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Ex-bi0s CTF Player | 1x Hackathon Winner | Learning By Doing

EPIC Dataset: From Microscopy to Graph Neural Networks

Complete guide to preprocessing and analyzing C. elegans embryonic development using spatio-temporal graph data

April 15, 2026 · 13 min · Barshan Mondal

Just a little overview on me

April 5, 2026 · 2 min · Barshan Mondal

Attention in Development Biology?

My set of research while i build my proposal for GSOC 2026 at the Openworm Foundation

March 12, 2026 · 7 min · Barshan Mondal

Causal Criticality of Layers in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — a Quick Dive

Late layers matter. A probe into Qwen2-1.5B with activation patching, a logit lens, and targeted ablations found that the mid-to-late layers — especially around layer 24 — often synthesize intermediate chain-of-thought steps into the final answer.

December 14, 2025 · 5 min · Barshan Mondal

Before We Hop Onto TRANSFORMERS

Understanding The Transformer.(You Don’t Wanna Skip This)

November 19, 2025 · 5 min · Barshan Mondal

How does ChatGPT answer everything we ever ask

How Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) helps LLMs give accurate, up-to-date, and grounded answers without hallucinating.

October 24, 2025 · 3 min · Barshan Mondal

Got Bored... Tried n8n

How I automated my job search so I can focus on applying.

October 12, 2025 · 1 min · Barshan Mondal

So I Got My First Rejection

Just a little update about what happened

September 4, 2025 · 1 min · Barshan Mondal

What in the world is VAE

Legendary Algorithm Pull

August 17, 2025 · 3 min · Barshan Mondal

What makes the U in the U-Net

The basic understanding of the U-Net

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · Barshan Mondal