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shayaanabsar/README.md

👋 Shayaan Absar

🎓 CS & AI @ University of Edinburgh

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Interests

  • 🗣️ NLP for low-resource and endangered languages
  • 📈 Financial markets and high-frequency trading
  • 🔬 Benchmarking and evaluating LLMs
  • 🧩 Mechanistic interpretability
  • ⚡ Small models: LoRA, distillation, on-device

📦 Selected work
🧠 gpt Character-level GPT from scratch, trained on Shakespeare and on Heine's Buch der Lieder.
🌐 ch-en-nmt Cherokee to English neural machine translation.
🎧 papers-to-podcasts Papers turned into audio you can listen to on a walk.
🔍 Semantyl Document Q&A over semantic search and RAG.
📈 Monte-Carlo Portfolio Simulation Simulating portfolio value with Monte Carlo methods
🎄 adventofcode The annual December competition.

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  1. gpt gpt Public

    An implementation of a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer from scratch

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  2. Semantyl Semantyl Public

    an intelligent document question-answering assistant powered by semantic search and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

    Python

  3. adventofcode adventofcode Public

    Solutions to advent of code.

    Python 2

  4. ch-en-nmt ch-en-nmt Public

    Python

  5. papers-to-podcasts papers-to-podcasts Public

    Converts academic papers into podcasts for easy listening

    Python