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The AI update a glimpse into the future

A good example is how AI is affecting our daily lives every minute. Those at the forefront of highly specialised roles have found that more junior, repetitive tasks can be handled by AI and incorporated into their workflows. As a senior software developer, I need to review, refine, and develop complex algorithms. You will begin to notice that some of the simpler, easier tasks can be done by AI. This has been happening for years. Automated code generation in Microsoft Excel has been available for more than 10 years, and most of us have used it to generate baseline code for various features. Then we just refine and make alterations to make it more optimised, specific and refined. Now, a large part of the world has left Microsoft Excel behind and is using Google Sheets with C#, but that did serve as a baseline. The AI can help convert code from Excel/VBA to Google Sheets/C#. The Google Sheets/C# combination offers greater security, greater flexibility, and always keeps the documents up ...

The art of having a good maintainence culture - A good swimming pool

Since I was a young boy, I've always loved early morning exercise. I have always loved the morning jog because of the rush of endorphins flowing through my bloodstream. It stimulates your brain and gives a sense of well-being. I love swimming so much that whenever I travel, whether in Nigeria or the UK, I always want to find a swimming pool where I can swim to my heart's desire.  Since a swimming pool consists of many parts and needs specialist expertise for maintenance, it could be very expensive. On the surface, it looks just like an ordinary body of water. But it's much more complex than that. The water has to be clean, which means a good, reliable, constant source of clean water; it has to be pumped, filtered, chlorinated, and replenished, which means reliable electricity and good plumbing services. Hence, few places in the developing world can meet all these criteria. Then there are the complexities of water chlorination and temperature regulation, which are sciences i...

The art of getting a good story - My headaches.

From my early teenage years, I have been suffering from migraine headaches. I can recall it as far back as my second year of secondary school. Now, I know it was related to stress and the things I was going through then. At that time, the headaches were so severe and frequent that I would be in so much pain that I would be admitted to the hospital on some occasions. I remember my parents sleeping outside my hospital ward, and my brothers and cousins following me to the hospital. But not surprisingly, because of the frequency of the headaches, they decided to do further investigations. Still, from the limited tests they did, for one reason or another, they could never pick up that it was not malaria, and I was suffering from migraine headaches. Throughout the time I was in secondary school, the symptomatology (the study of what a patient complains of in various diseases) of the headaches was such that they would start with an aura (a sensation or feeling before an attack of epilepsy or...