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·Dec 5, 2020

Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation

The bureaucrats are running the asylum — This blog post generated a lot of discussion on Hacker News — many people have reached out to me giving more examples of the stagnation and more examples of projects avoiding it. Maybe I’ll add to this article or maybe I’ll write a new one, let’s see what happens. …

Machine Learning

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Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation
Machine Learning

14 min read


Dec 5, 2020

You’re Doing Remote Wrong

We all reminisce about the good old office days — Office pranks, brainstorming on a whiteboard and furtive glances by the water-cooler. …

Remote Working

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Remote Working

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Sep 13, 2020

Entity Component System is all you need?

A intro to Game Objects, Components and the Entity Component System in Unity — Intro This article is a sequel to my article on multiple dispatch. The benefits of multiple dispatch become clearest when we talk about numerical or scientific code but the Entity Component System (ECS) is more popular and talked about in the game dev community. While the scientific community and game dev…

Game Development

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Entity Component System is all you need?
Entity Component System is all you need?
Game Development

7 min read


Sep 7, 2020

A beginner’s guide to DnD

Is DnD a board-game or a video-game? Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game and while it does have its fair share of complicated rules, it’s not a board-game. The distinction is important because in DnD you roleplay as a character in a world entirely created by your dungeon master (DM). …

Dnd

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A beginner’s guide to DnD
A beginner’s guide to DnD
Dnd

7 min read


Sep 2, 2020

How to get a great job

No CV required — The most common question I get asked on Twitch Streams and Twitter DMs is how do I get a good job? This question comes in a few variations “I didn’t study in the US, how can I get a job in the US?” “Do you think I need a PhD…

Careers

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Careers

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Aug 23, 2020

“Waynieh El Dawle?” and other harmful memes

On the necessity of “Strong States” — Background I felt somewhat compelled to write this article after a few discussions with friends who thought my views were borderline insane. The strong negative emotions reminded me a lot of the criticism I faced when I suggested that homeschooling would be superior to the traditional schooling system. What was inconceivable…

Lebanon

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“Waynieh El Dawle?” and other harmful memes
“Waynieh El Dawle?” and other harmful memes
Lebanon

8 min read


Jun 7, 2020

Reflections “One World School House

This is my second post on homeschooling, written almost 8 months after the first one Deschooling Society. 8 months ago when I talked to my friends and family about homeschooling they worried that I was “losing it”, that spending too much time working from home made me lose my grasp…

Education

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Education

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Dec 18, 2019

The Art of Rhetoric

How can that idiot be the president? How are they so rich? They have 0 logic…. It’s the people that are gullible!! At first glance it’s easy to dismiss the success of the corrupt as dumb luck, being in the right place at the right time. However, this viewpoint blinds…

Politics

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The Art of Rhetoric
The Art of Rhetoric
Politics

4 min read


Dec 16, 2019

Bitcoin: Reflections on the Lebanese Financial Crisis

Why do the Lebanese people suddenly care about Bitcoin? I just flew in from San Diego to Lebanon for the holidays and a shocking number of my conversations with friends and family have been about Bitcoin. Long story short, decades of government corruption and questionable policies by the Central Bank have led to a situation where depositors are not…

Bitcoin

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Bitcoin: Reflections on the Lebanese Financial Crisis
Bitcoin: Reflections on the Lebanese Financial Crisis
Bitcoin

8 min read


Dec 4, 2019

How to Move? Lie Group Robotics

Suppose we’d like to design a humanoid robot, which data-structures do we need to represent the state of the robot at each point in time and how do we actually move the robot around? We can abstract away the muscles and nervous system of a humanoid and only work with…

Mathematics

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How to Move? Lie Group Robotics
How to Move? Lie Group Robotics
Mathematics

10 min read

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