Waleed El-Geresy

Evergreen Strolling through the woodland,Between the evergreen trees,It could be any time,Here in this place. No one here to shame the trees,That have stood since time began,That have witnessed rains, flood, and fire,Yet shrugged them off their timely minds. No one's wrist here to glance at,Eyes that flit down and up again,Following that steeled and weighty blade,

Evergreen - a poem about a timeless world.

What Does it Mean to be Truly Good? Reflections on reading Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory. Does the degree to which our motivations are intrinsic affect the morality of our actions?

Do we need to be motivated by internal forces to be good? Is there a clear cut line between intrinsic moral motivations and extrinsic moral motivations? geresy.com/2025/12/29/w...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – by John le Carré A review of one of le Carré’s most famous novels where George Smiley is on the hunt for a mole in the circus

A review of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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Alan Turing in a horse-drawn carriage, holding a carrot on a stick, which represents tests for true intelligence. The horse, representing AI, is urged forwards by the test, unaware that it is always going to be impossible to achieve.

Irony and frustration when generating an image for article about AI that it is impossible to make that damn carrot appear IN FRONT of the horse's mouth. No, NOT behind, IN FRONT. NO, I don't want the horse's head flipped back like an owl. Yes, I know then TECHNICALLY it's... Never mind. Manual edit.

The Impossible Turing Test Will we ever admit that AI has become smarter than us? Or is it a goal that will always be just out of reach…

Will AI ever be able to pass the Turing test? I don't think so. The Turing test is a carrot on a stick for AI, driving progress forwards, but always just out of reach... Have a read of my thoughts on why I think so.

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Good drivers make bad drivers feel like good drivers. Good leaders make those they lead feel like they are leading things.

World Without End by Ken Follett Set in the 14th century in the town of Kingsbridge, World Without End is full of stories of conflict, romance, and revenge.

If you’re interested, you can check out my review of World Without End on my blog. Btw, the blog is 100% LLM free, from ideation to realisation!

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I’ve recently been reading the Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth, and more recently the sequel, World Without End). I can recommend them to anyone who wants some historical escapism to keep dipping into over time (the books cover decades and are long enough to match)!

Event-Based Simulation of Stochastic Memristive Devices for Neuromorphic Computing In this paper, we build a general model of memristors suitable for the simulation of event-based systems, such as hardware spiking neural networks, and more generally, neuromorphic computing systems. ...

Hi Antonio, great list! Could you add me please? Here’s a recent paper… arxiv.org/abs/2407.04718

Hi Dan, could I please be added?

Hi Kosta, great list, I work on representation learning for visual data, and neural compression and storage of images. Could I please be added?