Palm (https://usepalm.com) | ML Engineer | Full-time | Remote (Netherlands and Sweden) | Fintech
Our mission at Palm is to move the world's money. Specifically we provide software for corporate treasury. We've been around for one year, created a beta version and signed a couple of MASSIVE customers, now want to go out of beta and build a robust and scalable solution.
As the ML engineer you will run the entire function, with the help of super high profile engineers (ex Google, ex Booking, ex EQT), and experienced founders (ex Uber, ex Paypal).
We're looking for:
- Experience with running ML models in production.
Among the Luba people of DR Congo, this is known as "Kansonda"[1]. It is said to be a mystical targeted weapon sent towards an individual as a punishment or retaliation for committing some grievous act.
Another lightning weapon is "Nkuba". This may sound crazy and get downvoted to oblivion but as a kid I witnessed someone invoking lightning at will - twice - on a cloudy afternoon. This person was form the Luba nation and he claimed to have the power to invoke lightning. He was challenged by the crowd to prove his claim and so he went on and on about it then started making an incantation in Tshiluba then suddenly clapped his hands: immediately there was a loud thunder and lightning. He repeated this and there was a loud thunder again. Later in life I postulated that he could have just been trained into the art of telling when lightning is about to strike, which is probably possible given than DR Congo has an unusually high incidence rate of lightning compared to the rest of the world[2][3].
English and French are indeed lingua francas but depending on the country or even the city you're in, they can be used as equally as lingua franca with the dominant local language.
People in Africa fluidly switch languages mid-conversation or even mid-sentence. In DRC for example, it's common to see a conversation in French and Swahili, or French and Lingala, or Lingala and Swahili. But most people will make an effort to stick to French when talking to a foreigner.
I've also heard Kenyans say that Congolese people speak Swahili weird because they use French loanwords.
I had a gut feeling it will be '.cd' before clicking on the article and I was right. Dealing with the state entity (SCPT) that manages this TLD is quite a pain. It's so painful that I've given up managing all the .cd domains I used to own.
.cd domains are also some of the most expensive to get. Hopefully the new government will take this seriously.
There was some discussions here recently about this, and from memory the answer was nothing, except reputation. They're free to do whatever they please with it, though jacking the price suddenly might not be great business long term.
But you do need to have a registered business in Thailand with the exact name as the domain name to register the domain.That's a fact for co.th, I'm not sure about .th though, but I would assume it to be true.
The new crop of TLDs are really cheap. I bought a .download for like $2 a year or something. Not all are that cheap (I bought it as a throwaway for a project that relied on my having DNS control) but there are literally hundreds of them that are.
Only issue is I don't think there's anything preventing the price going sky-high in coming years, for most of these TLDs. For a throwaway it doesn't matter, but could really hurt if you start relying on one.
I'm afraid I don't have any good secrets to share on that front. Online purchases I've made mostly through sellers on Discogs. Some are better than others. I'm in the UK and most sellers who stock Congolese records seem to be based in France, postage can be a pain sometimes. afro7.net has some interesting 7" records from time to time.
I've been trying to get back out to Africa for a while, but plans have been put on hold. Haven't made it to Congo or DRC yet, but hoping to at least make it back to Nairobi later in the year. Melodica in Nairobi sell online but I haven't bought anything from them before.
