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Writing & Thoughts.

Exploring AI, engineering, and the philosophy of building things.

2025
NOV 26
Reading Books at the Right TimeUncategorized
AUG 06
What would I spend 10,000 hours on?Reflections
AUG 06
What Would I Want to Spend 10,000 Hours On?Uncategorized
JUN 25
Agents Are Eating the Application Business LayerUncategorized
JUN 25
Agents Are Eating the Business Layer.Engineering
JUN 16
Voluntary Discomfort.Philosophy
JUN 11
Weekly: Drinking from Small CupsUncategorized
JUN 04
Don’t Take Anything for Granted.Uncategorized
MAY 29
(De)invest for the long term.Thoughts
MAY 21
Freedom is hardLife
MAY 14
Weekly: Good Friends.Weekly Assessment
MAY 07
“How can I help?”Thoughts
APR 30
KnowING What I Can't Control.Uncategorized
APR 22
“I'm not a Hypocrite.”Uncategorized
APR 17
"Requirement" is an empty word.Engineering
APR 09
The Current Expert Problem with ChatGPTUncategorized
MAR 26
Weekly: 3 biggest problems(3BP)Thoughts
MAR 19
On Trust.Uncategorized
MAR 12
On Self Worth.Uncategorized
MAR 06
No SDETs and No QA Engineers.Uncategorized
FEB 26
Weekly: My Father. And Hot water.Weekly Assessment
FEB 19
Sweat for it, I must.Weekly Assessment
FEB 13
23 Things I Learned in 2024.Thoughts
FEB 05
I’m a Libre. I Hate Dependencies.Uncategorized
JAN 21
For the Love of Old BooksUncategorized
2024
SEP 26
Week 44: I Lose, Reality Wins.1-Min-Read
AUG 15
Week 43: You can't be surprised twice.1-Min-Read
AUG 08
Week 42: A Prayer, by definition.1-Min-Read
AUG 01
Week 41: What matters, matters.1-Min-Read
JUL 25
Week 40: God and Fear.1-Min-Read
JUL 18
Week 39: Not all weeks are created equal.1-Min-Read
JUL 11
Week 38: Outsmarting customers1-Min-Read
JUL 04
Week 37: What does good future look like?1-Min-Read
JUN 27
Week 36: Selfishness and Spirituality1-Min-Read
JUN 20
Week 35: Answering the Wrong Question1-Min-Read
JUN 13
Week 34: God and FutureThoughts
JUN 07
Week 33: My Tribe (and Hires)1-Min-Read
APR 25
Week 32: Working at IntersectionsWeekly Assessment
APR 18
Week 31: Be the weakest person in the room.Weekly Assessment
APR 11
Week 30: Produce > ConsumeWeekly Assessment
APR 04
Week 29: Reframing the WeekWeekly Assessment
MAR 28
Week 28: Forcing Oneself to Make MoneyWeekly Assessment
MAR 21
Week 27: Skills that Don't AgeWeekly Assessment
MAR 14
Week 26: People I LoveWeekly Assessment
MAR 08
Week 25: Days of Future PastWeekly Assessment
FEB 29
Week 24: Never a Dog, Ever a Wolf.Weekly Assessment
FEB 22
Week 23: Montesquieu and The Spirit of LawWeekly Assessment
FEB 15
Week 22: A Place I Call HomeWeekly Assessment
FEB 08
Week 21: Invert IncentivesWeekly Assessment
FEB 01
Week 20: 7 out of 10 is bad.Weekly Assessment
JAN 12
Week 19: "Where is the good knife?"Weekly Assessment
JAN 05
Week 18: Stay Still and ThinkWeekly Assessment
2023
AUG 23
Week 17: I Think, Therefore I LaughWeekly Assessment
JUL 30
Week 16: Journalling.Weekly Assessment
JUL 03
Week 15: Nonviolent CommunicationWeekly Assessment
JUN 23
Week 14: Shape UpWeekly Assessment
JUN 04
I'm not different.Uncategorized
MAY 25
Week 13: MéditerranéenWeekly Assessment
MAY 14
Something I changed my mind about.1-Min-Read
MAY 14
Week 12: I’m remembering. My father.Weekly Assessment
APR 27
Week 11: What I'm pondering on.Weekly Assessment
JAN 27
Quick Thoughts On Providing FeedbackStartups
JAN 23
On “CEO of the Year” AwardStartups
JAN 06
“I will not manage you.”Management
JAN 01
Aleppo, Traders, and Rotations (aka Hackamonth)Startups
2021
AUG 20
أسبوع 10: رُخامWeekly Assessment
JUL 30
أسبوع 9: غش وذئاب وتسويقWeekly Assessment
JUL 23
أسبوع 8: عودة للكتابة بعد ٤ سنواتWeekly Assessment
2020
AUG 09
ElasticSearch Out of the Box Use CasesNLP
FEB 21
Automatically Extracting Valuable Content from News Streams.NLP
JAN 29
Abstractive Summarization in Underresourced LanguagesNLP
JAN 29
An Initial, Failed Solution For The Event Detection TaskNLP
JAN 29
Building a Test Collection for Event Detection Systems EvaluationNLP
JAN 29
Initial Genre Classification ExperimentsNLP
JAN 29
News Stream Clustering - Sequential Clustering in ActionNLP
JAN 27
Towards Contrary-View Detection in NewsNLP
JAN 26
An Implementation of a News Stream Sequence Clustering AlgorithmNLP
JAN 26
Automatic Sentence ParaphrasingNLP
JAN 26
Contrary View Detection Based On Document SimilarityNLP
JAN 26
Contrary view detection based on VODUMNLP
JAN 26
Major Tasks in Dialectical Arabic ProcessingNLP
JAN 26
Multi-document summarization. The What, Why and HowNLP
JAN 26
Smart Services For Social Media MarketingNLP
JAN 21
Auto-Tagging Content with NLPNLP
JAN 19
Aspect-level Vs Entity-level Sentiment AnalysisNLP
JAN 19
From Sentiment to Political Bias in the Arab World and the Arabic ContentNLP
JAN 19
Multidimensional Topic Modelling. The What? and The How?NLP
JAN 19
Viewpoint, Topic and Opinion Discovery in an Opinionated DocumentNLP
JAN 18
An Overview of The Event Extraction Task in NLPNLP
JAN 18
Analysis of the Readability Metric Results in Almeta News FeedNLP
JAN 18
Aspect Detection and Named Entity Linking (NEL): Using SPARQL and DBpediaNLP
JAN 18
Automatically Tagging Data for Content Informativity ScoringNLP
JAN 18
Can you measure a text Informativeness using its summary?NLP
JAN 18
Clickbait Detection Using Word2Vec RepresentationNLP
JAN 18
Comparison of Available TTS ServicesNLP
JAN 18
How to Detect Cliches in TextNLP
JAN 18
How to Detect Clickbait Headlines using NLP?NLP
JAN 18
How to Measure Text Readability?NLP
JAN 18
How to Rank Articles Based on How Informative They Are - Using SnorkelNLP
JAN 18
Informativity Detection - Almeta's Research GistNLP
JAN 18
Political Orientation Detection - AI and NLP ApproachNLP
JAN 18
Search Service Frameworks EvaluationNLP
JAN 18
Stance Detection - State of the ArtNLP
JAN 18
Subjective Stance Detection What is it? and How to do it?NLP
JAN 18
Supervised Article Informativeness Prediction - The What and the HowNLP
JAN 18
Term Informativeness Estimation in the Arabic LanguageNLP
JAN 18
What Makes an Article Informative - And How Computers Can Measure Informativity of a Text ContentNLP
JAN 16
Google's AutoML OverviewNLP
2019
OCT 08
How to Fact-Check using Natural Language Processing Techniques? A Literature ReviewNLP
SEP 30
Event Detection in Media using NLP and AINLP
AUG 04
Top 3 Exciting Ideas in NLP in 2018NLP
AUG 01
Biggest Challenges in Arabic Natural Language ProcessingNLP
JUL 26
4 Biggest Open Problems in NLPNLP
JAN 10
Design Specialization from CalArtsUncategorized
2017
JUN 24
الأسبوع 07: "لاااا بجد".. إذا لم تقرأ 100 ختم في رمضان فأنت لست بالشخص الجيدWeekly Assessment
JUN 19
الإسبوع 06: عودة للشام، توت شامي، ناعم ودبسWeekly Assessment
JUN 12
الإسبوع 04-05: أحبّك حبّينWeekly Assessment
MAY 28
الإسبوع 03: بوظة، نظارات ٢ يورو، بيتر، وماذا تعلمنا من قراءة ٥ مليون كتاب؟Weekly Assessment
MAY 21
الإسبوع 02: أكل بارد وكيف تنهي كورسيرا في ١٠ ساعاتWeekly Assessment
MAY 21
"كيف عندك كل هالوقت"Weekly Assessment
MAY 13
الإسبوع 01: بشو تغيّرت هالإسبوع؟Weekly Assessment
MAY 09
اليوم الذي أصبحت فيه كاتباً أفضلThoughts
MAY 08
سكادوووش! من كونغ فو باندا!5-Min-Read
MAY 07
أظن أنك سمين! I think you are fat!Uncategorized
MAY 07
تحتاج فقط إلى ١٠٠٠ مشجع!Uncategorized
MAY 07
The World's Healthiest 75-Year-Old ManUncategorized
APR 22
كتاب لا تفكّر في حليب أحمر!1-Min-Read
FEB 05
من مؤسس DuolingoThoughts
JAN 07
نهاية عام مع القراءة - 2016 / A year of ReadingBooks
2016
DEC 21
المعاني الرائعة لموسيقا الفصول الأربعة لفيفالديThoughts
OCT 16
بيتر تيل، الاحتكار و صفر-واحدStartups
OCT 15
عن الإصرار.. الإصرار.. الإصرار..Startups
OCT 05
قمة الغلاظة في حدث غوغل البارحة!Thoughts
OCT 03
#هيك #رسميUncategorized
SEP 29
اليوم 29: دواء الخمس دولارات!Visual Storytelling
SEP 29
اليوم 30 والأخير: المياعة كنز لا يفنى!Visual Storytelling
SEP 28
اليوم 28: وهم الطبيعي المحزن!Visual Storytelling
SEP 27
اليوم 27: عقلك السريع البطيء!Visual Storytelling
SEP 26
اليوم 26: أعط من أضافك في بيته نقوداً... وشوف شو بيصير!Visual Storytelling
SEP 25
اليوم 25: ظروفك بتنبعت للريح!Visual Storytelling
SEP 24
اليوم 24: ضميرك المخبص! ضمير عند الحاجة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 23
اليوم 23: هذا المقال مجاااانيييي!Visual Storytelling
SEP 22
اليوم 22: شوربة أخلاق!Visual Storytelling
SEP 21
اليوم 21: ما علاقة أيكيا بالدين؟!Visual Storytelling
SEP 20
اليوم 20: صايرة وصايرة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 19
اليوم 19: هل نحب الضريبة أم الضريبة لا تحبنا؟Visual Storytelling
SEP 18
اليوم 18: من منظور علمي، بدك حسم أم تجنب ضريبة؟Visual Storytelling
SEP 17
اليوم 17: الرّيس والهالة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 16
اليوم 16: حط مصروفك عند أختك!Visual Storytelling
SEP 15
اليوم 15: مواعيد لمّا بلا مواعيد؟Visual Storytelling
SEP 15
اليوم 14: اختبار مارشميلو يتنبأ بمستقبلك!Visual Storytelling
SEP 13
اليوم 13: كون زاغاروس وتحدى القيود!Visual Storytelling
SEP 13
اليوم 11: فن الامتنانVisual Storytelling
SEP 13
اليوم 12: بدون دسم!Visual Storytelling
SEP 12
اليوم ٠٩: قلل من خيارك!Visual Storytelling
SEP 12
اليوم ١٠: لماذا يضحك الجمهور في Friends!Visual Storytelling
SEP 10
اليوم ٠٨: دخلك لا يعني سعادتك!Visual Storytelling
SEP 10
اليوم ٠٧: عهد النوكيا ما زال قائماً! - الجزء الثانيVisual Storytelling
SEP 09
اليوم ٠٦: عهد النوكيا ما زال قائماً! - الجزء الأولVisual Storytelling
SEP 08
اليوم ٠٥!Visual Storytelling
SEP 07
اليوم٠٤: ليست تجربة بافلوف آخرى!Visual Storytelling
SEP 06
اليوم٠٣: اشعل نفسك وتحدى العطالة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 05
اليوم ٠٢: أنا لا أعمل، أنا أميرة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 04
اليوم ٠١: كيف تستفاد من نظرية النافذة المكسورة!Visual Storytelling
SEP 01
جن!Drawing and Sketching
AUG 24
A Short Movie About Biking - With Adaptive Music / فلم قصير عن "البسكلة" مع موسيقا متكيفة!Thoughts
AUG 22
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 06Drawing and Sketching
AUG 12
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 05Drawing and Sketching
AUG 09
خليك ع طبيعتك!Drawing and Sketching
AUG 03
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 04Uncategorized
JUL 20
On Discipline and Focus - Jony IveUncategorized
JUL 13
Another Monsters Pack!Uncategorized
JUL 12
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 03Drawing and Sketching
JUL 02
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 02Drawing and Sketching
JUL 01
Caricatures of my Friends!Drawing and Sketching
JUL 01
Monsters PackDrawing and Sketching
JUN 30
نور على نورDrawing and Sketching
JUN 26
رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 01Uncategorized
JUN 14
Drawing - GuacameleeDrawing and Sketching
JUN 10
Drawing - Simpsons GangstersDrawing and Sketching
JUN 08
Drawing - Dirty AnimalsDrawing and Sketching
JUN 08
Ropossum V1 is now Open-Sourced!Games
JUN 07
Drawing - The Cool GuyDrawing and Sketching
JUN 07
Drawings - Ramadan Kareem! رمضان كريم!Drawing and Sketching
JUN 06
Another Agent to Solve Cut the Rope - Ropossum Authoring Tool - Projection-based ApproachGames
JUN 05
Drawing - Quick SketchesDrawing and Sketching
JUN 03
Book of the WeekBooks
JUN 03
Drawing - Tree ManDrawing and Sketching
JUN 02
اسمع يا رجل: الحياة نهر وكل يغترف منه بحجم فنجانه.. فنجانك صغيرBooks
JUN 01
Drawing - The Old GuyDrawing and Sketching
MAY 31
Drawing - People SittingDrawing and Sketching
MAY 30
An Agent to Solve Cut the Rope - First Attempt - Simulation-based ApproachGames
MAY 29
Creativity is VERY MUCH LIKE literacy1-Min-Read
MAY 29
Graphic Design Specialisation on CourseraCourses
MAY 18
Drawings - Piano Love.Drawing and Sketching
MAY 06
Caricatures of Friends!Drawing and Sketching
APR 07
Drawings - Don't know what happened with the pants.Drawing and Sketching
APR 05
Drawings - Hefty hairDrawing and Sketching
FEB 01
My Books of the Year Lists [12-15]Books
2015
SEP 06
Reactive Music Canvas - إظهار الموسيقا بشكل محسوسGames
SEP 03
ريادة أم لا ريادة للعرب؟ تظاهر بالريادة؟ أم "لف القصة على جنب"؟5-Min-Read
AUG 31
Android and CloudCourses
AUG 31
Unity CourseCourses
AUG 28
GGBox: Time Shifts - Pre-Alpha Footage + Playable Demo - لعبة موسيقا جديدة!Games
AUG 23
Google, Phelps and The ONE THING. "غوغل، مايكل فيلبس و"الشيء الواحد5-Min-Read
AUG 19
Interaction Design Crash CourseCourses
AUG 15
Monopoly 0-1, Your Startup and Monopoly - احتكار صفر واحد! هل يجب على شركتك الناشئة أن تحتكر لتنجح؟5-Min-Read
AUG 11
قهوة و Dropbox و LinkedIn! الاقتصاد السلوكي والتصميم في دقيقتين - Coffee, Dropbox & LinkedIn. Behavioural Economics and Design in 2 min!5-Min-Read
JUL 16
Two new prototypes are available for free play!Games
JUN 30
[Master Thesis] Ultra Fast, Cross Genre, Procedural Content Generation in GamesGames
APR 30
Indie Game Developer vs ResearcherGames
MAR 12
#SyncSeven, my newest game on Android!Games
2014
NOV 29
 Showcase of My Research on Games & AIGames
JUL 14
My New Website!Thoughts
JUN 03
First look on some graphics of my "NEXT" upcoming game!Games
MAY 25
A Nanometer1-Min-Read
MAY 23
Population, Cont.1-Min-Read
MAY 20
Thrive *n Chaos1-Min-Read
MAY 17
Facing the Revolution, The Age of Speed1-Min-Read
MAY 17
Immigration in the face of Population1-Min-Read
MAY 17
New version of Ropossum V2.0 is coming soon!Conference and Journal Papers
MAY 17
Twenty years of experience?1-Min-Read
MAY 09
Inspirational.. Looking Past Limits1-Min-Read
APR 11
The best way to get a book deal? Write a story 19 million people want to readThoughts
APR 05
Change Your Mind, Change Your Life1-Min-Read
APR 05
Adaptive Games Content Generation for 2D MarioConference and Journal Papers
APR 05
On Intelligence and Creativity1-Min-Read
APR 05
‘Should I do this OR that?’1-Min-Read
APR 05
We are Right/Left Hemisphere-ed1-Min-Read
MAR 29
An Implementation of Quadtree, Adaptive Huffman and Lossless Compression EngineTechnical Programming
MAR 29
C# and WPF CourseCourses
MAR 29
C++.NET Windows Forms CourseCourses
MAR 29
Intro to Event-driven Programming and Forms with DelphiCourses
MAR 29
OpenGL Crash CourseCourses
MAR 27
Car Dynamics [Physics Simulation]Technical Programming
MAR 27
XNA Game Development CourseCourses
MAR 26
CROSPELL ENGINE - Natural Language Processing EngineTechnical Programming
MAR 26
Mobile Software Engineering Crash CourseCourses
MAR 26
Social Relationship and Decision-Making explained by Fuzzy LogicThoughts
MAR 14
Cockroaches Motivation1-Min-Read
MAR 13
Personalizing Player Experience in First-Person Shooter Games, UMAP 2013Conference and Journal Papers
MAR 13
Ropossum: Cut the Rope Authoring Tool Poster, AIIDE 2013Conference and Journal Papers
MAR 13
The Truth about Relativity1-Min-Read
MAR 09
Short-term over Long-term Objectives1-Min-Read
MAR 08
Motivation Backfire!1-Min-Read
MAR 05
STYX Foodiac Nutrition SystemTechnical Programming
MAR 04
"Loss Aversion"1-Min-Read
MAR 02
Depression and HappySad People1-Min-Read
MAR 01
Prisons?1-Min-Read
FEB 22
Risk and Gain1-Min-Read
FEB 19
Startup Weekend Damascus, Weebee: A Game That Absorbs the Child Behavior and Change itGames
FEB 11
Drift Your Mind1-Min-Read
FEB 04
Blind By Our Own Eyes1-Min-Read
FEB 03
Emphasize Choice1-Min-Read
FEB 01
A Lost Generation1-Min-Read
JAN 28
"Companies ofte...1-Min-Read
JAN 28
Specializations On CourseraThoughts
JAN 22
Games are awesome... hmmm.. also make you smarter and healthierThoughts
JAN 22
The Story of "0"1-Min-Read
JAN 21
The Story of "Free!" - Cont.1-Min-Read
JAN 20
The Story of "Free!"1-Min-Read
JAN 18
Artificial Intelligence! Now what?Thoughts
JAN 18
Predictably Irrational–P21-Min-Read
JAN 17
Predictably Irrational-P11-Min-Read
JAN 17
1-Min-Reading, oh ya!1-Min-Read
JAN 17
Ropossum V1.0: A Physics-based Game Authoring ToolGames
2013
FEB 13
Cut the Rope Play Forever and Ropossum Authoring ToolGames
2012
AUG 31
Gaming and Robotics - Virtual Reality Seminar 2012Thoughts
AUG 30
ArtificiaI Intelligence brief Introduction @Wikilogia - Freshman 2012Thoughts