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Farooq Karimi Zadeh
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After so long time, I’m beginning to think that it’s too hard for Genetic Programming to do feature selection, feature discovery, constant discovery and solution discovery all at the same time. I believe most of my experiments were in waste. Also I am beginning to doubt if my feature extraction code, which I have...
One might say I’m too obsessed with Lisp. Or in general with “unconventional” things. Maybe I am. Or maybe dead technologies have got some buried gems which you cannot find in the modern world of computing. This story is about WakeGP. Few years ago, I wanted to start with Evolutionary Machine Learning, specifically...
It was me, a close friend and some acquaintances of mine and there she was. The conversation was going quite smoothly till… it wasn’t smooth anymore. “So you are one true geek with extraordinary skills when it comes to computers” she said. “You have spent most of your life reading books, reading papers and tinkering...
Checking the project’s git log, the first commit is in early 2023. And now at the time of writing this devlog, it’s mid 2025. 2.5 years since I started WakeGP research has passed. As the first research project, I chose something big. This, and at the same time the gray dog tying me hands, made this research take...
In our small circle of Quran researchers, someone, named Aqil Suleimani was questioning our imaginations about God. That is, do we know God in Islam well? And does our definition of God, and what he does, match with Quran? Do we know God? Or maybe we have wrong assumptions? People say why does God let bad people do...
These are the interesting folks who I would like to mention them here with a link: lumidify’s gopherhole: He is almost at the same age as me. He doesn’t like bloated stuff like the Web and many softwares in today’s world. Last time I was with contact with him, he was creating a text editor with C. John David...
Lead developer These are the projects which I have a lead. These include projects which the lead is solely on me, as well group lead. One time These are the one time projects which I wasn’t supposed to maintain them in the long term. fooplot(Javascript): A simple app for KaiOS to graph mathematical functions Talking...
Recently, a friend and coworker, Holger Krekel, is making a series of micro posts on Mastodon about screens, online time and online experience. Even we only have little interactions, I feel Holger has some insightful ideas about using tech the healthy way. What I am talking about here, is about culture and health....
This is a quick note to show how to run something periodically in Minetest. What you want to use is globalstep. With minetest.register_globalstep(function(dtime)) you can run a function every step of the server which is usually 0.1 To achieve this goal, you need a variable to watch over time, decrease or increase it...
There are many doctrines which suggest there is a god but one who does not care about his servants and that they worship him or not. Here, I want to argue why we cannot make such an assumption. As the assumption is equal to the assumption which in it there is no god at all. Here, we are interested in the outcomes...
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