Life as it goes

I hate mistreating people the same way they mistreat me. I promised myself I would never do that. You are always late to our meetings? That is fine, you are a flake, I am not. You cannot keep your word? That is fine, you are not man enough, I am. I am not on top of your priorities? That is fine, you are still on top of mine because you mean a lot to me. I treat people with my manners, not theirs. It is the right thing to do, but it sucks! When you get hurt, what do you do? A. You hurt back. B. You tell them you have been hurt. Never do A. Do B. When you tell people they have hurt you, how do they respond? A. They do not do it again. B. They do it again. They should do A. But many will do B. When they do it again, what do you do? A. Walk away. B. Hurt back. C. Accept you will be hurt from time to time because that is who they are. Walk away.

Our AI class has one final contest. We need to design and code Pacman agents to play against other student agents. The winner will claim all bragging rights! Enough of defense. Onto enemy terrain. Capture all their food! We are supposed to code a team that consists of 2 agents that work collectively (or separately, if you choose to) to win the game. The map of the game is divided into 2 symmetric halves. One team starts in Red, the other in Blue. Each team must eat all the food (dots) in the opponent's half of the map, and protect food in their own half. If your agent is currently inside your own half, it will be displayed as a Ghost that can defeat invading Pacman agents. If it is inside the opponent's half, it will be displayed as Pacman, who is vulnerable to opponent ghosts. A defeated Pacman agent will respawn in it is initial starting position in its own half. In this post, I will be describing my journey of developing my team of badass Pacman agents. Names ...

الكتابة تحتاج إلى عقل هادئ وصافٍ. لا أظن أنني حظيت بهذا منذ عدة أشهر.

You know that feeling when someone who is not that close to you, steps up among people and does something so nice to you? Like remembering you with a gift before you travel. It is the first time that I am on the receiving end of that equation.

مسك - ابنة أختي - الجميلة، وقعت وهي تلعب على "السحسيلة" وقت الإفطار لأنها كانت تقفز أثناء انزلاقها إلى الأريكة المجاورة للعبة. فأخبرتها أمها - الجميلة أيضا - أنها يجب أن تزلق بشكل طبيعي ولا يجب أن تقفز هكذا إلا إذا كانت هي معها حتى تساعدها وتحرص على سلامتها. فانطلقت مسك فورا وأمسكت يد أمها وأخبرتها أن تأتي لتساعدها حتى تقفز. أخبرتها أمها أنها تريد أن تأكل وستساعدها بعد ذلك، فإذا بمسك تجلس بجانب أمها، وتمسك بملعقة أمها، وتملؤها بالطعام وترفعها إلى فم أمها، وتقول لها: "كلي يا ماما، كلي." مسك ستبلغ العامين ونصف العام بعد أسبوعين.

Friend: Hey man I really think she is the one. Me: Alright mate, go for it. Take good care of her. ---- 2 days later --- Friend: Bro she is a really bad person she does not deserve me. Me: I think you are right, you should break up.

A friend's father passed away. I am not able to find any way one could help somebody overcome the loss of a dear person. Death is different from anything we face during our lives because it is irreversible, it is supernatural to humans. When you break up with somebody, or lose a job, there is always so many things other people can do to cheer you up. You can find someone else, you can get another job, you can work harder to become better and win your next contest. People can help you realize all of that when you are sad about it. But you just cannot make up for someone's death, you have no influence on it if it happens, and there is nothing you can do about it. Life takes away experiences from you during its ups and downs, but death takes away people, and people are unique, experiences are not. My first impression was that my friend would experience a mental breakdown after the first shock, but only God knows how strong and confident she acted. I almost thought she was g...