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Africa Has the ML Talent But Missing the GPUs.

One challenge I have noticed throughout my academic journey and as a TA is that access to computing resources, especially GPUs, has become a major bottleneck for many students especially...

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Know Instantly When Your Site Goes Down: Automating Website Monitoring With UptimeRobot

How do website admins know when their website is down? Do they just wait until a frustrated user tells them, or do they constantly navigate their own site to find...

VSCode Merge Editor Fix

How To Fix vscode merge editor not showing in 1 minute

Have you recently run into an issue where the three-way Merge Editor in VS Code just won’t show up, and instead, you’re stuck with the old inline UI? You are...

Open Meteo Archive: Free Historical Weather Data

Open Meteo archive free historical weather data

Have you ever wondered what the weather was exactly like on the day you were born? Or maybe you’re building an app that needs to know how much it rained...

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How to Find Places Where You've Logged In with Google

Using your Google account to log into external apps and websites is incredibly convenient. It saves you from creating new passwords and speeds up the signup process. However, over time,...

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Google Cloud TLS Certificate Changes in Q2 2026: Important Update for GCP users

If you manage client applications that interact with Google Cloud services, please take note of an upcoming infrastructure change. In Q2 2026, Google is updating the Transport Layer Security (TLS)...

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Flat vector illustration of African machine learning researchers at computers with an empty GPU slot
BW By Bright Wiredu Nuakoh

Africa Has the ML Talent But Missing the GPUs.

One challenge I have noticed throughout my academic journey and as a TA is that access to computing resources, especially GPUs, has become a major bottleneck for many students especially...

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CA By Cephas Anthonio

Why Your Monthly AI Bill Might Soon Rival Your Headcount Costs From A Personal Experience

The $280 Overnight Surprise A friend pinged me last week, half-laughing, half-panicking 😅 . He’d been running a couple of AI coding agents overnight, just background refactoring and test generation....

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NN By Nathaniel Nyakotey

How To Invest On The Ghana Stock Exchange

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) represents a unique opportunity for Ghanaian investors to participate in the growth of the country’s economy. As Ghana’s primary stock market, the GSE provides access...


Personal Posts

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The Magnus Carlsen Gambit: Disrespecting Grandmasters for Fun With Gotham Chess

Magnus Carlsen is so good at chess that he often has to “nerf” himself just to make online games interesting, according to the YouTube channel Gotham Chess. While most of...

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Interrupted Romance: Sunset, Cynicism And Love birds In Kigali

I stumbled upon this serene moment the other evening, right around sunset in Kigali. This was around sunset and it looks like they were on a date of some sort...

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Now On Repeat: "Oluwatosin" by Tkeyz ft. SteveHills

I have to share this track that’s been on repeat for me lately. It’s “Oluwatosin (Jesus Is Enough)” by Tkeyz and SteveHills. The song dropped in July 2025, and it’s...

A Message From Alan Becker Animation vs channel on Youtube

A message from Alan Becker. Celebrating 20 years of Animation. Twenty years ago today, on June 3, 2006, I uploaded the very first Animator vs. Animation. What started as a...

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Lamentations is Just Complaining and Wailing, Why is It Even In The Bible

The book literally says lamentations which in simple term can be called complaining. My first time reading this book I was wondering why would anyone even add this to the...

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Ghana, an Introduction- All That Glitters is Still Gold

This is an introduction to Ghana I hope you will find interesting. In this post I’ll try to focus on certain aspects a visitor to Ghana might find interesting; people,...

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I am a Computer Engineer and Machine Learning Enthusiast with a passion for Internet of Things (IoT) and AI applications. I specialize in building data-driven solutions and deploying low-cost technologies for real-world impact. Currently, I am expanding my expertise in Deep Learning and building on AWS.


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