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The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
She lost her mother to cancer after a misdiagnosis. At 16, she built an AI system to prevent the same thing from happening to others.
Melek Öztürk was 16 when her mother was first misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer, then correctly identified with adrenal gland cancer. The delays and confusion during treatment showed her firsthand how much damage a wrong diagnosis can do. Her mother didn't survive. Instead of letting that grief consume her, Melek channeled it into something that could help others.
Working through her school's math club "Matrix" in Izmir, Turkey, she developed an AI system called ONCOMathRIX that uses topological and differential analysis to detect kidney cell carcinoma from pathological images in seconds. It was tested on 537 open-source datasets and achieved a 97% accuracy rate. A professor at Ege University's medical faculty initially saw it as a student hobby project, then realized the system was filling a real gap in the literature.
The project has passed the first round of TEKNOFEST, Turkey's largest technology competition, and is currently in the patent process. She is 16 years old.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.
Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.
And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.
As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."
They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.
A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.
Good. Mourn your dead.
But understand what that wall does not say.
It does not say why they died.
It does not say what they were doing there.
It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.
It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.
Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.
For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.
It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.
Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.
Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.
And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.
Still profitable.
Still un-prosecuted.
And yet they send us human rights reports.
They grade our democracy.
They warn us about our behavior.
The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.
Almost.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
1/10. 🧠 What if your "individual" consciousness is actually a collective intelligence?
New research suggests our sense of free will and decision-making emerges from countless microorganisms working together within us. Thread 🧵
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.
Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.
Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Books are like seeds that lay dormant for centuries but may also produce flowers in the most unpromising soils.”
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
I've tried 100+ tools to run my businesses & spent 10 years to find my favorites.
Here's my current startup stack:
Software:
- Formation: @doolaHQ
- CRM: @HubSpot
- Note-taking: @meetgranola
- Content creation: @youdistro
- Research: ChatGPT
- Banking: @mercury
- HR: @GustoHQ
- Automation: @getlindy
- Design: @figma
Services:
- Marketing support: @GrowthPair
- Content marketing: @storyarb
- Offshore VA/finance/ops: @oceanstalent
- Bookkeeping: @betterbkg
- Trademark Law: @JoshGerben
- Startup Law: Weinberger & Logan
- CEO coach: @davekashen
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Peter Navarro has long been justifying tariffs by citing a super smart economist named “Ron Vara”, which is actually himself with the letters of his last name switched around.
This is why we’re crashing the global economy.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Candace Owens: "I struggle to believe Elon Musk is heading up three companies if this is how he acts."
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
A female falcon was equipped with a GPS tracker during her journey from South Africa to Finland.
She covered approximately 230 km per day, flying in a straight line across African lands until she reached the desert in the north.
She then followed the path of the Nile River over Sudan and Egypt, avoiding flying over the Mediterranean Sea. Instead, she crossed over Syria and Lebanon, also steering clear of the Black Sea because if she got thirsty, she wouldn’t be able to drink from it.
She continued in a straight line and reached Finland after 42 days.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
No action, no results. No results, more anxiety.
Start moving. The path reveals itself the more you walk.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Luck =
High energy
In the right place
Around the right people
Producing more than consuming
Avoiding any and all distractions
Able to manage multiple interests
High agency and self-educated
Doesn't quit after one mistake
Luck is a lifestyle
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
As the world begins to figure out that #Stablecoins are not just killer apps in #Crypto, but killer apps in #Payments, @circle's policy team remains deeply engaged in driving global regulatory developments and harmonization. circle.com/blog/circle-respo…
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
I earned $69,248 per month as a creator in 2024.
If I had to start over, here's what I'd do: 🧵
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
I've spent 100+ hours studying "The Bible" this past year.
It's the most important book of all time.
Here are the top 5 tips I wish I knew when I started (🧵):
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Wow. Dying is easy. Math is hard.
“The most patriotic thing you can do for your country is your homework.”
This is both funny and true:
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
Control the framing and you’ll control the picture—that is, your relation to the picture.
Your mindset and attitude leads to your framing, which provides perspective, the key to controlling the meaning (interpretation) of the picture.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
And where do you get the content of your brain about Africa from (because I can’t even call that knowledge)? As if the so called modern state (or nation-state) has ever been a success story in Africa, compared to the inherent ways African societies used to organize themselves.
African societies couldn’t and didn’t go out of their way to colonize Europe because that wasn’t necessary for their survival. They had enough wealth at home, which wasn’t the case of Europe. Africans could wage wars against neighboring regions because they shared something in common but didn’t agree on some aspect(s) of that which they had in common. The idea of going to far away lands to deceive, kill, sack and steal lands and resources from people who didn’t live like them, nor even look like them, was just foreign to their worldview. That’s a difference of civilization, not the result of poor IQ.
Civilizations can encounter other civilizations and exchange with and benefit from each other. But the violent encounter that was the colonization of Africa was never meant to produce any good to Africans, and if it has ever had, that can only be «collateral good» with too high a cost from the moment of that encounter until now.
The Time/Decision Architect retweeted
BONE-CHILLING ⚡
August 15, 1977: The night that changed astronomy forever.
A signal from deep space at 10:16 PM:
• Strength: 30x Beyond human technology
• Duration: 72 seconds
• Origin: Where no star exists
NASA Scientists are still afraid to discuss what they found:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A recent paper in 2024 posits that the “Wow!” Signal was caused by a magnetar triggering a cosmicly generated Hydrogen MASER: arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513
A further note: scientists have published multiple studies regarding the signal.