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by erikig 189 days ago
The Indian-born textbook author mentioned (Malkiat Singh [0]) had an inordinate influence on many Kenyan students because his textbooks were the de-facto standard for years. Its interesting how this influence extends as his students get to curate the LLMs on which the world has come to rely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkiat_Singh

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