Hatam Tay
A pre-Islamic Arab hero whose name became synonymous with generosity across the Muslim world. For me, this remains one of the highest measures of character.
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Medet Ahmetson
Builder, writer, and independent thinker, and interested in spirituality, and politics of the world. I share ideas that shaped my worldview, I promise they are original.
Role Models
My father
His name is Ahmet. He is as generous as Hatam Tay, and this is why I call myself Ahmetson.
In childhood, I loved Spider-Man and Vash the Stampede. I was mostly indifferent to other superheroes.
I Admire
To my own surprise, both are Jews.
Norman Finkelstein
A Jewish academic who openly supports Palestine in academia.
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Theodor Shumovsky
He translated the Quran into Russian. It is the strongest Russian translation I have seen.
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Many things changed my perspective - sometimes a random article or a single page. But if I had to name teachers right now, it would be these.
My mother
Religious and principled. She taught me that spirituality and moral ethics matter.
Taufik Ibragim & my math teacher J. Durdieva
Ibragim, a Syrian-Russian philosopher, argued that defending Christianity against atheistic attacks carries the same obligation as defending Islam, because Christians are people of the book and the Abrahamic God is the same. I first heard this idea from my math teacher J. Durdieva, and Ibragim gave it its full form.
→ WikipediaPieter Hintjens
His guide on ZMQ changed my perspective on open-source software. My introduction to open source began with him.
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Shohrat Kadyrov
Author of Turkmennama. He wrote Turkmen history at its foundations.
→ WikipediaMagtymguly Pyragy
To be Turkmen is to become someone whom Pyragy would be proud of.
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Most of what you just read goes against canon. Many Muslims disagree with me. Many Turkmens disagree with me. In tech, I was told to chase money and leave naive ideas alone.
Every group had a version of who I should be. Muslims had one. Turkmens had one. Tech people wanted me to be the IT guy. Academia wanted me to be a researcher. Everyone had a role waiting.
None of them matched.
No one called me stupid though. Except my ex-girlfriend.
I am not a monk or a researcher. I think about these things, reach my own conclusions, and apply them. You will see that in the work.
Technology is a tool. I have a goal, and technology serves that goal.
I am most likely to reply to two kinds of people: those who share a common goal and want to build, and those who can talk about anything without trying to fix me or redirect my path.
Recent Writings
- Ara 15 Jan, 2024
- Ara leading ideas 15 Jan, 2024
- Steve Jobs is not a role-model 15 Jan, 2024
- Programming Language: Rust 05 Jan, 2024
- Notes on "Practical deep learning": foundation 28 Dec, 2023
Ideas, Stances & Projects
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A semantic Web3 framework. The internet organized around meaning rather than attention.
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Code that proves itself.
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Active exploration and development.
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