Shahid Kamal Ahmad

England

I started coding in 1982. I want to start again in 2024. 42 years in video games; code, music, prod, publishing, biz dev, leadership. I’m a writer and a speaker

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Articles

I Am Never Happy (but neither am “I” unhappy)

Feb 5, 2025 | dancingmonkeys.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

I am never unhappy, nor am I happy. I am not my feelings. My feelings or emotions are an amalgam of chemicals in my bloodstream generated by my body. My body generates these chemicals in response to internal and external stimuli. The I that is not my brain or emotions "feels" the emotions, that is, it interprets the chemicals, sometimes correctly, sometimes not, but always automatically. This automatic response can be trained through mindfulness and other practices.
Keep the Goose, I Want an Egg!

Apr 8, 2024 | open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
Make Time for Joy

Feb 22, 2024 | open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
Make Time for Joy

Feb 22, 2024 | open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

What’s the thing you love to do the most that you are not doing because of <insert reason>? The thing that makes your soul sing? Don’t tell me. Just ask yourself why you’re not carving out at least half an hour a day to do it. Please find a way. I’m here to tell you at 58 that one day you’ll deeply regret your reason or excuse for not doing it. Our time here is finite. Find time for yourself in this life of demands from others and from your own inner critic.
You're Not Falling, You're Walking

Feb 19, 2024 | open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

Dancing MonkeysStories for developers and others from my long life in and out of video games. I wrote Code is Just, but also Chimera, sometimes to remember, sometimes to forget. No thanks
Your Journal is a Magic Mirror

Feb 1, 2024 | open.substack.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad

Imagine placing a mirror on the inside fold of your journal along its spine. The page is the creation. The reflection is the manifestation. In our journalling practice, we might find ourselves falling into familiar patterns. Reflecting on the day, we might write about disagreements we’ve had, how little we’ve accomplished and how we feel about it all, noting with depressing repetition that we can’t stand ourselves.
Pakistan’s turtle species at risk of extinction

Dec 21, 2023 | science.org | Shahid Kamal Ahmad |Wei Mao

Shahid Ahmad and Wei Mao [email protected] Info & AffiliationsScience21 Dec 2023Vol 382, Issue 6677p. 1370Get full access to this articleView all available purchase options and get full access to this article. References and Notes1D. Khan, “Turtle Species in Pakistan are about to go extinct”, pro Pakistani (2018); https://propakistani.pk/2018/05/24/ turtle-species-in-pakistan-are-about-to-go-extinct. 2A. Safi, M. Z. Khan, J. Zool. Stud. 1, 31 (2014).
Free-ranging dogs are seriously threatening Himalayan environment: delineating the high-risk areas for curbing free-ranging dog infestation in the Trans-Himalayan region | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Oct 27, 2023 | link.springer.com | Shahid Kamal Ahmad |Amar Krishna Paul |Vinaya Kumar |Bheem Dutt

AbstractIt is becoming more widely recognised that free-ranging dogs, which have a nearly global distribution, threatening native wildlife. Their increasing population and spread to new areas is of growing concern for the long-term viability of wildlife species. Hence, it is imperative to understand the factors responsible for their infestation and map areas where native species are most vulnerable.
A Study on Generalized Degenerate Form of 2D Appell Polynomials via Fractional Operators

Sep 30, 2023 | mdpi.com | Mohra Zayed |Shahid Wani |Shahid Kamal Ahmad |S. I. Ahmad

first_pagesettingsFont Type:ArialGeorgiaVerdanaLine Spacing:Column Width:Open AccessArticleby 1,*,† and 2,*,† 1Mathematics Department, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia2Department of Applied Sciences, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune 412115, Maharashtra, India*Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed. †These authors contributed equally to this work. Fractal Fract.
Leveraging explainable machine learning models to assess forest health: A case study in Hainan, China

Sep 25, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jialing Li |Shahid Kamal Ahmad |Environment Hainan Haikou |Bohao He

1 INTRODUCTION Forest ecosystems are the most widespread terrestrial ecosystem and biologically the largest vegetation type (Pan et al., 2013), providing human beings with a treasure trove of resources that play a vital role in global energy flow, material recycling, and information transfer (De Frenne et al., 2021; Messier et al., 2019).