النجاح الفردي لتكوين مجتمع جميل

يهمني أن أكونَ مُحاطاً بأشخاص ناجحين. أعذروني لاستخدامي المصطلح غير الواضح "ناجح" لكننا نستطيع التعامل معه بِحَرْفيّة على أنه يشير الى أي نوع من النجاح في تحقيق الأهداف مهما كانت (إلا لو كان الهدف تقليل 

الأهداف و تصغيرها، أو التظاهر أن لا يوجد لديك أحلام لتلاحقها).

أريد أن أكون محاطاً بأشخاص ناجحين لأني أريد أن أعيش في عالم يستطيع الأشخاص فيه القيام بالأشياء، و فعلاً يقومون بها. أريد أن أنتمي الى مجتمع قادر يحوي أشخاص مثيرين للاهتمام و يقومون بأشياء مثيرة للفكر، و يتمتعون برؤى عميقة على الأمور التي يخوضون فيها، و من أستطيع أن أستمتع معهم في تجارب فكرية مثيرة للاهتمام و العقل.

ذلك يعني أني سأسعى أن أجعل من أصدقائي الناجحون. و هذا يعني شيئين: جذب ناجحين كاصدقاء جُدد الى دائرتي الاجتماعية، و أن أفعل قدر استطاعتي لمساعدة اصدقائي الحاليين في النجاح فيما يقومون به و يسعون إليه، أو على الأقل التمني لهم بالخير و تشجيعهم على العمل للنجاح.

الحيوية، الإلهام، الرغبة في تحقيق الأهداف و النجاح بشكل عام هي أمور قابلة للانتشار كالعدوى، و المزيد من الأشخاص الذين يعملون من أجل أحلامهم يؤدي الى تَكَوُّن مجتمع رائع من أشخاص رائعين، و هذا المجتمع سيكون مجتمعنا. مجتمع سيكون من استطاعتي أن اسميه مجتمي أنا مثلما يستطيع كل عضو آخر، و سأكون فخوراً و أنا أَقِرُّ بِعضويتي.

أريد أن أرى كل أصدقائي و معارفي و حتى الأشخاص البعيدين أكثر و حتى الأشخاص الذين لا أحبهم لكنهم موجودون في دوائري الاجتماعية أن ينجحوا. هذا بكل بساطة في صالحي: سأصبح جزءاً في عالم أستمتع بوجودي فيه.

إجعل لكل يوم من أيامك وزن و قيمة؛ حياتك هي أيامك.

Technology Related Science Fiction Musings

I'm going to start writing segments of stories that randomly come up to me while I'm waking, jogging, working that relate to my profession and passion of software development. I've had lots of such fantasies of advanced software technology or great minds but I'm just going to start today with whatever comes to my mind and list it here.

These are going to be story segments. Some are descriptions of places or technology or emotional scenes, or just what imaginary characters are saying.

The list of Tech Science Fiction Story Segments (i'm going to tag them with TechSciFi)

http://mazinissa.blogspot.ae/2014/03/inputs-are-outputs-and-meta-neural.html

The necessary meta-existence

Every day I face very interesting situations and use scenarios of technologies. Sometimes really interesting ideas come up to my head and I usually write it down somewhere I never go back to. I experience the urge to delve into the details of something, but at the same time being overloaded by tasks (from both my formal work and my personal work) inhibits me.

I unfortunately do not have the luxury to arbitrarily entertain my curiosity and my desire to know more.

This all pushes me to think about the ways I approach learning, contemplate my own thinking patterns and reflect on my behavior as a programmer. This is where my interest in meta-programming, developing software development tools (programs that developers use to help them develop programs).

But lately the inclination to think this was has gotten more intense, especially because I am loaded with more work and because I want to do more. I don't want just to do my job. I want to exceed it and much more! I want to be able to handle much more work. I need to explore how my brain works, and my psychology as a programmer and perhaps one day summarize my thinking patterns, problem-exploration and solution-generation methods using abstraction techniques that I can automate. This is cognitive modeling, neuroscience and computational psychology.

The paradoxical situation that I am in arises from the fact that exploring the metaphysical aspects of my life in an attempt to find ways to make me more able to handle work, will be a lot of work in itself that is out of my professional domain. Simply put, I'll be battling on a front that I have no experience in, getting myself into a lot of work trying to optimize the way I do work.

I am proud with my attempts to automate some aspects of my work, completely refusing to doing it manually. But this is certainly not enough; especially when I think about all the great things I want my life to be about.

This is one of the reasons I feel that I meta-exist, because I meta-think all the time. One of my friends told me I thinking abstractly too much.

Even in social conversations, I find myself much more comfortable reflecting upon the fact that I am engaging socially rather than actually doing it. So I end up with a conversation in which people tell me how deep I am, and how I need to take things more simply. I make people uncomfortable; except those who can handle thinking about thought or conversations about conversations with a pen and paper in my hand trying to keep track of how the conversation evolves.

This is an experience that is common between programmers, physicists and mathematicians and perhaps one of the reason that they aren't usually called social butterflies.

I need to turn my attention to how can I approach adding the activities  of exploring my psychology and thinking patterns (with all the learning I need to do) into my schedule effectively. This better be formal and systematic, because I need results! Here we go again, another meta-layer.

Inputs are outputs and meta neural networks

Excited and out of breath, the employee meets the professor and says:

I’m happy for this opportunity to meet you.

The system uses non-trivial AI techniques neural networks and an expert system. The expert system is just a database but what’s interesting is the neural network whose activation functions are calibrated using a neural network itself. This was important because we reused the different segments of a neural network so the transition functions at each level of the hidden layers was important because they were both outputs to other NN or algorithms and inputs to the succeeding hidden layers. There was  a lot of activation functions to be designed and calibrated so we decided to create  a neural network to help us create those functions for the networks we are actually aiming to create.

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And that’s the thing that I think warrants me a Master’s Degree.

Convincing. Transformation.

How can you convince people who are not convinced you can convince them?

The issue here isn't your or their capacity to reason correctly about your arguments, but their lack of desire to be convinced by such an unconvincing person, namely yourself, even though you just did provide a convincing argument.

Here's where a much appreciated Arab proverb comes really handy: 'Judge what is being said, not who is saying it.'

Arabic societies is living a transformation that will leave us with a lot more reasonable thinkers, free men and women who have the ability to be objective and seek their well being through their societies' well being. Being an intellectual, an artist, a philospher or a scientist will become the norm

Unrealistic matters

I just went to the supermarket and bought 3 bags of chips, each with a different flavor. Then I started to think about how I need to fit my personality to my goals. I then thought, why can't one go to the supermarket and buy leadership-enhanced chips, or get a soda that increases your discipline? I stopped myself and reversed the idea that came to my head: "my thoughts are so much detached from reality."

Reality and the physical world is what is detached from our minds. This kind of thinking is simply incorrect, and is often embraced by children, blind visionaries, or criminals. But this idea could enhance how we feel about our unrealistic dreams that other call us naive for!

The thing is that we are constantly pressured to respect reality, and the rules the govern economics, social structure, psychology, and everything. This is why it's hard for a lot of people to perform one essential human activity, to imagine. This is sad; without imagination people are just machines, and we saw during the industrial age how ugly it is for people to be machines!

Our minds are beautiful, and the unrealistic things that come from it are too, and deserve lots of our respect.

dust and rust

I am dancing with the wind
but with the dust and the unconciousness
the unknown and the hidden smiles, or cries
arrest me because they are there, yet unseen
all the distractions make the wind stormy
and I have no choice* but to wear metal
and fall with determination
or keep on flying randomly with hesitation


*actually I do have lots of choices, but for the
purposes of this aimless expression, I pretend I don't.

Diary:
transforming into a man with more discipline. working hard, with more focus. difficulty and hope.