Mahdee Mushfique Kamal

What We Can Learn from the AI Concepts That Fueled the Contemporary LLM Paradigm Shift

This blog post is inspired by a video from Varun Mayya (link). The neural network conceptualized in the 50s — which acts as the backbone of modern AI — was actually designed by observing biological...

June 4, 2026

self-reflection

My take on the book 'Ikigai'

I came across the concept of Ikigai (reason for being) online a while ago, but I never made the time to read the book cover to cover. That being said, I finished the book this week.

April 29, 2026

self-reflection

Understanding the LLM Development Cycle - Building, Training & Finetuning

This post summarizes the key stages in the development cycle of Large Language Models (LLMs), including building, pre-training, and fine-tuning. It covers practical ways to use LLMs, such as public...

January 19, 2025

LLM-lifecycle

Observing local distribution of short sequences in plant's promoter region using python

This post demonstrates how to analyze the distribution of short DNA sequences in plant promoter regions using Python, following the methodology of Yamamoto et al. The author reproduces key figures ...

April 23, 2022

Bioinformaticspython

Blog Posts

What We Can Learn from the AI Concepts That Fueled the Contemporary LLM Paradigm Shift

My take on the book 'Ikigai'

Understanding the LLM Development Cycle - Building, Training & Finetuning

Observing local distribution of short sequences in plant's promoter region using python