https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog Technical insights on machine learning, product management, and leadership en-us hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/edp-sort https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/edp-sort منبدأ من أبسط قرار تحت عدم اليقين — أي مطعم تختار وانت بتقدر تجرّب واحد بس بالليلة — ومنوصل لترتيب لاعبين ما بتقدر تقيسهم إلا بمباريات فيها ضجيج، ولـ combinatorial bandits اللي بتختار قائمة top-K كاملة. الفكرة وحدة طول الطريق: explore مقابل exploit — وين تصرف محاولتك الجاية. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) algorithmsbanditssortinginteractiveedp https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/edp-sort https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/edp-sort Start with the simplest decision under uncertainty — which restaurant to eat at when you can only try one a night — and walk it all the way to sorting players you can only compare by staging noisy matches, and to combinatorial bandits that pick whole top-K slates. One thread: explore vs exploit, and where to spend your next try. Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) algorithmsbanditssortinginteractiveedp https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/ignore-the-feathers https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/ignore-the-feathers كل فريق عنده أفكار منيحة أكتر من طاقته. الصعب هو الاختيار — إنك تتعلّم تشوف أبعد من الإشارات المكلفة، والشهادات الفخمة، والقصص المقنعة، وتركّز ع اللي فعلاً بيحرّك الرقم. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) decision-makingleadershipprioritizationsignalingteam-management https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/ignore-the-feathers https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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 actually moves the number. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) decision-makingleadershipprioritizationsignalingteam-management https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy-part-2 https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy-part-2 demos تعليمية، مواد تسويقية، وشغل إبداعي — مسائل بدون harness رياضي. الجزء التاني من سلسلة استقلالية الـ Agent بيبيّن كيف التطوّر المنسّق للـ agents بيقدر يحلّ مسائل ذاتية عن طريق التوجيه المبني ع المهارات ومقيّمين مستقلّين متعدّدين. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchsubjective-judgmenteducation https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy-part-2 https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy-part-2 Educational demos, marketing materials, and creative work—problems without a mathematical harness. Part 2 of the Agent Autonomy series shows how orchestrated agent evolution can solve subjective problems through skill-based guidance and multiple independent evaluators. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchsubjective-judgmenteducation https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus ديفيش كان مشغّل كرفان لحم أخطبوط مشبوه جوّا السيميوليشن. أحسن agent، تغطية عميقة. تمن مجسّات، تمن شغلات جانبية. قصة عن الحب، والـ AI، والضرايب. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) storiesaihumorsimulation https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/the-love-prompt-of-devesh-the-octopus https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/agent-autonomy https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy استقلالية الـ agent مش لكل اشي. بس لشريحة معيّنة من الشغل — المسائل المحدودة اللي بدها ذكاء — هي بالظبط اللي بتحتاجه. خوارزميات، مقالات، demos، مواد تعليمية، خطط رحلات، صفحات ويب. هون كيف تعرف إيمتى توقف عن التوجيه وتبلّش توظيف. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagentsautonomyresearchbounded-problems https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agent-autonomy https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/price-of-anarchy https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/price-of-anarchy https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/welcome-to-the-greatest-hallucination https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/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/blog/vision-encoded-text-compression https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/vision-encoded-text-compression أداء DeepSeek-OCR ثوري، بس فيك تحقق نتيجة مشابهة من ضغط 8x للنص (توفير 87% بالـ tokens) بدقة 99.5% باستخدام موديلات LLM عادية متل Gemini 2.5 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aioptimizationvision-modelscost-reductionmachine-learning https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/vision-encoded-text-compression https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/vision-encoded-text-compression DeepSeek-OCR performance is revolutary, however, you could achive similar result of 8x text compression (87% token savings) with 99.5% accuracy using standard LLM models like Gemini 2.5 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aioptimizationvision-modelscost-reductionmachine-learning https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/modeling-resilience-option-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/modeling-resilience-option-b فينا نعمل نموذج لكيف الناس بتتعافى من الضربات؟ باستخدام Bayesian hierarchical modeling، بستكشف كيف المرونة وأنظمة الدعم بتشكل رحلتنا من الصدمة للنمو. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) resiliencedata-sciencepsychologybayesian-modelingoption-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/modeling-resilience-option-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/modeling-resilience-option-b Can we model how people recover from setbacks? Using Bayesian hierarchical modeling, I explore how resilience and support systems shape our journey from trauma to post-traumatic growth. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) resiliencedata-sciencepsychologybayesian-modelingoption-b https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/panic-button-principle https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/panic-button-principle ليش مجرد وجود مخرج طوارئ بيخلي الناس تشتغل أحسن، حتى لو عمرهم ما استخدموه. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) leadershippsychologyteam-managementresilience https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/panic-button-principle https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/panic-button-principle How providing perceived control through "panic buttons" can alleviate psychological stress and unlock team potential in high-pressure environments. Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) leadershippsychologyteam-managementresilience https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agi-misunderstanding https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agi-misunderstanding نظرة نقدية على هوس الـ AGI من خلال لعبة بسيطة بتكشف محدودية الـ LLMs الجوهرية Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagillmtechnologyopinion https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agi-misunderstanding https://www.hani-alshater.com/blog/agi-misunderstanding A critical look at AGI hype through a simple game that exposes the fundamental limitations of LLMs Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT hani.alshater@gmail.com (Hani Al-Shater) aiagillmtechnologyopinion