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AI · May 17, 2022

The Principle of sixteen

Afa Oracle

The Principle of sixteen launched on May 17, 2022 with 3 votes, #1,473 of 2,941 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Afa is an ancient African divination tool, cosmological treatise, and codification framework, that is thousands of years old, pre-dating all known computer science.

Afa/Ifa oracle is just a black box in the likes of Turing machine to simulate algorithms to give insight and make predictions. This method is an ancient knowledge which I am finding relevant day-after-day. . I see the need to explore this and see how we can sit it within ML and AI. There is a need to incorporate this in predictions, bidding, predictive cyber defense, cryptography, authentication a

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