By Tai Solarin, Jan. 1, 1964 I am not cursing you; I am wishing you what I wish myself every year. I therefore repeat, may you have a hard time this year, may there be plenty of troubles for you this year! If you are not so sure what you…

Working with a company like Google or Apple is considered the best crown to a life of hard work, discipline, focus and dedication. Such achievement will make your friends/family salute and hail you, your Facebook/Instagram/Twitter shares will top the aggregate of your life post multiple times over. It is a…

Going back to Nigeria or any other developing country is not for the faint-hearted, especially when you are used to a system that works. There is a reason Countries like Nigeria are termed ‘developing’. It simply means Don’t expect to have electricity round the clock Roads or infrastructure are in…

“Men there have been, ignorant of letters; without art, without eloquence; who yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage to perform that which they lacked language to explain. Such men have worked the deliverance of nations and their own greatness. Their hearts are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.” — MACAULAY.” Excerpt From: Men of Invention and Industry — Samuel Smiles

On how she was selected as the Director by SkyDance, “Don’t look at a female director and search for their action sequences because it’s rarely going to be there. Look at the films. Are they making good films? If they are, trust and believe that no matter what genre, we will do what we need to do.” Otherwise, inequalities will continue to perpetuate themselves. Of course, before now — Women don’t direct Action movies, so expecting a resume showing past experiences directing action films will propagate the inequality, lack of depth or diversity or perspective desired — which I believe were primary reason responsible for lacklustre performances of movies like Batman, Superman, Suicide Squad etc

More generally, when the accuracy of a classifier is too close to random classification(which is marked at 0.5 — like the toss of a coin), it probably means that something went wrong: features are not helpful, a hyper parameter is not correctly tuned, the classifier is suffering from class imbalance, etc… And thus, implies a lot more work will need to be done to squeeze relevance out of our model, otherwise it is discarded. [But not always]

Sometimes, the best things will come only after some patience, and letting ego dissipate. I read a response on Quora on the benefits of Hillary accepting Obama’s request to be Secretary of State. Now I cannot remember to author, but it went like this — Appointing her to secretary of…