February 2012
1 post
“How to come up with physical & logical data model that support every...”
– Haytham ElFadeel
January 2012
1 post
“الشهاداة الجامعية أو الي فوق الجامعية بقت عاملة زي شهادات محو الامية. فاذا كانت...”
– Haytham ElFadeel
December 2011
1 post
Study the best CS courses in the next 6 months to...
I got too many message asking me to publish the courses that we plan to give the people who accepted in Kngine University. Most of the courses are not public and it was designed for our need so it will not be super useful.
Therefore I designed two study tracks:
Large Scale Data Storage and Processing and Machine Learning
AI and NLP
Each track will take from 5 to 6 months depend on your...
November 2011
1 post
الثورة
لم تكن احدث يناير وفبراير والتي تعرف باسم ثورة 25 يناير كافية بالاطاحة بالنظام الفاسد, حيث ان النظام الفاسد يسكن عقولنا وقلوبنا, فعلى الجميع أن يقوم بتطهير نفسه دون انتظار لاخرين
ثم عليه بالبحث عن العلم والمعرفة والتعلم لمواجهة الجهل المتعمق في نفوس الاغلبية الساحقة
October 2011
12 posts
Kngine Computer Scientist / World-Class Engineer...
About week ago, we openned this position Software Engineer III - General @ Kngine. The Requirements are to be able to work at least 70 hours a week (about 12 hours a day), learning quickly, have strong mathematics, and coding in two languages one of them should be C#.
In this week we got over 50 persons who want to join in this position!
So what this position is all about and why we asking...
“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really...”
– Steve Jobs on Startups - and I believe him
How Much is Equal
How much Arabian equal one Israeli OR How much Israeli equal one Arabian?
How we should calculate this, well I believe it should be based on the total contribution of the people in everything: Science, Healthy, Economy, Technology, Culture, Education, etc.
After doing the math I come to the conclusion that every one Israeli equal 5 million Arabian - Yes collect 5 million Arabian and they...
AMD Bulldozer Micro-Architecture
After I read the details of this new architecture, I was too disappointed. Actually I was disappointed about it more than Intel P4.
And let me set it clear to AMD: You have failed.
If you like to read more about it you can go to:
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT082610181333
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-fx8150-tested
What should be done:
Focus...
Sorry to say that
The way the government deal with the private sector in Egypt ‘Nationalization, breaking in to office and destroy it, cut the power’ made me feel that I ‘m not safe and that I should leave the country.
It’s not just about private section, it’s actaully about everything - how the army beat the people, ladies (by virginity test), protesters.
Talking about Start-ups,...
Follow up on 'Nation at risk: Case study for the...
I collected some more information and I got important question to answer:
Where are the peaks and how we fund them?
We just know the peak when we see, talk with him! Someone could say: Yes, Yes but I found/hire peaks at the time! - so trust me you just find and hired a normal engineers or your standard are low enough! or you’re not peak to identify them. There are a few peaks in Egypt....
Some people asked me what (لقدر الله) Kngine as a company failed, what you will do?
Well the answer is simple, I will start another company because I will endless stream of ideas. Simply I will do what I believe I should do
“You can’t create glory without sacrifice”
– Me
“If I fail and I give up, do you think that I will ever get what I want? No
But...”
– The attitude the we all should have
The Baby Bottle Culture
A year ago, I wrote an article about the education and media in the Arab Countries. And I had compared the culture of our society to others’. Every nation and society has a set of attributes that they are known for. For example:
· India, China and Germany: The hard-workers
· Israel (The country of economic miracle): Smart and risk taking people
· Japan: The Smart and most...
September 2011
1 post
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Nation at risk: Case study for the Computer...
‘Nation at Risk’ is the name of the report that was made to reform the education in the US back in1980’s when their rank dropped from the world’s number one to number six, which meant they took this drop seriously and titled the report: ‘Nation at Risk’ just to show how serious they are about their education output! Of course we, in Egypt, are not at risk at...
August 2011
1 post
Random Read Performance for OCZ PCI-Express SSD
Random Read Performance for OCZ PCI-Express SSD
This benchmark done and verficed by Kngine, and other sources such as Anandtech.com and Guru3D.com
2k
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> 64
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OCZ RevoDrive X2 Read Speed : 0600MB
27
48
253
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OCZ RevoDrive X3 Read Speed : 1300MB
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385
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780
OCZ RevoDrive RM88 Read Speed : 2000MB
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February 2011
1 post
Productivity @ Work
I ‘m a CEO of Kngine, but this doesn’t mean that I suppress the productivity of my folks!
In fact, while I ‘m a CEO but I ‘m also a Computer Sciences Researcher and I used to use the scientific methods in almost everything related to my work, and I read many books and article about productivity at work and how to improve it.
In last a several months I was asking my...
January 2011
2 posts
Kngine Founders answer some hot questions about...
What is the hiring process, philosophy?
Let me start with the philosophy, interview process is about match between the organization culture and a candidate’s personality, and about finding the right technical skills and experience for a position. We driven by philosophies like “hire for attitude, train for skill” and “hire our type of people”.
Regard the process is...
Kngine and the next big thing
I ‘m Haytham ElFadeel Kngine CEO and Co-Founder as you might know, we decided to expand our business in Egypt. Now we’re looking for smart and creative people to take Kngine to the next level.
If you love to join please go to (http://www.kngine.com/Jobs.htm) and check out the suitable for you. I would like to clarify the following:
Beside the confirmed benefits, we might have the...
November 2010
2 posts
“ان مصر بطبيعتها وبتركيبتها السياسية الداخلية الحالية هى بمثابة جثة هامدة، وذلك...”
– Haytham ElFadeel
“العلم لا يستطيع أن يعرف حقيقة أى شئ لكنه يعرف كيف يتصرف ذلك الشئ فى ظروف معينة...”
October 2010
1 post
Mozilla in 2011
I beleive Mozilla main task in 2011 will be reduce the time between the releases. The following is my vision for Firefox releases in next year.
Firefox 4.2 (Release: Feb 2011):
UI: Complete the mssing pieces, such as: In-Content UI, etc.
Performance: Start-up time, page-load time, User Response, Resources efficiency, Javascript
Background updates installation
Firefox 4.5 (Release: May...
September 2010
1 post
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My AMD Bulldozer 2 Wish List
My AMD Bulldozer 2 (Second Generation) Wish list (2012 ~2013):
Front-end:
5 decoder, instead of 4 < Guys it’s Dual Core Module 4 is so little to feed dual core
Engine:
2 x 256 SMID FB units
Bigger L1 Cache - 32KB Instructions and 32KB Data
Mico-ops Cashe if it’s important (After the decoding) - like Sandy Bridge
Faster ALU units - Improve the throughput and the latency - AMD...
August 2010
13 posts
Microsoft patented they D-Pad
I just watched this video about the new XBox 360 wireless controller. The guy featured the new D-Pad that Microsoft patented !
Now I believe it’s my mistake that I didn’t patent Kngine fade homepage because I created it before Google by about a month!
So now you can understand, how Microsoft get into 10,000 patent club!
http://kngine.com
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Learn Programming in Ten Years
Why is everyone in such a rush?
Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. I did the following power search at Amazon.com:
pubdate: after 1992 and title: days and tech yourself
and got back 396 hits. 286 was computer books. I replaced...
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Squeeze more performance from Parallelism
In posts, such as: The Future of the Parallelism and its Challenges I mentioned that synchronization the access to the shared resource is the major challenge to write parallel code.
The synchronization and coordination take long time from the overall execution time, which reduce the benefits of the parallelism; the synchronization and coordination also reduce the scalability.
There are a few...
“Just in Case” versus “Just in Time”
What do you learn just in case you’ll need it in the future, and what do you learn just in time when you do need it? In general, you learn things in school just in case you’ll need them later. Then once you get a job, you learn more things just in time when you need them. When you learn just in time, you’re highly motivated. There’s no need to imagine whether you might apply what you’re learning...
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“AMD Fusion won’t kill the GPU, but what if it kills the CPU?
It’s...”
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Arabic Support in Kngine
Arabic Support in Kngine, and Why we don’t provide Arabic support until now?
Definitely, this is the most frequency question that I got from any Arabian person. So let me answer it:
Back to 2008 when we started Kngine, we decided to built it from the ground to be multilingual. This was very important decision that affected every aspect of the system architecture: From how we...
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Deep Thought : Kngine Next Generation
This is the short version of ‘Deep Thought My Public Promise’ post.
I working on something codenamed ‘Deep Thought’ that will be online late October or early November. Deep Though or the next generation of Kngine will provide better adoptive results and it be able to answer more sophisticated questions like the a few questions that Scientific American and New Scientist magazines...
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Deep Thought My Public Promise
Actually it’s took me long time to come here, but I still remember everything. Two years ago when I was walking with a friend, I told him: I ‘m about to start a new project that aims to make the machines smart enough to search and answer questions in natural language, he said you can’t do that, my friend know me, but he didn’t know me enough. He knows that I ‘m just yet another guy from poor...
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My Artificial Intelligence Predictions
The birth of the Artificial Intelligence will be around 2025, probably before it. Then it will become mainstream technology between 2030 and 2035. The first self-aware machine will deploy between 2040 and 2043. The Singularity will occur 2050.
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The future of the Parallelism and its challenges
By: Haytham ElFadeel, May 2009
Research and education in Parallel computing technologies is more important than ever. Here I present a perspective on the past contributions, current status, and future direction of the parallelism technologies.
While machine power will grow impressively, increased parallelism, rather than clock rate, will be driving force in computing in the foreseeable...
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Java 2.0 Looking for the future (The future of...
I was lucky like many others that start programming from about ten years, and touched many languages such as: Basic, Visual Basic, C++, C Sharp, Java, Python, Scheme, Go, and Erlang and others.
Usually there are trend in community to compare between Java and C Sharp or C++ and perform benchmark. But today I would like to take a look at the future of great programming language like Java from...
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Why Intellectual property are no longer long-term...
I believe that ‘Intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages’ actually it’s not just me there are many VC’s, Angel Investors, and Entrepreneurs started to realize that it, let me explain it:
“No one can compete with my blog because it’s copyrighted.” Silly, right?
Patent usually takes six to two years to grant, it’s cost...
Hello World
Exception Without Caption is my new blog.
I ‘m Haytham ElFadeel, Computer Sciences Researcher, Entrepreneur, and Kngine Co-Founder.
Haytham’s breakthroughs in knowledge-based information retrieval, semantic search and relevance methods are at the core of Kngine’s technology. Prior Kngine, Haytham was involved in several researchs and open source projects ranged from...