2025. Fadi Shawki
A self-profile by some 24-solar-orbiting explorer.
1 February 2025
Ongoing Projects
OrbitMines as a Game Project2024-02-22. Fadi Shawki
A comprehensive guide on how to be frustrated with pixels. An open call for funding, collaboration or anyone curious to learn more.
2024-2025?.
Ongoing.
Ongoing.
2025-2026?.
2027+?.
2027+?.
2027+?.
2027+?.
Writings
Theoretics
2024-02-22. Fadi Shawki
A comprehensive guide on how to be frustrated with pixels. An open call for funding, collaboration or anyone curious to learn more.
2023-12-31. Fadi Shawki
A preliminary exploration through the world of possible inconsistencies. Originally intended as a more technical continuation of earlier thoughts on intelligibility.
2022-12-31. Fadi Shawki
A collection of my thoughts on intelligibility. An attempt to edge towards a basic theory for understanding dynamic systems by computationally bounded observers. While the aim is to have practical implications for the design of sophisticated observers, these ideas are quite far-reaching and do tend to border on philosophy (an inevitability, perhaps).
I started distilling a years' worth of thoughts/explorations on 2023-12-11. Already - on the first day -, distributing them within the buckets of two titles: "On the intelligibility of (dynamic) systems and associated uncertainty" and "On Functional Equivalence and Compression". Though I initially didn't intend to publish these thoughts quickly, that changed on 2022-12-22. While exploring Melanie Mitchell's Mastodon account, I found her post on the Lab42 essay competition, which prompted me to accelerate my timeline.
(Note written: 2023-11-27)
It's probably worth noting that I currently take issue with a lot of phrasings I use here. I've noticed that many of the ideas I'm thinking about rarely hold the same viewpoint for over a few months. But as an exercise it was quite useful to distill a year of thoughts into a few pages. It has helped quite tremendously in me working through some confusions.
(Note written: 2023-08-03)
Formal History
Projects
July, 2022 - Present.
November, 2021 - May, 2022.
November, 2020 - March 2021.
November, 2018 - August, 2019.
October, 2013 - May, 2019.
Attended Events
In-Person Workshop | Into the Information Continuum2024, 4 May @ Amsterdam.
Twelfth Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO 12)2024 @ Birmingham, UK.
2024, 9 March @ Amsterdam.
NGI FORUM 20232023.
2023.
Formal Education
(Unfinished) Computer Science (BSc)
2020: I stop attending Leiden University. If you could call what I did there as attending in the first place. Perhaps more of an (immature) severe disinterest.
VWO / Science & Engineering
2012 - 2019.
Literary Exposure
2025
(2025). Gabriele Carcassi
DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | #459(2025). Dylan Patel, Nathan Lambert, Lex Fridman
Why Physics Without Philosophy Is Deeply Broken... [Part 2](2025). Jacob Barandes, Curt Jaimungal
(2025). Jacob Barandes, Curt Jaimungal
(2025). Jacob Barandes, Manolis Kellis, Curt Jaimungal
(2025). William Hahn, Curt Jaimungal
(2025). Michael Levin, Karl Friston, Curt Jaimungal
(2007). Walter Isaacson
(2025). Andy McKenzie
(2025). Geoffrey Hinton, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Sabine Hossenfelder, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Leonard Susskind, Curt Jaimungal
(2025). Yang-Hui He, Curt Jaimungal
2024
(2022). John Baez, Simon Cho, Daniel Cicala, Nina Otter, Valeria de Paiva
(2016). Jonathan Gorard
(2024). Adam Frank, Lex Fridman
(2024). Jacob Barandes, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Iain McGilchrist, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Avshalom Elitzur, Curt Jaimungal
(2006). Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
(2023). François Fleuret
(2014). Eddy Luten
(2024). Jules Hedges
(2024). Jules Hedges
(2024). Jules Hedges
Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes(2024). Roger Penrose, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Jonathan Oppenheim, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Ed Barnhart, Lex Fridman
(2024). Gregory Aldrete, Lex Fridman
Mindscape 289 | The Next Generation of Particle Experiments(2024). Cari Cesarotti, Sean Carroll
(2024). Venki Ramakrishnan, Sean Carroll
(2023). Brandon Sandoval
(1950). Alan M. Turing
(1958). Garrett Birkhoff
(2024). Stephen Wolfram
(2017). Stephen Wolfram
(2024). Stephen Wolfram
2023. Richard Behiel
2024. Jean-Paul Faguet, Sean Carroll
2024. Michael Levin, Curt Jaimungal
2024. Sean Carroll, Curt Jaimungal
2024. Sara Walker, Lex Fridman
(2024). Cory Doctorow
(2023). Walter Isaacson
2024. Fadi Shawki, Álvaro Moreno Vallori, Alejandro Sospedra Orellano, Elena Isasi Theus, Anmol Agrawal, Carlos Zapata Carratalá
2024. Charan Ranganath, Lex Fridman
2024. Paul Rosolie, Lex Fridman
2024. Bryan Johnson, Curt Jaimungal
Reverse engineering | same thing we do every weekend documenting the AMD 7900XTX Part2(2019). Eric Shea-Brown
(2023). Lisa Randall, Lex Fridman
(2023). Edward Frenkel, Lex Fridman
(2023). Edward Frenkel
(2024). Lee Smolin, Curt Jaimungal
(2023). Edward Frenkel, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Nikolay Murzin, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, James Wiles, Utkarsh Bajaj
(2024). Nikolay Murzin, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, James Wiles, Utkarsh Bajaj
(2024). Nikolay Murzin, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, James Wiles
(2024). Nikolay Murzin, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, James Wiles
Explore & Learn | The Map of Institute Research | Quantum Probabilities, Multicomputation, Causality(2024). Nikolay Murzin, James Wiles
(2024). Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, James Wiles
(2024). Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, Richard Assar, James Wiles
(2024). Gizem Gumuskaya, Sean Carroll
All-In Podcast E173(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(1974). Richard P. Feynman
(2024). Patrick Collison, John Collison
(2015). Aaron Harper
(2024). Daniele Palombi
(2024). Stephen Wolfram, Richard Assar, Nik Murzin
(2024). Jonathan Gorard, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Chiara Marletto, Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Curt Jaimungal
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2017). Stephen Fry
(2024). Andre Videla
(2024). @Veritasium
(2024). Jules Hedges
(2024). Matt Strassler
ActInf MathStream 009.1 ~ Jonathan Gorard: A computational perspective on observation and cognition(2019). Mark Zuckerberg, Patrick Collison, Tyler Cowen
(2024). Tima Kinsart (Hirrolot)
(2018). Jacob L. S. Bellmund, Peter Gärdenfors, Edvard I. Moser, Christian F. Doeller
(2024). Johannes Kleiner
(1970). Ralph Freedman
(2021). Carlos Zapata-Carratalá
2024). Stephen Wolfram
(2024). Carlos Zapata-Carratalá
(2020). Stephen Wolfram, Jonathan Gorard
(2023). Stephen Wolfram, Jonathan Gorard
(2021). Bob Coecke, Stephen Wolfram
(2011). Walter Isaacson
(2017). John Cleese
(Veritasium). @Veritasium
(1987). Carl Sagan
(2015). Chamath Palihapitiya
(2016). Chamath Palihapitiya
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
(2024). Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David O. Sacks
2021. Seph Gentle
2023. Stephen Wolfram, Jonathan Gorard
2023. Jonathan Gorard, Mark Jeffery
2020. Martin Kleppmann
2013. Andy Gross
2011. Andy Gross
ZXLive - An Interactive GUI for the ZX Calculus - Razin A. Shaikh2023. Razin A. Shaikh
2023. Jiaxin Huang
2023. Nicklas Botö
2022. @Lines That Connect
2023. Jeff Bezos, Lex Fridman
2023. Andrej Karpathy
2020. Hamish Todd
2024. Ricard Solé, Sean Carroll
2024. Sanjana Curtis, Sean Carroll
2024. Sabine Stanley, Sean Carroll
2024. Chris Quigg, Sean Carroll
2023
2022. Filippo Bonchi, Fabio Gadducci, Aleks Kissinger, Pawel Sobocinski, Fabio Zanasi
2023. Aleks Kissinger
2023. Stephen Wolfram
Wasm SpecTec: Engineering a Formal Language Standard2023. Joachim Breitner, Philippa Gardner, Jaehyun Lee, Sam Lindley, Matija Pretnar, Xiaojia Rao, Andreas Rossberg, Sukyoung Ryu, Wonho Shin, Conrad Watt, Dongjun Youn
2023. Adam Frank, Sean Carroll
2023. Alan Becker + Team
2023. Lee Cronin, Lex Fridman
Berkeley Seminar: David Jaz Myers, 8/7/20232023. David Jaz Myers
2023. Kaloyan Kolev
2021. Tiernan Ray
2001-2014. Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen
2022. George Hotz
2023. George Hotz
2023. George Hotz
2023. George Hotz
2023. George Hotz
2023. Filippo Bonchi, Fabio Gadducci, Aleks Kissinger, Pawel Sobocinski, Fabio Zanasi
2023. Tavis Ormandy
2023. Stephen Wolfram
2023. Jonathan Gorard, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, Nikolay Murzin, Utkarsh Bajaj
2023. Edinah Koffi Gnang, Richard Kerner, Luke Oeding, Joshua Grochow, Harm Derksen, Tali Beynon, Michel Rausch, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá
2020. Stephen Wolfram, Fabrizio Remano Genovese, Matteo Capucci, Jonathan Gorard, Tali Beynon
2023. David Spivak
2023. Brandon Shapiro
2023. Nat Shankar
2023. Chris Rackauckas
2023. Erik Verlinde, Robinson Erhardt
2023. Slavoj Žižek, Sean Carroll, Robinson Erhardt
2023. Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Sean Carroll
2023. John Baez
2023. Michael Levi, Andrea Hiott
Delimited Continuations for Everyone2017. Kenichi Asai
2023. Carlo Angiuli
2022. Matteo Capucci
2016. Deviant Ollam
Evolving Brains: Solid, Liquid and Synthetic2023. Ricard Solé
2023. Ormandy, Tavis
2023. Moghimi, Daniel
2023. Abhishek Sharma, Dániel Czégel, Michael Lachmann, Christopher P. Kempes, Sara I. Walker and Leroy Cronin
2023. Ben L. Titzer
2023. Brooklyn Zelenka
2023. Andrew Black
2023. Gerald Sussman
2023. Jack Rusher
2023. Valeria de Paiva
2023. Evan Czaplicki
2023. Devine Lu Linvega
2023. Sam Ritchie
2023. Pokey Rule
2023. Clark Barrett
2023. Chandler Carruth
2022. Bob Coecke
MLST - Observers2023. Stephen Wolfram, Karl Friston, Keith Duggar
2023. Victor Taelin
2023. Tavis Ormandy, Fabian Faessler (LiveOverflow)
2018. Christopher Domas
2017. Christopher Domas
2017. Christopher Domas
2023. Grant Sanderson, Dwarkesh Patel
2023. David Deutsch, Sean Carroll
2023. Joel Margolis, Justin Gardner
2014. Voevodsky, Vladimir
2023. Paulson, Lawrence C.
2023. Paulson, Lawrence C.
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2021. Paulson, Lawrence C.
2023. Wolfram, Stephen
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2021. Maitzen, Owen
2023. Zapata, Carlos
2023. Coecke, Bob and Gogioso, Stefano
2015. Hartnett, Kevin
2022. Gorard, Jonathan
2022. O’Reilly, Barry M.
2022. Fields, Chris, and Levin, Michael
2023. Beaufort, François and Wallez, Corentin
2023. Beaufort, François
2023. Das Surma
2022. Das Surma
2020. Gorard, Jonathan, Manojna Namuduri, and Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
2021. Gorard, Jonathan, Manojna Namuduri, and Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
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2019. Chollet, François
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