🔥 Sunday Tech Talk

🧩 Why Google, Uber & You Are Playing the Same Game ?

Ever played a maze trying to reach the exit fast? 🏃‍♂️
Left… right… dead end… back… repeat.
Now imagine that on a map of the whole world 🌍 — that’s Uber & Google Maps.

Every time you request a ride, Uber asks:

“Which driver reaches fastest?”

So what do they use?
👉 The same thing you solve in Competitive Programming:
Shortest Path Algorithms (Graphs).

📌 That “Dijkstra” problem? It decides:

Which driver comes 🚕
Which route you see 🗺
If you arrive in 5 or 25 min 😬

🧠 Reality:
CP isn’t just contests & ranks.
It trains you to solve problems powering real-world systems.

Every CP problem you solve,
you’re quietly training to run the world’s biggest machines ⚙️

Pretty wild, right? 😏

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🎅Happy Ethiopian Christmas ✨

May this beautiful celebration of Ethiopian Christmas fill your days with faith, kindness, and gratitude. Wishing all Christians a peaceful, joyful, and blessed holiday season. ⛄️

🎁መልካም የገና በዓል ይሁንላችሁ !!!

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Ever felt DSA is too hard?

Do you feel like the DSA course at university is hard?
Grinding LeetCode & Codeforces feels exhausting?
No time to prepare for Google, Meta & top tech? 😵‍💫

🦊 We’re building a platform that teaches DSA like Duolingo
✨ Bite-sized
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🧠 Simple, not scary

👉 Join the waitlist. Learn smarter, not harder.
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🔥Sunday Tech Talk

🤖 Why AI Understands Meaning (Not Just Words) ?

You write:

“I went to the bank to withdraw cash.”

AI knows you mean 💰 not a river 🌊.

Why? Because modern AI uses Attention (“Attention Is All You Need”).

Read this 👇

The trophy didn’t fit in the suitcase because it was too big.

You instantly know “it” = the trophy.

AI does the same by understanding how words relate to each other.

Behind the scenes, each word plays a role:
🔍 Query – what am I looking for?
🗝 Key – what do I represent?
📦 Value – what information do I carry?

Words compare, connect, and pull the most relevant meaning.
That’s why Transformers power chatbots, search, translation, and recommendations; AI that understands context, not just words.

If AI learns by paying attention, what’s the next big leap in intelligence? 🤔

- Data Science Division

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🔥Sunday Tech Talk

Why Netflix Scales Smoothly But Your App Crashes?

Ever notice Netflix never buffers even when millions watch at once? Meanwhile, your beautiful app crashes with 1,000 users. 😔

The difference? Scalability.

Your database is like a waiter 👨‍💼
• 1 friend ordering = waiter handles it instantly
• 100 friends ordering = waiter is still fine
• 10,000 friends ordering = waiter is crying in the corner
So what do Netflix, Amazon Spotify do?

👉 They don't use one waiter. They use thousands.

This is called Horizontal Scaling 📈

Instead of making one server stronger (Vertical Scaling), you spread the load across many servers.

🎯 How it works:

1. Request comes in → Load Balancer (traffic cop)🚦
– "Send this to Server A"
– "Send that to Server B"
– "Send this one to Server C"
Everyone gets served fast.

Pretty eye-opening, right?

- Development Division

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🌟እንኳን ለብርሃነ ጥምቀቱ አደረሳችሁ!!

ለመላው የክርስትና ዕምነት ተከታዮች በሙሉ መልካም የጥምቀት በዓል ይሁንላችሁ፡፡

Wishing you a wonderful holiday filled with happiness and togetherness!

Happy Epiphany!

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What if you could build AI systems for international companies, without leaving Addis?

10 Academy’s Intensive + Tenacious Recruitment Pathway is a selection-driven career launchpad for engineers ready to operate at a global level.

In just 3 months, top performers will:

- Work on real international AI projects
- Design and deploy agentic, autonomous systems
- Learn how modern AI teams actually build products
- Join a high-performance peer network, not a classroom

This program is competitive by design.
We don’t optimize for volume, we optimize for capability.

If you meet the bar and excel, you just don’t “graduate.” You’re hired by Tenacious into a full-time, paid AI engineering role, delivering global work from Addis Ababa.


📅 Applications close: Jan 30, 2026
🔗 Apply: http://apply.10academy.org

🚀 BUIDL CTC Ideathon Ethiopia

BUIDL CTC Ideathon Ethiopia is an in-person, beginner-friendly ideathon happening ahead of BUIDL CTC 2026. It’s an open space for developers, and Web3-curious builders and students to explore ideas, learn, and prepare to build for a global BUILD CTC 2026 Hackthon (https://buidl.creditcoin.org/)

🗓 Jan 31, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM
📍 BlueSpace Coworking space, Bole
🍽 Snacks and Food
👉Register(Limited Spots): https://luma.com/361816kh

​🌍 Who Should Join

Web2 & Web3 developers, Students, designers, founders and anyone curious about Web3

Join solo or with a team.
No prior Web3 experience. No polished product.

Just show up, pitch your idea🚀
Top 5 Projects will split prize pool of 500$

🧩 Themes

DeFi, RWA, DePIN and Gaming. Early-stage and creative ideas are welcome

🏆 $500 Prize Pool

🥇 $200
🥈 $125
🥉 $100
🏅 $50
🏅 $25

⚠️ Limited capacity — secure your spot early

Polkadot Solidity Bootcamp

2 weeks of hands-on Solidity training focused on real deployment on Polkadot Hub.

• Online recorded sessions
• Labs, homework & guided builds
• Final physical meetup
• Project showcases & giveaways
• A launch pad for the coming solidity hackathon

join us on the telegram group and start with us
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🔥The "Final Boss" Struggle

Let’s be real for a second... why does one "simple" DSA problem sometimes feel like a final boss fight? 😂

You open a platform, stare at a wall of text, and 2 hours later, your brain feels like mush. We’ve all been there stuck in the "grind" where you’re just memorizing solutions instead of actually getting it.

The struggle is real:

❗️Going on a 3-hour YouTube "side quest" only to end up more lost than when you started. 🌀😵‍💫
❗️Not being able to see what the code is actually doing.
❗️That "burnout" feeling after just two days of practice.

Why do you think this is happening? Is the way we're taught just... broken?

But enough about us, let’s have a "Brain-Melt" check-in.

If you had to describe your brain after a 2-hour DSA session using only 3 emojis, what would they be?

Mine: 🫠 🪵 🔌 (Melted, confused as a log, and unplugged).

Drop yours below! Let’s see who’s currently in 'Infinite Loop' mode. 👇

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📌 CPD Entrance Exam – Practice Guide

The CPD entrance exam is open to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students from any department.
All practice problems will be solved on Codeforces.

🔹 1st Year
Denoscription:
Focuses on checking your understanding of basic Python programming and simple problem-solving. You just need to know how to read, understand, and implement code correctly.

Topics: Implementation, brute force, easy sorting, basic sets & dictionaries

Ratings: 800

NB: If you don’t know the topic names, don’t worry—just practice 800-rated problems.

🔹 2nd Year
Similar to 1st year, but with slightly harder problems. You are expected to be more comfortable with logic and basic algorithms.

Topics: All 1st year topics but more harder (edited here)

Ratings: 800 – 900

🔹 3rd Year
Tests stronger problem-solving skills and algorithmic thinking. Questions require better optimization and understanding of common techniques.

Topics: All previous topics (1st year & 2nd year) + two pointers, sliding window, prefix sum, matrix problems

Ratings: 800 – 1200 (max)

❓ Have questions or need clarification?
Feel free to drop them in the chat—we’re happy to help.

📢 More updates, practice sets, and guidance will be shared soon, so stay tuned!

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🎉Welcome to the Team

Congratulations to the students selected for the CSEC ASTU Blockchain & Web3 Developers Task Force.

You’ve been chosen to build real-world blockchain solutions, explore cutting-edge Web3 technologies, and lead the blockchain movement on campus.

This is more than a selection it’s a responsibility.

🔥The journey starts now. Let’s build the future together.

here is students list who selected 🔗Link

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