12 Rules You Should to Know as a Syrian Graduate
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A talk I gave in the Faculty of Information Technology Engineering in Damascus, Syria for senior students in April 2019.
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- 3. 2008-2013 Damascus. BEng. In Computer Science and AI
- 4. 2014-2015 Grenoble, France. MSc. In Ubiquitous Interactive Systems
- 6. 2012-2015 Copenhagen. Independent Reseacher, 10 papers
- 8. 2016-2018 Amterdam. Squla, Education, Gamification
- 9. 2018- London, UK. Neurofenix, Software Engineering Lead
- 10. Study 0-5 years.
- 31. 1. Noor Shaker, Mohammad Shaker and Mohamed Abou-Zleikha. Towards Game-Independent Models of Player Experience, in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 15), 2015. 2015 2. Noor Shaker, Mohamed Abou-Zleikha and Mohammad Shaker. Active Learning for Player Modeling, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, 2015. 2015 3. Mohammad Shaker, Noor Shaker, Julian Togelius and Mohamed Abu-Zlekha. A Progressive Approach to Content Generation, in Proceedings of EvoGames: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 2015. Nominated for best paper award. 2015 4. Walaa Baghdadi, Fawzyah Shams Aldeen, Rawan Al-Omari, Zeina Alhalwani, Mohammad Shaker and Noor Shaker. A Procedural Method for Automatic Generation of Spelunky Levels, in Proceedings of EvoGames: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 2015. Nominated for best paper award. 2015 5. Mohammad Shaker, Noor Shaker, Mohamed Abu-Zlekha and Julian Togelius. A Projection-Based Approach for Real-time Assessment and Playability Check for Physics-Based Games in Proceedings of EvoGames: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, 2015. Nominated for best paper award. 2015 6. Noor Shaker and Mohammad Shaker. Towards Understanding the Nonverbal Signatures of Engagement in Super Mario Bros, in Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), 2014. 2014 7. Mohammad Shaker, Noor Shaker and Julian Togelius. Evolving Playable Content for Cut the Rope through a Simulation- Based Approach, in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 13), 2013. [Poster] 2013 8. Mohammad Shaker, Noor Shaker and Julian Togelius. Ropossum: An Authoring Tool for Designing, Optimizing and Solving Cut the Rope Levels, in Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 13), 2013. 2013 9. Mohammad Shaker, Mhd Hasan Sarhan, Ola Al Naameh, Noor Shaker and Julian Togelius. Automatic Generation and Analysis of Physics-Based Puzzle Games, in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2013), 2013. Nominated for best paper award. 2013 10. Noor Shaker, Mohammad Shaker, Ismaeel Abuabdallah, Mehdi Zonjy, and Mhd Hasan Sarhan. A Quantitative Approach for Modeling and Personalizing Player Experience in First-Person Shooter Games, in the Extended Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), 2013. [Poster] 2013 Publications
- 32. What to do if you have this, a Sony Vaio?
- 40. Engineers don’t know how to start a Business. 1
- 43. Startups and Entrepreneurship. in the past. Western VS Syrian style. 2
- 44. Startups and Entrepreneurship in the past. Western VS Syrian style.
- 45. Learn, try and spend from your own .
- 47. Da Vinci VS Engineer
- 48. Da Vinci VS Artist
- 50. Syrians VS WesternersSyrians Westerners
- 52. You* if you are a top 30% engineer. 4
- 53. You* if you are a top 30% engineer. * You != Syrian
- 54. You* if you are a top 10% engineer. * You == Syrian
- 56. Or how to think backward from the future.
- 58. Beware Ideas. 2
- 59. Beware Ideas. Learn, listen, think, and never, follow. In everything: Life, work, religion, relationships. 2
- 61. Beware Survivorship Bias. Especially in Tech Waves (AI, Entrepreneurship, Blockchain, eBanking, …etc) 3
- 62. Don’t follow the “Herd.” 4
- 63. Don’t follow the “Herd.” 4 Chatbots, Vision, Information Retrieval, Search Engines, etc.
- 64. Try, fail, and retry again (a game of ). 5
- 67. Try contrary ideas. We are raised to conform in everything: religion, work, study, ideas, relationships, etc. Break out of this rut.
- 68. You are a human before your are an engineer. 7
- 69. You are a human before your are an engineer. 7 Wisdom, Clear view against “waves”, Information overload, etc.
- 70. Build a Unique Skillset in and out of Engineering. 8
- 71. “Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I’m hardly an artist. And I’m not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I’m funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It’s the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare. And when you add in my business background, suddenly I had a topic that few cartoonists could hope to understand without living it. Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix.” Scott Adams
- 72. “Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I’m hardly an artist. And I’m not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I’m funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It’s the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare. And when you add in my business background, suddenly I had a topic that few cartoonists could hope to understand without living it. Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix.” Scott Adams
- 73. Me, Mohammad: • Engineering, 200k LOC Engine • Artificial Intelligence • Research, 10 papers • Design, UI, UX • Art and Drawing • Business / Startup
- 74. Me, Mohammad: • Engineering, 200k LOC Engine • Artificial Intelligence • Research, 10 papers • Design, UI, UX • Art and Drawing • Business / Startup
- 75. Me, Mohammad: • Engineering, 200k LOC Engine • Artificial Intelligence • Research, 10 papers • Design, UI, UX • Art and Drawing • Business / Startup
- 76. Me, Mohammad: • Engineering, 200k LOC Engine • Artificial Intelligence • Research, 10 papers • Design, UI, UX • Art and Drawing • Business / Startup
- 77. Me, Mohammad: • Engineering, 200k LOC Engine • Artificial Intelligence • Research, 10 papers • Design, UI, UX • Art and Drawing • Business / Startup
- 78. You* if you are a top 10% engineer. * You == Syrian
- 79. You* if you are a top 1% engineer. * You == Syrian
- 80. Engineer + AI + Research + Design + Draw + Business
- 81. Industry Needs Engineer + AI + Research + Design + Draw + Business
- 82. Industry Needs Engineer + AI + Research + Design + Draw + Business
- 83. If you don’t like something. Do something about it. 9
- 84. If you don’t like something. Do something about it. 9 Be aggressive and clear about what you want while staying fair; e.g. salary, position, relationship, in life and work.
- 85. Trial and Error a Philosophy. 10
- 86. Trial and Error a Philosophy*. 10 *Grow up outside work.
- 87. Trial and Error a Philosophy.
- 88. Trial and Error a Philosophy. Nassim Taleb
- 93. Read. Read. Read. Read. Read. Read. Read. Read. 100/a year. You super . Top 1% engineer.
- 94. Give Back. Do Something for Your Country. 11 + 1
- 95. If you’re a hardworking student or engineer, come talk to me or drop me an email afterward.