https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/blog Technical insights on machine learning, product management, and leadership Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:58:32 GMT https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/thinking-became-electric-part-1 https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/thinking-became-electric-part-1 قبل تاريخ الكمبيوتر في حلم أقدم: أن نكتب العقل نفسه. ثلاثة اصطدامات بين ذلك الحلم والآلة الحديثة — من سوسير وword2vec، إلى فيتغنشتاين والهلوسة، وهيوم والتعميم. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophycomputingmachine-learningword2vecrnnllminteractive https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/thinking-became-electric-part-1 https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/thinking-became-electric-part-1 Before the computer was built, there was an older dream: to write down reason itself. Three collisions between that dream and the modern machine — from Saussure and word2vec, to Wittgenstein and hallucination, to Hume and generalization. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophycomputingmachine-learningword2vecrnnllminteractive https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/edp-sort https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/edp-sort من اختيار مطعم إلى ترتيب لاعبين واختيار أفضل K عناصر: كيف نوزّع التجارب لما الجودة مجهولة والنتائج فيها ضجيج؟ نوع القرار والمعلومة اللي بترجع منه هما أساس اختيار الطريقة المناسبة. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) algorithmsbanditsdueling-banditssortinginteractiveedp https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/edp-sort https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/edp-sort Start with five restaurants whose true quality is unknown, then follow the same problem through multi-armed bandits, dueling bandits, noisy pairwise ranking, and top-K selection: the optimization structure is known, but its parameters must be learned by trying. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) algorithmsbanditsdueling-banditssortinginteractiveedp https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/ignore-the-feathers https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/ignore-the-feathers كل فريق عنده أفكار عظيمة أكتر من طاقته على الإنجاز. التحدي بيكمن بالاختيار: كيف نميّز بين هيبة الفكرة والدليل على فائدتها، ونصرف جهد الفريق على ما يستحق؟ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) decision-makingleadershipprioritizationsignalingteam-management https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/ignore-the-feathers https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/ignore-the-feathers Every team has more good ideas than capacity. The hard part is selection — learning to see past the costly signals, prestigious credentials, and compelling narratives to focus on what improves the outcome. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) decision-makingleadershipprioritizationsignalingteam-management https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agent-autonomy-part-2 https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agent-autonomy-part-2 كيف نترك للـ agents مجالاً أوسع لتطوير الشروحات التفاعلية، وجودتها ما بتنحسم بصحة الكود وحدها؟ عن تنظيم البحث، وتراكم الخبرة، والفرق بين تقييم التصميم وقياس التعلّم. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchsubjective-judgmenteducation https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agent-autonomy-part-2 https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agent-autonomy-part-2 How can agents improve educational demos when quality depends on human judgment? A proposed workflow using explicit teaching patterns, multiple evaluators, and checks on what those evaluations actually measure. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchsubjective-judgmenteducation https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus ديفيش بيدير كرفان لحم أخطبوط مشبوه داخل المحاكاة. عميل متخفّي، بثمان مجسّات وثمان مصالح جانبية. قصة عن الحب والذكاء الاصطناعي والضرايب. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) storiesaihumorsimulation https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus Devesh ran a shady octopus meat caravan in the Simulation. Top agent, deep cover. Eight tentacles, eight side hustles. A story about love, AI, and taxes. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) storiesaihumorsimulation https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agent-autonomy https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agent-autonomy بعض المسائل صعبة، لكن نطاقها واضح ونتائجها قابلة للفحص. من رصّ الدوائر إلى البحث عن خوارزميات أفضل: متى تكتفي بتوجيه الـ agent، ومتى تترك له تنظيم المحاولات وتقييمها؟ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchbounded-problems https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agent-autonomy https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agent-autonomy Agent autonomy isn't for everything. But for a specific slice of work—bounded problems that demand intelligence—it's exactly what you need. Algorithms, articles, demos, education materials, trip plans, webpages. Here's how to recognize when to stop directing and start hiring. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchbounded-problems https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/price-of-anarchy https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/price-of-anarchy ثمن الفوضى، توازن ناش، و ليش لسا مصدقين إنه ممكن يكون في خلاص أصلاً؟ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophyeconomicsgame-theorypolitics https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/price-of-anarchy https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/price-of-anarchy The price of anarchy, Nash equilibrium, and why we still believe salvation is possible. Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophyeconomicsgame-theorypolitics https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination مش فقاعة—الفقاعات بتنفقع وبترجع لطبيعتك. هاي سيمولاكرا. ما في طبيعي ترجعله. Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophyaitech-industrybaudrillard https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination We're not in a bubble—bubbles pop and you return to normal. We're in a simulacrum. There's no normal to return to. A Baudrillardian analysis of the AI industry's drift from reality into hyperreality, and how to survive the inevitable reload. Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) philosophyaitech-industrybaudrillard https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/vision-encoded-text-compression https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/vision-encoded-text-compression تجربة بقراءة نصوص محوّلة لصور صغيرة: شو اللي قدر النموذج يسترجعه، وكيف نميّز بين نجاح القراءة والتوفير الفعلي بكلفة الطلب؟ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aioptimizationvision-modelscost-reductionmachine-learning https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/vision-encoded-text-compression https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/vision-encoded-text-compression An experiment in reading densely rendered screenshots, what the results suggest, and why readability must be measured separately from API token savings. Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aioptimizationvision-modelscost-reductionmachine-learning https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/modeling-resilience-option-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/modeling-resilience-option-b محاكاة بايزية مستوحاة من Option B، نحول فيها افتراضات عن التعافي إلى معادلات قابلة للفحص. شو بنتعلّم من عالم صنعنا بياناته، ووين بتوقف قدرته على تفسير تجارب الناس؟ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) resiliencedata-sciencepsychologybayesian-modelingoption-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/modeling-resilience-option-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/modeling-resilience-option-b A Bayesian simulation inspired by Option B: how to make assumptions about recovery explicit, inspect their consequences, and distinguish parameter recovery from evidence about people. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) resiliencedata-sciencepsychologybayesian-modelingoption-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/panic-button-principle https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/panic-button-principle فكرة إدارية عملية: خلي طلب المساعدة، ومراجعة حجم الشغل، وإيقاف التجربة خيارات حقيقية، وخلي الزر يشتغل لما ينضغط. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) leadershippsychologyteam-managementresilience https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/panic-button-principle https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/panic-button-principle A practical leadership principle: give people a credible way to ask for help, revisit scope, or stop an experiment—and make that option work when they use it. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) leadershippsychologyteam-managementresilience https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agi-misunderstanding https://www.hani-alshater.com/ar/free-writing/agi-misunderstanding لعبة أرقام وخدعة جبرية، والفرق بين إنك تختار قيمة، وتتذكرها، وتعيش تجربة الاختيار. Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagillmtechnologyopinion https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agi-misunderstanding https://www.hani-alshater.com/en/free-writing/agi-misunderstanding A number game, an algebraic trick, and the gap between choosing a value, remembering it, and having the experience of a choice. Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagillmtechnologyopinion