Writing
Blog
Posts on machine learning and data, astronomy from Guyana, Guyana's economy and development, and the ego.
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Each with the month it went up, and when it was last updated.
Published
Essays
What is the Ego Metric?
A multi-lens framework for personality synthesis: shadow, continuum, driver, and social dimensions without proprietary scoring.
7 min read · Updated
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NLP & AI
Psychological Analysis in Conversational AI
How NLP, retrieval grounding, and reflective dialogue surface personality patterns without overclaiming.
6 min read · Updated
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NLP & AI
Introducing EgoQuest
A conversational AI project for multi-framework personality exploration through dialogue, not questionnaires.
5 min read · Updated
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Media Coverage
Stabroek Weekend on AstroPhotosGY
Stabroek Weekend wrote about AstroPhotosGY, making astronomy readable for Guyanese readers.
8 min read
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Technology Policy
Containing Inflation in Guyana's Oil Economy
Oil-led growth without inflation control risks eroding household purchasing power and widening inequality.
7 min read
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Technology Policy
Development as Freedom in Guyana
Beyond GDP: Sen, Rostow, and what human development indices miss about lived inequality in Guyana.
6 min read
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Technology Policy
5G in Guyana: speed vs stability
5G in Georgetown delivers fast peaks but uneven reliability compared to fiber and mature 4G.
9 min read · Updated
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Technology Policy
Ontology, Epistemology, and Guyana's Development Path
Growth narratives need philosophical grounding: epistemicide, local knowledge, and the question of how we grow well.
4 min read
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AI & Ethics
AI ethics in the Caribbean
AI ethics questions that hit differently in small Caribbean states.
8 min read
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Technology Policy
A tech ecosystem in the Caribbean
Talent, money and rules: what Caribbean tech has and what it still lacks, written from Georgetown.
3 min read · Updated
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Data Science
Machine learning for farming in Guyana
How ML could help rice and cash-crop farmers in Guyana, yield, pests, and soil.
12 min read · Updated
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Data Science
A data science workflow
Loading, cleaning and checking 33 rows of reported serious crimes in Guyana, 1990 to 2022, before any model.
3 min read · Updated
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Astrophotography
Processing deep-sky images
How a stack like my Pillars of Creation becomes a picture: calibration, stacking in Siril, and processing under Georgetown's sky glow.
3 min read · Updated
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NLP & AI
NLP for customer service
How I would build a support bot: start narrow, score each intent, answer policy from its documents, and hand the rest to a person.
3 min read · Updated
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Astrophotography
Building Astronomy Outreach in Guyana
Why I started with pictures, and what the work actually is.
5 min read
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Astrophotography
A Seasonal Guide to Guyana's Night Sky
Constellations, nebulae, and clusters visible from equatorial Guyana through the year.
10 min read
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Astrophotography
Cepheid variable stars
How pulsating Cepheids became standard candles for measuring distance.
7 min read
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Essays
The Value of the Ego
Ego in balance: neither excess vanity nor self-erasure, but drive with humility.
3 min read
Published
Essays
Why Do Dreams Fade?
REM sleep, memory consolidation, and why some dreams vanish the moment you wake.
4 min read
Press
In the press
Coverage of the Guyana Prize for Literature and the 2024 Innovation Challenge.
2023
Guyana Chronicle
Samir Mohammed cops two titles at Guyana Prize for Literature awards
Samir Mohammed was one of the big winners at the recently held Guyana Prize for Literature awards ceremony, copping two awards in the youth category for both his poetry and short stories.
2023
Stabroek News
Mohammed, Dabydeen, cart off Guyana Prize for Literature awards
Writer Samir Mohammed was a double winner in the youth category of the Guyana Prize for Literature. His winning short story was titled 'The Lighthouse at the Bottom of the Sea'.
Department of Public Information
Guyana Prize for Literature returns, celebrates local talent
The Guyana Prize for Literature awards ceremony made a grand return, honouring some of the nation's most gifted writers. Among them was Samir Mohammed, who secured wins in multiple categories.
2024
Office of the Prime Minister
SBM Offshore's 'Innovation Challenge' Hackathon concludes successfully
The SBM Offshore Hackathon concluded with several young innovators being awarded. The 'Best Emerging Team' prize was awarded for a solution integrating computer vision and advanced analytics.