelligence” are often misaligned. Intelligence emerges from modular interactions—stochastic LLMs plus extensive deterministic infrastructure. This systems-level view provides a clearer, more useful framework for understanding, evaluating, and—crucially—building artificial intelligence. The impulse to
AI, AGI, or ASI are essentially umbrella terms for "everything computers can’t do yet." But if we truly dig into definitions, today’s models are already generally intelligent in significant ways: large language models (LLMs) routinely answer most general questions across countless domains. They might not always
Some things took me thirty years to learn. Some took thirty years to say right. The rest make up the count. Over the past year, I’ve been working on this piece: thirty reflections on life, lessons, and observations. I challenged myself to complete it before the end of 2024,
Helicarrier officially announces that it has today completed the signing of definitive agreements to acquire significant equity interest in Accrue. As part of this agreement, Buycoins Basic will be transitioning into Accrue effective immediately. “Embarking on this partnership underscores our dedication to democratising wealth building on the continent. Accrue has
A lot of the time — I agree with detractors of cryptocurrency and all their associated technologies. There’s a lot to criticise: * Majority of proclamations are utopian, mostly exaggerated because they lack nuance and a thorough understanding of the technology’s constraints at different levels of the stack. * Majority of
It’s very common to see proponents of blockchain/crypto/web3 technology talk about how it’ll completely change how the world deals with money. However, for most people today, it’s very difficult for them to connect their current experience with crypto to these proclamations of world upending greatness.
What’s in a name?
At Buycoins, we don’t have “loyalty” to any particular technology stack. We think that technical decisions should be made based on goals & constraints. Goals — what are we trying to achieve? Generally, the answer to the first question is: * We’d like to be able to get a new
On the 5th of February 2021 the Central Bank of Nigeria circulated a letter to all Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFs), and Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) in Nigeria. The letter, in summary, prohibited these institutions from working with cryptocurrency exchanges. What does this mean for BuyCoins? We
Our mission has always been to usher truly borderless exchange of value across the African continent and beyond. We’ve always been aware that this mission is a complex, multistage marathon and in 2020 we took some important strides that we’re admittedly proud of – not because we’ve achieved
Sometimes I think about those interviews where Elon Musk is asked about whether or not he thinks we’re in a simulation à la The Matrix. The question is somewhat nuts (like a lot of super broad, unanswered science questions) because it’s not necessarily straightforward to describe what being
Not (just) Africa
A month ago, I wrote an article about a dApp game that someone anonymous built on top of NGNT. A good amount of people responded to me (on Twitter) that it all sounds very interesting on the surface, but they don’t really understand what a dApp (decentralised application) is
I’ve been working with people all over the world, almost entirely remotely (from Lagos, Nigeria), as a software developer, project manager, CTO & CEO for more than 6 years now. Working from home (or anywhere, really) is something that comes naturally to me but I find that a lot
I was considering writing a separate review for each of these devices but given that I haven’t written any such thing since December 2018, I couldn’t trust myself to follow through with that plan. Instead, what you’re gonna get is a mashup style review of every single
Aren’t we all?
(This read — and honestly any other one — would be nicer if you had any playlist from duduke playing in the background) I still struggle with what exactly these year reviews should be, despite having already written 5 of them (this one being the 6th). I woke up this afternoon (had
“Men hate women” Feminists say it pretty often and they genuinely believe it to be true. However, most men vehemently disagree. How can he hate women? He thinks about the women in his life: his sisters, his mother. He remembers the women he has been attracted to throughout his life
How to get a great job in tech without leaving Nigeria
A couple of months ago, I was with a group of friends, chilling, gisting and laughing. Of course, we were all very baked. We talked through quite a diverse array of topics, as one is wont to do when wammed. We talked about how kids were so mean (in secondary
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This is the email I sent to my parents (siblings, uncle and aunties were CCed) a few years ago telling them of my decision to drop out of Unilag. Good day everyone, I think it’s important that I try my best to explain my thought process. I’ve attempted
At BuyCoins, we use the Interactor gem for business logic. It works like this: Say you have an Interactor called SendCoins. You call can trigger it’s functionality by doing SendCoins.call(amount: 0.5, currency: Ethereum…) The has passed into #call will be available within the Interactor as attributes